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From: felton@eng3.UUCP (Ed Felton)
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Subject: Re: **** PHEONIX 386 BIOS QUESTION IN MY ZEOS LAPTOP! ****
Message-ID: <537@eng3.UUCP>
Date: 1 Oct 90 15:06:56 GMT
References: <1990Sep26.233311.8081@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <1990Sep28.031257.5187@karnak.uucp>
Reply-To: felton@eng3.UUCP (Ed Felton)
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Can you believe john@karnak.uucp (John B. Meaders Jr.) said:
|In article <1990Sep26.233311.8081@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu| gcw20877@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (George Wang) writes:
||I'm having a problem with my new Zeos 386-20DX laptop...
||
||It comes with the PHEONIX 386 BIOS PLUS V 1.10 22
||revision... It now has ONE MEG of RAM installed... The problem
||I'm having with the Pheonix 386 BIOS is that it REFUSES
||TO LET ME USE THE 384K ABOVE 640K AS EXTENDED OR EXPANDED MEMORY!!
|
|Somebody correct me if I'm wrong.  I don't think you will be able to use
|that 384K.  That is the shadow area.  I have 8Mb on my machine so it isn't
|a problem (I have a generic 386 w/AMI Bios).  I understand your dismay,
|but I don't think there is a way around it, except to get more memory.  It
|should accept everything above 1Mb.
-- CORRECTION --
You can regain the use of shadow ram in most cases (at least with a Pheonix 
BIOS) with properly written utility software, like 386MAX that I mentioned
friday in response to the original message!.
-- END CORRECTION --
|-- 
|John B. Meaders, Jr.
|510 Manchester Ct., Hopewell, VA  23806
|Voice:  804-451-2983
|Net:  john@karnak or {sequoia,sulaco,letni}!karnak!john


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