How does video card mem affect system RAM?

Just read the new posts and respond to all of them in one message. You can also edit your previous posts if you want to add a response to something. The board doesn't keep track of which post is an answer to which, so posting several different message in response doesn't make things any clearer. I don't know why it's considered a problem here, but it's easy to avoid unless you need to quote several people (in which case it's a little bit more work, since there's no multi-quote feature here as is available in some other places).

The Windows 2000 drivers are available on NVIDIA's site (under "drivers" on the top menu), but since you asked this question I assume you don't have the latest drivers installed. In which case don't rush to install these drivers. Go to the NVIDIA control panel and tell us what driver version you have installed.

OK, thank you. At least you have made clear what it is I have done that is considered wrong, which someone else didn't do.

And thanks also for confirming that I haven't been posting to myself, as someone else would have me think.

In my view, that is impratical. It makes things unnecessarily complicated, or if kept simple, unclear as to who is saying what to whom. Additional information placed in edits of previous posts is likely to be missed by anyone who already has read that post. With that standard practice, effectively you have to go back and read what you've read to make sure you've read what you've read, every time you want to post informedly. That's fairly ridiculous to me.

Frankly, I think I'm not willing to do all that. So in respect of your forum I suppose this is where I get off.

No, quite possibly I don't have the latest drivers installed. I installed those supplied on the CD that came with the card:

Driver version: 178.24
Core clock: 351 MHz
Memory clock: 266 MHz (532 MHz data rate)
Memory interface: 64-bit
Memory: 256 MB
Video BIOS version: 5.44.A2.10.40
IRQ: 11
Bus: AGP 2X

Thanks to all for your technical help.

I'm going to show you how to create a multiple quoted response post.

First, open a reply box by clicking on the "Post Reply" button.

Then we're going to learn to manage posts in which replies to several different individuals are necessary.

To do this, you would use browser tabs, by RIGHT clicking on the "quote" button and allow Firefox to open it in another tab with the person's post you're going to quote. Then type your reply to the individual and "select all" (The quote & your response) (Ctrl "A"), then copy and paste the entire post and your reply into the text box, that you started in the original "Reply" tab.

Go through this for each individual you are responding to.

When you're done, then submit the composite reply, and simply close the other tabs you have opened to develop the quote framework.

In the end you will just have the one reply posted, with each individual being responded to, after his (or her) statement.

Here's an example:

I'm sorry, I'm new to this format.

The Win 2000 drivers wouldn't help me, this machine is running XP.

Wow, psychology blends with technology, would that be called, "Psychnogoly".

Thanks just the same.

WWJ, considering the driver version I'd suggest trying both newer and older drivers. The latest for XP and 2000 are what I'd try. No guarantee it'd change anything, but it's worth a try. I'll start with the Windows 2000 ones and see if they work and if there's any speed improvement.

As for the forum rules, I don't see why it's a problem to follow them, and I disagree that it's clearer. Look at the previous page, where you have three consecutive posts. The latter two answer people without any attribution, and it's only clear from context who you're responding to. You could have easily put them into one post with "ET3D, ..." etc., and it would have been clearer.

I actually thought I did a real good job of explaining how to do this in post #44

To be quite blunt, you've posted a fair amount of crap in this thread yourself. First of all, the machine has XP in it! So why all the nonsense about Win 2000 drivers.

Second, the machine's maximum Ram, IS 384 mbs. So, all the further nonsense about hardware addresses being subtracted from 4GB of memory is entirely superfluous at best, and just plain confusing at worst.

The drivers that came with the card would probably run just fine, had the OP installed them in the first place. He did later, and said that improved the situation. That's when you decided to step in and "fix" the machine.

At least you have the right moniker, captaincranky.

Reading back, it looks like I missed the part when the situation was fixed, and unnecessarily continued the thread. Sorry about that. The explanation about addresses used was in direct response to the theoretical discussion that the OP initiated and which appeared at the start of this thread.