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Ollie2893
Hi, I have recently installed an AMDx2 with Win XP Pro x64. From the off the
box was sluggish. I put this down to it only running on 1GB and plugged in
another 2GB of RAM, ie the box now has a total of 3GB of RAM. Performance
remains sluggish, however. I am highly suspicious of the memory management.
Whenever I look at task manager, there always appears to be 2GB of free mem,
ie it will not seem like the m/c using the available memory. Moreover, right
after boot-up with next to nothing running, the m/c begins to use the page
file. I read somewhere that XP by default creates a page file 1.5x the size
of available RAM. Well, my box has a page file of 1.44MB... Just to be
clear, when I look at My Computer/Properties/General, it shows 2.93GB of RAM.
I tried things like /PAE in boot.ini to no avail. Does anyone out there
have any ideas?
box was sluggish. I put this down to it only running on 1GB and plugged in
another 2GB of RAM, ie the box now has a total of 3GB of RAM. Performance
remains sluggish, however. I am highly suspicious of the memory management.
Whenever I look at task manager, there always appears to be 2GB of free mem,
ie it will not seem like the m/c using the available memory. Moreover, right
after boot-up with next to nothing running, the m/c begins to use the page
file. I read somewhere that XP by default creates a page file 1.5x the size
of available RAM. Well, my box has a page file of 1.44MB... Just to be
clear, when I look at My Computer/Properties/General, it shows 2.93GB of RAM.
I tried things like /PAE in boot.ini to no avail. Does anyone out there
have any ideas?