>Since I have made these changes to my system, the whole system seems to
>be slowed down noticeably. I notice a prolonged boot up compared to what
>it was prior to the adjustments. Program load times are noticeably
>longer (maybe 20-30%?). The real big mystery is that my hard drive
>activity light seems to come on and stay on at times when there is no
>audible indication of any drive activity. Of course, normally when the
>HDD light comes on, you can HEAR the drive working. I realize the
>absence of any sound does not absolutely mean that the HDD isn't
>working, but that is almost the way it seems, sometimes for 10-20
>seconds or more at a time.


It's as if the drive light has come on, but
>the drive has gone to sleep! When it "wakes up" activity resumes! I may
>be just getting paranoid, but I certainly do not recall seeing this
>mysterious activity before I made the changes listed above.


When I installed Win98se on my P133 this happened to me.  I know that I had
Power Management turned off in the Bios.  So after fumbling around I found
Power Management in Win98 under settings>Control Panel>Power Management.  I
changed the hard drive setting to Never.  and my drive quit going to sleep.

Is there some other setting that I have neglected on the primary IDE
>(HDD and Zip?). Is there some change I need to make in the Setup? Can
>anyone offer an explanation as to how I can get my system performance
>back to normal?
>
>Many thanks in advance
>
>Michael

>
Tom J Kelly II, USN, Ret., FTCM,
Micron P133, 80M, 8.4G

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