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To: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>
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But the BIOS detects all of the memory.  And the Dos partition flys
compared to what it was.  Would the cache still be a problem?  And what is
a PAL upgrade?
Thanks,
Dean

At 07:47 PM 10/26/97 -0800, Julian Elischer wrote:
>try backing down to 16
>
>maybe your board only caches 16MB? (if it's old?)
>remember a single cache miss is bad.. I've had this on a 486 motherboard..
>the manufacturer had a PAL upgrade for the cache controller.
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>On Sun, 26 Oct 1997, Dean wrote:
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>> BSDibes,
>> 	I've got a 486 DX-33 with a 486 (I think) motherboard.  Friday, I went
>> from 8 Megs to 20 Megs of RAM - from eight 1 Meg sims to four 4 Meg and
>> four 1 Meg sims.  I've got eight 30 pin slots.  Well, the problem is that
>> my system now crawls - like it is only recognizine the four 1 Meg sims.  I
>> just installed FreeBSD, so I assume I've got the latest version.  I didn't
>> think that there was anything I had to do in addition to ploping in the
>> sims.  Any ideas?  Thanks,
>> 	Dean
>> 
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