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Fri, 12 Oct 2001 12:10:17 +1000, "Loic Fields"
<s369381@student.uq.edu.au> wrote:

>k... this one's got me stumped...
>
>the place that i work at has a cyrix 300mhz pc that runs incredibly slow. i
>posted here about it recently and someone recommended i tried the 'sisoft
>sandra' diagnostic util (cheers for that whoever it was...) so i did and
>this is what it said:
>
>1) memory access benchmarks were about a tenth of what sandra said PC100 ram
>should be doing...
>2) the cpu benchmarks put it at roughly half as fast as a 486 DX2-66...
>
>so you see what i mean when i say slow.... the harddrive access on the
>otherhand seemed normal. I've double checked the cmos setup and the cpu
>appears to be correctly configured in there... if memory serves me right the
>cpu is at 300mhz with a memory bus of 83mhz (?) checked for viruses... tried
>getting rid of as many 'background' programs as possible to no avail...
>
>Any theories would be greatly appreciated~!!
>
>cheers,
>loic.
>
>

Check the BIOS, see if the L2 cache is enabled (it should be). If
there's an L1 setting, it should be enabled too.

What chipset is the motherboard?  Considering that this is a Cyrix
processor-based system, it would seem likely that a budget motherboard
was also used.  Maybe a motherboard replacement is the only solution,
especially if it has integrated PCI video.


Dave
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