#accessing ram above 64mg
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I have 128 meg of ram. The dos does not appear to be accessing it.
Is there any work around?
Ward:
To date the most common method to see all of your 128mb of RAM is to use a
memory manager like QEMM 7.x. Here is a message which spells out what you
might want to try:
#: 103734 S3/Hware/OpSys/video
24-May-94 16:22:09
Sb: Breaking the 64M Wall
Fm: Jonas Ruikis [ADESK] 73172,1351
To: Jonas Ruikis 73172,1351 (X)
Certain Pentium-based machines need a little kick start when trying to get
them to recognize more than 64Mb of RAM. Here's the secret (courtesy of Jamie
Clay in the Autodesk VPG):
First, does all the memory count up during initial boot?, if so read on…
o Get QEMM 7.04 (actually you can't yet purchase this, but you can get the
patch to QEMM 7.x on CIS in the QEMM forum)
o Then you use the(undocumented) SCANMEM command to display the amount of
memory the machine has. SCANMEM returns a memory range called USERAM.
o That range then needs to be plugged into the QEMM386.SYS's USERAM
option in the CONFIG.SYS.
Example: DEVICE=C:\QEMM\QEMM386.SYS RAM USERAM=XXXXX-XXXXX
From there it works like a champ. Note – you needed to add the RAM option
to get Windows to work with it.
– Bob Ritger
>>I have 128 meg of ram. The dos does not appear to be accessing it.
>>Is there any work around?
I don't have this problem myself, as I only have 64Mb computers, but I have
seen this question out here before. The answer have been to get QEMM 7.5 and
to get some patch update.
Is there someone around who has done this?!!
-M.E
Martin,
yes, I have – I've got 128 mb and qemm 7.5 see's everything fine.
it's also very easy to set up in your config.sys
<< from a previous message>>
Then you use the SCANMEM command to display the amount of memory the machine
has. SCANMEM returns a memory range called USERAM.
o That range then needs to be plugged into the QEMM386.SYS's USERAM
option in the CONFIG.SYS.
Example: DEVICE=C:\QEMM\QEMM386.SYS RAM USERAM=XXXXX-XXXXX
-Kyle