Re: Reclaiming Memory From BIOS setup...

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From: Fuzzy Fox
Date: Fri, 06 Nov 1992 23:39

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umnoor@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Nasir Ahmed Noor) writes:

>When system starts up, it reports [familiar tick sound and RAM test] only
>7808K. It should, according to my calcs, report 8192K [i.e. 8 Meg].

The missing 384K is between 640K and 1024K.  This is the area where I/O
devices (cards, etc.) put their address space.  RAM can only be made to
appear in this location if you have a Shadow RAM chipset which will put
it there.  It may be that this address space is inaccessible on your
system.

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From: fox@rei.com (Fuzzy Fox)
Subject: Re: Reclaiming Memory From BIOS setup...
Message-ID: <1992Nov6.233959.3288@rei.com>
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 23:39:59 GMT
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