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Subject: Re: I have 98 MB Ram but Windows says Only 87 Ram, can chess prog. do this?

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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