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ivan:
I'm at it again.  By that I mean upgrading hardware.  A friend gave me some equipment that he bought not realising it wasn't what he wanted.

So, I now have an ASRock B450M Pro 4 motherboard with an AMD Ryzen 3 3200G 2nd generation processor with Radeon graphics.  Added to that is a Crucial 250GB SSD drive, 8 GB Memory with a 250GB WD Green SATA SSD M.2.

Install was a bit of a problem until I setup the partitions on the Crucial SSD with DFSee on my test computer.  With those setup the install DVD saw them and everything went ahead as it should.

The fact that the motherboard doesn't have any real USB 2 ports (those it does have are a subset of the USB 3 CPU/chipset) did make things a little 'sensitive' to start with - the trackball kept on locking up if I tried to click on something while waiting for something else to happen.

There are a few other 'problems' which I think I can workround with some thought, things like getting NoScript and AdBlock plus to install in firefox and needing to change the TZ in config.sys and add OSLEXAM.DLL to OS2\DLL to get the spell check in EPM to work - all things I have done in the past but forgotten about since all the installs with Ryzen processors prior to this have been from already setup images.

guzzi:
With an add-on video card you will get around 3.5 gb available.

Dave Yeo:
Firefox might need add-on signing turned off. Forget the pref right now.
Even with only 1.5 GB of ram accessible, things should be fine with a swap file on the ram disk. I only had that much memory for a while after a DIMM died, just about never noticed the swapping and a ram disk should be better.

ivan:
Hi guzzi,

Maybe, maybe not.  The Mem output is similar to what I had with my first Ryzen processor before I started tweaking the mass of junk related to memory usage in the UEFI Bios, most of which is not documented.  Doing that I was able to get:
[C:\]mem -v

Total physical memory:      7,906 MB
Accessible to system:       3,311 MB
Additional (PAE) memory:    4,595 MB

Resident memory:              185 MB
Available virtual memory:   3,944 MB

Available process memory:
  Private low memory:         216 MB
  Private high memory:      2,240 MB
  Shared low memory:          152 MB
  Shared high memory:       2,178 MB

With the built in video and I expect I will get something like that with this 2nd gen processor which is supposed to have superior graphics.

Hi Dave,

I think I had to do something like that before and if that doesn't work I can try playing with parts of an old profile which I will need to do to get all my bookmarks and login info back.

Tom:

--- Quote from: Dave Yeo on October 25, 2020, 08:16:17 pm ---Firefox might need add-on signing turned off. Forget the pref right now.

--- End quote ---

Do you mean xpinstall.signature.required set to false in about:config ?

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