Boot without keyboard

Hi, I have a Windows XP Pro machine running as a host which I can connect
to with "remote desktop". In fact, I never use this machine except from
another remote computer.

So I want to know if I can just have the host machine running without
screen, keyboard, or mouse? How can I get the host to boot up without a
keyboard for instance? The boot process never completes because the
computer complains there is no keyboard.

Thanks,
Peter

"Peter K" <xdzgor DeleteThis @hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:ugSNWJxbHHA.984@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
> Hi, I have a Windows XP Pro machine running as a host which I can connect
> to with "remote desktop". In fact, I never use this machine except from
> another remote computer.
>
> So I want to know if I can just have the host machine running without
> screen, keyboard, or mouse? How can I get the host to boot up without a
> keyboard for instance? The boot process never completes because the
> computer complains there is no keyboard.
>
> Thanks,
> Peter
>

You need to go into the computer BIOS settings and configure it to ignore or
not stop on errors during startup.

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