Josh Welch <tclug at joshwelch.com> >Quoting Patrick McCabe <patrickm at citilink.com>: >> How can this be? These computers have been used apparently successfully >> for at least a couple years. I have tested the memory chips in other >> systems and they all pass; I have put new memory in these systems and >> they all fail. I've heard that MS Windows has special code that works around hardware problems. There may also be special code from the motherboard manufacturer that works around these hardware problems as well, but only for specific MS Windows operating systems. How to hide bad hardware ... >What kind of boxes are they? Could be some sort of a bug specific to that >specific machine. A few years ago, I had a problem with a motherboard not running Linux properly (actually X windows). It seems that the last megabyte of RAM was being used by some motherboard resource (maybe onboard video). The machine had 128MB, so the workaround was to simply specify the mem=127M option to the kernel on boot up. Then everything worked great! Sincerely, Ken Fuchs <kfuchs at winternet.com> _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list