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rknazik@x102a.harris-atd.com (knazik bob) writes:

> My 386 PC reports that I have 654360 conventional memory when I do a
> "chkdsk" or a "mem" (DOS 5.0).  This is 1024 short of the expected
> amount.  I seem to remember that there was a virus that caused this
> result, but VSCAN finds nothing wrong.  Does anyone know if this is a
> virus or just some weird hardware failure ?  Any help is appreciated.

This is in the FAQ. While there -are- viruses that reduce the memory
size by 1 Kb, they are not widespread, so it is rather unlikely that
you have a virus. Most resident viruses reduce the memory size by a
larger amount of bytes - usually at least 2 Kb.

Check your CMOS setup - maybe you have told it to allocate 1 Kb from
the top of memory for its data area. Are you using a SCSI controller?
Any kind of additional operating system, like Unix? Is MS-DOS loaded
high? With what kind of memory manager? All these reasons can cause
memory reduction...

Regards,
Vesselin
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