sloopy malibu on 27 Oct 2003 09:54:02 -0500 |
Where I used to go to school we used gateway's (486's) and what I rem about getting into the BIOS was two things... One was it was a three key combo using IIRC ESC (i.e. Crtl+alt+esc or something...) and that when windows 3.1 was running and you had a dos window open you could get into the bios in a window... But had to reboot to get out of it... Which did wonders for windows 3.1 Hope it helps... sloopy. On 10/26/03 21:57, "Bob Schwier" <schwepes@netaxs.com> wrote: > No. Memory types match. This piece of garbage is old enough to require > 72 pin chips. > bs > > > On Sun, 26 Oct 2003, sean finney wrote: > >> hi bob, >> >> On Sat, Oct 25, 2003 at 08:21:02PM -0400, Bob Schwier wrote: >>> Does anyone know how to break into the bios in a Gateway 2000 so as to >>> get it to accept new ram memory? >>> This is the second Gateway that I've tried to upgrade only to find that >>> the machine did not believe the new memory chips when I tried to put >>> them on. Is there a jumper switch that must be reset? The bios also >>> seems to be hard wired as I see no replacable chip positions on the >>> board. >>> Most machines do not behave this impolitely when new memory is installed. >>> bs >> >> i don't mean to be facetious, but are you sure you have the right memory >> type? that is, are you sure you're not doing something like putting >> pc133 sdram into a machine that only recognizes pc100 sdram? >> >> >> sean >> > > ___________________________________________________________________________ > Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org > Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce > General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug ___________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
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