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Hello,
I just bought a pc from a thrift store that said on the case it had Windows 95 on it but it needed a battery. I bought a battery for it. Now I have no idea how much ram is in the machine so I dont know what to input in the cmos. It defaulted to 1024 but I know it has more than that because Windows 95 will not run on that amount of ram. How can I tell? I got the hard drive parameters correct because I looked them up on the net but cant figure how much ram the machine has in it. It is a 486dx that I mainly want to use for word processing.
If WIN 95 system is installed , the first page of system properties should give you type of CPU and amount of RAM.
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START button, SETTINGS, followed by CONTROL PANEL and finally SYSTEM. Once open, click on Device Manager and without clicking on anything else, look at that grey window. PetitJean is right, if you get Win95 to come up, you should be able to see all of your system ram right there.
Hey Intel, AMD rulez!
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Hi:get the belarc Advisor (Free)
and he will tell you everything about your System
it is Fantastic free program
cheers.
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You dont understand, the machine wont boot to Windows 95 because the correct amount of ram is not set up in the cmos. It gets to the "starting windows 95" screen & locks up & says "not enough memory"P.S. to response #3. Will this belarc Advisor run from a dos prompt?
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Hi:if you Can boot to a Dos prompt just type
mem (Enter)
and I hope you will get the amount of memory into your System
also try the following:http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;Q132571&LN=EN-US&SD=SO&FR=0
HTH.
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When I type mem at the dos promt I get 1,024k total memory which can't be right if it ran Windows 95 before. Will try the link you suggested. Thanks
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that 1024k is the shared memory u must be getting a message like xxxx+1024k shared,,,did u tried flashing ur bios do it.or upgrade ur bios it will help!!
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Jeez guys its a 486. They didn't usually support bios flashing or shared video memory.
Derrick how many ram sticks are in it. It may have 4 sticks of 256k which enqals 1024 or 1 meg. The CMOS should have auto detected it.The win95 sticker may have been bogus or someones removed the extra ram.
486s normally supported up to 32 megs.
If you just want to use it for word processing Derrick I can point you to PC Geos Pro which works nicely on 1 meg of ram, with a GUI even.
Could you supply some more details about it Derrick? Make etc if it OEM.
Does it try to boot win95?
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Hmmm,
Email me where the pc geos program is. I'm sure someone probably removed the extra ram, for I have gotten pc's from the thrift before & all ram was removed. Oh well.
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I see you have a yahoo account.
If you go to the Geos-files group you'll find them there in the file area.Hope this helps.
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