Those of you running XP w Service Pack 1 installed on NForce2 based boards may want to check into this....Details:After you install Windows XP Service Pack 1 (SP1), your programs may take as much as ten times as long to start.CauseThis problem may occur if the programs you run frequently allocate and deallocate large blocks of memory. Changes in Windows XP SP1 in the memory management system have caused this operation to take significantly longer than with pre-SP1 Windows XP.Reports state that high CPU utilisation issues on nForce2 have been fixed.Author: MicrosoftHope it helpsBobbyhttp://www.warp2search.net/download.php?op...SP2_x86_ENU.exe

>Those of you running XP w Service Pack 1 installed on NForce2>based boards may want to check into this....Hi Bobby,This problem only effected a >very limited number< of folks and is pretty much a non issue for anyone with an NF2 board, but here are the latest (April 2003) specifics:"STATUSMicrosoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article. (XP-SP1) Note This article was revised on 4/12/2003 to more accurately reflect the specific purpose and details of the fix. The original title of this article gave the false impression that this was a problem facing many, if not most, Windows XP users who installed SP1. In fact, the problem affects a very small number of customers who are using a privately designed program that exhibits behavior that the hotfix was created to address. (This article was previously published under the title: