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From: martin@hq.af.mil (Gregory.J.Martin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: AMI BIOS/faster POST not necessarily better
Message-ID: <2774@hq.af.mil>
Date: 15 Aug 90 11:46:28 GMT
References: <803@beguine.UUCP>
Reply-To: martin@hq.af.mil (Gregory.J.Martin)
Organization: Air Force HQ, The Pentagon
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In article <803@beguine.UUCP> Robert.Berry@samba.acs.unc.edu (BBS Account) writes:
>To be honest, I'd rather have no POST at all.  I have never *once* had a
>POST turn up any problems with any memory.  I have on occasion had bad
>memory chips, and I've got plenty of diagnostic software to help me find
>it.  Considering that, if I'm at the keyboard, I'll skip the POST by 
>hitting Esc anyway, I don't really care how "stringent" it is.

I have an old IBM PC and the POST finds memory errors regularly.  When a
machine starts to age, memory goes bad and I'd rather find out about it during
bootup than after my editor's written some data there and winds up with
garbage.  But, I guess that's why the Constitution allow for life liberty and
the pursuit of happiness(or was that the D of I?). 
...Greg