This is probably because your screen is borrowing 1Mb from the RAM as
video RAM. I had this same problem with a mobo that had onboard video and
you could change the amount in bios that it "borrowed" from the main RAM -
caused me a lot of grief until I twigged it.
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On Sun, 8 Jul 2001, cpaul wrote:
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> on my thinkpad, i remember being told to put mem=127M rather than 128M.
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