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From: stesin@elvisti.kiev.ua (Andrew V. Stesin)
Subject: Re: Help!  BSD doesn't recognize new Memory
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John Paul Campbell (jpc) wrote:
: I just installed 2 16 meg simms.  BIOS found them just fine and even Win95
: recognized them.  However both Linux and FreeBSD show only 16M (had 8
: previously).   What else must be  done?

	A shot to the dark:  do you have a "memory hole" enabled in
	your BIOS? Disable if yes.

	Try to add some waitstates to RAM access, and between cache and
	RAM.

: Help please.

: Thanks in advance.

: John


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