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On Wed, 19 Oct 2005 13:12:11 +0000, jmfbahciv
The firmware and software facilities to do that are possible, but DO NOT (yet) EXIST, because the market is insufficient for Phoenix or Award or AMI to include those features at the firmware level, nor for Microsoft nor the freeware OS developers to include them at the software level. There is, however, a slight chance that your desires might be satisfied with a hardware solution.
There is a tiny market for POST cards -- Power On Self Test. They monitor the expansion card bus for certain signals that occur during system startup. Onboard are a pair of seven-segment LEDs, and if the POST fails at any point, the stage it failed at will be reflected in the digits appearing on the LEDs. If it gets all the way through, the digits will usually either disappear or read FF.
DAmmit. I wish you would stop stripping. IIRC, we were talking about ...can't remember. I wanted you...
Ordinarily, the card stays buttoned up inside the case, and you never give it a second thought. In the event of a problem, though, you can remove the necessary panels and see what is going on. Did you ever have an installation where the front panel switches and lights were kept behind a door or otherwise covered up? This would be a similar idea.
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