Posts by bcingubuck

Hi, I downloaded memtest-86 v3.2 by Chris Brady and after running if for nearly 12 hours on my 8887, there were no errors testing 2GB of RAM. The bad news is that, this only works because I set memtest to probe for memory rather...

Hi, Anyone know of a free or demoware disassembler I can use to take a look at the BIOS? I now know that my 8887 sees all 2 GB of RAM. The stupid BIOS and by extension Windows XP don't see the second gigabyte. See my posting in the...

Hi, I need to find someone who either has source code to the 8887 BIOS or is familiar enough with BIOS hacking to guide me to finding where the BIOS checks to see how much RAM a system has. I have 2GB in my 8887 but the BIOS and OS...

Hi, I finally went out and bought 2 1GB SODIMMS and put them in my 8887. Both of them work individually as 1GB of RAM. Together or one of them with a 512MB SODIMM still ends up giving me 1GB of RAM The PC Torque web site has 1GB...

Hi, Eurocom.ca still appears to have them for sale, but only as part of a new system. They call it "IP Router Module". I had considered getting one, but since my job responsibilities have changed that is not likely now. B

Hi, If you don't have the camera with you it is useless. I used to be a professional photographer. It has been years since I used my SLR cameras. I used to use my wifes's point and shoot camera for family snapshots. I now use a...

Hi, I concur with ActiveState Perl. It is much better than the Perl that is part of the Windows NT and 2000 resource kits, and is better than the Perl that is part of the Cygwin utilites. I use the Cygwin utilites to get vi, and the...

Hi, I would go with the abstract or fingers. The reason I started the ambigram posting is I was looking for something that would be recongnizable when the system was closed and you looked at it from the front, and be big enough to be...

Hi, I have had my 8887 since the beginning of May. Since the beginning of June it has been going to the office most every day. So far all of the problems I have had with it have been software. Yesterday, I thought that my USB...

Hi, The host OS must be either Windows or Linux. Visit http://www.vmware.com/ for more details. I have FreeBSD 4.1 installed with XP Pro as the host OS. Have not done much with it yet. B