🚀 go-pugleaf

actually i think it might be something else...i have 32mb of simm memory and
I have never locked up, even with 8mb soundfonts.

    -John Balint
    amanda6@bestweb.net


Tris <anon@REMOVEME.elustria.freeserve.co.uk> wrote in message
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>I've finally found out what was causing my lockups - memory!!!
>
>Has anyone heard of this before?
>
>I'm running Windows 98, IE 5 beta, G200 AGP graphics card with Busmatering
>turned on. Numerous PCI cards including Soundblaster Live!
>
>If I have 128 Mb fitted using 2 SDRAM chips in two slots (not utilising the
>slot nearest the processor) I get regular intermittent lockups, both in a
>game and outside of it. If I turn busmastering off the system is stable.
>
>If I remove the SDRAM chip closest to the processor chip leaving one 64 Mb
>chip fitted farthest away from the processor the system is stable.
>
>I think I'd rather have busmastering turned on and only 64 Mb - as this
>gives the best peformance under quake2.
>
>Anyone after 64 Mb SDRAM chip? <g>
>
>Btw I tried everything else, including refitting all the PCI cards into
>different slots, allocated manual BIOS IRQ's, and lastly disabling sound
>under Quake2 - this last one eased the problem a little.
>
>Tris
>
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