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etxansk@garbo.ericsson.se wrote:
: dcm@iris.mincom.oz.au (Doug Merrett) writes:

: >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

: >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.

:  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