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    Extremely slow from the start

    I think I finally found out what was going on. I downloaded and installed the windows XP 64-bit beta and the system is now very fast. I'm assuming that since it is fast in this system that the hardware is fine and that the only problem is win2k. The only thing is that at this time most of the...
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    Extremely slow from the start

    I haven't set anything up in the BIOS yet. what settings should I look at specifically?
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    Extremely slow from the start

    The process using the most memory was Apache, using 13MB of memory, and in the services screen it said "starting" but never changed from that. However I disabled it and restarted and the problem persisted. I have also booted to safe mode with the same issue.
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    Extremely slow from the start

    I think that a new hard drive is what I have to do next. I just tried installing windows 98 on the hard drive and after copying the data to the hard drive and booting to it, I waited about 10 minutes on the "starting up windows 98 for the first time" and turned the machine off.
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    Extremely slow from the start

    Update: I reformatted the HDD (NTFS) and reinstalled Win2K without the network connected at all. It was still slow, even through the installation. I tried the HDD on primary and CD on secondary with no change. The HDD started on cable select and I changed it to master with no change. I...
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    Extremely slow from the start

    it wasn't hooked up to the internet when I first started using it and it was still slow.
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    Extremely slow from the start

    I haven't installed any software other than the OS and the drivers for the MB and video. The install of Win2K was also very slow and right after installing that on a freshly formatted drive (NTFS), it was extremely slow on boot and slow after that.
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    Extremely slow from the start

    I just built a new system and from the start, it is running slower than my PII 350MHz machine. The system is stable (no errors, freezes, etc.) but just really slow. Here are the specs: AMD Athlon 64 3200+ Chaintech VNF4 Ultra motherboard Chaintech Geforce 6600GT PCIe 16x video card PQI...