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Steven Levine wrote:
> In <3EB9933A.8080606@san.rr.com>, on 05/07/03
> at 04:13 PM, Tom Brown said:
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>>The doc for the bios flash program from Tyan says that it needs a Win'95
>>or 98 boot diskette. They seem to be worried about TSRs & such. I don't
>>have any windoze diskettes, but I do have a Caldera DR-DOS V 7.03 with
>>no autoexec.bat and the following CONFIG.SYS:
>
>>DEVICE=SETVER.EXE
>>COUNTRY=001,,A:\COUNTRY.SYS
>>INSTALL=KEYB.COM US
>
>>I would think that this ought to work for flashing the BIOS.
>
> It should be OK. What the readme is telling you in a round about way is
> that your need a true DOS boot without too many TSRs loaded. Things like
> QEMM and such can conflict with this BIOS programming code.
>
> I would recommend deleting or renaming the CONFIG.SYS you have. There's
> nothing there that's really needed.
>
> Steven
>
Well, the flash worked just fine, but no joy. SYSINFO still sees only
511.6 MB of RAM. Do you know of any other program that reports the
amount of RAM available to OS/2? I also have MEMTEST which reports
similar numbers.
I guess I'm off to c.o.o.bugs.
--
Tom Brown
thombrown@san.rr.com
Member SCOUG, V.O.I.C.E. & SDAA
running eComStation GA + FP 3
eCS system uptime is 0 days 00:20 hours
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