[futurebasic] Re: [FB] Using excess RAM as a safety net

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From: Pete Beaumont <furbies@...>
Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2002 19:09:28 +1100
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)