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- The following message received on the DESQview Bulletin Board
- System describes how one may disable the motherboard of an IBM XT-
- 286 to 512K.
-
- Message # 211 entered on 02-08-88 at 05:37, Message is Public
- From :BOB MOSKOWITZ
- To :ALL
- Subj :XT-286
- For all of you that got an XT-286 and believed IBM when they
- insisted that there is no way to change the 640Kb on the
- motherboaard, they lied. Now that I am with Chrysler, I was told
- that there is a way and it is indicated in the Tech Reference
- (68X2537) Manual. Page 1-43 discribes Jumper J10 that will change
- the motherboard memory to 512Kb; well something is better than
- nothing. The only problem is that J10 is under the drive support
- bracket, and short of pulling the motherboard it was a mother of
- a job to reach it and put a berg connector on the front 2 pins.
- Unfortunately, no connector is the same as a connector on the
- back two pins and IBM is too cheap to waste connectors. Once the
- connector was installed I only had to change the RAMPage! board
- to indicate only 512Kb on non-paged memory currently installed,
- and I picked up 128Kb on memory for programs to run in expanded
- memory. It only took 3 tries (two lost berg connectors) but it
- was worth it. Now I only have to tell all of our uses out there
- how to do it themselves.....