Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!news.funet.fi!uta!kielo!av From: av@kielo.uta.fi (Arto V. Viitanen) Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms Subject: Re: 286 w Above Board? Message-ID: Date: 4 Apr 91 09:56:22 GMT References: <9307@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> <1991Apr3.164052.3842@vax5.cit.cornell.edu> Sender: news@uta.fi Reply-To: av@uta.fi (Arto V. Viitanen) Distribution: comp Organization: University of Tampere, Finland Lines: 19 Nntp-Posting-Host: uta.fi In-reply-to: hd7x@vax5.cit.cornell.edu's message of 3 Apr 91 20:40:51 GMT >>>>> On 3 Apr 91 20:40:51 GMT, hd7x@vax5.cit.cornell.edu (Sanjay Aiyagari) said: Sanjay> In article <9307@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>, Sanjay> hayesel@sage.cc.purdue.edu (Erik Hayes) writes: > Has anyone had problems running a 286 w/Above board. I have 2M on the board . . Sanjay> If it is the Intel Above Board you are talking about, you have EXPANDED memory, Sanjay> which under Windows 3.0 is usable by Windows only in real mode. To use Sanjay> standard mode you need EXTENDED memory. Some memory cards allow you to flip Sanjay> DIP switches to change your memory type from EXPANDED to EXTENDED. With Intel's Above Board you need no DIP switches; it has those settings in CMOS, that is they are settable with a program. You can have either all the memory as expanded or extended or something between (in 0.5 MB steps). -- Arto V. Viitanen email: av@kielo.uta.fi University Of Tampere, av@ohdake.cs.uta.fi Finland