Thanks Scussy and DocProc for the advice - I'll explore on Thurs when next at home. fwiw I ditched Nortons years ago. I found it caused endless problems and the end came when after renewal of subsciptions for several years I found the support for my old version had been withdrawn and they advised buying new. In my innocence I assumed I had been paying for constant software upgrades!! The good folks on here put me onto the router firewall and avg - both of which work easily in the background and trouble free.

"the IT men should tell us if they can be mixed or should they be the same as you have in the PC allready"

This is a cracking little programme which tells you all about cpu, mobo and memory - go to SPD and it will tell you what make and speed is in each slot - very handy!

http://www.cpuid.org

I found I was running 512 of 166Mhz kingston and 256 of 133Mhz Nanka

It seems to run OK but I'd imagine it would be better not to mix speeds?

bubble message "running low on vitual memory windows is going to increase it "

is this because the RAM is not large enough ?

(512K ram; 3Gb P4 Win XP HE )

thanks brianboru for the link for CPU-Z.
looks like i have 3 mem chips 1X256 AND 2X 512,
2 x PC2100 (133MHz) and 1 x PC3200 (200MHz)
i will be setting up my boys pc which has the same sort of RAM prob mixed,so i will see and keep the same speed together,i think i have 5 X 512 sticks in the pc's.
my CPU is AMD Athlon XP 2000+,clock speed is only 1666 MHZ so as i thought a bit slow for todays hungry programs,been good the last 5 years tho,
trying to find out whats the fastest CPU i can get with MBoard ASUS A7V333

steve

Scussy - I used to be genned up on CPU/Mobo's but am lost these days - if I need to know I ask the guys at CCL !
However I found this post that might, just might be of use;

"""Stay away from the Socket A Sempron! They're made to compete with Intel's Celeron (which are crap) and marketed accordingly. The Barton blows the Sempron away. If you are a gamer get the Barton. If you're not a gamer, then why even upgrade? I would get the Barton no matter what.

I looked at the ASUS website today (http://support.asus.com.tw/cpusupport/cpusupport.aspx?SLanguage=en-us&model=A7V333) and it appears that they only support up to the Barton 3000. It shows no support for the Sempron. I would email ASUS first and find out what if they even do support the Barton 3200 and/or Sempron's.

Don't worry about the 400MHz bus. Yes, you can only run your RAM at 333MHz bus, but it's not a big deal. You would be wasting your time and money looking for a 333 MHz CPU. You'd be buying an older AMD (Thoroughbred, Thorton or Palomino core), which is going to be a lot slower no matter what.

Your RAM is probably only PC2700, which is 333MHz to begin with. For your own sake, you should find out what kind of RAM you are running. I still run PC2700, it's not that big of a deal.

For myself, I am upgrading to the fastest Barton the A7V333 can accept and then overclocking it. That will be the last for this motherboard as a gaming platform. Then it will be time for a full upgrade."""

Hope you can make head or tale of it or perhaps a real techie will post some info?

EDIT: Looking at the ASUS link it looks as if it will depend on the Rev: of mobo you have (1.01 or 2.0)

Best bets seem to be;


Athlon XP 2600+(266FSB)(Model 8)(Thoroughbred) Model 1.01

Athlon XP 3000+(333 MHZ FSB)(Model 10)(Barton) Model 2.00

You may have to go to Ebay to buy a second user CPU though?

1. Stay away from the Socket A Sempron!

2. If you are a gamer get the Barton. If you're not a gamer, then why even upgrade?

Sorted!

i might be game but iam not a gamer so i will stay with the cpu and clean install the boys pc and use that for internet,i will clean up my PC,still good for the streaming charts,

cheers

Just a red x in in corner for stockwatch.Have latest Java Tried to connect without Firewall but no luck.Get message "Loading Java applet failed"
Any ideas?

Iain,

Can you delete your temporary internet restart and try again please?

Ian

Still same problem

Iain,

Have spoken to JT, and he says it is more than likely that something is blocking the applet more than likely on your machine.

You may want to try uninstalling it and re installing it from the link on the stockwatch page to see if that cures the problem.

Ian

Unistalled Java Closed down Pccillen Security 14 Now it works but Limewire wont.

sarkee, the message means that Windows has been using your disk as an additional, slow, form of memory because you had too little main memory. This is a normal thing but it does slow down the machine immensely and so is to be avoided. Even worse, it ran out of the amount it had initially allocated on disk. So yes it does indicate you have too little memory (as has been said earlier 1Gb is really the minimum these days). However, it probably also indicates that either you have too much running on your computer at the same time or that one or more of the programs is using too much memory. Use Task Manager to find out which programs are using the most memory, and also go through the programs appearing in your systems tray to check that you really need them all. While it would be a good idea to upgrade the memory, you might still find you are in the same position unless you find out what the problem is.

Iain,

Limewire is a java based platform, so that would account for that - you say you have uninstalled, did you leave it at that or did you re install the java as well. If not, please try that (you can always unistall again if it stops your MoneyAM access again).

Ian

Put Java back.Initial problem now

Iain,

Unfortunately, something on your system is causing this conflict, so I can only suggest that you take out the Java and then your MoneyAM will work again. Also would try a windows update, just to make sure you have all applicable security updates.

Ian

Kayak Thx for your detailed reply & I will try to find out the cause via task manager, certainly do tend to have a lot of things open at any1 time upto thirty or more. have noticed that another website A D V F etc, seems to hang a lot of times.

Looking also to double ram to 1Gb

could anyone help ;i have changed from using internet exp to mozilla firefox as a browser,
but now l2 will only show half the usual info,could anyone help.

Anyone else use Trend Micro Internet Security?
Maybe you can help with my lack of stockwatch problem

Iain

I think it might be a good idea to get rid of all the Java on your machine and start again.

Start by Control Panel, Remove Programs. See if there is a Java programme in there, if so Remove it. Then check out to see if MoneyAM Level2 works and I think you'll find it does. Hopefully you won't have to do any more Java removal

I used 'Housecall' from TrendMicro and this is what I had to do myself