Problems with Mac II/FX system size

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From: Timothy VanFosson
Date: Mon, 15 Oct 1990 20:30

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I just installed an 8*24 GC video card in our Mac II/FX system,
and when I checked the system memory size (in About Finder), it
showed that the system was using about 12 megabytes of memory (out of
24).  One of my colleagues said that he had seen this happen before, but
didn't know the cause.  I've tried everything that I can think
of short of taking the card out, including reformatting and restoring
the system disk from scratch, and still cannot find what is taking the
space.  It makes no difference whether the 8*24 GC startup document
is on the machine or not.  Nor does turning the RAM cache off result
in any significant changes (only what would be expected).

Has anyone experienced problems of this sort with the IIfx or the
8*24 GC card?

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Timothy VanFosson                   E-mail   : timv@ccad.uiowa.edu
Senior Systems Analyst              US Mail  : CAD-Research
University of Iowa                             228 ERF
Phone : (319) 335-5728                         Iowa City, Iowa 52242

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From: timv@ccad.uiowa.edu (Timothy VanFosson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.harware,comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Problems with Mac II/FX system size
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Date: 15 Oct 90 20:30:04 GMT
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