[vox-tech] Phoenix BIOS Blind Video Switch

[Ken Herron]

Jeff Newmiller wrote:
> The shell is broken from the mobo... the pins that rise from the mobo and
> bend horizontally and have sleeves on them to recieve the plug pins are
> bent every which way, and attempts to bend them back have simply resulted
> in broken pins... there is no elasticity left in the metal.

It's a long shot, but if you were to go to HSC, you might be able to 
find an identical motherboard, or some kind of replacement that takes 
the same CPU/memory. The used/surplus motherboards they stock tend to be 
for extremely out-of-date stuff.

Short of that, I think your best bet is to somehow get a monitor hooked 
to the existing connector. <http://www.networktechinc.com/technote.html> 
has the pinout for the standard video port. It probably isn't necessary 
to hook up all of the color pins.

As a last-ditch method, if you can identify a particular chip that 
provides the onboard video you could try disabling it somehow. If the 
onboard video fails at boot time, the BIOS might automatically switch to 
an external video card.