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From: david@gisatl.FIDONET.ORG (David Deitch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Remapping AT memory
Message-ID: <1255.26634CFE@gisatl.FIDONET.ORG>
Date: 30 May 90 03:54:51 GMT
Organization: Galaxy Information System (GIS) 1:133/411 Atlanta, Ga
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In a message of <May 28 17:06> Mike Ching (ching@pepsi.amd.com ) writes:

 > My AT has forgotten how to map memory from 640K-1M to extended
 > memory. Can anybody help?
 > 
 > Details: 286 clone with C&T chipset and Award BIOS. It used to work 
 > and
 > I changed to a newer BIOS version that included setup in the ROM. 
 > Now
 > it maps the 1Meg into 512K base and 512K extended instead of 
 > 640+384.
 > Putting the old ROMs back and using the old setup program doesn't
 > change things back to the original condition. Losing base memory is 
 > a
 > disaster. Help!

     Mike, most likely you have accidentally reset the base system memory 
switch on your motherboard.  Check your docs and make sure it is set for 
640K system memory.

     David Deitch (GIS)
     deitch@gisatl.fidonet.org
     1:133/411@fidonet
 

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