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To: mr.mark who wrote (6392)	10/27/1999 4:49:00 PM
From: Tom Trader	Read Replies (1) of 110583

Hi Mark -- my delay in responding was caused by an ironic set of circumstances. I had just about completed a detailed response to your post several days ago informing you that crashes had become infrequent and that mem turbo was working exceptionally well and as soon as I completed the response and was ready to hit the "submit" button, the darn system crashed. This is the honest truth! Anyway, these is where things stand: crashes have become few and far between though they still do occur on average once a day -- which is a huge improvement from the 4-6 crashes a day that I was experiencing. Yesterday, was a bad day -- I think that it was caused by my adjusting the settings on the program to the levels that have been suggested in the instructions. For whatever reason, those sort of low levels are not beneficial to my system. I find it necessary to maintain the threshold for running the program at close to 1/4 of my installed RAM and when it replenishes it -- the target level is about 1/3 of the total RAM. Using these levels, my system seems to fare a lot better. The fact that mem turbo has helped as much as it has suggests that I either need more RAM -- I presently have 128K -- or else, and this is more likely, the RAM that I have may be defective. This was suggested some time back by someone as being the culprit. I think that it is unlikely to be a case of needing more RAM because a friend runs just about the same programs that I do with 96K RAM and has no problems. Anyway, that is where things stand; in summary, I view mem turbo as having been a great help in stabilizing my system though it is probably a temporary fix and I will need to address the more basic problem soon. As I mentioned, it is my intention to add a third monitor and am waiting for the advent of the next version of NT which will I understand will support multiple monitors. My regards

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