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First post, by popeyewinter

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so that 4mb of RAM I bought from Russia finally came in, I installed it, and it works sort of. The system boots, starts dos, and Windows 286/2.11 now starts fine without the memory parity interrupt issue.

However, the bios still only counts to 640k base and 00384k exentded.

I go into the setup and try to change it, but it doesn't let me.

What do I need to do?

Thanks.

EDIT:

According to the user manual, when J16 is off, it can only do 1MB.

I put the jumper ON J16, but now it says that there is 00000kb extended memory.

When I go into set-up and change it to 3456KB (like the user manual says to do for 4MB of ram), and I click space in order to write the change to the CMOS battery, it just resets to "Not Installed"...

EDIT 32:

Checkit, comes back with the memory including the base memory being OK. However it doesn't even test the extended or expended memory. Probably because the BIOS doesn't know there's over 3MB of extended memory to be used.

So I think the RAM is fine, considering this, and the fact that Windows starts without the memory error I was getting with the previous RAM.

Reply 1 of 4, by kixs

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What motherboard do you have?

If it doesn't auto detect then you need to set jumpers or dip switches - depends on the motherboard.

I guess you have 4x 1MB simms installed.

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Reply 2 of 4, by popeyewinter

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yes 4x 1MB simms.

It's the packard bell 286x.

I have the user manual and it told me about J16 but no other jumpers. I'll try to find if there is any more.

Here it is:

I will need to see what state J14 and J15 are in, it seems.

http://www.uktsupport.co.uk/pb/mb/286x.htm

Reply 3 of 4, by popeyewinter

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Holy!

That worked!