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To: Zbyte who wrote (19102)	4/26/2001 3:50:30 AM
From: mr.mark	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110652

hi zbyte you ask some compelling questions about your system, memory, slowness, your printer and a virus. maybe they're all somehow connected and causing your trouble. wouldn't that be nice? <g> as it stands right now, in order for me to try to assist you, i would have to know more about your system... what os, how old is it, what system maintenance, if any, do you perform, what kind of web connection? then i'd want to know what all you had tried in an attempt to make things better? if you tell us when the problem occurs, that would help. what tasks are you performing when you notice that it "runs more chopped up than ever"? and does that mean slower? intermittent problems? hanging? rebooting? closing an application to make it run? same thing goes for the printer prob, zbyte. any more info you can provide helps us to help you. what brand printer? did it used to work, then quit? did it only work once? the virus part of your post has captured my attention. how did you rid your system of it? is your puter virus-free at this time? what antivirus program are you running? do the best you can with the answers, zbyte, but do give us some more info, please. :) mark

To: Zbyte who wrote (19102)	4/26/2001 12:29:43 PM
From: tanstfl	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110652

Hi, the following is one possible cause based on what you've mentioned so far: "Many motherboards do not cache ram over 64 megs, and since windows uses memory from the top down, some users have actually had a slowdown in their computer when going from 64 megs to more-than-64 megs. Most of the Pentium and Pentium mmx motherboards are based on the Intel chipsets. These chipsets do support functions to the CPU. Things like the eide hard disk controller and the expansion bus controller. For Pentium and Pentium mmx processors, there are three Intel chipsets:vx, hx, tx--generally written i430tx etc. Most of the low end soho computer are based on the vx and tx chipsets. The vx chipset is older than the tx chipset. A lot of the newer motherboards are thus based on the tx chipset. Among many other features these two chipsets only support caching of the first 64 megabytes of RAM. The hx chipset supports caching of up to 512 megabytes of RAM. The other issue with caching is that a few months ago it was reported that some hx motherboards were not manufactured correctly to cache above 64 megabytes. To cache main memory you use to types of cache memory. There is the memory that is storing the actual data that is generally quoted as the l2 cache size i.e. 256 or 512KB. Then there is additional memory called tag ram which is used to index into the cache memory. On some motherboards they didn't include enough tag ram to cache above 64 megabytes."