roach wrote:
On Monday 10 October 2005 17:02, derek wrote:
i just took an old keyboard apart. the green board was quite small,
about 2 inches by 3 inches.
...
I was going to mention that possability - you beat me to it. :-)
Another suggestion:
- Mount to keyboards PCB behind an unused
Christopher Pharo Glæserud wrote:
George J. (Andy) Anderson,
Does anyone know it there is a (simple) way to emulate a keyboard?
What does it do if you plug a mouse in the keyboard port?
I don't know - I didn't think of trying that. I'll try it just to
see what happens when I get a
Kent West wrote:
Andy Anderson writes:
Any ideas?
Just give up and plug in an old junker keyboard.
I've got one that will boot with no keyboard but insists that it must
have
a mouse.
Nnot quite elegant, but you might try plugging in a keyboard just long
enough to get past the POST, then
On Sun, Oct 09, 2005 at 10:36:55AM -0400, George J. (Andy) Anderson wrote:
Does anyone know it there is a (simple) way to emulate a keyboard?
I've seen some commercial solutions but they are relatively expensive
(more than $25). I suspect a cheap KVM switch would do the trick, but
that would
On Monday 10 October 2005 17:02, derek wrote:
i just took an old keyboard apart. the green board was quite small,
about 2 inches by 3 inches.
...
I was going to mention that possability - you beat me to it. :-)
Another suggestion:
- Mount to keyboards PCB behind an unused floppy bay blanking
I have an old PC (600 MHz P3 with 384Mb RAM, 160Gb IDE, and DVD+-R/RW)
running Sarge. It works great as a backup server, and I'm planning to
add Samba so that it can share some disk space with some WinXP PCs. I'd
like to use it headless - no monitor, keyboard or mouse. However, it
won't boot
Andy Anderson writes:
Any ideas?
Just give up and plug in an old junker keyboard.
I've got one that will boot with no keyboard but insists that it must have
a mouse.
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George J. (Andy) Anderson,
Does anyone know it there is a (simple) way to emulate a keyboard?
What does it do if you plug a mouse in the keyboard port?
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Andy Anderson writes:
Any ideas?
Just give up and plug in an old junker keyboard.
I've got one that will boot with no keyboard but insists that it must have
a mouse.
Now that is bizare. Not even windows insists that. The
I wrote:
I've got one that will boot with no keyboard but insists that it must have
a mouse.
Joe Smith writes:
Now that is bizare. Not even windows insists that.
Nothing to do with the OS: it's the BIOS (too old to be writeable).
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Andy Anderson writes:
Any ideas?
Just give up and plug in an old junker keyboard.
I've got one that will boot with no keyboard but insists that it must
have
a mouse.
Now that is bizare. Not even
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Joe Smith writes:
Now that is bizare. Not even windows insists that.
Nothing to do with the OS: it's the BIOS (too old to be writeable).
I know that it would be the BIOS. But this is idiotic as no reasonable
operating
Joe Smith writes:
I cannot imagine that that bios needs a mouse for its cmos setup program.
It doesn't. Nonetheless, it halts with a No Pointing Device error (or
similar). It's an Aptiva A40. I just let it have its mousie.
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