why so slow??

[Semidevil]

Here is my set-up:
epox ep-mvp4(something like that) mobo
k-6 2 450mhz
6 gig hdd
184 megs ram

I finally successfully installed my os on this thing. I boot it, and I notice that the computer is extremley slow. When I double click on the internet explorer icon, it literally takes 20 seconds for a screen to come up.

clicking on the start button will also take some time.

at first, I thought that maybe I was used to my 1ghz pc. So downgrading to a 450mhz should be like that.

but when I go to control panel and turn on a screensaver(one of those win98 flower box screensaver), I notice that the screen saver barely moves.....it goes very very slow.

what gives here?? I know that the screen saver is not suppose to be that bad.

I already installed the via 4in1 service pack that came w/ the CD, and also the onboard video drivers. It is not supposed to be that slow....

anything I should check in teh bios to make sure??

is there any cpu speed checker or whatever??


*shrugs*

 

[Ryan]

what OS?

 

[Semidevil]

oh.....sorry.

win98se.....

 

[ledzepp98]

did you install the via 4in1 drivers for the motherboard? is dma enabled for the hard drive? also, the board probably has 512k cache...try using only 128megs of ram since that is the cacheable limit.

 

[BFG10K]

Make sure you have the latest chipset drivers (4-in-1s probably) and BIOS for your system.

 

[Semidevil]

how do you enable dma??

 

[ledzepp98]

enable dma in the hard drive properties in device manager. did you install the 4in1 drivers? do that before anything else

 

[Semidevil]

ok, I already did all that.......but for soem reason, it is still very slow.

 

[ledzepp98]

on a hunch, did you try running with only 128megs of ram instead of 184 megs?

 

[Semidevil]

yup............tried. but the speed is just the same...............

 

[Johnnie]

try enable/disable onboard cache.

 

[Booster]

To sum it up:

1 Enable 512KB of onboard cache (in BIOS)

2 Enable CPU L1 Cache (in BIOS)

3 Enable DMA for hard drives, both in BIOS and OS (check the DMA box)


This should do the trick. That setup should work speedily under Win98SE. I remember the days when I had a K6-2 300 CPU/ASUS SP98AGP-X combo running Win98SE and it was rather fast even by today's standards.