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- From: dcm@iris.mincom.oz.au (Doug Merrett)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: Re: Memory expansion and AMI BIOS
- Message-ID: <4603@iris.mincom.oz.au>
- Date: 21 Jan 93 05:24:15 GMT
- References: <etxansk.727539737@garbod26>
- Organization: Mincom, Brisbane, Australia
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- etxansk@garbo.ericsson.se wrote:
- : dcm@iris.mincom.oz.au (Doug Merrett) writes:
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- : >klooster@mswe.dnet.ms.philips.nl wrote:
- : >: I installed recently 4MB of RAM in my 386-33 Mhz computer.
- : >: When I switch the computer on it only says "3968 Kb OK".
- : >: Why doesn't it say 4096 Kb OK, which is what I installed?
- : >: Does this mean there is something wrong with the memory?
- : >: I have an AMI BIOS from 1990.
- : >:
- : >: Richard
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- : >The short answer is:
- : >The RAM is used for BIOS and VGA BIOS shadow RAM. It copies the
- : >slow BIOS from an EPROM into RAM to make it run faster.
- : >There is a newer BIOS than you have (the latest I've seen is 12/12/91),
- : >but this has nothing to do with the above. The RAM will always
- : >be smaller.
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- : I've put the line DEVICE=FASTBIOS.SYS or something similar to it in my
- : system's
- : CONFIG.SYS file. Does the computer copy the ROM BIOS to shadow RAM
- : initially, and then it replaces it with the FASTBIOS file's contents,
- : or what?
-
- : Thanks in advance for any information on this.
- : Anders Skelander
-
- Anders,
- You don't need the DEVICE... bit as your BIOS will do it automagically!
- Doug.
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- Doug Merrett
- Internet: dcm@mincom.oz.au
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