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Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1999 11:11:07 +0200
To: Zheng Bokui <bokui@sin.photronics.com>
From: Michel Quadflieg <michel@quadspeed.com>
Subject: Re: Memory
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HI,

I installed FreeBSD some weeks ago on a compaq and had the same problem.
There seems to be an error in the BIOS of some earlie compaq's. I just flashed
the BIOS and it was working immediarly.
So go over to http://www.compaq.com and install a new bios and the problem will
be fixed.

Michel

At 10:16 26/4/99 -0700, you wrote:
>Hi,
>I'm new to freebsd and just installed FreeBSD 3.1-stable in my old
>Compaq prolinea 5100e PC (Pentium/100 CPU, 32MB RAM and 2.5GB HDD). But
>the machine seems only use 16MB RAM. Here is part of the output from
>dmesg:
>
>
>Copyright (c) 1992-1999 FreeBSD Inc.
>Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993
>        The Regents of the University of California. All rights
>reserved.
>FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE #0: Mon Feb 15 11:08:08 GMT 1999
>    jkh@usw3.freebsd.org:/usr/src/sys/compile/GENERIC
>Timecounter "i8254"  frequency 1193182 Hz
>CPU: Pentium/P54C (75.17-MHz 586-class CPU)
>  Origin = "GenuineIntel"  Id = 0x526  Stepping=6
>  Features=0x1bf<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,MCE,CX8>
>real memory  = 16777216 (16384K bytes)
>avail memory = 13307904 (12996K bytes)
>Bad BIOS32 Service Directory!
>Preloaded elf kernel "kernel" at 0xf0340000.
>Probing for devices on PCI bus 0:
>chip0: <Host to PCI bridge (vendor=1004 device=0007)> rev 0x01 on
>pci0.0.0
>chip1: <PCI to ISA bridge (vendor=1004 device=0008)> rev 0x01 on
>pci0.1.0
>vga0: <Cirrus Logic GD5434 SVGA controller> rev 0xfc on pci0.2.0
>wdc0: <CMD 640B IDE> rev 0x02 int a irq 14 on pci0.3.0
>xl0: <3Com 3c905B Fast Etherlink XL 10/100BaseTX> rev 0x24 int a irq 11
>on pci0.
>20.0
>xl0: Ethernet address: 00:10:4b:0e:e8:c1
>xl0: autoneg complete, link status good (half-duplex, 10Mbps)
>
>
>
>What's going wrong here? How can I use all the 32MB RAM?
>
>TIA,
>Bokui
>
>
>
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