serious memory leak - radeon 9600 pro AIW

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mr.athlon wrote:
> My PC is an ASUS A7V266 with 1GHz Athlon. The ATI multimedia S/W that came
> with my Radeon 9600 AIW seldom works for very long without hangs or crashes.
> Here is an interesting problem I discovered which might indicate some
> underlying general problem. If I run Windows System Monitor while recording
> a TV progam, SysMon shows UNUSED PHYSICAL MEMORY goes down to almost nothing
> in about 10 minutes. I tested this with two 256 Meg SDRAMS (512 total), and
> then with only a single 256 Meg SDRAM installed. This memory leak happens
> every time I record from TV or VCR etc.
>
> Has anybody here heard of a problem like this. How to fix it?
>
> TIA. Bill S.

I record movies daily and watch nightly. Also run app which shows CPU
use and mem load. CPU use never goes above 50% and mem use shows no
appreciable increase during recording or viewing even if I am doing
other things at same time. If your problem only occurs while running
win sys monitor, I would suspect that app rather than ATI.

My sys uses is Intel MB and P4 CPU, ATI AIW 9600XT but that should make
no diff. BTW, software I use is the CD which came with the 9600, NO
updates or upgrades; every time I updated or upgraded software, the
system went bad and/or crashed.

Hope you solve your problem.
Jack.