OT: Keep PC from going into BIOS mode?

DavidMcKnight wrote on 1/5/2006, 1:22 PM
I have a fileserver with removeable drives. There is no monitor or keyboard attached to it, it's in a different room. I connect to it remotely via VNC. That's been working great. I powered it down, swapped out some drives, and it hung on the reboot. I shut that down, and removed the drives. Now, it boots up but it always goes into the bios by default after a failed boot. Normally (if it was connected to a monitor and keyboard) you F10, exit, and it then boots up fine.

But, in the current state with no kb/monitor, is there anything that can be done to get it to NOT go into the bios mode? Really, the only choices are anything to do with power - unplug the actual power supply instead of just powering down, anything like that? Only reason I ask is, when this happened last night I FORGOT that this box is also now the print server, and the only way for my wife to print out some proposals is through this box. And I'm not at home, to fix it, etc. etc. So really, if you could provide an answer, you would keep me in good graces with the Mrs.!

Long term, there must be some setting to stop it from going into bios after a failed reboot. I shoulda fixed it last night....

Comments

musicvid10 wrote on 1/5/2006, 1:50 PM
1) You may have to "Autodetect" or manually enter the new drive volume information into BIOS after changing drives around.

2) Most BIOS will default to an error if certain things aren't attached like a keyboard or floppy. Yours may have reset back to those settings when you connected a new drive.
Somewhere in your basic BIOS or CMOS settings (they're all different) should be an option that says "Halt On:'" or something similar. There are options, try one that says "No Errors" and see if it boots normally.
DavidMcKnight wrote on 1/5/2006, 1:51 PM
very good point. It probably says "all but keyboard" now, to let it boot w/o a kb attached.