Recent content by Chakoro

ceh4702 - I agree it can be enabled/disabled in some BIOSs, but not in this one. I can't imagine why you might want to switch it off. Hainley - I think Celerons have been designed to a number of different plans over the years. The P4-based 1700 MHz is designated Williamette-128, and has 20K of...

I see that TechnoBabble.com suggests that a SecondLevelDataCache of zero means 'auto detect' and that the special settings described above are only for really large caches - 512K+. Sisoft Sandra 2004 includes a Memory-Cache benchmark test and my performance matches that expected for its spec...

SecondLevelDataCache was originally set to zero. At winguides.com it does say this fix is for larger than 256K of cache, which doesn't apply, and that it is for external rather than internal (on CPU). Other sources say some of these reporting tools cheat on the external/internal description...

Thanks SYAR, I tried that the RegEdit way. SecondLevelDataCache now reads: REG_DW 0x00000080 (128) but DMI Viewer shows the 'maximum size' doubled to 256K and the 'installed size' still at zero. It then stops: hDevice=ffffffff encountered a problem, unsaved data may be lost. Gulp! XP is...

I have a Celeron 1700 which is performing poorly on the CPU-intensive SETI program (roughly 9 hours per work unit). The motherboard drivers CD includes Gigabyte's Mainboard DMI viewer, which shows that the L2 cache 'maximum size' is 128K, but the 'installed size' is zero. Has the cache failed...

Problem solved. The service SSDPSRV was continually starting and stopping, and presumable not releasing its resources, so svchost progressively hogs the CPU cycles. Other forums have people reporting OTHER services as the culprit, driving svchost to 100% usage eventually. I can't explain...

This is a similar thread to NucomMat 12/19/02 "High CPU usage by svchost-service in taskmanager? " I am running a dual boot arrangement with Windows 98SE and XP Home SP1. XP is newly installed with Norton System Works Pro 2003. Both OSes have SETI@home (a very CPU-intensive program)...

Windows 98se on HP desktop 600 MHz. After fitting a new PS/2 mouse, windows freezes on completion of start up. Works OK in Safe Mode and DOS. Alternative PS/2 mouse - same thing. Alternative COM1 mouse - same thing. Disabled allbut systray in msconfig - same thing. Device Manager had numerous...

Thanks for the link to Housecall. It found JS NOCLOSE.E in Temporary Internet Files/.../popup[1].htm which NAV doesn't seem to know about. I couldn't see how to ask Housecall about what it does - does anyone know? I should add that my ISP, austarnet.com.au , screens my mail before NAV gets...

I am running Win 98SE and Norton Anti-Virus 2002. I have NAV scheduled to scan all drives at 7pm each evening. Yesterday NAV produced a red screen Boot Sector Alert. I clicked on "not anticipated - reload old Boot Sector" and NAV continued without finding anything. More worrying was...

Brilliant - WinTop does just what I wanted. It seems that System Monitor is NOT reporting processor usage properly as WinTop says the activity is less than 5% while SM says 30%. I am also running TClockEx (a fancy clock in the tray that also shows CPU usage) and it agrees with System Monitor...

I am running Windows 98SE on a Celeron 1.7 with 384MB of RAM. After a clean boot and a minute to settle down, System Monitor reports the processor usage as generally less than 2% with ocassional spikes of 100% activity (presumably clock-driven events). If I then connect to the internet, check...