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From: ekrimen@ecst.csuchico.edu (Ed Krimen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech
Subject: Re: Ste fix for 2.5 meg upgrade?
Message-ID: <1991May13.183722.28576@ecst.csuchico.edu>
Date: 13 May 91 18:37:22 GMT
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In article   writes:
>
>I just upgraded my STe to 2.5 megs like it says to do in the March '91
>issue of Atari interface.
>I put the 1 meg simms in slots 1 & 3 (from back to front) and the other
>2 256k'ers in slots 2 & 4.
>However, a memory checker says I have 4 meg. they said this would happen,
>so go get a program called simmfix.arc that's s'posed to fix this.
>
>Well, I looked on compuserve and Delphi and didn't find anything. I also
>looked on atari.archive but don't know if the file is called something
>else.
>
>Anyone have any clues or fixes for this?
>

It's at atari.archive, like PATCH302 (the NeoDesk patch) was.  I don't know
where Jeff Weiner put it.  Jeff? :^)

I tried using SIMMFIX, but the computer would rarely recognize it when
it would run.  I would get a TOS ERROR 35 when run from the desktop, or
nothing when it was run from the AUTO folder.  Therefore, I was using
2megs until I upgraded to 4 recently.  The executable file is only 
248 BYTES long, but I don't think that would be a basis for it not
running.  Another disadvantage with the program is that it requires a 
warmboot to reconfigure the memory.

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