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- From: fox@rei.com (Fuzzy Fox)
- Subject: Re: Reclaiming Memory From BIOS setup...
- Message-ID: <1992Nov6.233959.3288@rei.com>
- Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 23:39:59 GMT
- References: <BxA7D7.9Gx@ccu.umanitoba.ca>
- Organization: Recognition Equipment, Inc.
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- umnoor@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Nasir Ahmed Noor) writes:
-
- >When system starts up, it reports [familiar tick sound and RAM test] only
- >7808K. It should, according to my calcs, report 8192K [i.e. 8 Meg].
-
- The missing 384K is between 640K and 1024K. This is the area where I/O
- devices (cards, etc.) put their address space. RAM can only be made to
- appear in this location if you have a Shadow RAM chipset which will put
- it there. It may be that this address space is inaccessible on your
- system.
-
- --
- #ifdef TRUE | Fuzzy Fox (a.k.a. David DeSimone) fuzzy@netcom.com
- #define TRUE 0 |
- #define FALSE 1 | "History doesn't repeat itself, but it rhymes."
- #endif | -- Mark Twain
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