Hello again, Gerry.

My Belarc Adviser reports as follows:-

     Operating System   System Model
     Windows XP Home Edition Service Pack 2 (build 2600)   MSI MS-6380E 1.0
     Processor a   Main Circuit Board b
     1.30 gigahertz AMD Duron
     128 kilobyte primary memory cache
     64 kilobyte secondary memory cache   Board: MSI MS-6380E 1.0
     Bus Clock: 100 megahertz
     BIOS: American Megatrends Inc. 07.00T 04/02/01
     Drives   Memory Modules c,d
     81.96 Gigabytes Usable Hard Drive Capacity
     60.89 Gigabytes Hard Drive Free Space

     LITE-ON LTR-40125S [CD-ROM drive]
     3.5" format removeable media [Floppy drive]

     Maxtor 6L080L0 [Hard drive] (81.96 GB) -- drive 0, s/n L21NZL7H, rev
BAJ41G20, SMART Status: Healthy   384 Megabytes Installed Memory

     Slot '0' is Empty
     Slot '1' has 256 MB
     Slot '2' has 128 MB
       Local Drive Volumes

           c: (NTFS on drive 0) 41.94 GB 36.33 GB free
           d: (NTFS on drive 0) 40.02 GB 24.56 GB free

From the 'Notes'

a. Megahertz measurement may be inaccurate if other programs were busy
during last analysis.
c. Memory slot contents may not add up to Installed Memory if some memory is
not recognized by Windows.
d. Memory slot contents is reported by the motherboard BIOS. Contact system
vendor if slot contents are wrong.
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I personally added the 256 Mb extra memory which I bought from Crucial.
I don't understand why it appears that only 64 Mb is shown under 'Processor'
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System Information reports as follows:-

OS Name Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition
Version 5.1.2600 Service Pack 2 Build 2600
OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation
System Name DAVIDSPC
System Manufacturer MSI
System Model MS-6380E
System Type X86-based PC
Processor x86 Family 6 Model 7 Stepping 1 AuthenticAMD ~1300 Mhz
BIOS Version/Date American Megatrends Inc. 07.00T, 02/04/2001
SMBIOS Version 2.3
Windows Directory C:\WINDOWS
System Directory C:\WINDOWS\system32
Boot Device \Device\HarddiskVolume1
Locale United States
Hardware Abstraction Layer Version = "5.1.2600.2180
(xpsp_sp2_rtm.040803-2158)"
User Name DAVIDSPC\DGB (Admin)
Time Zone GMT Standard Time
Total Physical Memory 384.00 MB
Available Physical Memory 67.82 MB
Total Virtual Memory 2.00 GB
Available Virtual Memory 1.96 GB
Page File Space 922.32 MB
Page File C:\pagefile.sys

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Of interest here is that the stated 'Locale' is ........ United States!

My much older Dell PC says United Kingdom!

You said "You reported from Bellarc KT266 Pro2-A" - I cannot identify where
you think I may have said that. I took the number from the handbook which I
received with this PC - it is entitled K7T266 Pro2-A - I may have failed to
include the '7' - I apologise if this is the case! :-(

You also mentioned "I am a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants
of England and
Wales. Newsgroups are a hobby, much as some do Crosswords". My daughter is
an accountant too (ACCA) and when I worked for Bowring (later Marsh) as an
IFA running our Exeter office (Financial Services) I came into regular
contact with accountants! You may recall that Bowring ran a special PHI
scheme for the ICA!

Computing is simply a hobby for me, too, yet I still become frustrated "when
I cannot find answers to the clues"! <g>

Any ideas will be welcomed. I've not yet heard from Belarc by email.

David
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