> From: Chuck Guzis
> Could it be that the presence of ECC registered SDRAM requires that
> every memory location get written before boot-up can proceed? There's
> 2GB of the stuff, so that could be the difference.
I was going to suggest that, actually. Turning on ECC in the memory in a
somewhat older HP minitower machine caused a long delay in booting while it
cleared all the memory.
Noel
