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Date:      Sat, 10 Jul 1999 17:07:45 -0400 (EDT)
From:      "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>
To:        alphen@craxx.nl (laurens van alphen)
Cc:        freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Faking the presence of the keyboard
Message-ID:  <199907102107.RAA14196@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>
In-Reply-To: <000b01becb07$cee3fc90$0a0010ac@craxx.com> from laurens van alphen at "Jul 10, 99 09:10:00 pm"

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laurens van alphen wrote,
> Hi all,
> 
> I have this old Compaq Prolinea 4/33 that just won't boot if
> the keyboard is not jammed in.
> 
> Can I somehow simulate the presence of the keyboard using some
> resistors on the PS/2 interface on the back of the box?

Double check that there is not a BIOS setting that allows it to boot
without a keyboard. On some ol' 486's that I hooked to a serial
console, the relevent option in the BIOS was called something like
'Continue Boot on Error.'
-- 
Crist J. Clark                           cjclark@home.com


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