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The cardbus/card soft pc card drivers are supposed to be the best out there. The purchased a another comapny that makes a mem mgt program that they decided to use. That driver, I don't remember the name is what takes up the 2 meg of memory. The only reason that IBM uses cardbus drivers is that they support zoom video. The cardbus drivers don't replace the support provided by Win95, just supplement it. I don't think that you need the cardbus drivers for Cardbus cards. At 01:00 AM 6/27/97 -0500, Eric Giles wrote: >My sister received her 380D yesterday from CDW (150 MMX, 12.1 TFT) and >brought it by for me to install the PC Card modem and ethernet cards. I >noticed that Win95 only reported 14MB installed after the Winstone 97 >benchmark refused to load. IBM tech support verified that the System >Soft Cardbus drivers take up the additional 2MB of memory. Since the PC >Cards my sister was using were not Cardbus, I just 'remmed out' the >drivers in config.sys and that solved the problem. Everything still >works fine without them. Seems kind of odd that they would use such a >system that would hog that much memory for PC Card drivers (least I >forget my 760ED and its Mwave system). > >It is just annoying that IBM makes such nice laptops but will put some >kind of 'non-standard' devices in them that takes away from their full >capabilities. > >Just venting some more frustration... > >Eric Giles > >Jeffrey Schwartz wrote: > >> 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! >> > > > > >