>Hi Stephen ---
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>>Set reality on
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>>Don't load anything in startup. Get yourself more ram than you think sane and things will work better.
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>Au contraire. There is a certain point, I think it's 128MB, where system performance on Win9x actually begins to degrade. I have heard this issue discussed here on the UT; perhaps our more hardware-enlightened brethren can provide more details.
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>But back to the core issue, I'm suggesting possible deviations from the norm for Frank, not suggesting that these ideas *are* the norm.

The chipset on the motherboard is very critical for good performance with large memory. The tag rag supported for caching is the controlling factor. Many popular Pentium chipsets will only cache the first 64MB (eg. intel FX and VX), others (eg. intel HX and TX will cache 512MB). Other brands have different capabilities. You must know the capabilities of your chipset when adding RAM.