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- From: gunthar@milton.u.washington.edu (John Jacobson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: Re: Disabling memory checks
- Message-ID: <1992Aug17.233059.29812@u.washington.edu>
- Date: 17 Aug 92 23:30:59 GMT
- References: <1992Aug17.125117.18400@linus.mitre.org>
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- Organization: University of Washington
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- In article <1992Aug17.125117.18400@linus.mitre.org>, dbrake@cyclone.mitre.org (Dennis Brake (PSI) X7767) writes:
- >
- > I have a 486/25 with an AMI BIOS 5/90. I've just upgraded the memory
- > to 8Mb. Now it takes a few minutes for the system to check all of the
- > memory. Does anyone know how I can disable the memory checks?
- >
- > Thanks
- >
- > Dennis
-
- Can't you just do it in the BIOS by I think hitting/holding the delete key
- as it is doing its initial bootup <<Power On>> ???
- I think that it is set in the BIOS menu the same place where you
- told the computer you had 8Mb of RAM...just a suggestion
-
-
- John
-