sloopy malibu on 27 Oct 2003 09:54:02 -0500


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Re: [PLUG] Gateway computers


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
>> 
> 
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