Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!gatech!bloom-beacon!husc6!mit-eddie!ll-xn!cit-vax!ucla-cs!zen!ucbvax!ernie.Berkeley.EDU!maddox From: maddox@ernie.Berkeley.EDU (Carl Greenberg (guest)) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Problem with telling UNIQ 286B its own memory sizes Message-ID: <19665@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> Date: Fri, 10-Jul-87 17:10:39 EDT Article-I.D.: ucbvax.19665 Posted: Fri Jul 10 17:10:39 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 12-Jul-87 12:24:54 EDT Sender: usenet@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: maddox@ernie.Berkeley.EDU (Carl Greenberg (guest)) Distribution: world Organization: Lunatic Laboratories Unltd. Lines: 19 I have a UNIQ 286B IBM AT clone. It's nice: SI 11.5, 40MB, a megabyte of RAM. However, I have a problem with that last item. The scanty information in the manual informs me that I can tell the system it has 512K, 640K, or 1024K of RAM on the main board (I don't have any expanded or extended memory boards). When I tell it it has 640K of RAM, the thing countsand then acts like it has 640K of RAM. When I tell it it has 1024K of RAM, it only works with 512K regular/512K extended. This allows a 512K RAMdisk, but I like having 640 for TSR stuff and Ventura Publisher. Setup has no qualms about telling it 640K/384K, but then when I boot it up the thing gritches about a memory size error. Do I get a better setup program than IBM AT Advanced Diagnostics V 1.04, do I find a different set of BIOS ROMs than the Award BIOS that came with the thing, or do I ignore the upper 384K of memory? TNX in advance Carl /----------------------------------v------------------------------------------\ | Carl Greenberg, guest here | "I have a very firm grasp on reality! I | | ARPA: maddox@ernie.berkeley.edu | can reach out and strangle it any time I | | UUCP: ...ucbvax!ucbernie!maddox | want!" - Me |