Ron,

You/we should be conversing via the list so that others can benefit
and/or contribute to this discussion.

The exclamation points are what are causing your system to run slowly.
You need to resolve both of these problems in order to get your
upgraded PC to run as it should.


Jim Meagher
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-----Original Message-----
From: Ron Taylor <[log in to unmask]>
To: Jim Meagher <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Wednesday, March 25, 1998 4:27 PM
Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] 233 Seems slow.


>I have an exclamation point two places.  One is in the Hard Drive
>Controllers section on 'Secondary Bus Master IDE Controller' and the
other
>is in the System Devices section on the second PCI Bus.  I do not
have a
>cdrom on this machine, the performance tab shows optimal.
>Ron
>>Is there a CD on the same cable as the HD?
>>Have you poked around in MY COMPUTER--PROPERTIES?
>>    Any exclamation points? (especially on the IDE properties)
>>    How about the PERFORMANCE tab? anything in DOS mode?
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Ron Taylor <[log in to unmask]>
>>Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] 233 Seems slow.
>>
>>
>>>>>I recently upgraded two 488 dx33 computers to P233.  I used an
ASUS
>>TXP4
>>>>>motherboard, 64 meg ram, Intel P233-MMX and reused everything
else.
>>I
>>>find
>>>>>that these two computers are not as fast as a couple of P90's
that
>>I have
>>>in
>>>>>place.
>>>
>>>>Ron,
>>>>Which performance are you talking about?  System/application
booting
>>>>or overall?  The P90s will have faster hard disks than a dx33 era
>>>>machine.  A P90 will start a program faster, but once the app is
>>>>loaded the "new" 233 machines should be much faster at anything
that
>>>>does not need disk access.
>>>>Jim Meagher
>>>
>>>
>>>I did not mention in my original post that I also purchased a
Trident
>>4mb
>>>PCI 3D video controller and I recently, prior to the Pentium
upgrade,
>>>replaced the hard drives with 1gig Samsung drives supposed to be in
>>the 11ms
>>>range.  The boot up is fast but when I start and application,
WinFax,
>>Word,
>>>Excel the system creeps.  I tested the 90MHZ I use and WinFax
starts
>>>completely in less than 15 seconds, the 233MHZ upgrade is still
>>working
>>>after 40 seconds.  I had my system tech pull the machine apart and
>>check all
>>>jumpers and each BIOS setting and he found nothing wrong, but,
there
>>is
>>>really something wrong.  I was told to buy new hard drives by the
>>M( a
>>>wannabe tech ).  I hope this helps and someone can come up with
>>something
>>>that I haven't tried.
>>>
>>>
>>
>
>