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Rod Speed <rspeed@dragnet.com.au> wrote in message
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>Chris Burrell <cburrell@ihug.coDOTnz> wrote in message
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>> Well, my comp's pretty f***ed up a the mo, so i htought I'd tryand get
>> some help. Ive already taken it into the local computer store and they,
>> being the hick town airheads they are, not only couldn't fix it, but tried to
>> charge me twice for **not** fixing it. sheesh. Anyways, heres what happened:
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>> the machine is a Intel pentium 200 MMX, with 64 megs SDram, with
>> a 430tx motherboard. 32bit yamaha soundcard, dynalink 33.6k modem,
>> realtek NE2000 network card 4mb S3 Virge video card, Mitsumi 24X
>> CDROM, 4.3GB HDD (Bigfoot? One of those big crappy 5 1/4" ones).
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>> I used to have a Gig dedicated to linux, which I used for  programming
>> while at Uni. When term broke up I decided to delete it to give me more
>> room for other stuff. Backed up all my files, then stuffed up by forgetting
>> to use the linux partition program to wipe the partition, instead using fdisk.
>> Comp started running **slow** like, not even able to handle an mp3 (only
>> buffering 2.3 secs) when it used to handle an mp3 (8.6 secs buffered)
>> AND carmageddon.
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>> thought, oh, ok, win98 (had the beta back then) needs to be reinstalled,
>> so reinstalled win98. No change. tried installing win95 (a very old version -
>> didn't even have USB support). no help there. borrowed friends brand new
>> win98 and installed that. nada. zip. zilch. Thought "It must be the HDD", so
>> went to foremention hick store and got them to completely wipe the HDD
>> (boot sector and all) Partititoned it,  formatted it, reinstalled new win98.
>> Still runs slows. "hmm" methinks "could be the cards". So, out come the
>> cards, trashed them in the system properties. restarted - nothing. reinstalled
>> win98 (glutton for punishemnt huh?). nothing. still slow as a one legged
>> dog. Put cards back in one by one(even in different orders) co improvement.
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>> Took hte machine into the hick store again. they reset the CMOS
>> settings. nothing. played around and did other stuff. nothing.  I've now
>> got it so that it can limp along (can handle an mp3 with 1.8 secs buffered).
>> Still very slow - estimate performance at about 484 DMX4 100 with
>> maybe 16 megs ram. Its that bad. I have run out of ideas. I've tried
>> different drivers. everything. Has anybody else heard of anything like this?
>> please let me know if you know a fix - I would be SOOOOOOO grateful.
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>In this situation the best approach is to start again from scratch,
>mainly checking that all the thrashing around above hasnt managed
>to produce some weird config thats producing the slowdown.
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>I'd first of all reset to system defaults in the cmos. Thats what the
>award bios calls it, its worded a bit more obviously with the ami bios.
>And check that both caching levels are enabled. That will slow the
>system down noticeably if you have managed to turn one off.
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>Now completely clear your hard drive and completely eliminate
>any possibility that something is being loaded at boot time by
>the remains of some boot loader left in the boot sector. The
>easiest way to do this is with a ute called CLEARHDD from
>http://www.sec.samsung.co.kr/support/contact/FILES/CLEARHDD.EXE

whoops, http://www.sec.samsung.co.kr/support/faqs/faq_view.cgi?no=99&kno=3
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>That just completely scrubs all data from the first few tracks of the drive.
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>Now fdisk the drive and install Win98 from scratch yet again.
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>Now run some simple speed test and see if you still have a speed problem.
>If you do, the most likely explanation is that thrashing around has managed
>to kill something. Pull everything non essential out of the system and see
>if its still slow. Ideally just have a video card and the hard drive.
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>If its still slow in that minimum config, check the hard drive jumpering
>in case someone has managed to misjumper it in the thrashing around.
>If its still slow, see if you can borrow a drive you can speed test with.
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>I guess one possibility is that you originally had the system overclocked
>and its been restored to default parameters when they saw some problems.
>This gets a bit tricky but is best left till you ensure you havent got some very
>basic config error like having the cache disabled or the drive misjumpered.
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>>ps, interestingly, I can no longer run ICQ NEt detect in the background. ideas?
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>Nope, dont use it.
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