I just put together what I thought was a killer system, but it seems to be choking in the games department.
This is the problem.  From Doom 1 (you heard it) all the way to Quake 3, Icewind Dale, etc., it intermittently chunks for a second or two, then runs fine, then chunks....
 
Here's the specs:
 
Athlon socket 5 Gigabyte GA-7DXC motherboard
Athlon 1100 CPU (boxed with factory heatsink)
128 MB DDR Unbuffered RAM
Geforce 256 with 32 MB DDR RAM (creative's annihilator pro)
ATA 100 40GB IBM HD
Hitachi DVD (GD-7500)
D-Link 10BT network card.
 
No conflicts, not overheating, and the task scheduler is off.
 
there are a lot of motherboard settings that I'm not real familiar with, but I have the video card settings (BIOS) set like this:
 
AGP Aperture size: 64MB
AGP Fast write: Enabled
AGP Mode: 4X
AGP always compensate: Enabled
(These are the defaults)
 
I left the following settings at default also:
SDRAM ECC setting (disabled)
DRAM timing setting by (auto)
DRAM Ph Limit (8 cycle)
DRAM Idle limit (8 cycle)
DRAM Trc timing value (8 cycle)
DRAM Trp value (3 cycle)
DRAM Tras timing value (7 cycle)
DRAM CAS latency (2 cycle)
SDRAM Trcd timing value (3 cycle)
 
The system Bus range is from 95-133, and I left it at the default: (Motherboard switches)
CPU(109) PCI(33.66) AGP(67.335)
Any change to one changes them all....
 
Another thing that I notice is when I check the physical memory available, there is between 20 and 60 MB free,(out of 128) and I'm not running a bunch of junk in the background.
 
Any help or ideas would be GREATLY appreciated.
 
Thanks,
 
Anubis
 
 
<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by TheRealAnubis on 01/19/01 05:48 PM.</EM></FONT></P>

i bought the new micron max xp
 
BAS002251-00 BASE MODEL UNIT Millennia Max XP
CSE001597-00 CASE ATX Mini Tower w/Front USB
CPU001943-00 PROCESSOR AMD T-BIRD ATHLON 1200MHZ (200FSB)
MOD001735-00 MEMORY 256MB 200MHz DDR SDRAM - 2 DIMMS
HDI001511-00 HARD DRIVE 20GB ATA-100 hard drive (7200RPM)
CCD002020-00 CONTROLLER CARD Integrated ATA-100 Super-I/O Peripheral Controller (PSIPC)
FDD001042-00 FLOPPY DRIVE 1.44MB 3.5" floppy drive integrated
CDI001189-00 CD ROM DRIVE 8x4x32 CDRW w/1 CD-Rewritable valid w/Win98 & Win ME
DVD001078-00 CD ROM DRIVE 12x40x variable speed DVD-ROM w/software decoder
VCD001468-00 VIDEO CARD 64MB DDR Nvidia NV15 GeForce 256 AGP with TV Out
MN0000 MONITOR Customer Selects No Monitor
KBR001102-00 KEYBOARD 104 Key Enhanced Keyboard
MOU001040-00 MOUSE Logitech Wheel Mouse
SFO002071-00 OEM SOFTWARE Customer Selects No Micron University
SFO002427-00 OEM SOFTWARE Norton AntiVirus
SFO002072-00 OEM SOFTWARE Customer Selects No Micron Internet Service
SFO002123-00 OEM SOFTWARE Microsoft Office 2000 SB
OSS001317-00 OPERATING SYSTEM SOFTWARE Microsoft Windows ME
SCM001480-00 SOUND CARD Creative Labs Sound Blaster Live Value
SPK001002-00 SPEAKER Customer selects no speakers
MMP001134-00 SPEAKER Customer does not select Premium Speaker
MDM001067-00 MODEM 56K V.90 PCI Modem
 
i have window 2000 installed with scsi 160 card.  i had a terrible time setting up this computer properly and initally (even with the preinstalled operating system) had the same problems that you had and more.  
 
the biggest improvement came when i told window 2000 (at installation) to install as a "standard computer" and not as acpi computer.  (not HAL controlled)
 
this essentially mean that i have be more aware of IRQs that my hardware uses.  it does, however, cause less temp. hang up as windows tries to dynamically controller IRQs.  
 
you can tell if you have a similar problem by looking at your IRSs settings.  If you see alot of devices using the same IRQ, it most likely means that windows dynamically changes the IRQs as required.
 
i hope this helps.

Try pulling the network card and see if it goes away. Sounds like something is polling the net.
 
Chad

disab;e fast writes...are you sure you are not sharing an irq?
 
A little bit of knowledge is a dangerous thing!

Hey,
 
Thanks for all the help !  I just posted the newest glitch in the 'Grpahics Cards' section (That way I can keep it to one area)...
 
Anubis

Try turning your agp Apature size down to like 8 or 16 or less. I have a 16mb card, and thought "I could add to that aprature size, and make it faster by adding ram"  
 
WRONG, q3, which ran great before, now lagged like worse than a bad japanese movie. Changed it back, works great