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- From: spam@iastate.edu (mike begley)
- Subject: Re: How much memory do I have? ...and I need an OS update...
- Message-ID: <By0yDt.582@news.iastate.edu>
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- Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA
- References: <BxzDD2.GIq@news.iastate.edu> <1992Nov20.115615.23808@cbnews.cb.att.com>
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- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 17:10:36 GMT
- Lines: 33
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- In article <1992Nov20.115615.23808@cbnews.cb.att.com> adh@cbnews.cb.att.com (andrew.d.hay) writes:
- >In article <BxzDD2.GIq@news.iastate.edu> spam@iastate.edu (mike begley) writes:
- >"I thought I had a 7300 with 1 meg of memory, but I was always confused
- >"by the boot message:
- >"
- >"Read mem: 524288
- >"Avail mem: 299008
- >"
- >"So, out of curiousity, I opened up my machine and found on the motherboard
- >"an 8x9 bank of 64K chips (totalling 512 K) and in one of the slots below
- >"the motherboard a board with an identical amount of memory.
- >"
- >"So, what does the message I get on boot really mean? Is my machine unable
- >"to find the extra 512K?
- >
- >you should:
- >1. remove and reseat the mem card, to clean its connector.
-
- That did it...I feel pretty stupid about not trying that first...! %-)
- yea! I have a 1-meg machine now!
-
- >btw, with a pile of 256K chips [and sockets] and a little time [;^>],
- >you can upgrade your machine to 4M ram.
-
- Yeah, I have a 1 meg tube of chips now; I'm still trying to collect 3 more
- meg.
-
- btw...how many serial ports can this machine support?
-
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