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#! rnews 1389 bsd From: brent@vivid.net (Brent "Weasel" Wiese) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Memory - Declares 16mb have 32? Date: Fri, 06 Jun 1997 16:13:20 GMT Message-ID: <339836c7.246809623@news.vivid.net> References: <33981371.3873950@news.demon.co.uk> X-Newsreader: Forte Agent .99f/32.299 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit NNTP-Posting-Host: krusty.vivid.net Lines: 21 Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.netspace.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!sol.net!spool.mu.edu!newsspool.sol.net!howland.erols.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!206.65.48.7!news.vivid.net!krusty.vivid.net Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:42558 On Fri, 06 Jun 1997 13:46:25 GMT, mgahan@sentientnet.demon.co.uk (Matthew Gahan) wrote: >Well thats the problem a, PC with 32mb of tested memory but the OS >says 16???? version 2.2.1 release. Where can we look to find the >solution??? This seems a fairly dramatic problem somebody must have >encountered this. > Here's Hopeing > Matthew Gahan Does your mem scan when you turn on the computer look right? I've seen this happen where you use a double sided SIMM. Some motherboards will only see single sided SIMMs. 1/2 of 32 is 16... Other than that, I don't know. Cheers, Brent