Dachstein - SBC DSL ?

[Brian Kelsay]

Bradley Miller wrote:

> At 02:47 PM 8/1/2003 -0500, Brian Kelsay wrote:
> May want closer to 16MB, but most of the floppy based firewalls are 
> supposed to work on 8MB.  Is your memory good?  You may want to run 
> memtest on it.  I probably have some memory that I could sell/trade/give 
> you depending on what it requires (Idon't throw old pc parts out).  I 
> know I have 72-pin SIMMs, but I think I gave all my 30-pin stuff away.
> 
>> There may also be an option with Dachstein to turn on an extra ram 
>> drive.  When I used Freesco there was an option in the setup to turn 
>> on 2 extra RAM drives of 4MB each before you started extra services 
>> like webserver, ftp, print server, etc.  Maybe Mr. Steinkhuler will 
>> respond and enlighten us all.
> 
> 
> I dug around in the chaos that is my "hardware boneyard" and found some 
> machines with 16 Mb in them.  I put in the 16Mb in to my router box and 
> it's still only booting up to 8 mb????  The motherboard is an old 
> Gateway 2000  . . . does anyone know how to get it to go into the 
> configuration so I can set my memory size?   (I think it's odd that it 
> didn't recognize it . . . )

What sometimes works is to tap on the escape key several times as the PC 
boots, which creates a keyboard error like a key is stuck.  Usually 
then you get the option  to go into the BIOS if it is not showing on the 
boot screen which key to press.  The normal (common) key to use is the 
F1 or F2 key to get in the BIOS, but this varies somewhat by mfg. and 
laptops are all over the map the get in the BIOS.  I think my old 
Gateway frankenputers all use F2.

Good luck.

Brian
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