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Re: Start-up observation and question
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Rick Lindstrom <[log in to unmask]>
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Sat, 10 Feb 2001 18:13:26 -0500
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At 12:46 PM 2/10/2001 -0500, you wrote:
>Recently installed an additional 128 MBytes of SDRAM on one of my
>systems.  System now has 256 MBytes total.  Upon rebooting the system
>I noticed the RAM memory check was performed three (3) times. (ETC)

Some bios have a "Failsafe settings" mode. When this is selected, the RAM
is checked three times during the POST. Possibly you have selected this
inadvertently?



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