Path: utzoo!mnetor!tmsoft!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!ogicse!plains!jnelson From: jnelson@plains.NoDak.edu (Jim Nelson) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc Subject: Re: Question: only 639K available to DOS? Message-ID: <8347@plains.NoDak.edu> Date: 16 Feb 91 21:38:19 GMT References: <15894.27bbb58b@levels.sait.edu.au> Organization: North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND Lines: 19 In article lee@chsun1.uchicago.edu (Dwight A Lee) writes: >xaandrews@levels.sait.edu.au writes: > >> Anybody come across the problem of only having 639K available to DOS? >>The DOS MEM command reports only 654 366 bytes available instead of 655 360. > >This is often the symptom of a virus infection. It happened to me >when I was infected by the STONED virus. Maybe, maybe not. Depending on the machine, it could be your 'scratch pad ram'. In my setup program on my 286, I have an option to put the 'scratch pad' in the bios data area, or someplace in ram. I have it in the bios data area, so as to have a full 640k. -- .sig? What .sig? Ohhhh, *THIS* .sig. Jim, in the Land of the Lost. disclaimer: These are just opinions. If you want 'em, you can have 'em.