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From: kens@hplsla.HP.COM (Ken Snyder)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Need help on PCs ( memory, printers )
Message-ID: <5190076@hplsla.HP.COM>
Date: 7 Feb 90 20:58:46 GMT
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Organization: HP Lake Stevens, WA
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> The machine is supposed to contain 1 MB of main memory but when I run 
> Norton tests it just reports 640 KBytes. How do I verify that the 

  If your motherboard is like my Micronics, the 384k is used for shadowing
the bios, video memory etc. and is inaccessible by DOS unless you use an
expanded memory manager.  Once you use the expanded memory manager you can
map the spare memory (those blocks that aren't being used for shadowing etc.)
into your expanded memory map and utilize them for other applications.

Ken