Al, an amateur's 2c:

Interesting post.

I've had my machine show less than the correct amt of RAM if I didn't get
the RAM stick completely pushed down into the slot. If that keeps your
memory from reading, and you have indeed pushed your RAM all the way in,
maybe 16mb worth of your RAM slot is dirty or corroded. I don't know what
to use for cleaning - except extreme care. Radio shack and some others
have a spray bottle of tuner cleaner which cleans out connections,
potentiometers, etc in electronic equip. Maybe that would help.
jack payton

On Mon, 9 Jul 2001 07:42:08 -0700 Al Olry <[log in to unmask]> writes:
> I have a problem.
> At first my computer told me I only had 112 meg of memory
> and it should  have been 128.  A loss of 16 meg, so
> I assumed the chip was bad, and bought a new 256 chip,
> and put it in.  However the computer now only shows
> 240 meg,  A loss of 16 meg again.
> So now it looks like the problem is not in the chip, but
> something in the computer is gobbling up 16 meg of ram,
> and fouling up the rest of it.
> I can't even copy a floppy to my harddrive.
> It also tells me that a file, C:\CDROM\CDROM\cdtech.sys,
> is corrupted or missing..  I can find no such file on any
> disk that I have.
> Al Olry
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