<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On 27 Oct 2010, at 14:01, Tyler J. Wagner wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Wed, 2010-10-27 at 12:24 +0100, Paul Willis wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite">I do remember now that some older Mac G4 towers we used (running Mac OS X server) had a similar headless problem and plugging the DVI to VGA adapter in the back sorted it. I had forgotten about that so it might be the answer as the discussions on those links suggest.<br></blockquote><br>Ah, yes. You've reminded me as well. Some time ago, my company operated<br>a Mac running MacOS 9. It had two special peripherals: a DVI-VGA dongle<br>to make it boot, and a small device on the power cable. That device had<br>a USB cable, connected to the same Mac. If the Mac locked up, apparently<br>detectable by some kind of USB activity, it would cycle the power.<font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#144FAE"><br></font></font></div></blockquote><br></div><div>Yep, we had those too. Kick-off I think it was called.</div><br><div>In fact here it is <a href="http://www.sophisticated.com/products/kick-off/kick-off_mac.html">http://www.sophisticated.com/products/kick-off/kick-off_mac.html</a></div><div><br></div><div>Paul</div></body></html>