Dell Optiplex GXi Memory issue

"Bubba" wrote in message

 > Starbase's log on stardate 16 ozu 2004
 >
  > > I got a 166Mzh Dell Optiplex GXi for nothing but it will only see 15
  > > Mb of ram. I have three sticks of EDO ram 16/32/128 and have tried
  > > them all single/multiple in different slots, Bios only reports 640K
  > > base 14336K extended and Win 95 reports 15 Mb.
 >
 > Strange. Board supports 512 MB of RAM. However, largest size DIMM must be
 > installed in Bank 0 with decreasing sizes in Banks 1 - 3. There is one
 > more thing i had in mined ... IIRC, that board has embded S3 video card.
 > Perhaps it takes some memeory? Why don't you check in BIOS about that.
 >
 >

Thanks Bubba,

Yes, I got the speck on the board and have seen the RAM bank confugurations,
I thought maybe someone had encountered a similar problem with this board
before and could help, otherwise I am stumped. From the history it was
running Win98 then started going very very slow, (not surprised when it
could only access 15 Mb of RAM) so I got a 128 Mb stick off E-Bay thinking
it was one of the two memory sticks onboard when I got it. Anyway I have
since loaded W95 and can still use the machine for its intended use, it will
no doubt remain a mystery

Regards

Starbase


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"Bubba" wrote in message

 > Starbase's log on stardate 16 ozu 2004
 >
  > > I got a 166Mzh Dell Optiplex GXi for nothing but it will only see 15
  > > Mb of ram. I have three sticks of EDO ram 16/32/128 and have tried
  > > them all single/multiple in different slots, Bios only reports 640K
  > > base 14336K extended and Win 95 reports 15 Mb.
 >
 > Strange. Board supports 512 MB of RAM. However, largest size DIMM must be
 > installed in Bank 0 with decreasing sizes in Banks 1 - 3. There is one
 > more thing i had in mined ... IIRC, that board has embded S3 video card.
 > Perhaps it takes some memeory? Why don't you check in BIOS about that.
 >
 >

Solved,

There is a setting in the BIOS called "Reserved Memory" setting it to none
solved the problem

The vid has 2Mb (of its own I think)

Thanks


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