[lug] "No keyboard attached, press F1 to continue" need advice/help

[Michael Deck]

I got around this by buying a $7.00 keyboard at CompUSA. It happened to 
have a $5.00 rebate at the time. Not, I realize, the most environmentally 
friendly solution, but it was quick!

At 09:20 AM 10/18/2004, you wrote:

>"No keyboard attached, press F1 to continue" appears on boot up
>on a computer that I am trying to set up headless. I've Googled
>this and found advice that says to adjust the keyboard settings
>in the bios, but I can't find anything in the bios of this
>computer that seems to have anything to do with keyboard
>settings. Are there some other words that are used to designate
>this flag setting? Are there bioses that simply have no way
>around this problem? Are there 'dongles' that plug into the
>keyboard socket on the computer and fudge the existence of a
>keyboard?
>
>Suggestions?
>
>--
>Paul E Condon
>pecondon at mesanetworks.net
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Michael Deck
Cleanroom Software Engineering, Inc.