From owner-freebsd-hardware Sun May 11 20:54:04 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id UAA26481 for hardware-outgoing; Sun, 11 May 1997 20:54:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sierra.zyzzyva.com (ppp01-58.zyzzyva.com [208.214.58.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id UAA26476 for ; Sun, 11 May 1997 20:53:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sierra (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by sierra.zyzzyva.com (8.8.5/8.8.2) with ESMTP id WAA28864 for ; Sun, 11 May 1997 22:52:25 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <199705120352.WAA28864@sierra.zyzzyva.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0gamma 1/27/96 To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Help with old AMI BIOS config X-uri: http://www.zyzzyva.com/ Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 11 May 1997 22:52:25 -0500 From: Randy Terbush Sender: owner-hardware@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I've aquired a few 386sx-20 machines that are equipped with Chips and Tech chipsets, AMI BIOS dated 1990 and 8 of the older style 30 "pin" SIMMS arranged in 4 banks. The BIOS config option offers "BIOS setup" and "Xtended BIOS setup". The "Xtended BIOS setup" indicates that 3 of the 4 memory banks are disabled. Does anyone here have any idea how to enable these? There does not appear to be a place in the BIOS config to enable them, and there are no jumpers on the motherboard that appear to do this. The computer will not detect memory installed beyond the first bank. Any help is appreciated.