This started as unable to format a 1g hd, but I noticed that my friend had
f48meg of ram installed but mem check at boot only reported 40. System is an
old ctx pentium 75 with a 100mhz overdrive proccessor. Have no idea who made the
mother board all it says on it is MBD-P66AP2, ctx's website is no hellp at all.
His 48meg of memory consists of 2 16meg sticks and 4 4meg sticks. While trying
to find the bad ram things got weird, if I put the 2 16s in either end by
themselves bios checks 16meg only, if I put them in the middle slots, bios says
8meg. I get exactlly the same readings using either pair of 4meg sticks, 16 meg
if in either end pair or 8 meg in the middle pair.
Any ideas out there, I'm getting ready to plant this baby in the top of my
joystick tree.

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