re: Disappearing UMB's, get this.

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From: Mike Robertson
Date: Sat, 02 Jan 1993 09:31

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In article <1993Jan01.181352.6500@donau.et.tudelft.nl> linstee@dutecaj.et.tudelft.nl (Erik van Linstee) writes:
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>The funniest thing happened to me. Yesterday, when I booted my
>dos partition, I noticed I had no UMB's. I was rather surprised,
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>My suspicion is rather arroused though, by the fact that SI,
>repports different memory sizes in the various info screens.
>It finds 638 to be useable by DOS, yet 640 to be available.


My first impression would be that you have a virus (the 638Kb memory is certainly an indication that *something* may be using 2kb off the 'top of DOS'!
Does CHKDSK also report 638Kb?

Mike Robertson                 |  DISCLAIMER: These are *my* thoughts & are
robertso@unpsun1.cc.unp.ac.za  |  thus not necessarily those of the Computer
                               |  Services Div. at the University of Natal

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