P4t533 Max Ram

[John Smith]

Great stuff Tim, the first read was over my head but I will sit and analyze
what you are saying. I would love to find a way to get my scsi irqs by them
self it has not been easy. I have a RealMagic XCard that I have been
meaning to pull out but I use it for video playback at times, but maybe i
will do a little experimenting moving the cards around. Thanks for all the
input, Mike

 

[Tim]

BTW, I am not advocating moving the paging file - it could easily be a
totally pointless process that gives you no perceptable benefit.
Your stuttering issue is probably the big fish at the moment.
- Tim

 

[John Smith]

Barry, if my drives are formated NTFS does this preclude me from performing
your trick? Mike

 

[John Smith]

Tim, what do you recommend using to create a partition, can XP PRO be used
to accomplish it? Thanks, Mike

 

[Barry Watzman]

Yes, it will only work with FAT32.

Barry, if my drives are formated NTFS does this preclude me from performing
your trick? Mike

 

[Tim]

Yes. Use Disk Manager in Computer Management in Administrative tools.
There are other programs that will do it, but the above is the MS supported
way.

- Tim

 

[Friso]

Lock-ups with stuttering mouse and lagging keyboard...

I had that when the SCSI bus is resetting itself or not getting what it or
the OS wants. And sometimes I had that when a network card is not succeeding
in doing what it needs to do and XP is waiting for it. If these boards share
IRQ's, you're in lock-up territory.

I have a P4T533 like you and I think I use it for far heavier stuff than
Office apps. And it works wonderfully. My idea is to be very discerning
about the position of your PCI cards. Even though it should be possible, I
never liked two of my 'core' PCI boards (like network, SCSI) to share IRQ's.
And Creative soundcards are notorious for not wanting to share.

In the manual (E1109 version I think), look at Chapter 2.6.2. In the bottom
table, you will see that there's only 2 or 3 PCI slots that actually do not
share their PCI interrupt with any other on-board services. Slot 4 and 6,
off the top of my head but please check the manual.

My network is in 6, my soundcard is in 4 and I use on-board IDE RAID now.
(SCSI is on another system.) If you use SCSI, you can disable some on-board
services (like RAID, like IDE) and free up another slot that is no longer
sharing because you disabled its other services.

I suggest you try this before anything else. There'll be some hassle, some
whining from XP about installing 'new' devices, but it might just solve your
problem.

Grtz,
Friso