[HM] key combo for memory check??

Duane Murphy duanemurphy at mac.com
Tue Sep 23 08:19:18 PDT 2003


--- At Tue, 23 Sep 2003 07:43:57 -0700, Jack Honeycutt wrote:

>At 01:39 PM 9/22/2003 -0700, you wrote:
>
>> >Does anyone know of a fany key combo I could hold down on boot that
>> >would let me bypassthe memory chek on boot so I could boot directly
>> >to my boot screen? Or am I just dreaming?
>
>>You're dreaming. :-)
>>
>>But there is a solution. Open the Memory Control Panel (on 9 only!) while
>>holding down the option key. You will get an extra radio button that will
>>let you disable the startup memory test.
>
>Rats!  Looks like this feature despaired in 9.1 or I did not do it correctly.
>But the good news is every time I boot, I have time to go to the beach for 
>the weekend before the desktop screen come up!

It might not be just the option key. I might be command-option or some
other combination. I'm in X now, so I cant check for sure.

 ...Duane



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