key combo for memory check??

Jack Honeycutt jhoneycutt at qwest.net
Tue Sep 23 07:43:57 PDT 2003


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!

>There is a list of all of the known startup key combinations at
>
><http://davespicks.com/writing/programming/mackeys.html>

Great list!  Thanks!

jack




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