> > Not quite as bad as full diags getting turned on for an E6000 > > or the like, but pretty slow nonetheless. > > > > Try doing hardware work on a K580. Those things are excruciatingly > slow to boot. One of the slowest booting system I've worked on is a VAX 8820 with 256MB of RAM. The memory test takes a LONG time. -- Eric Dittman dittman at dittman.net