Is a Celeron 466Mhz really that SLOW???

[xgsound]

I see you have Office 2000. Fast find and outlook are things that slow boot and performance. Fast find (a kind of indexing) should be disabled, and Outlook enables one of the "messenger " services.

Norton 1999 will be of limited use as a A/V. One of the free ones (AVG or Antivir) would be more effective and less intrusive and have new definitions.

This would not explain 5 min. boots. I think the "nic" card guys are on the right track. The fastest way to see if that is the problem is to remove the device in device manager and remove the card. If the 5 min. boot inproves you know where your work needs to be done. I seem to recall that making a "permenant number" for network makes a big change in boot times.

Last thoughts, Win98se may require motherboard drivers for the chipset that are not in the MS updates. I would look for chipset drivers and perhaps apply the Win98se 1.6.2 rollup at http://exuberant.ms11.net/98sesp.html rather that the MS updates.

Jim

 

[ionoxx]

I had a PIII 450 load Windows 2000 Advanced Server faster than that... although once i got active directory running, it would then take 20 minutes.... but thats not the topic here

It also took me 3 hours to install WinXP on a Celeron 400, that was the most painful install ever!

 

[bjc112]

Originally posted by: JEDI
um.. i think this Celeron is based on a p2 core, and of course crippled so it wont compete w/the p2.

so there's a HUGE difference between the Celly (crippled p2) and your P3

Yep.

I have a P3 800mhz (133) with 768ram and it runs like a champ.

Great backup system

 

[mindwreck]

sounds like a slow hdd to me. My moms had a amdk6-2 @500mhz (which is probably even slower than your p2). It loaded painfully slow on this old 3gb seagate drive, around 3-4 mins. I droped that out and put in a 7200rpm maxtor and now it loads in about a minute or 2.

edit: time from IRQ screen to where i can actually open stuff
edit2: using regular 40pin cable

 

[Bassyhead]

it should run faster than that

 

[superkdogg]

When you reinstalled, you fdisked and formatted, right. If not you may be seeing registry issues. I just fixed a rig for a coworker with these issues after she did a "dirty" reinstall and it was slow as crap.

 

[JEDI]

my friend said not to worry about it. he gets free utilities at where he lives, so he's just going to leave the machine on all the time. (the machine works like a champ otherwise.)

but being the techie i am, i want to find out what the problem is.

oh well...