Re: EAC question and Vista question

ansermetniac wrote:
On Mon, 28 Jan 2008 14:45:56 -0800, Steve de Mena
<steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

ansermetniac wrote:
A Cd-R I was ripping started to have sync errors during secure mode. I
switched to sync mode and all was well. Could this be because of
memory fragmentation which seems to be the goal of Windows.
I wouldn't think so. But its worth trying.

Can you slow down the read speed? That might help too.

hydrogenaudio.org or cdfreaks.com are too good sources of info for this sort of thing.

If I
rebooted and tried again would EAC behave better in secure mode?

BTW Vista- did they rewrite the memory manager to get rid of the
reliance on the page file or are they still insisting it is 1984 and
memory chips are expensive.
The Page File still exists. I believe all OSs, including UNIX, Linux and OS X use a type of paging or swap file. You can set it to "0" in Windows but that disables the ability to generate a crash dump file.

Steve

It will also prevent you from booting.

I wouldn't think so. In fact Windows PE boots (and runs) from a CD (which as no write capability). I have an XP machine here I'll try it on.

The MAC ,as I remember, allowed
you to use virtual memory if you could not afford ram chips. Once ram
chips became cheap everyboidy turned off disk based memory.

Then there was ram doubler, which compressed ram on the fly.

How much ram does Windows need to function well? My guess is that
Windows will not function, even on the newest of machines with the
pagefile set to zero. My brother bought a Dell with XP Prof and 128
of memory. It worked like shit. I installed some more chips and it ran
so much better. Can Dell be that stupid?

1GB is the typical amount new systems come with. I would recommend 1GB for Windows XP and 2GB for Windows Vista.

Using XP Home on two different machines made for 98, it will not load
the parellel port on boot unless you use the device manager to delete
the port before rebooting. Nice! Also if you keep the USB cable
installed but not coneccted to your camera, all other USB devices will
not work well.

MS Word for the early Mac bypassed the memory manager and used MS's
own. I took hours to repaginate. Is MS stupid, pompous or indifferent
to quality?

Is that like asking someone if they have stopped beating their wife yet? :)

Abbedd
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