Toshiba 405cs satellite likes 95, not 98se

[tomfish]

I bought a Toshiba 405cs satellite it had win 95 on it, ran OK except for the crashes that it famous for. I bought win 98se and wiped the HD, and installed it (six times).
with 98 on it runs like it is a 8086 instead of a pentium 75. The pointer is so sloooowwww that it is erratic, it thrashes the HD hard after doing any little thing.
It seems much worse when it is plugged in, than on battery power.
Any ideas?

P75
40 MB Ram

Thanks in advance,

Tom Dillard

 

[Workin']

Hmmm, I have 98SE on a P90 40MB RAM laptop (NEC 4050H) and it runs really well. I also have 98SE on a Gateway P60 40MB RAM desktop machine and it runs fine on that, too. Just remembered, I have also installed 98SE on an IBM Thinkpad 700C, which is a 486/25 with 12MB RAM and it doesn't crawl too bad on that one either (which amazed me).

So I would say you do have a problem somewhere. When the machine boots or in the BIOS setup, is all 40MB of RAM counted? Does it show up as 40MB in Device Manager? How about your virtual memory settings - anything odd there? Power management settings look OK?