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There is (was) a product called Mr. BIOS that offered this feature. They
were located at www.mrbios.com, if memory serves correct. It was only for
Triton based pentium MB's.

On Wed, 23 Apr 1997, Paul Traina wrote:

> I'd like to build some headless machines, but one of the things that
> really bugs me is that I can't see the BIOS boot messages or enter
> setup without having a keyboard and video card attached.
> 
> Does anyone have any pointers or ideas on how to handle this (changing out
> the flash bios on the motherboard is certainly an option)...?
> 
> Paul
> 
>