Paul,
Go into BIOS SETUP. At the bottom of the first page where
it says "Halt On..." change the selection to "No Errors".
Or, if the choices are "Keyboard Installed" and "Keyboard
Not Installed", make sure it says "Not Installed". Don't
know if that will help, but it's all I know on the subject.
DaLe
----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul M Foster" <paulf@quillandmouse.com>
To: "SLUG List" <slug@nks.net>
Sent: Sunday, February 10, 2002 3:35 AM
Subject: [SLUG] 486's and keyboards
> Okay all you geezers out there.... I've got a 486 that
I've been using
> as a firewall. I'm trying to make it "headless", but when
I remove the
> keyboard and try to boot, it won't get all the way through
boot. It does
> the POST okay, and attempts to boot from the floppy, but
won't finish
> booting. I've performed the test four times, twice with
keyboard and
> twice without. Results are uniform.
>
> Now, it seems like I recall from a past life that old PCs
used one of
> the keyboard lines to manage memory or somesuch. Seems
like I remember
> something like an "A20" error or something like that.
>
> Anyone remember this, and am I on the right track?
>
> Paul
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