DING! Give that man a ceegar! While I didn't find a setting for
anything like that anywhere in the BIOS, I took a risk and let the BIOS
reconfigure itself for "optimal settings" in the hopes it wouldn't FUBAR
everything.... and the system is back to its snappy old self
again... Thanks, Jud!
At 03:01 PM 12/7/99 -0500, you wrote:
>At 01:57 PM 12/7/99 -0500, you wrote:
>
>>I have a P-II/233 running NT 4.0 that I think is severely
>>underperforming. It has 256 MB of RAM, and much of it remains
>>free. Some applications take literally MINUTES to load, and I suspect a
>>CPU problem,
>
>
>I don't know much about NT systems, but my father recently had a machine
>that was running extremely slowly. I finally found the problem - in the
>setup, it had inadvertently set to run at "compatibility speed", which is
>very slow. That could be the problem.
>
>
>+----------------------------------------------------------+
>| Jud McCranie |
>| |
>| Where a calculator on the ENIAC is equipped with 19,000 |
>| vacuum tubes and weighs 30 tons, computers in the future |
>| may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps only weigh |
>| 1.5 tons. -- Popular Mechanics, March 1949. |
>+----------------------------------------------------------+
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