PC without a monitor
- From: Gargoyle <nobody@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2007 12:43:46 GMT
This has probably been asked a million times before...
At home I have an old PC running Windows98 that I would like to leave
running for a week to act as a logging facility for my broadband
router. The router creates syslog output to a text file.
Unfortunately, the syslog has no internal storage of its own so I want
to write the log to disk on my old (spare) PC and leave it running in
a spare room.
The PC has no sensitive personal data, only the bare op system and a
few applications, etc. The trouble is that the old monitor gets quite
hot whilst in use, plus I am concerned there may be a fault with the
monitor, so I don't want it left on all the time due to a potential
fire risk.
What I intend to do is boot up the PC and then switch off the monitor
while I am elsewhere, only switching on the monitor now and again to
browse the syslog output.
Is running a booted PC without a monitor generally feasible?
Has anybody else tried something like this, if so any problems I
should know about?
(web searches have yeilded little insight for my query)
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