On Tuesday, December 24, 2002, at 03:33 AM, gnome wrote: > > Le lundi 23 décembre 2002, à 05:01 , lcs@... a > écrit : > >> So here is the sniveling coward's inferior solution. Remove >> all RAM modules and all system extensions that are not absolutely >> essantial. This can save you over a minute restart time per >> crash. > > or upgrade to x. [haven't crashed in over a year now!]. > >> PS. Is there a trick (say depress a key on startup) to >> bypass the stupid RAM check? > > i believe that keeping the mousedown at startup > would do this. there is/was also a hidden option > in the memory control panel [press option when > invoking it] that allowed to 'switch off' memory > check at startup. > > hth > > :-j Holding down the mouse btn at startup ejects any disks (floppy or CD) Pete... (the other one)