w2k does not see all the memory installed

[Bill James]

If BIOS only sees 64 MB then it is not a Windows issue, most likely one of the sticks is bad. As cheap as RAM is, I don't see much point in messing around with this very much, just replace both sticks and upgrade total memory to at least 256 at the same time. You will probably see a performance improvement over the 128 you had before.

You didn't ask, but probably the "missing" 16 MB in total RAM for Windows is being allocated to your video adapter.

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[Dave Patrick]

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| My w2k sometimes fails to boot. Just does not produce that bip at tyhe
| beginning of booting process.
| When it boots after several attempts, it diasplays the BIOS setting screen
| on ADVANCEd tab hightlighting the line
| CPU Level 1 Cache - Enabled and on Exit it asks to save changes.
| When I confirm changes (no idea what they are) it works OK. However it is
| slow and My Computer shows only 48M of RAM (I have two chips total 128K).
| For some reason BIOS shows 64M
|
| Then the computer stopped booting at all.
| After I took the memory chips out and put them back, it starded booting,
but
| again, recognising only 48M of memory.
|
| Questions:
| 1. If one of two memory chips is not working or there is a poor contact -
| how the cpmputer react to this?
| Shoul it boot and them o to see the faulty chip? Or it will not boot at
all?
| 2. Is there a possibility that the memory is OK, but OS does not see the
| chip?
|
| I guess this might be the wrong place to ask such questions - will someone
| direct me to the correct one?
|
|
|
|

 

[aa]

My w2k sometimes fails to boot. Just does not produce that bip at tyhe
beginning of booting process.
When it boots after several attempts, it diasplays the BIOS setting screen
on ADVANCEd tab hightlighting the line
CPU Level 1 Cache - Enabled and on Exit it asks to save changes.
When I confirm changes (no idea what they are) it works OK. However it is
slow and My Computer shows only 48M of RAM (I have two chips total 128K).
For some reason BIOS shows 64M

Then the computer stopped booting at all.
After I took the memory chips out and put them back, it starded booting, but
again, recognising only 48M of memory.

Questions:
1. If one of two memory chips is not working or there is a poor contact -
how the cpmputer react to this?
Shoul it boot and them o to see the faulty chip? Or it will not boot at all?
2. Is there a possibility that the memory is OK, but OS does not see the
chip?

I guess this might be the wrong place to ask such questions - will someone
direct me to the correct one?

 

[aa]

You didn't ask, but probably the "missing" 16 MB in total RAM for Windows is
being allocated to your video adapter.

Thanks, Bill
Good point about 16Mb. I did not ask as it would be too much for one post.
Your guess might be correct as I have another problem - sometimes the
computer produces beep and seem to load, but the monitor screen is black. So
something wrong with videoadapter. Now I see that it might be cause but the
fault in the memory which is allocated to the video adapter