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- From: furballs@sequent.com (Paul Penrod)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
- Subject: Re: [HELP] Memory lost???
- Message-ID: <1992Nov13.083031.17321@sequent.com>
- Date: 13 Nov 92 08:30:31 GMT
- Article-I.D.: sequent.1992Nov13.083031.17321
- References: <1992Nov8.140148.6306@monu1.cc.monash.edu.au> <1dkq1hINN7fr@libra.db.erau.edu> <1992Nov12.140737.5464@arbi.Informatik.Uni-Oldenburg.DE>
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- In article <1992Nov12.140737.5464@arbi.Informatik.Uni-Oldenburg.DE> Frank2.Simon@arbi.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de (Frank2 'Biber' Simon) writes:
- >mikey@db.erau.edu (Mike P. Simon) writes:
- >
- >>>I just upgraded my 386DX-40 to 8MB RAM, but when the machine boot up,
- >>>it reports to have only 7808KB instead of 8192KB (8MB). Does anyone know
- >>>what is wrong with it? Thanks
- >
- >>Check your CMOS setup. You've probably got shadow or scratch ram taking up
- >>that extra space.
- >
- >Some computers don't count the ram between 640KB and 1MB after booting up.
- >There is no way to change you setup if your computer has got this peculiar
- >behaviour. But you really shouldn't care about that:Your computer has got the
- >full 8MB (maybe use a RAM-Test-Program).
- >
- >hope to help Frank
- >--
-
- You have all your RAM there. Some BIOS's like AMI let the cache
- shadow into RAM space and do not count that RAM during the POST.
- It's all there. The POST does not report it in terms you expect. I
- bet you have 256K of cache sitting on your motherboard.
-
- ...Paul
-
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