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Re: TP 380 quirk with RAM
- To: <Nick.Rushizky@mail.mei.com>, thinkpad@cs.utk.edu
- Subject: Re: TP 380 quirk with RAM
- From: Jeffrey Schwartz <jeffsnc@mindspring.com>
- Date: Fri, 27 Jun 1997 00:31:31 -0400
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I'm not sure why it reports 4meg less. It should report 2 meg less if you
ahve the cardsoft pc card drivers loaded. They use a memory manager that
takes 2meg or ram and make it unasable.
Hope this helps
At 11:30 AM 6/23/97 -0500, Nick.Rushizky@mail.mei.com wrote:
>Let me reintroduce myself to the list.. and then I'll start my whine o' the
>day. I support about 250 sales guys and their laptops, and I'm now trying to
>standardize on the new 380 (after a brief and disastrous flirtation with
>Toshiba).
>
>So far, so good.. it's got some things that I like better than the older
760 E
>that I had. One thing is making people call and ask questions..
>
>The ones I have (380 D's) come with 16 M RAM onboard. I bump it to 32 with a
>Kingston 16 M DIMM, since RAM is still fairly cheap. However, in this
>configuration, they all read as having just 28 M of RAM! Not the 32 that my
>math comes up to.
>
>Any ideas? I know these things are new to us all, but I'd like to see if
>there's a logical or at least consistent pattern to this. Thanks!
>