On 27 Oct 2010, at 14:01, Tyler J. Wagner wrote: > On Wed, 2010-10-27 at 12:24 +0100, Paul Willis wrote: >> I do remember now that some older Mac G4 towers we used (running Mac OS X >> server) had a similar headless problem and plugging the DVI to VGA adapter >> in the back sorted it. I had forgotten about that so it might be the answer >> as the discussions on those links suggest. > > Ah, yes. You've reminded me as well. Some time ago, my company operated > a Mac running MacOS 9. It had two special peripherals: a DVI-VGA dongle > to make it boot, and a small device on the power cable. That device had > a USB cable, connected to the same Mac. If the Mac locked up, apparently > detectable by some kind of USB activity, it would cycle the power.
Yep, we had those too. Kick-off I think it was called. In fact here it is http://www.sophisticated.com/products/kick-off/kick-off_mac.html Paul
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