On Sun, 2002-06-09 at 18:45, R. Scott Belford wrote: > > On Sunday, June 9, 2002, at 04:56 PM, Warren Togami wrote: > > > > We have BIOS problems with the RAM in all the 233MHz machines. Some of > > them have bad RAM. Jeffrey Zidek thinks he can fix the BIOS problem. > > What kind of trouble is the bios having with the ram? >
These are 233MHz Pentium II's with a 66MHz system bus. I think at the time they were built PC100 RAM wasn't invented yet. Their BIOSes expect PC66 RAM. Although PC100 or PC133 RAM works fine at 66MHz, their BIOSes complain a bootup, necessitating one to hit F1 on the keyboard to continue booting. Jeffrey Zidek thinks that Dell has a BIOS update at their site that will fix this, so we will hopefully resolve this during the upcoming week.
