Author: Kevin Strickland
Date: 08:58:10 11/15/01
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On November 15, 2001 at 03:40:49, Terry Ripple wrote: >My Pentium 2, 233Mhz uses the older Simms type Ram. I have a total of 98 MB and >after playing hundreds of games with various Chess programs my system shows less >than what is actually installed. Here is my best description of problem: > >When my system boots up, it says I have 98 mg ram which is accurate, but after >windows is done running, windows tells me I only have 87 ram. I ram the memory >tester in Norton and it says everything is ok but it tells me I have 87 ram. If >some memory went bad, shouldn't it also be bad at bootup?, so I think it may be >a tracking problem of some sort. Any suggestions? I believe that you possibly have onboard video and it is using 11 megs of system ram for graphics processing. This is the most logical reason for this. Older PII systems, and even today's newer Celeron systems still use onboard video. In your bios you are able to set how much it actually uses. Do yourself a favor, go buy a video card and install it. Then you will have 98 megs of ram all the time.
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