Robert.Berry@samba.acs.unc.edu (BBS Account) (08/14/90)
To be honest, I'd rather have no POST at all. I have never *once* had a POST turn up any problems with any memory. I have on occasion had bad memory chips, and I've got plenty of diagnostic software to help me find it. Considering that, if I'm at the keyboard, I'll skip the POST by hitting Esc anyway, I don't really care how "stringent" it is.
martin@hq.af.mil (Gregory.J.Martin) (08/15/90)
In article <803@beguine.UUCP> Robert.Berry@samba.acs.unc.edu (BBS Account) writes: >To be honest, I'd rather have no POST at all. I have never *once* had a >POST turn up any problems with any memory. I have on occasion had bad >memory chips, and I've got plenty of diagnostic software to help me find >it. Considering that, if I'm at the keyboard, I'll skip the POST by >hitting Esc anyway, I don't really care how "stringent" it is. I have an old IBM PC and the POST finds memory errors regularly. When a machine starts to age, memory goes bad and I'd rather find out about it during bootup than after my editor's written some data there and winds up with garbage. But, I guess that's why the Constitution allow for life liberty and the pursuit of happiness(or was that the D of I?). ...Greg