As there is FreeBSD port to the PowerPC and its peripherals, this
machine will make a very interesting target for FreeBSD: combine the
x86 code base with the PowerPC drivers and get a real hot machine.
The *really* hot machine is going to be the OSX ABI supported under
FreeBSD and running Aq
Hi,
Nicole wrote:
On 07-Jun-05 My Homeland Security "observers" reported that Erich Dollansky
said:
Yeah, Homeland Security.
This gives NSA a lot of e-mails to scan.
Claus Guttesen wrote:
It seems a shame that they could not have at least gone with AMD processors
instead of Intel. No mat
David Kelly wrote:
No, "Apple SC Setup" would not do a non-Apple SCSI drive. This
might have changed with MacOS 9. MacOS X has never complained
about any IDE HD I have tried.
I never had a problem and was using either System 6 or System 7
(Never could justify shelling out for an OS
David Kelly wrote:
Adaptec doesn't have the worlds best reputation for allowing people
to write drivers (or even for writing non-buggy firmware) but I seem
to recall that the Macs that ship with SCSI support use an Adaptec
chipset... oh, on looking, it appears that the IIci uses an NCR
S
On 07-Jun-05 My Homeland Security "observers" reported that Erich Dollansky
said:
> Hi,
>
> Claus Guttesen wrote:
>> Hi.
>>
>> I know this is a bit off-topic but it will probably have some impact
>
> Isn't chat the better list for this?
>
>> on the ongoing work with FreeBSD. As most know by now
> well to be exact, the situation looks like this: when the
> monitor is plugged into the box (it doesn't matter wheather
> it's on or off) everything runs fine (there's the
> standard "short beep" and the machine boots normaly).
I think your solution lies there. With the thing running OK
wit
well, I think that's it..
I would like to thank All of those who had and shared ideas about my
box.. All of You were very helpfull.. thank You..
The conclusion about the topic is that I just have a very perverse
motherboard and probablly it'll stay that way till its last days :P hehe..
Once aga
David Wolfskill wrote:
Well, you could try pulling th evideo card out of the machine, and see
if it will boot that way
Long shot, but if it works :-}
Peace,
david
I've tried that too. The box beeps 1 long and 3 short ones.. as far as I
know it 'tells' that way that it cannot be run
Kevin Kinsey wrote:
My next line of inquiry would probably be the video card
itself. There seem to be few references to this sort of
problem out there; but the two I've seen that matched your
description most closely (and they weren't THAT close, but
we seem to be dealing with a relatively rare
Przemysław Nowaczyk wrote:
David Wolfskill wrote:
I'm no expert on PC hardware, but that sounds as if the BIOS is
deliberately probing the monitor, and if it finds "no monitor," it is
not only refusing to boot, but refusing to drive the video card.
That seems perverse in the extreme.
And ma
Oliver Fromme wrote:
Przemys?aw Nowaczyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Erich Dollansky wrote:
> > Did you try to run it with the cable plugged in but no monitor at the
> > other end?
>
> yes.. it didn't start :(
Is that a VGA-to-VGA cable, or a VGA-to-RGB/coax cable?
There's a slight cha
Przemys?aw Nowaczyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Erich Dollansky wrote:
> > Did you try to run it with the cable plugged in but no monitor at the
> > other end?
>
> yes.. it didn't start :(
Is that a VGA-to-VGA cable, or a VGA-to-RGB/coax cable?
There's a slight chance that the latter migh
Erich Dollansky wrote:
Hi,
Przemysław Nowaczyk wrote:
Erich Dollansky wrote:
well to be exact, the situation looks like this: when the monitor is
plugged into the box (it doesn't matter wheather it's on or off)
everything runs fine (there's the standard "short beep" and the
machine boots n
Hi,
Przemysław Nowaczyk wrote:
Erich Dollansky wrote:
well to be exact, the situation looks like this: when the monitor is
plugged into the box (it doesn't matter wheather it's on or off)
everything runs fine (there's the standard "short beep" and the machine
boots normaly). But when the mon
David Wolfskill wrote:
I'm no expert on PC hardware, but that sounds as if the BIOS is
deliberately probing the monitor, and if it finds "no monitor," it is
not only refusing to boot, but refusing to drive the video card.
That seems perverse in the extreme.
And makes that board ill-suited for
David Wolfskill wrote:
On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 04:19:30PM +0200, Przemys?aw Nowaczyk wrote:
...
well to be exact, the situation looks like this: when the monitor is
plugged into the box (it doesn't matter wheather it's on or off)
everything runs fine (there's the standard "short beep" and
Erich Dollansky wrote:
Hi,
Przemysław Nowaczyk wrote:
okey.. the status for now is:
- I have the newest version of Bios v.4.51PG 2B for this motherboard,
- I've tried all combinations with the Halt On option (no solvation),
- Even without the video card the box doesn't start,
- in my bios ther
Hi,
Przemysław Nowaczyk wrote:
okey.. the status for now is:
- I have the newest version of Bios v.4.51PG 2B for this motherboard,
- I've tried all combinations with the Halt On option (no solvation),
- Even without the video card the box doesn't start,
- in my bios there's no No Video option,
-
okey.. the status for now is:
- I have the newest version of Bios v.4.51PG 2B for this motherboard,
- I've tried all combinations with the Halt On option (no solvation),
- Even without the video card the box doesn't start,
- in my bios there's no No Video option,
- Even when only the cable of the
On Jun 7, 2005, at 10:09 PM, Stephen Hurd wrote:
Adaptec doesn't have the worlds best reputation for allowing people
to write drivers (or even for writing non-buggy firmware) but I
seem to recall that the Macs that ship with SCSI support use an
Adaptec chipset... oh, on looking, it appear
On Jun 8, 2005, at 1:06 AM, Stephen Hurd wrote:
David Kelly wrote:
No, "Apple SC Setup" would not do a non-Apple SCSI drive. This
might have changed with MacOS 9. MacOS X has never complained
about any IDE HD I have tried.
I never had a problem and was using either System 6 or Syste
Hi,
Przemysław Nowaczyk wrote:
Erich Dollansky wrote:
Hi,
Connect a monitor to see what happens.
It should work as you described it.
Could it be that halt on no errors means that the machines halts even
if there are not errors?
English is a difficult language, even for BIOS programmers.
Oliver Fromme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 2. What if you only connect a monitor plug or cable, but
> no actual monitor?
I forgot to mention: A standard 15pin VGA connector has
three ID pins (11, 12 and 4, I think). If all else fails,
it might help to connect some or all of them to ground
Przemys?aw Nowaczyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm trying to make a headless server of my old Celeron 366 box and I've
> got some problems with it. I know that in BIOS the Halt On option (Award
> Bios) needs to be set to No Errors,
It should be sufficient to set that option to "All, excep
On Wed, June 8, 2005 12:47, Przemys³aw Nowaczyk said:
> when the monitor is connected the box runs fine.. the problem is when I
> want to turn it on without the monitor..
> i'll check the bios settings again maybe as You said it should be the
> other way..
>
Just a wild shot in the dark;
Try upg
Erich Dollansky wrote:
Hi,
Connect a monitor to see what happens.
It should work as you described it.
Could it be that halt on no errors means that the machines halts even if
there are not errors?
English is a difficult language, even for BIOS programmers.
Erich
when the monitor is connect
Hi,
Przemysław Nowaczyk wrote:
hi to all,
I'm trying to make a headless server of my old Celeron 366 box and I've
got some problems with it. I know that in BIOS the Halt On option (Award
Bios) needs to be set to No Errors, but still without the monitor the
box doesn't start (it doesn't give
hi to all,
I'm trying to make a headless server of my old Celeron 366 box and I've
got some problems with it. I know that in BIOS the Halt On option (Award
Bios) needs to be set to No Errors, but still without the monitor the
box doesn't start (it doesn't give the "short beep"). The keyboard a
[Quoting fixed.]
Ronald Klop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Oliver Fromme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Yuval Levy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Which brings me back to the topic of this thread: is there anybody out
> > > there with the skills to cleanly solve this shameful situation in whic
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