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XPS 435 MT: Headless, won't boot without keyboard
I have set this machine up to only remote into (no keyboard, mouse, monitor). However, it won't boot with no keyboard attached and I can't find an option in the bios to allow booting without keyboard. Is there a way to accomplish this? I don't see a bios download for this machine so I'm not sure upgrading the bios is a possible solution.
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March 3rd, 2013 06:00
Hi TheShanMan,
I see BIOS version A06. Is that what you have?
The setting to enable the system to boot without a keyboard is somewhere in the boot settings. There may be a boot settings configuration page that should allow you to set the keyboard error to "Do not report" or "Ignore" or something like that.
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March 3rd, 2013 08:00
I am used to that style of version number from dell but strangely I don't see a version number like that on boot or in the bios. What I do see in the bios is v2.63.
Anyway, it looks like I somehow missed the option to disable reporting buried in one of the sub-menus. I checked again and you're right - it's there.
Thanks!
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March 3rd, 2013 14:00
Glad that worked!