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Its been a while but I vaguely recall OS2 won't see more than 64meg
of RAM. (But its still a better OS)
On Mon, 27 Sep 1999 22:23:22 -0400, David Gray wrote:
>I write to ask for help with an upgrade issue I've just run into.
>
>I have just upgraded the bios on a Soyo SY-5EMA+ motherboard to the
most
>recent available. After having done so OS/2 has a memory problem so
to
>speak.
>
>I have 128MB SDRAM in the system, and after the bios upgrade OS/2
said I
>have 16MB! I have WIN98SE on the same hard disk, so I booted into
that to
>see how it reacted to the new bios. It saw the 128MB RAM without a
>problem. However, after looking in the BIOS, I found that if I chose
the
>setting for "Greater then 64MB RAM" to non-os2, then OS/2 would
recognize
>64MB, an improvement, but still only half of what is in the machine
(it is
>a single stick of SDRAM). I have tinkered in the BIOS as much as I
can,
>and can find no solution to this.
>
>Does anyone have any ideas as to what I need to do to get OS/2 V.4 to
see
>all the memory short of back tracking to the earlier bios version?
>
>
>Thanks.
>
> Dave Gray.
>
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