dual processor problems

[lestat]

my friend has a dual processor motherboard 440bx, the thing is setup for w2k and is going slow like hell, he also has 1 gb of memory, are there any known issues about this? i looked on the board but i couldn't find anything. if anyone can help please let me know.

thanks,

brett

 

[borealiss]

make sure he has the latest firmware update as there are some acpi issues with older boards and win2k. i had a similar problem and after a bios update everything was fine. hope this helps.

 

[medic]

Check this link to be sure W2K is properly setup:

 

[lestat]

why does my heart
feel so bad

 

[bacillus]

have you checked to see if the hdd is using DMA transfers?
WIN2K > Device Manager > IDE/ATAPI Controllers > Primary IDE/Secondary
IDE Channel > Advanced Settings > Transfer Mode > DMA if available >
> OK 🙂

 

[Zach]

How is what as slow as hell?..

 

[lestat]

the machine behaves like a pentium 150
even when no programs are running, the task manager takes up 10% cpu time, photoshop takes two minutes to start
=[

thankee

the drives are in dma mode

if the ram is larger than the cacheable area of the tag ram of the chipset, then main memory will not be cached, i have one gig of memory does anybody know what the cacheable area of the 440bx chipset is?

thankee again

 

[Sir Fredrick]

I think the bx can handle caching 2gb of RAM, but to eliminate that as the source of the slowness, why not take out a bit, bring it down to 512MB?

Something is definitely wrong with that computer, you might want to try taking out all but the bare minimum, and uninstalling any crap on there, that's not used anymore, which board is he using? there are some which have issues in dual win2k setups...

 

[inode]

hello lestat,

can you please tell me what type of motherboard he's using? I have the kp6-bs dual setup and I have had strange issues with it in the past (i.e. processor load @ 50% at all times).

~inode

 

[Zach]

What speed does the board POST at? And does it say both processors are there?