[Coco] OT -- PC needs TWO Shut Downs

[KnudsenMJ at aol.com]

Soething I should have mentioned -- a couple years ago my Win98 PC refused  
to even pass POST, but just sat there and beeped.  I took it to the local  
computer repair shop (a very fine business), and they said my RAM was in the  
wrong motherboard slot!  Moving it to the other end of the 4 slots fixed  the 
problem.
 
I take that to mean that my BIOS somehow forgot which slot the RAM SIMM was  
in, and looked for it somewhere besides the slot that it had worked properly 
in  for over a year.
 
I'm not in an office or college dorm where some "friends" could have popped  
my case and moved my SIMM, either ...
 
In a message dated 4/3/06 10:24:44 PM Eastern Daylight Time,  
gene.heskett at verizon.net writes:

>In  which case there are several linux distros whose cd's contain a copy  
>of memtest86, or its small enough to fit on a floppy if that portable  
>has one.

Is that something you can run from DOS mode, or tweak the BIOS to boot  
directly?
I can't install Linux on my Win98 box.
 
--Mike K.