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Adding an optional memory card – Epson 386SX User Manual

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Adding an Optional Memory Card

The first Setup summary screen shows the current amount of

memory installed in your system. The Equity 386SX comes with

1MB of on-board memory. (On-board memory is memory that

resides on the computer’s main system board.) Setup

automatically configures this memory as 640KB of base memory
and 384KB of extended memory. If you install even more
memory, Setup configures it as extended memory also.

You can add more memory to your computer by installing single

inline memory modules (SIMMs) or by installing an optional

memory card. Because SIMMs do not require you to use an
option slot, they provide a more efficient way to add memory
than optional memory cards: You can also add both SIMMs and
a memory card.

All memory in your system has a particular address. A memory

address is the exact area where the memory resides in the

system. If you add memory by installing a memory card, the

address of the memory on the card could overlap the address of
memory you added by installing SIMMs, or there could be a gap

between the two addresses.

Setup displays this error message on the first summary screen if a

memory address overlap occurs:

ERROR: Memory overlapping from 100000h to

260000h

Reset Add-on memory board starting at

200000h or 260000h

If there is a gap between the memory addresses, you see this

message:

ERROR: Memory gapping from 160000h to

200000h

Reset Add-on memory board starting at

100000h or 160000h

Running the Setup Program

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