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From: rlr@bbt.UUCP (rader)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: **** PHEONIX 386 BIOS QUESTION IN MY ZEOS LAPTOP! ****
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Date: 2 Oct 90 17:02:21 GMT
References: <1990Sep26.233311.8081@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
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 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!!
>
>It says that the 384K IS *RESERVED* and I can't get the BIOS to
>free it up...
>
>Thanks
>George

  Isn't this a common problem, regardless of your BIOS?  That 384K
between 640K and 1M is unusable as EMS on lots of AT clones that
I've seen (not that I've seen very many, though).  Peripheral
devices use those memory addresses for their own purposes (since
no one would need to break the magic DOS 640K barrier! ;).

  Maybe you have a card in your laptop that's assuming control
over these addresses.  Since your BIOS is marking it as reserved,
it might be a proprietary Zeos peripheral.  Anyone else have any
guesses?
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