ACK! Please ignore these posts! I thought I canceled them and did not send I fixed my problem with the mem=17M vice mem=128M Sorry for the BS post! Ron -----Original Message----- From: Yacketta,Ronald J [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, April 24, 2000 11:14 AM To: Newbie (E-mail) Subject: [newbie] yet more problems with 7-02 iso install on a compaq E1400 Okay, I finaly got 7-02 installed, got my nic/vid working and noticed linux only sees 10mb of my 127mb ram!! well heck I thought, added mem=128M to the append line of lilo.con ran lilo rebooted and now get a GPF!!!! this is the before crash (from dmes for the mem detection) 14364K/16384k after the mem=128M 127908k/131072k after it detects te memory it gives the following (not the full messages)