I have a strange issue. I have a DFI (K6BV3+) Mother board with 2 Megs of cache. I had the board in another machine using a K6II 450 chip and 64 Megs of Memory, a Trident Bade 8 Meg AGP Vid card and a standard CD ROM. I used "Trouble shooter" on it and it reported 2048 K of External cache. I moved the board over to my machine with a K6III 450, 64 Megs of Ram, a 3D Banshee AGP vid card, a sound blaster live card, creative 7160 decoder card and a Gen 5 DVD. the same "Trouble shooter" disk then reports 256k of external cache! This is the second board that did this. My question is, any ideas on what is causing it to read wrong? Is it possibly a resource conflict?, and do I then really have only 256K of functional cache or is it working properly and just reporting it wrong in this program for some reason? I is there any way to find out how much cache I in fact am using? incidentally, the Diagnostics program from PCBUILD reports only 96K of cache in this instance while reading correctly on the other machine too! Please help. This is really perplexing me. Thanks in advance.

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