Assumption is the mother of all fok ups.
You assume my motherboard came with a bios manual.
As far as I know and can tell it did not.
Apperently this was a cost saving.
However perhaps online there will be a motherboard manual.
Why they simply don't put all that information in the bios itself is beyond
me.
Instead they waste precious space with nice looking boot pictures...
Bleh !
=D
Boot failures are rare for me, so my mind don't record settings like that !
I can vaguely remember seeing it... "halt on boot error" or so it's probably
called on old 80486.
So again another bad assumption of you !
I simply can't remember everything !
Bye,
Skybuck.
"Dave Platt" wrote in message
Hello,
I switched my monitor from GT 520 graphics card to integrated graphics
RADEON 3300 chip/monitor connector.
So there are two hdmi connectors.
I noticed how the computer appeared to refuse to boot when there was no
monitor connected ?!?
Is that normal ? Is this a new kind of motherboard feature ?
There has been a feature in many motherboard BIOSes, for the last
couple of decades, which will deliberately halt the boot process and
wait for operator intervention if certain classes of hardware problems
are detected on boot. Bad or missing floppy drive, bad or missing
keyboard, bad or missing or unusable video adapter... etc.
I would guess that if you don't have the HDMI monitor plugged into
the connector, the video-card driver in the BIOS is failing to
detect any primary monitor, can't configure the video-card output in
the appropriate way, and is reporting a "video output failure"
condition.
The "halt boot on hardware error" behavior can almost always be
configured to some extent, via the BIOS setup screens or a separate
BIOS configuration program. For systems which normally run
unattended, it is common to set this option to "Continue to boot
despite any errors detected by the BIOS".
(Perhaps it's a conspiracy
People trying to boot "planks" with
"beeps"
will think it's dead and buy a new one !
=))
It's an Ignorance Detector. It selectively identifies computer users
who are (1) ignorant of decades of history of PC history, and (2)
don't bother to read the manual which came with their motherboard.
