At 11:04 PM 12/26/1999 , Robert Prickett wrote:
>I have been going nuts trying to understand why my P2T2 with AMD
>K6-2/400 is sooooooo slow!
>
>All the diagnostics [wintune, sisoft sandra, etc] show the amd
>cranking along at full speed, as compared to other similar chips.
>
>But the system is so unbelieveably slow---I mean slow, and I've tried
>everything submitted to me, cache, CMOS,  etc.
>
>About to give up, I decided to burn a CD of existing software to have
>a record, when the SCSI Adaptex/Plextor CDR would not pass the test!
>
>[I've made dozens of CD's].  The CDR diagnostics shows this:
>
>13.6 maxtor hard drive, partitioned: [c, e, f] 166 to 196 kb/sec
>3.2 western digital, partitioned,  [d, g] 2056 to 6144 kb/sec.
>
>Now, how the hell does a new maxtor HD run so slow?  More important,
>what can be done?
>
>I toyed with the bus master hd controller, but it should affect both
>the hard drives, right?  Why is the maxtor so slow compared to the WD?
>
>Would a new 33/m drive controller help?


Just as a thought, one thing I have found that helps slow AMD systems is
to adjust the Virtual Cache on the system, often this can speed up a
computer 50% or more...   believe it or  not.

You will need to use SYSEDIT that is found in Windows9x for this adjustment:

START / RUN / type: sysedit  [press enter]

Now, go to the SYSTEM.INI file, scroll down to the heading:   [vcache]

If you have nothing in this group, add these lines:

[vcache]
MinFileCache=1024
MaxFileCache=8192

Save and close SYSEDIT.

Now restart you computer and see if this makes any difference.

     Bob Wright
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