Thanks. I found this at the Novell site.

Symptom

    IBM Model 95 running fine on 32meg of ram. When the customer tries to
increase the amount of ram to anything greater then 32meg, the server will not
come up. Immediately after "server" is run, an error indicating that the Novell
server requires a minimum of 3 meg of memory is seen.

    Solution

    The customer was loading a TSR in the config.sys. When the TSR was removed
the server came up normally with the upgraded ram.

It's not an IBM model 95 but the symtom is indentical so this morning I went in
and cleaned up the autoexec.bat and config.sys files and it booted right up.

thanks again,

Jose



Kurr, Martin wrote:

> Most motherboard have jumpers to set for PC-100 compliant DIMMs.  Also check
> the BIOS settings...you may have the thing still looking for 60ns EDO RAM.
> Also make sure your DIMM's match (same speed rating, and best to have two of
> the same exact chip).  Jumpers & BIOS, and always double-check that the
> DIMMs are properly seated.
> Martin Kurr
> email [log in to unmask]
> > From:         Jose E. Dominguez[SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> > Subject:      [PCBUILD] Server Blues
> > I upgraded the RAM on a server running Netware 3.12 and here's what
> > happened.
> > I removed the 32MB in SIMMs that were on the board, and I added two
> > 128MB of PC-100, the voltage is
> > correct.
> > The system boots, counts the whole 256MB and proceeds...<clip>

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