On Wed, 2008-02-06 at 10:35 -0600, Sonia Hamilton wrote: > On Wed, 2008-02-06 at 23:54 +1100, Bruce Bruen wrote: > > This is a typical Compaq ATX board (and by that I dont mean typical). > > Anyone > > got any good ideas? > > If what you're trying to achieve is booting a machine without an > attached keyboard, many BIOS's allow you to boot and "ignore errors".
...and many can't, especially the Compaqs, which is what the GP has. I had a Compaq DeskPro as my web server for about a year, and everytime I power cycled it, I had to dig up a dusty old PS/2 keyboard in order to get it to boot.
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