I think you will find that there is a 256Mb or 384Mb limit upon that board - FX chipset is responsible not the Bios.
am about 90% sure about this, correct me if anyone knows better.
having upgraded gateway machines before, they tend to use motheboards which have the ID stamped on the board in a white ink-layer(eg GA-7VM) -
companies such as memoryx.net are listing memory upgrades for your machine in pc100 format only.
if you follow this link...
I have a slotA athlon 700 processor - purchased second hand and told working; A board that was new and unused- presumed working (gigabyte GA-7VM - award bios).
Having added 32Mb pc100 (known working), 4Mb AGP (again working and tested), 230W PSU (again, like a dream); the system does not boot-...
bit of a blast from the past.
couple of points:
1) you will probably find that windows 95 will take about 100Mb of space at it's minimum. If you can obtain the version that installed from floppy disks, halve that again (although the floppy version had flaws)
2) It is possible that the bios...
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