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Article #41918Re: Need help on PCs ( memory, printers )
From: Ken Snyder
Date: Wed, 07 Feb 1990 20:58
Date: Wed, 07 Feb 1990 20:58
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> The machine is supposed to contain 1 MB of main memory but when I run > Norton tests it just reports 640 KBytes. How do I verify that the If your motherboard is like my Micronics, the 384k is used for shadowing the bios, video memory etc. and is inaccessible by DOS unless you use an expanded memory manager. Once you use the expanded memory manager you can map the spare memory (those blocks that aren't being used for shadowing etc.) into your expanded memory map and utilize them for other applications. Ken
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