Nvram

[newt0311]

Does anybody know where to obtain some NVRAM anywhere. i am not very worried about the price right now

[LayZeh]

never heard of the stuff!

[Applecrusher]

nv ram is non volatile ram... i think thats how its spelt..
and it enables the electricity to disapear and keep whats in the memory i think...
why do you need it?

[Dr. X]

NVRAM is SRAM that has a power source (normally a battery) that keeps the data when the computer is powered down.

Never seen it for sale though.

[Grunth0s]

As the other guys have confirmed, NVRAM is where things like the BIOS settings are stored, and usually is hard-fitted to the motherboard (or other device that is using it). To the best of my knowledge NVRAM is not a user replaceable part.

[blockers]

I have a motherboard that powers up saying NVRAM - it is just regular SDRAM.

[LayZeh]

So it's essentially volatile memory immitating non-volative memory...

[bertie]

NVRAM is not SDRAM - Sorry I don't know where you can buy it but I seem to remember it being ridiculously expensive

[Swafe]

NVRAM in my old rig was SD RAM..

checking NVRAM.....224 ok (and 32 shared)

i think it was nvidia ram, shared for my graphics card?



your probably right tho there is a NVRAM thats non volatile

[Blub2k]

www.whatis.com then search nvram

some firewalls and routers also have it in them.

Nonvolatile (sometimes written as "non-volatile") storage (NVS) - also known as nonvolatile memory or nonvolatile random access memory (NVRAM) - is a form of static random access memory whose contents are saved when a computer is turned off or loses its external power source. NVS is implemented by providing static RAM with backup battery power or by saving its contents and restoring them from an electrically erasable programmable ROM (EPROM). Some modems use NVS as a place to keep preset or user-specified phone numbers and modem profiles.

[Blub2k]

Newt why the question? It seems you have misunderstood something, can you tell us in what context you would like to know about nvram or why the question came up?

[daverobev]

I think the confusion is probably that the task the computer was doing was probably two tasks:

1. Checking NVRAM
2. Checking RAM

Firstly computer checks the nonvolatile ram which as previously said keeps the bios settings and so on.

Then the computer checks the system RAM.

Just two stages in booting.

[-mb-]

No, really, I was just messing with an old PC today.

It was counting its normal SDRAM, but said "Checking NVRAM" all the way up to 262144Kb i.e. 256Mb.

It said NVRAM, but just meant the system RAM.

It was clearly not non-Volatile memory, real non-Volatile memory may make itself felt in the future as "MRAM" - Magnetic RAM.

This was a "Tiny" PIII 450 system with a 440BX chipset...

[newt0311]

No i am serious. i am well aware of non-volatile RAM and its use in BIOS but that is not what i am talking about.