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Hello Wayne - 

WC>> If I was younger with better eyesight and the comfidence
WC>> in my abilities I once had I'd cut the refresh line and
WC>> put a clock doubler between it and the DRAM banks and buy
WC>> the PC133's. 

CA>> Seems I remember mention that some mb have jumpers for
CA>> this refresh rate? 

WC> If so I've no info on it for the Pavilion. 

Fair enough. 

WC>>> Detailed info on this machines and it's DIMMS is scarce,
WC>>> little to nothing in the owners manual except 2 x's 128
WC>>> max and how to remove them. 

CA>> This is another reason I'm beginning to suspect the memory
CA>> is proprietary as with the Compaq I have here. :-\ 

WC> Me too :-( Ah well I'll make do with 96 Meg. Upgrading the
WC> thing appears to have very few options so money thrown at
WC> this machine would be better saved and spent on a generic
WC> system bought bare bones. 

Usually that would be true, yes. 

CA>> When I first saw XP at my daughter's house and she began
CA>> telling me how 'wonderful' she thought it was that was my
CA>> very _first_ thought. I now know who will be the next
CA>> person to give me their 'old' hardware one day soon as
CA>> they are forced to buy new. Evil, I know, but it's not my
CA>> fault. I didn't recommend XP to her (or anyone else). :-) 

WC> Got a cerified Microsoft guy lived next door said forget XP
WC> anything short of a 1.5 GHz machine and at that he said
WC> it'd be just adaquate! 

I am inclined to agree with all that he said. I read a website
that offers to help 'tune' XP and it says standard install XP
comes up with 89 tasks running while it's not doing anything
but sitting there! My brother's W98SE, admittedly not well
configured, comes up with 34 tasks while sitting doing nothing
and I wouldn't tolerate even 34 myself. 

WC> Landlady just plunked down big bucks on a new proprietary
WC> box for several times the cost of one that can be had that
WC> can be substantially upgraded. Yup MickeySoft is sure
WC> making things cheap for those that are willing to take the
WC> time to optimize software. Seems in the long run at 200
WC> bucks Windows 2K Pro is cheaper than XP at 1/4 the cost due
WC> to the latter using so much in the way of system resources. 

I've not used W2K but the more I hear of it and the more
servers switch from other OS to W2K the more I think it's
probably the 'winner' out there if W98SE isn't enough. For me I
suspect W98SE is enough. :-) 

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