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From: shutton@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (Scott K. Hutton)
Subject: Re: Help!  Where's the lost 128K memory?
Message-ID: <1991Jun8.233221.19144@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu>
Reply-To: cwang@copper.ucs.indiana.edu
Organization: Indiana University, University Computing Services
Date: Sat, 8 Jun 91 23:32:21 GMT
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cwang@copper.ucs.indiana.edu (Ted Wang) writes:
>Hello!  I have a 80386-25 based PC with 64K cached memory and 4MB RAM.
>It uses a noname motherboard and AMI BIOS.  When I turn on the
>computer, it does self memory testing and says 3968 OK instead of 4096
>OK.  I thought that this might because of the SIMMs, so I pulled out
>the SIMMs ( four 1MBx9 SIMMs) in my computer and plugged into my
>friend's computer and everything's fine (I mean he got 4096 OK message
>after the memory test).  Any idea of where the lost 128K goes in my
>computer?  Thanks in advance!

There  was a question with  a similar answer earlier.   If you look in
your CMOS setup, you will probably see that you have either or both of
your Main and Video BIOS shadowed.  This will automatically take about
192K out before you get to the memory  count.   Works  on mine!  Don't
worry... it's still there; it's just being used!

  	
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