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To: Lee Lichterman III who wrote (24839)	7/3/2000 5:44:22 PM
From: Richard Ruscio	Respond to of 42787

OT Lee, My best advice would be to use Win2K. Solid as a rock for me, and eliminates all that 'resource' stuff Win98 screws up. My new machine's been flawless ... except for 1 dead Maxtor 40GB drive. rr OT

To: Lee Lichterman III who wrote (24839)	7/3/2000 10:13:23 PM
From: Robert Graham	Respond to of 42787

As far as my computer stuff, it is all irrelevant now. I just ordered a Abit Motherboard and a 750 Athalon as well as the Matrox dual head card you recomended and I won a bid at Ubid for a couple 20" Sony monitors. I should be in good shape soon as I pick a case and get some memory. Abit makes some very good MBs. Good choice! :-) And I do not think you will be disappointed with the video card. Matrox makes some top quality stuff as far is image quality goes. Their image quality places them in the professional lab range. I used a card previous to the G400 for a Endoscope project I have implemented that is now used in hospitals across the country. Image quality is excellent for medical imaging uses. As far as telling when I was losing resources. I run into it frequently and always have when I run too many Java applications at once. I use the resource meter that is built in Win 98 now but I have used various other programs as well and they all read the same. Very unusual. Software development of graphic applications can be one of the most resource demanding uses of Windows. But I have only run out of resources once. There are ways to have more resources allocated. But usually it turns out to be a memory problem, often related to poor programming of the application, where once it is cleaned up, problem disappears. It is extremely easy to run out of resources if you are doing all the wrong things. <ggg> Try copying and pasting a lot of JPG or Gifs sometime or messing with MP3 files... Sounds like you needed more memory. But I suppose you had already tried this. I would recommend not changing too many variables. So I would stick with Win98 for now. IMO Win2000 is just too new to try for anything for critical business uses. You may want to look for a previous post of mine where if I remember correctly I listed the steps in upgrading a MB. Some of those steps can save allot of time and headache if things go wrong, which much of the time they do in building a new system with a new or unfamiliar MB. Good luck! :-) Bob Graham