> >But it works in the other machine that is IDENTICAL - down to the bios, etc. > >The only difference is windows 200 on one, and redhat 9 on the other.... > The BIOS is not seeing the RAM on one of > the computers - and the BIOs has no way of > knowing what OS is going to be loaded - it > has nothing to do with what OSes are sitting > on the hard drive - it's strictly a BIOS issue > Joe Some obscure setting is off -- he probably should run a reset on his BIOS to defaults. Could also be that his BIOS has been corrupted somehow -- wonder if he has flashed upgrades somewhere along the way and one worked cleanly and the other not. Oh well, will be interesting to see what he tells us when back in his office on Monday. doc