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In article <Bt7095.51y@news.larc.nasa.gov>, dmk@air16.larc.nasa.gov (Dan M. Koppen) writes...
>Hi netters,
>   About six months ago, I bought a used Chicony model CH-386S-16D
>motherboard with 4 Mbytes of DRAM. It has space for 4 more Mbytes
>of SIMMs, but when I installed the SIMMs nothing happened (I still
>had only 4 Mbytes). When I take the DRAMs out the board senses the
>SIMMs, so I know the SIMMs are good. Moving jumpers 21-26 does
>nothing (jumpers 21-26 set up the SIMMS to be either bank 0-1 or
>bank 2-3 depending on the existense of DRAMs, the DRAMs _must_ be
>banks 0-1).
>   I have looked all through the Chicony manual and can not find a
>mailing address or phone number anywhere. Could some kind netter
>help me (if they have a similar board)? Or at least send me 
>information on how to contact the company? I strongly suspect I need
>a BIOS upgrade.
> 
>Thanks,
>Daniel Koppen
>dmk@air31.larc.nasa.gov


	I used to have the same board and I started with simms and added the
dips. All I needed to do (I hope I'm remembering correctly) was to make sure
that those jumpers were set properly. I do know that all the info was in the
manual, but it might have been a bit obscure. Chicony does have a US office,
but I don't know how to contact them. BTW - any Chicony product is made by the
same company and an address for any of them should be able get you the info on
another division. 

	The only other problem might be that I have found that you sometimes
need to boot more than once to get the post to set the right values into the
cmos. Just do it a few times in a row following the instructions to
go through the setup procedure without changing any hardware. You could also
try doing the settings yourself if that was possible - I don't remember.

	/s/	Bob Gettys