memory and hard drive performace

[Lsim284879]

ok i will give this a try.P3650 256ram curcial 20gig 66 IBM deskstar First When i do a bench mark test on my hard drive with norton 2000 it gives me a reading of below or right at mid range hard drive is this a good way to test.it sould be at high end right. as a note it give me a good system reading when i do that test.2nd i got 256 ram pc133 no memory errors but when im running diffrent apts and i check my resources on my mem. it goes down to about 26mb of free memory r somtimes it will go down to 75mb but when i start it back up it will go back up to about 180 or so does this mean that windows uses 70mb to run because that is as high as it will go after reboot.

[howste]

Do you have a bunch of programs loading when you boot up? Do you have a RamDisk? It doesn't seem right for Windows to take that much memory... Hit ctrl-alt-del and see what is running. Or take a look at this thread for another way to find out what's running (I don't want to type it out again):
http://www.sysopt.com/forum/Forum2/HTML/006086.html

Good luck,

Steve

[neo_otyugh]

i have noticed that windows 98 seems to use right around 55-65 megs of ram to run with nothing else open. seems like 70 megs would be within reason as well. but doing the ctrl-alt-del will let you shut stuff down, and clicking Start>run>and entering msconfig will allow you to see what all opens at start up if you have win98. you can uncheck the tiems you do not want running there.

[Lsim284879]

thanks guys that was a big help.I went to 75fps on motocross maddness when i use to get 60 running at 1024x 768 eveything is running a lot better