Such systems probably can tell. But there are some Open Bios projects that have produced much more advanced and capable BIOS implementations, tuned for Linux and servers. There are vendors that sell systems with these BIOS. A large linux cluster that would otherwise take 40 minutes or so to boot can come up in just a few minutes., using the improved setup, which may include firmware based OS software. Of course an indispensable requirement of such BIOS would have to be remote access and the like, for headless machines. LCR On Wed, 12 Dec 2001, Brent Harding wrote: > From manuals I've read online, some of such systems have a > select button that will turn the video on or off, one should > think that the system can tell there's no keyboard, or monitor, > if not the status of the mouse too. -- L. C. Robinson reply to no_spam+munged_lcr@onewest.net.invalid