Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 15 Jul 1997 11:18:33 -0600 (MDT) | From | Teunis Peters <> | Subject | Re: Memory being incorrected sized at boot-up |
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On Tue, 15 Jul 1997, Martin Mares wrote:
> > > OK, I incorrectly assumed we call the old function first and continue > > >with the new one only if it reports 64M... > > > > That's what I did in 2.0.30, unfortuantely BIOS on Compaq's only > > reports a maximum of 16MB wiht the old BIOS call. > > Maybe call the new one for >=16MB? This will reduce the chance of crash > on a mis-behaved BIOS to minimum. If such broken BIOS'es exist, they are > probably on the 386's and most 386 machines have probably <16MB RAM.
FWIW I recently worked on a 386 (!) with 32 megs ram.....
The guy wanted to upgrade....
Ciao! - Teunis
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