I know on some old Compaqs under DOS/Windows, you had to add a /EISA to the Himem.sys command in order for windows to see more than 16MB. (despite the fact that these compaq machines were not, in fact EISA machines - the argument just caused DOS to probe for memory differently). I wonder if there is an argument to Linux to enable the same probing mechanism that himem.sys uses with the /eisa switch. The BIOS on these suckers would always see all the memory available, but DOS/Windows would never see anything over 16MB. (without the himem switch). You may want to confirm my theory with a DOS boot disk with mem.exe and himem.sys - see if it only recognizes 16MB from DOS, and see if it changes when you add a /eisa switch to himem.sys. > andy at theasis.com wrote: > > > > I seem to recall some old motherboards that required you to set jumpers > > indicating the amount of memory. However, I may be barking mad. Do you > > have a manual? If not, may be worth looking for old specs on gateway's web > > site. > > Thats like, 286 era stuff. Never seen anything 386 or newer that didn't > autodetect RAM... > > But if the bios memory check sees it, thats not the problem. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org > For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org > > > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- What the president of the Motion Picture Association of America says about taking away your constitutional rights: "I'm rather jubilant now. What Judge Kaplan did was blow away every one of these brittle and fragile rebuttals. He threw out fair use; he threw out reverse engineering; he threw out linking." - Jack Valenti, president of the Motion Picture Association of America. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- ______ _ __ "If you don't have the freedom to use what you / ' ) ) own - then you do not own anything." / o ______ / / _ . . No apologies to Jack Valenti or the MPAA / <_/ / / < / (_</_(_/_ -- tneu at visi.com / http://www.visi.com/~tneu -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org