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2GB in an 8887

post #1 of 3
5/23/05 at 12:30am
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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 PC-2100 and says that it is for the 8886. BAE has a Tempest laptop based on the Clevo 888E that supports 2GB. So I thought that I my earlier claims were validated.

My best guess now is that the BIOS is limited to only recognize 1GB. Any one know of a Sager/Clevo contact who knows the internals of the BIOS and can get this artificial limitation corrected?

I hate to even think about asking, but does anyone have a pointer to a BIOS debugger, disassembler or hacker that identify the bits to flip to change the maximum usable RAM to the machines physical limit of 2GB?

Thanks

B
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post #2 of 3
5/30/05 at 1:26am
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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 than use the standard BIOS call to get the memory map. Windows XP and 2000 only see what the BIOS reports. Disabling /fastdetect and adding /maxmem=2048 in the boot.ini file did not change things. Are there any other boot settings I might want to try?

Thanks

B
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post #3 of 3
6/7/05 at 1:29am
This is a major bummer.
Short of hacking the BIOS it seems you are stuffed.
Interesting that memtest picked up the extra memory.
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