Re: Help: Dog of a 486

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From: P Ashton
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1998 00:00

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thanks for the reply.

Ive tried changing almost every bios setting. What exactly did you
change to get it to work. It seems on mine that every configuration of
memory above 16M runs slow

thanks


David Rubie wrote:
> 
> In article <35D16C22.3754@fl.net.au>, P Ashton <ashton@fl.net.au> writes:
> > Hi
> >
> > I have a 486DX4-100 which has been running Win 95 quite happily with 16M
> > of ram. When I upped this to 32M it ran like a dog. Memory tests showed
> > that the last 16M was being accessed significantly slower.
> >
> > Anyone got any ideas why this is happening and how I can fix it?
> >
> [deleted]
> 
> You might have to fiddle around with the BIOS to tell it to
> cache the extra memory.  I had a similar UMC board with an
> AMD 486/100 on it, and it was also a dog after a memory
> upgrade.  The Bios fiddle fixed it up a treat.
> 
> dave.
> 
> --
> -------------------------------------------------------
> David Rubie                           "Your brother's dead.
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From: P Ashton <ashton@fl.net.au>
Subject: Re: Help: Dog of a 486
Date: 1998/08/13
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