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From: skank@iastate.edu (Skank George L)
Subject: Amount of chip memory is different each time I boot, what's the deal?
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Date: Sun, 26 May 1991 06:41:23 GMT
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Hello folks.  My A3000 is exhibiting a phenomenon that seems strange to me.
I recently had 4Megs of memory added.  The origional 1Meg of memory is now
in chip ram, bringing the total chip ram to 2Megs.  Here's the problem,
each time I boot the machine I get a different amount of chip ram available.
Usually it's about 900K, which is what I had before the upgrade.  Sometimes
I get 1.1, 1.4, and as much as 1.9Megs of chip ram available.  What's going
on?  I can imagine that some system structures are allocated differently
each time the machine boots, but we're talking about almost a Meg of memory
that seems to come and go more or less at will.  Could I have bad memory
chips?  Could I have a bad something (I don't know what) else?  Is my machine
possessed?  The machine in question is an A3000 currently running Workbench
2.02.  Any help would be appreciated.  Thanks!

					--George

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