Re: Greater than 64 MB memory
*- On 11 Feb, Raymond A. Ingles wrote about "Re: Greater than 64 MB memory"
> On Wed, 10 Feb 1999 servis@purdue.edu wrote:
>
>> *- On 11 Feb, Garrick Chien Welsh wrote about "Re: Greater than 64 MB memory"
> [...]
>> When I switched to 2.2.1 I removed my mem=96m from my loadlin line and
>> the kernel still only found 64M of memory. Strange. I wonder why this
>> isn't working for me?
>
> How old is your BIOS? Older BIOSes can only report 64MB of memory. Newer
> ones have a new function that can report more. If your BIOS only supports
> the older function, you'll still need to do the "mem=96M" thing.
>
It is an Abit-TX5(http://www.abit-usa.com/html/tx5.htm) motherboard with
an Award Soft Menu Bios which I have flashed to a bios dated 7/98..... I
just noticed that there is a newer version that states it is for cpu
compatibility, I will upgrade it next time I have to reboot.
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Brian
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