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On Mon, 27 Mar 2000, Ironclaw wrote:
On Mon, 27 Mar 2000, Keith Warno wrote:
It's an Intel board (all three of them); this I am sure of. I don't know the chipset; I guess if I surf around @ Dell I can find out. We don't have tech specs on the PCs cuz they were put together by a consulting group and they neglected to pass along the documentation.
I can't even get into the dang BIOS. I boot the things and hit ESC or F1, I forget which, and it bypasses Dell's lame logo and shows me typical BIOS crap: "Keyboard detected", "Mouse detected", etc, and claims there's 128MB of "system memory" (which there should be). But I haven't found the correct key combo to get into the BIOS and poke around.
Does your machine do a memory test on the screen? If so, as soon as it starts, start poking keys - esc, f1, f2, all the way across to F12 and SysRQ/PrintScreen and then down to Ins and Del - one at a time, fairly quickly, then turn around and go back. This will get into the BIOS on MOST motherboards, although you won't be sure how you did it. If that doesn't work then try ctrl-alt-del during the memory test; also ctrl-alt-enter and ctrl-alt-space and any other special characters handy.
I think this may be related to the motherboard, is it a Intel with an 810 chipset by any chance?
It's definitely related to the BIOS (aside from the off chance of a malfunction keyboard/cable/port).
I have had this problem where the amount of memory always shows up by 1Mb less than is actually installed, e.g. 128Mb shows as 127Mb and 64Mb shows as 63Mb. I think the motherboard must use 1Mb for something, (don't ask me what) I haven't checked it any further though...
A lot of BIOSes sort of assume you have 640K of low memory (a good assumption nowadays), and that the BIOS and hardware occupy from there to 1M. The memory test and report starts after that. Thus the report says its of "extended memory" or something like that, and is 1M less than the installed memory. The difference is really of no significance at all. -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/