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From: brent@vivid.net (Brent "Weasel" Wiese)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Memory - Declares 16mb have 32?
Date: Fri, 06 Jun 1997 16:13:20 GMT
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On Fri, 06 Jun 1997 13:46:25 GMT, mgahan@sentientnet.demon.co.uk
(Matthew Gahan) wrote:

>Well thats the problem a, PC with 32mb of tested memory but the OS
>says 16???? version 2.2.1 release. Where can we look to find the
>solution??? This seems a fairly dramatic problem somebody must have
>encountered this.
>	Here's Hopeing
>	Matthew Gahan

Does your mem scan when you turn on the computer look right? I've seen
this happen where you use  a double sided SIMM. Some motherboards will
only see single sided SIMMs. 1/2 of 32 is 16... 

Other than that, I don't know.

Cheers,
Brent