Help please

[SteveDaBomb]

I just Installed windows 98 SE (formated HD and started over)and for some reason everytime I download something the entire computer slows down almost to a crawl and gets all choppy. Once the file is done downloading the computer is back to its normal self and flys. Sometimes even when a web page is loading it does it. My system is a Abit bx6, pII 450 running with the turbo option to 463mhz, 256 megs of ram, seagate cheetah HD for running windows, UltraDma western digital hard drive just for games, diamond fireport 40 scsi card, 32x speed scsi cd drive, eide cdrecordable drive, 3com ext. courier, Elsa Gladiac 32meg GeForce 2 video card, monster sound mx300, and a 21 inch hitachi superscan monitor. I also have a permanent swap file set up for 150 megs and Im using the latest drivers for everything. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks

 

[Norssak]

Well, it could be anything! The only process I have observed bringing a system to its knees is Floppy access. So if you are downloading to your floppy drive, don't do that!

I would suggest a systematic hunt for the cause. On your current system i would try:

-different webbrowser
-ftp program
-different ISP (netzero)
-different modem (your's is serial right?)

if that doesn't give you a clue I'd start over, and build the machine step by step.

-take out everything except the minimum, ide-HD, floppy, IDE-CDrom, Graphics card
-Install the OS (i recommend win98 over win98 se)
-install your modem

try it at that point, hopefully you will not get any problems with this stripped down setup. If you do, you've got alot fewer potentential culprits to swap out.