![]() By placing a 75-85ohm resistor between pin 1 and pin 6 on a VGA connecter on a machine you can “trick” the machine into believing a display is connected. Most of these devices are based on VGA display settings and if you look at instructions-like these for a Mac Mini server-the concept is quite simple. That said, you can “trick” the Power Mac G5 to believe a display is installed by using a “headless dongle” which is a fairly common/simple hardware item in the server world. ![]() To my knowledge, this can be done if Mac OS X is installed, but this cannot be done if another OS-such as Linux-is running. What you are looking for is a way to run that Power Mac G5 as a headless system. And the reason services-such as SSH-are not starting is because the system is hanging due to it not knowing how to deal with being without a monitor attached the keyboard should not play any factor in things. ![]() This is why simply pinging a server is not the best way to determine overall system service state. That happens because while a system might be pingable, that only happens at the most “embryonic” levels of any system booting into existence. SSH and other are never started or at least they aren’t reachable. The server is ping-able the entire time, but startup utilities such as ![]()
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