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Re: 196Mb of RAM?

  • Subject: Re: 196Mb of RAM?
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@schestowitz.com>
  • Date: Tue, 02 Aug 2005 12:46:44 +0100
  • Newsgroups: uk.comp.misc
  • Organization: schestowitz.com / Manchester University
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McSpreader wrote:

> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@schestowitz.com> wrote in
> dcn1do$2pc9$1@godfrey.mcc.ac.uk:">news:dcn1do$2pc9$1@godfrey.mcc.ac.uk:
> 
>> OneTel wrote:
>> 
>>> I have been given a Daewoo Pentium 3 which has a 500MHz CPU but
>>> the hard drive (8Gb) has been removed. It boots up fine but
>>> obviously can't find a hard drive. The onscreen message during
>>> POST says it has 196,608Kb of RAM, and it says the same in the
>>> BIOS. Why doesn't the RAM show as the usual 128/256/512Mb
>>> configuration?
>> 
>> This is most possibly fine. My laptop has *cough* 32 *cough* MB
>> of RAM and is reported to have only 28 MB of memory at BIOS
>> stages (26 MB on a previous date IIRC) because 4 MB are used for
>> graphical acceleration (this can be tweaked, which is not
>> recommended). Do not treat this value as if it is an error.
>> 
>> Roy
>> 
> 
> Or the PC may have been fitted with memory modules of 128MB and a
> 64MB = 192MB = 196,608KB

True. I haven't thought about that... or triple 64MB.

Roy

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