On 19 Nov 2012 01:08:40 GMT, "DoN. Nichols"
wrote:

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?)

Except the error was not generated by Windows. It is a BIOS prompt.
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.

Yup. a lot of old CPM machines did the same. It was a "stacked" error
code. Anything that tripped the bios error code was reported - and
then the standard "hit F1 to continue" which was supposed to get you
into the PIOS setup.

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

Enjoy,
DoN.