Paul,

In most BOIS that I have seen there is a selection I believe in the Advanced
CMOS Setup that gives you the option to "quick boot". This will skip the
memory test. (This is at least true in later versions of the Award BIOS.)

HTH

Dean Kiley

> -----Original Message-----
> Subject: [PCBUILD] Memory test at bootup and problem CD boot up.
>
> Hi All,
>
> Every time I turn on a Maxdata p3, 512 ram, 1000 ghz machine I get a
> memory
> test which takes almost a minute or more to complete. Is this necessary or
> could it be turned off as it makes the boot-up so much longer.
> A second problem I have on this same machine is that I have been trying to
> boot it from a CD of linux which I know is working because tested it on my
> other machines and yet even though boot from CD is set in the bios it
> still
> keeps bypassing that order and runs into win98 on the hard drive. The CD
> is
> working fine in windows and Dos modes accessing the drives. I should say I
> have two CD drives on here, one is the standard CD and the other is the CD
> writer. I have tried both of them but neither one will respond to a
> bootable
> CD.
>
> Any help on both or  one of the above mentioned would be appreciated.
>
> Regards,
>
> Paul.

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