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From: TKUSTER@auvm.american.edu (Todd)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Help! Where's the lost 128K memory?
Message-ID: <91161.105003TKUSTER@auvm.american.edu>
Date: 10 Jun 91 14:50:03 GMT
References: <1991Jun8.201349.14697@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu>
Organization: The American University - University Computing Center
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In article <1991Jun8.201349.14697@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu>,
cwang@copper.ucs.indiana.edu (Ted Wang) says:
>
>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


I have a similar occurence but it isn't a problem.  64k goes towards
Bios Shadowing and 64k goes towards video shadowing.  This memory
doesn't appear during the memory test.  You should try going into
setup and see if you have these features.  If you want the full
4mb of RAM you may be able to disable the shadowing.

I hope this is your problem

Later...