Memory loss.
Mar. 4th, 2003 11:14 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elfsThis morning, while hacking away at my laptop, I had the strangest realization: half the memory was missing. Instead of the 128K, it reported having only 64K. What's more annoying, when I rebooted the BIOS reported the same thing. After powering down and removing all peripherals, I cold-booted and all the memory came back.
So now I know: never cold-boot with a PC card in. That seems to be the trigger that makes the memory disappear. Why this should be, I have no clue. But I can consistently make this happen on my Thinkpad 600E, which annoys me no end. Another-work around seated in physical habits. I can't stand those.
So now I know: never cold-boot with a PC card in. That seems to be the trigger that makes the memory disappear. Why this should be, I have no clue. But I can consistently make this happen on my Thinkpad 600E, which annoys me no end. Another-work around seated in physical habits. I can't stand those.
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Was it one specific PC card, or any at all?
Date: 2003-03-04 11:49 am (UTC)If it's only one specific card, it may well be it's just 'following spec' and handing whatever it's plugged into code to access it properly, much like SCSI cards will do to let DOS work with them.