On my Dell, it's del key to get into the BIOS. Cute, huh? HTH, Jeffrey Quoting Keith Warno :

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.

hmph. :/

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Keith On some of the Intel motherboards you need to open the case and you will notice clearly marked a jumper to allow you to get into the BIOS on the next boot. The machine starts and enters the BIOS setup, then you shutdown and replace the jumper and then it's back to normal. It's a pain in the ass but a guy at Intel told me it was a security feature . yeah right. Anyway maybe it helps you. Chris On Mon, 27 Mar 2000 14:49:36 -0500, 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.

hmph. :/

----- Original Message ----- From: "Keith Gibbons" To: "SuSE Linux" ; "Keith Warno" Sent: Monday, March 27, 2000 12:50 PM Subject: Re: [SLE] mem vomit

I think this may be related to the motherboard, is it a Intel with an 810 chipset by any chance? 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...

Regards, Keith Gibbons, StarDate Computer Service, SCS House, Garrymore, Geashill, Co.Offaly, Ireland.

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