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Denis Brown wrote:
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cite="mid6.2.1.2.2.20051107120117.03e74eb0@cyllene.uwa.edu.au"
type="cite">At 11:52 AM 7/11/2005, simon wrote:
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<blockquote type="cite">Hey all
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Sorry once again for the OT, but Ive hunted and cant find much.
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Does anyone know of a design for a ps/2 keyboard dongle? I want to fool
some
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old boxes into thinking they have a keyboard at boot time.
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Not possible to fool it in the BIOS? I've seen this (keyboardless
operation) in some IBM BIOS's.
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Denis
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Just about every PC I've seen has a setting in the BIOS to the effect
of "halt on" with options such as all errors, all but disk, all but
keyboard etc.<br>
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Simply choose the option that excludes the keyboard from POST error
checking and it will go with a keyboard present.<br>
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After that it will depend on your OS as to whether or not they complain
about a lack of keyboard - some versions of Windows this may be an
issue, but for current OSes, I can't think of any that will care.<br>
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Changing the BIOS value is generally all that is required.<br>
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