> On Fri, 28 Mar 1997, Bill Studenmund wrote:
> 
> > > BTW I have another question.  To boot 'headless' requires shorting out
> > > pins 4 and 11 in the monitor port....but will a monitor still work after I
> > > short them out if I need to use one at some point?
> > 
> > ?? Yes. All that shorting does is fake the computer into thinking there's
> > a certain type of monitor connected. If you later connect that type of
> > monitor, all is well. It's not good if you try to attach a different
> > type of monitor. :-(
> > 
> The problem here is, what kind of monitor does it think?  I have a NEC VGA
> connected to a VGA-Mac adapter....will this work?  And All I have to do to
> short it out is to stick a paperclip into those two holes and turn the
> machine on, right?

I'm not real sure what kind of monitor it thinks it has connected to it 
if you short 4->11.  However, a paper clip should work just fine, 
assuming that it's conductive ;-)

Later.

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Colin Wood                                      ender@is.rice.edu
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