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Yes -- the onboard video is using 8 meg  - leaving just 56 meg for Win ME

BTW-- there are a number of programmes starting up (on startup).  Whreabouts
in the Registry do I turn these off??

Barry
"Itsme" <itsme@here.com> wrote in message
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> By intergrated video i assume you mean onboard video?
> if so then its sharing the system ram, therefore not using the whole 64mb
> ram, you can check this by hitting del key when the puter first starts to
go
> into bios, then look try and find shared video memory or sometihng like
> that.
> If its something over 2mb then thats probably most likely why its running
so
> slow because its hogging all the system memory. Either that or get some
more
> ram, its dirt cheap right now.
>
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> "Barry Ward" <baz@powerup.com.au> wrote in message
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> > A friend of mine has recently bought his first computer -- a Celeron 667
> on
> > a Micro ATX board with integrated video and sound and only 64 meg RAM.
It
> > appears to have an ATA66 Hdd (UDMA Mode 4)  and runs Windows ME.
> >
> > It is soooo slow!!!! Its slower (especially loading) than my old P233
with
> > 64 meg RAM running Windows 95
> >
> > I figure the main problem is that 64 meg RAM (- 8 meg for the onboard
> > video ) plus running Windows ME is the killer!!  I am going to get him
> > another 128 Meg RAM -- but cannot do anything about the sound, video or
> Hdd
> > (I think).
> >
> > Any other suggestions to speed this thing up -- please don't tell me to
> > ditch ME -- that is also out of the question.
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Barry in Brisbane Australia
> >
> >
> >
>
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