Author: Roy Eassa
Date: 10:06:18 11/15/01
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On November 15, 2001 at 11:58:10, Kevin Strickland wrote: >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. Bingo! That sound like the correct verdict.
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