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mr.athlon
My PC is A7V266 w/1GHz Athlon. BIOS is 1002B. The problem probably isn't
with the MB, but you guys probably know the answer - so I'm asking my
question here. My graphics card is ATI All-In-Wonder Radeon 9600 Pro. The
ATI multimedia programs like File Player, TV watcher etc., often freeze
during startup. Sometimes they get up and running but they freeze or crash
easily. I noticed there is a serious memory leak indicated by the MS
Windows System Monitor program. The leak starts when I start recording TV,
VCR or other source. Stopping recording does not recover any of the leaked
memory - rebooting is necessary. It leaks about 300 MB of my free memory in
less than 10 minutes. Of course, a crash eventually happens when memory is
down to nothing. The memory is 256MB of PC2100 and 256MB of PC2700. I
removed the PC2700 but got the same result with only the single SDRAM. I
have the latest VIA AGP driver installed. I have been tinkering with this
problem for about 18 months and have tried many things. Maybe I need to
tinker with memory settings in BIOS. I don't know. It could be a thousand
different things. I suspect the memory leak is probably caused by the same
thing causing instability and freezing.
Another wierd symptom: sometimes there are rather long delays after I click
something before the requested action starts happening. An example: I
click to make a DVD movie (in my PC) get displayed on my television set.
Nothing happens. Then after about 2 minutes the movie starts showing on the
television. That was probably due to memory being very low - but I wasn't
monitoring memory at that point so I don't know.
Your suggestions will be appreciated.
TIA. Bill S.
with the MB, but you guys probably know the answer - so I'm asking my
question here. My graphics card is ATI All-In-Wonder Radeon 9600 Pro. The
ATI multimedia programs like File Player, TV watcher etc., often freeze
during startup. Sometimes they get up and running but they freeze or crash
easily. I noticed there is a serious memory leak indicated by the MS
Windows System Monitor program. The leak starts when I start recording TV,
VCR or other source. Stopping recording does not recover any of the leaked
memory - rebooting is necessary. It leaks about 300 MB of my free memory in
less than 10 minutes. Of course, a crash eventually happens when memory is
down to nothing. The memory is 256MB of PC2100 and 256MB of PC2700. I
removed the PC2700 but got the same result with only the single SDRAM. I
have the latest VIA AGP driver installed. I have been tinkering with this
problem for about 18 months and have tried many things. Maybe I need to
tinker with memory settings in BIOS. I don't know. It could be a thousand
different things. I suspect the memory leak is probably caused by the same
thing causing instability and freezing.
Another wierd symptom: sometimes there are rather long delays after I click
something before the requested action starts happening. An example: I
click to make a DVD movie (in my PC) get displayed on my television set.
Nothing happens. Then after about 2 minutes the movie starts showing on the
television. That was probably due to memory being very low - but I wasn't
monitoring memory at that point so I don't know.
Your suggestions will be appreciated.
TIA. Bill S.