Hi,

No half the ram did not fail.  We have had previous discussions in this
list about this.

Manufacturers of RAM have changed the density of the modules used. They
are building them cheaper.  You probably put in a new 128 module that is
single sided with memory.  If you can exchange it with a 128 double
sided,(read as: older, more expensive design) module it would probably
read correctly.

Thanks and have a Great Day!

Joe Lore
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I can't believe this, I did it!...........and I can't understand why all
the websites were making such a fuss about a Phoenix bios! I found it
really straight forward, and it only took a couple of seconds. I was
quite nervous to start with though, because on the Fujitsu-siemens site,
I found two flash update bios's for the D1170, and so I assumed they
were both intended to go on the one floppy.(Both were different sizes
when I checked properties) Everytime I tried to load one on, it
over-wrote the initial one, and vice versa, and when I tried to drag and
drop the second one to the A drive, there wasn't enough room. In the
end, after a lot of swearing, I took the chance, just loaded the biggest
file to the floppy, and went for it. (printing out the instructions I
found, not realising they wouldn't even coincide with what actually
happened on screen) If I remember rightly, the only thing I had to do
was press 'y' twice, then enter. I think that was about it. Then the
system restarted, and the error message is gone. I'm using it now, and
it seems fine, although I still only have 63mb ram according to
windows.(makes sense about the 1mb being used) I do have a 128mb stick
of ram installed, could half of the ram have failed or something? I
don't know if that's possible, or would it all fail at once? Thank you
all so much for all the advice about flashing the bios, I feel so stupid
now, it was so easy. I've made sure I kept the floppy for the future, as
I have 2 of these boards. (Haven't attempted to use the second one yet,
it's still in the packaging, but I've got the flash update ready) I've
seen the difference in the performance already though. Thanx again,
Michele Sayer

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