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1) Whenever I turn on my computer and go into Windows, after executing maybe only one or two programs, my available memory is already down to about 8% free. I have 128 MB of PC-100 RAM, so i think it should be enough to handle just a few programs like ICQ, Netscape, etc... I have already tried to close as much useless programs and tasks as possible but it doesn't get much better. What can I do?!
2) I don't know if this is true but I heard from somewhere that if you have AGP, it means that your video card memory is double, rather than when it is just a PCI card it is only what is has. Does 4x AGP mean that the memory you have on your video card is multiplied by four in comparison to the same amount of memory on a PCI video card?
No.AGP4X is simply the potential throughput(speed)that the Videocard and motherboard may put out.
What version of windows are you running-and how much ram do you have?
If your system resources are going down to 8% you have a major problem. That is not going to be solved by closing programs. If your running 98 get the system monitor going and find out whether your problem is memory usage or processor usage but my guess is that you have a memory resident virus. Shut down to a command prompt and type in FDISK/MBR just like that. Then power off and boot back up. Also get rid of anything in your startup menu and rename your autoexec.bat and config.sys files so they do not run. See how things look after that. If your running windows 2000 you will need to boot to a disk before you can do FDISK/MBR. Hope that helps.
First of all, there is a big difference between memory and system resources. If you are talking about available memory, then it's normal. A couple of programs will make it so you only have 8% free memory. System resources is another store. Just because you have 8% free isnt a problem... you have swap file.
As far as part two, it is true. In the bios, an agp card can use system memory if it needs it. Usually this is set to 64megs. Now, this memory is only used if the agp card NEEDS it. A pci video card can not use this feature. Plus, a pci video card is bottlenecked by the limit of the pci bandwidth. Even an agp1x makes a big difference compared to a pci card.
