[thechat] Hardware Problem

[William Anderson]

Syed Zeeshan Haider wrote:
> [snip]
> Now the situation is that I cannot go to setup as it requires a password which I
> never set.

Switch off the PC, remove mains lead, remove the battery, leave the battery 
out overnight, return next morning, reinsert battery, reattach mains lead, 
power on PC, enter BIOS settings.  Alternately the mobo may have a 'reset 
BIOS' jumper which will need to be closed on power-up to reset the BIOS, 
then opened at next power off to avoid resetting on each reboot - check 
your mobo manual, YMMV.

 > And all videos are playing in slow motion. I have built-in VGA card.
> Properties of My Computer icon showed 60MB RAM earlier. After changing the
> battery, it shows 63MB RAM. Where did these three extra MB's came, I don't know?
> Any ideas about the problem?

Probably RAM being released from shared VRAM - sounds like you had 4 out of 
64 meg allocated as video RAM, with the BIOS reset it's been reset to a 
default of 1 meg, thus releasing that strange 3 meg back to 'real' RAM.

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