in regards to systems ram i didn't make myself clear. The Compaqs have hardwired system ram usually 4mb the IBMS have hardwired but for the graphics CLEAR >From: "Joab S. Herman" <[log in to unmask]> >Reply-To: PCBUILD - Personal Computer Hardware discussion List ><[log in to unmask]> >To: [log in to unmask] >Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] Adding RAM >Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 02:38:04 -0400 > >Hi Daniel, > >It seems that you're talking about video RAM. I think this >thread was just about system RAM. > >Regards, >Joab > >At 12:30 AM 5/31/2001 -0500, you wrote: >>Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 02:03:40 +1000 >>From: Daniel Skilleter <[log in to unmask]> >>Subject: Re: Adding RAM >> >>Subject: Adding RAM - HARDWIRED RAM >>Most compaq and IBMS all have a few MB hardwired in, >>This is to help along the built in Graphipcs card usually >>The IBM's have 1MB and my Pentium 133 Compaq had 4mb built in. >> >>Regards >>Daniel Skilleter >>Technician >>Pacpacific Australia >> >> >> >I'm sure that I've never seen RAM hardwired into a motherboard, >> >although I can't say for sure that nobody ever did that. I >> >remember my old CPM machines, then my first DOS computer, a >> >Zenith with an S100 expansion bus, then a whole slew of PC >> >compatible motherboards that I've used from the '80s up to the >> >present in many computers that I've built for myself and other >> >folks, and I've just never seen it. >> > > > Do you want to signoff PCBUILD or just change to > Digest mode - visit our web site: > http://freepctech.com/pcbuild.shtml _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Do you want to signoff PCBUILD or just change to Digest mode - visit our web site: http://freepctech.com/pcbuild.shtml