>The box won't boot without a monitor. If I stick a monitor in (without
>turning it on), it boots fine.
>
>So, does anyone know of a dongle that plugs into a monitor jack and says
>'hey I'm a monitor'?, or could one be knocked up by bunging a few resistors
>on an old monitor cable? (and if so how?)
Possibly, I seem to remember that there are a couple of lines in the
connector connector that comprise a binary code to tell the video card
what type of monitor is connected so you *should* be able to wire up a
dummy plug. Try doing a Web search. Alternately just bung in a
different video card, since you don't care about the display, any cheap
one will do, just drop by and I'll give you an old VGA card. I know lots
of video cards don't care whether anything is plugged into the monitor
port. What about the BIOS, can you set it to not care about the display?
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