P2B_won´t_boot_without_connected_monitor

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Hi.
Bought an old computer with an asus P2B and installed w2k on it. works
fine except for the fact that it wont boot properly unless a monitor
is connected (only monitor cable is not enough). I have no idea why.
The system just halts. No signal is detected if I connect the monitor
when the system has halted. I´ve searched the bios-settings (updated
to latest bios version (beta3)) without luck. Anyone with knowledge
about this? It would make my life so much easier 🙂

regards
svante

 

[Apollo]

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svante <svante.berglund@hiq.se> wrote:
> Hi.
> Bought an old computer with an asus P2B and installed w2k on it. works
> fine except for the fact that it wont boot properly unless a monitor
> is connected (only monitor cable is not enough). I have no idea why.
> The system just halts. No signal is detected if I connect the monitor
> when the system has halted. I´ve searched the bios-settings (updated
> to latest bios version (beta3)) without luck. Anyone with knowledge
> about this? It would make my life so much easier 🙂
>

Bios > Standard CMOS Settings > change Halt On "All Errors" to Halt On "No
Errors", or something along those lines, it's been a while since I had a
P2B.

HTH

--
Ian

 

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"Apollo" <REMOVEMEian_dunbar6@hotmailDOT.com> wrote in message news:<2lfb3jFbgo8hU1@uni-berlin.de>...
> Bios > Standard CMOS Settings > change Halt On "All Errors" to Halt On "No
> Errors", or something along those lines, it's been a while since I had a
> P2B.
>
> HTH

Hi and thanks. Found that setting after trying to boot without keybord
🙂 Doesn´t solve the monitor issue though :-( I bought a 20m monitor
cable yesterday to solve it temporarily, would be nice to know how to
boot without the darn cable.
/Svante

 

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svante schrieb:

> Hi.
> Bought an old computer with an asus P2B and installed w2k on it. works
> fine except for the fact that it wont boot properly unless a monitor
> is connected (only monitor cable is not enough).

This is the graphics card's fault (or rather that of its BIOS). Simply
use another card.

Stephan
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Stephan Grossklass wrote:
> svante schrieb:
>
>
>>Hi.
>>Bought an old computer with an asus P2B and installed w2k on it. works
>>fine except for the fact that it wont boot properly unless a monitor
>>is connected (only monitor cable is not enough).
>
>
> This is the graphics card's fault (or rather that of its BIOS). Simply
> use another card.
>
> Stephan

Thanks for that - I was wondering why my headless P2Bs don't have this
problem.