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Re: review: Radeon 7000 for BrickDraw3D, low-end Mac
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Tue, 16 Apr 2002 17:51:30 GMT
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In article <GunyA7.DA@lugnet.com>, Dan Boger <dan@peeron.com> wrote:
heh, video cards?  we don't need none :)  just get a serial cable for it...

In the PC world, motherboards that'll boot without a video card installed
are way rare. (this one was an AMI Bios, so it gave the eight-beep "I
can't find video!" post code...)

-JDF
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The more you learn, the better your luck gets.    `-'



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  Re: review: Radeon 7000 for BrickDraw3D, low-end Mac
 
(...) not that bad - most bioses I saw give an option saying "ignore errors at boot" - it'll still beep, but will move on... then again, I think there actually is some sort of video card installed in the box, though I've no idea, really... :) (22 years ago, 16-Apr-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)

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  Re: review: Radeon 7000 for BrickDraw3D, low-end Mac
 
(...) could be - but I think we ended up putting some not-so-good memory in it... I think it reports 8016K or something like that... (...) heh, nope - it doesn't even log to itself, nor does it run _any_ services (other than mgetty on the serial :). (...) (22 years ago, 16-Apr-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)

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