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- From: chungh@armory.enet.dec.com (Henry Chung)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: Re: 386 AMI Bios configuration help - Memory Problem
- Message-ID: <1992Aug24.004909.26245@ryn.mro4.dec.com>
- Date: 24 Aug 92 03:45:05 GMT
- Sender: news@ryn.mro4.dec.com (USENET News System)
- Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
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- In article <Aug.23.17.17.23.1992.4091@pilot.njin.net>, lodzins@pilot.njin.net (Dean Lodzinski) writes...
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- >I just got a 386/33 motherboard with AMI Bios. I installed 4 256K 60ns
- >SIMM chips on the motherboard according to the motherboard manual.
- >When I boot up the system, it only says I have 640K. Where did the
- >other memory go? When I go into the setup screen, it says I have 640K
- >with 0K expanded/extended. The person I got it from had originally
- >gotten the board with the same chips I have (he upgraded to a 486 and
- >had 8 megs on the 386 board I bought from him). I can use the system,
- >but I can't load HIMEM.SYS and can't find the missing memory. Anyone
- >with a suggestion/help please Email me. Thanks.
- > Dean (lodzins@pilot.njin.net)
- >--
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- The missing memory is used for Shadow RAM.
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