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adamkob

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I would like to know if anyone has found out what the cause is or how to fix this. I know it has been posted before, but I don't think there was an answer at the time. It only happens like every 5 - 10 minutes, but that is enough to mess me up bad in multi-player. Please someone tell me what is going on. I will post my specs below.

Asus A7M266 Motherboard (Newest BIOS) - 1.2Ghz AMD Athlon 266Mhz FSB - 512MB Crucial PC2100 DDR RAM - 64MB ATI Radeon DDR - Soundblaster Live Value - 3Com 10/100 NIC - 2 30GB Maxtor ATA/100 Hard Drives - 16x40 Pioneer DVD-Rom - 12x10x32 Plextor CD-RW - Acer 76e 17in. Monitor

Everything is really up to spec here and I get over 100 FPS by myself in NASCAR 4 with all the details enabled and around 50 FPS with a full field ahead of me. I can't find any slow downs in my system and it does it when I'm just running Windows and other games also. BTW - I have Windows 98 SE with the Service Pack and all Windows Updates, and I use the official 7075 drivers for my Radeon.

I really need some help. Thanks.
 
i had the same problem a long time ago and i forgot how i fixed it but i remember ppl mentioning something about electromagnetic interference... it was either that or the power cord... i really forget... may wanna search the archives...
 
Sounds like one of your hard drives may be going to "sleep". Check your power managment settings for it, when my 3rd drive goes to sleep it causes a 2-3 second pause in gaming.
 
i'm not really sure how to fix this problem but i'll mention a few things that may be the culprit:

make sure dma is enabled
is there hard drive swaping when this happens?
are there shared irq's (especially if anything shares with the video card or sound card)?
the power settings as YBS1 mentioned

also, do a search for win98 and 512megs or more of ram. there are some cache setting changes that can/should be made to the system.ini file to help windows manage the ram better (i think in the [386enh] section). also, the conservativeswapfileusage=1 line can/should be added to the [386enh] section of the system.ini file.
 
I took out my sound card to see if that was the problem. It isn't.

The hard drives activate and the it pauses while it searches for something I guess. Is there a way to stop this from happening??? If there is please someone tell me.
 
try using only 256megs of ram and add the following line to the system.ini file in the [386enh] section:

conservativeswapfileusage=1
 
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