20 Mar
1997
20 Mar
'97
8:55 a.m.
Captain Napalm sez:
It was thus said that the Great Christopher Heer once
stated:
> Wow. 72 pin? Are you certain? In any case, ISTR
older Zeniths taking proprietary
> memory.
Yup. Without any SIMMS, the system just sits there
producing vast amounts
of nothing quite fast. With memory installed, I get the bad CMOS error,
then vast amounts of nothing quite fast.
Well that's pretty ironclad. I doubt you're having a memory problem.
> > Then the screen goes blank and the system
just sits there, fans spinning.
> How long? I mean, how long have you let it wait?
If it's mis-configured on the
> hard disk, it could take simply ages to time out.
Oh, two minutes maybe. Nothing very long.
Let it go longer. Sweartagod I've seen PC's take 15 minutes to error out. Also,
if
there's a hard disk controller installed, yank it. It may make it time out faster.
And as someone else mentioned, Zenith was fond of using Ctrl-Alt-Ins as the keystroke
combination to get into setup. Give that a go.
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