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Windows boot w/o vga card

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by hotspie

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Is there a way to let win2000 startup without having a vga card installed? Can we instruct win2000 to ignore the absence of vga card?

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by r. a. caluste

windows 2000 will run without a monitor but without a video adapter, no. even DOS will not run without a video adapter.

by gigelul

Hi,
This is not dependant by OS. This is a minimum hardware requirements (with processor and memory) for a system to bypass the POST (to run).

by hotspie

Dear,

Thank you for your answer, but I think it is Windows dependant, because I have the same case working for SCO Unix without a vga card. But SCO Unix can be configured to redirect screen to serial port. Windows doesn't seem to have this feature.

by thechas

I've never tried to do this.

Florinel is on the right track, in that you will have problems getting past the basic BIOS POST and startup.

If the motherboard has an option to ignore self test errors, you can get past that hurdle.

From there,I just don't know what to monitor to verify that the OS has completed the boot process, and not just hung.

As the others said, just leave the card in place, and disconnect the monitor.
With no monitor, you can get by with the least powerful video card you have.

Chas

by gigelul

Hi,
I tried to believe you, but in 10 years I don't see a configured system (I speak about systems compatible IBM) which can pass the POST without a VGA card. In BIOS are the basic routines which are used by the OS to work with: VGA, keyboard, memory, etc and of course these resources are verified in POST process.
If you have time I'm curious about your system configuration which work without VGA.

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