On 2012-11-19, Jim Wilkins wrote:
"DoN. Nichols" wrote in message
...

On today's computers, with gold plated instead of tinned
connections,
it is EXTREMELY rare.


Good Luck,
DoN.

I thought bad connections had bitten me this afternoon. I installed a
new 2G RAM stick, booted, and got a message that memory had changed,
ending with "To resolve this issue, try to reseat the memory".

Of course it changed. You *added* memory -- or replaced a
failed unit (you didn't say which). It apparently does not know the
difference between an increase in avaiable memory and a decrease.
(Perhaps this is a side-effect of Windows being designed to consider any
change a sign of possibly being moved to a new computer?)

Two or three long minutes later a prompt to hit F5 to run the boot rom
diagnostics appeared. It passed just fine and then opened Windows
properly.

Likely just complaining about the increase. :-)

I still remember the early message (which I first saw on a Wyse
PC -- pre Windows even -- which said:

Keyboard missing. Hit F1 to continue.

(and exactly how you were supposed to hit F1 when the keyboard was
missing was not explained. :-)

Enjoy,
DoN.

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