[luau] Re: 1st batch of USAF Dell computers

[MonMotha]

I had a similar Dell (except it was 300MHz, still predating PC100).  It 
used to not even recognize (still booted fine, just wouldn't use the 
extra ram) anything other than Dell RAM (even if it was PC66).  Dell 
released a BIOS flash shortly after I called them up and ordered Dell 
branded RAM at about a 2-3x markup (thanks a lot), but now I use generic 
PC133 in it.

If Dell doesn't have a flash available, you might want to call them up 
and ask them if they could make one.  They seem to have changed their 
policy on proprietary RAM (though not proprietary PSUs yet...).

--MonMotha

Warren Togami wrote:
> 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.
> 
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