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From: grege@gold.gvg.tek.com (Greg Ebert)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: How to get 384K RAM back
Message-ID: <1755@gold.gvg.tek.com>
Date: 4 Dec 90 20:23:26 GMT
References: <10084:Dec420:11:3890@stealth.acf.nyu.edu#
Organization: Grass Valley Group, Grass Valley, CA
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 wuwei@stealth.acf.nyu.edu ( ) writes:

#I have a 386 25Mhz clone. The motherboard is chip and technology
#chipset. It does shadow rom for you. I can disable the shadow rom.
#But the 384K Ram between 640K and 1M is still not available after 
#I disable it.
#
#Is it possible to get the 384K ram back as extended memory ?
#
#                         Wei Wu 

Maybe you're looking for it in the wrong place. Everything from 640k - 1M is
reserved for video ram, BIOS, etc. The RAM *should* appear between 1M and 
1.384M. You should use the shadow ROM; I've seen shadowed video BIOS and it
is *damn* fast.