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Subject:	Re: review: Radeon 7000 for BrickDraw3D, low-end Mac
Newsgroups:	lugnet.off-topic.geek
Date:	Tue, 16 Apr 2002 19:41:29 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.geek, John D. Forinash writes: > 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...) 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... :)

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		Re: review: Radeon 7000 for BrickDraw3D, low-end Mac
(...) That'll get you around stuff like "Keyboard not detected" (or the IBM version, which was "No keyboard present, press <F1> to continue"), or "I have no idea what floppy drive you're talking about", but that BIOS setting won't get you past the (...) (23 years ago, 17-Apr-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)

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		Re: review: Radeon 7000 for BrickDraw3D, low-end Mac
(...) 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 (23 years ago, 16-Apr-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)

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