From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 6 7:54:58 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp13.bellglobal.com (smtp13.bellglobal.com [204.101.251.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3594414C83 for ; Tue, 6 Jul 1999 07:54:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from a.genkin@utoronto.ca) Received: from main.wgaf.net (HSE-TOR-ppp22912.sympatico.ca [209.226.71.202]) by smtp13.bellglobal.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA08772; Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:56:14 -0400 (EDT) Received: from antipode by main.wgaf.net with local (Exim 2.05 #1 (Debian)) id 111XBZ-00005D-00; Tue, 6 Jul 1999 11:31:05 -0400 To: "Richard E. Hawkins" Cc: Arcady Genkin , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD is painfully slow on my 486 References: <199907061445.JAA04851@eyry.econ.iastate.edu> From: Arcady Genkin Date: 06 Jul 1999 11:31:05 -0400 In-Reply-To: "Richard E. Hawkins"'s message of "Tue, 06 Jul 1999 09:45:57 -0500" Message-ID: <87iu7xhk1y.fsf@main.wgaf.net> Lines: 23 User-Agent: Gnus/5.070091 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.91) XEmacs/21.1 (20 Minutes to Nikko) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Richard E. Hawkins" writes: > > Well, the saddest thing is that the computer died yesterday (won't > > boot saying there's "Keyboard controller error", and sarcastically > > offering me to "Press F1 to continue"). All that trying to get it work > > fast got wasted in the end. :^( Well, I can't get into BIOS settings, since pressing DEL has no effect. That's what I meant by "sarcastically offering Press F1" when there's keyboard interface error. ;^| > Check the bios again. Some can defeat this check. (I wish I could do > this on my thinkpad. The keyboard's never been the same since one of > my babies kicked my beer while all three were on my lap . . . and my > wife thought I was nuts hanging it over the sink so the keyboard could > float [note: distilled water would have been better] LOL ;^) -- Arcady Genkin "... without money one gets nothing in this world, not even a certificate of eternal blessedness in the other world..." (S. Kierkegaard) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message