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Date:      Wed, 9 Apr 1997 20:49:16 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Adrian Chadd <adrian@obiwan.aceonline.com.au>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Re : FreeBSD having problems detecting RAM?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.970409204845.4997X-100000@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970408114704.4810B-100000@obiwan.aceonline.com.au>

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On Tue, 8 Apr 1997, Adrian Chadd wrote:

> Hi.
> 
> I have a pentium machine that now has 64mb RAM in it.
> However most of the time it detects *only* 8mb RAM.
> I've compiled numerous test kernels, with and without
> MAXMEM set to 65536 but it still comes up as 8mb RAM.
> 
> Has anyone come across this before?

Yes -- if the system doesn't like the other 56MB.  Try rearranging your
SIMMs and see if the BIOS even sees it.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major




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