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From: maddox@ernie.Berkeley.EDU (Carl Greenberg (guest))
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Problem with telling UNIQ 286B its own memory sizes
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Date: Fri, 10-Jul-87 17:10:39 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jul 10 17:10:39 1987
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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
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