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windows 98 fails to recognize memory upgrade
Name: David Fortolli Date: December 18, 1999 at 19:41:49 Pacific
Comment:
I just installed 64MB of memory on my Sony PCG-505f. The BIOS setup says I have 96.0 MB of memory, but Windows 98 says I have only 32.0 MB !!!!! What's up with that?
Name: Tom Date: December 18, 1999 at 22:02:03 Pacific
Reply:
Windows gets its memory info from the BIOS. Click the Start button, select Run and enter the word "mem" (w/o the quotes). If the resulting DOS window does not show all memory, then there's a problem with the BIOS. You can open the BIOS setup during bootup and look at the memory settings. If you have a setting for Memeory caching >64MB (or words to thaty effect), set it to OS2. Also try removing the old 32MB chip and see if windows identifies the single 64 MB chip. There may be a wierd bug in a memory segment of the chip that prevents windows from addressing it. Finally, be sure the new chip is of the same type and nanosecond speed of the older chip.
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Response Number 2
Name: Puda Date: December 19, 1999 at 11:58:04 Pacific
Reply:
Tom, I've seen the os2 memory option in my bios, could you tell us what it means please?
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Response Number 3
Name: akuma Date: December 19, 1999 at 20:25:45 Pacific
Reply:
os selection for dram > 64mb is for the OS2 operating system.
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