From: "John S. Fine" Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: Question about Go32-v2 - but might actually be more of an OS question Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1998 13:04:56 -0500 Lines: 29 Message-ID: <367947C8.3373@erols.com> References: <36793587 DOT 15584121 AT news> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: C20m331TktLJxLq0Q1V6j7ShbUe2JeORwjoy64B2NEk= X-Complaints-To: abuse AT rcn DOT com NNTP-Posting-Date: 17 Dec 1998 18:05:57 GMT X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (Win95; U) To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Stuart Hall wrote: > I just installed 32 megs of SIMMS chips but my BIOS > doesn't seem to want to recognize any more than the first 8 meg. In > addition, Go32-v2 doesn't either. > > Am I stuck upgrading to a 32bit Microsoft OS in order to get the extra > 24 meg recognized, If your BIOS really doesn't recognize more than 8 meg, then "upgrading" to a 32bit OS won't help. If your BIOS recognized the memory but wouldn't report it to the OS properly then a different OS might do better; However, that is very unlikely at an 8MB boundary. BIOS reporting of RAM to the OS can get strange at 17Mb and at 64Mb. A reporting glitch at 8Mb is very unlikely. Are you sure the new RAM is good? Are you sure it is compatible with your motherboard? Are you sure it is installed correctly? This getting rather far off topic for this group, but you might want to try the "PCI" program on my web page. On some PCI motherboards it will report the memory configuration as seen by the chipset. In some cases that can help explain why memory is not being seen. -- http://www.erols.com/johnfine/ http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Peaks/8600/