"James (Jim) Hatridge" wrote:
>
> Hi All;
>
> I've a 486/33 that was built in 1992. I have 8mg Main Mem (ie 8x1mg). I
> want to upgrade it. My manual says that it can only use up to 8x4mg. Is
> this right? At the time all anyone had was 4mg chips. If I put 8 or 16mg
> chips in will the BIOS work, will Linux see them?
>
> TIA!
>
The best way is to try it out. One of the nice things
about the old 486's, is that they counted up each
memory sequentially, not in pairs , like pentiums.
Try a 16meg, and if it dosn't work in one slot,
try it in the other slots, one at a time.
I have an old 486, and it would take funny
configurations, as long as you ran dos, a 16-bit
system. As soon as you tried a 32-bit OS, like
OS2, or Linux, it got real touchy about ram.
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