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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news1.oakland.edu!wsu-cs!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.mathworks.com!gatech!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!newsspool.doit.wisc.edu!decwrl!purdue!mozo.cc.purdue.edu!not-for-mail From: jha@cs.purdue.edu (John H. Aughey) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Should I avoid Dell boxes? Date: 25 Jul 1995 12:02:08 -0500 Organization: Department of Computer Science, Purdue University Lines: 17 Distribution: world Message-ID: <3v382g$il0@moriarty.cs.purdue.edu> References: <JUN.95Jul24181630@fox.fax.iwa.fujixerox.co.jp> NNTP-Posting-Host: moriarty.cs.purdue.edu In article <JUN.95Jul24181630@fox.fax.iwa.fujixerox.co.jp>, Junichi Kurokawa <jun@fox.fax.iwa.fujixerox.co.jp> wrote: >I heard several times in the past that Dell boxes have some non-standard >(read bad) circuitry that's incapable of telling the operating system >how much memory it really has, and FreeBSD suffers from this. > >My question is, do =all= Dell boxes have this deficiency, or some-do and >some-don't? Thanks in advance for your comments. I have a Dell Dimension XPS P90 and have not had any problems with it. It was shipped with 16 meg of memory which I have ran FreeBSD 1.1, 1.1.5.1, 2.0, and 2.0.5 on. Between 1.1.5.1 and 2.0 I upgraded my memory to 32 meg and it both were able to detect how much memory was in there without any problems. It was simply a matter of dropping in the simms and powering the machine back on. -John