Re: Partition Magic on a Compaq Presario

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Fred_at_anonymous.com
Date: 02/19/04 

Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 20:17:39 GMT

Compaq Laptops (PC's too) usually use shared memory. So a machine with say,
256 Mb of "memory" often becomes a machine with say 32 MB for the video card
and less that amount for system memory. The amount to be shared is located in
the bios setup. You may want to check to see what has been set for your
machine.

Fred

John Doue wrote:

> Jack Gillis wrote:
>
> > John Doue wrote:
> >
> >>A different approach, may be to be tried first: create the PM boot
> >>disks and attempt the same resizing for there: you would bypass this
> >>way any restriction from the OEM XP.
> >>
> >>Let me know, I am curious...
> >>
> >>Regards
> >
> >
> > Well, I finally got a Bootable CD for Partition Magic created. When I
> > booted from it and ran PM, everything worked out fine. Thanks for your
> > suggestion. Getting a working bootable PM CD was a real learning
> > experience for me.
> >
> > Now I can go on to find out why Control/Panel/System shows 194M of RAM
> > (BIOS Setup shows the same thing.) and the modem crashes the system and
> > automatically reboots. The two maybe related but I'm not sure. Anyway
> > I guess I will have to change XP to make it not reboot on errors --
> > should have done that straight away.
> >
> >
> Glad this worked for you. I have often overlooked this option in case of
> problem but I now always carry two PM diskettes. Personally, I distrust
> booting from a CD and will stick to laptops and desktops have diskette
> drives since it makes troubleshooting so much easier.
>
> Regarding my memory, I forget where your laptop comes from but the
> obvious explanation might be just the obvious: have you check the memory
> chip on your machine ? I guess XP does not work too well with only 194M
> if this is the case.
>
> Regards and glad I could contribute to help you out.
>
> --
> John Doue

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