Hi Keith,
there are many reasons why your system might be so slow, I�d expect it
to be as fast as the DX4-100 at least, the 40 MB memory should make it
better.
1st: are you sure you use "turbo mode" ? do you have a checking program
that tells you the speed of your cpu?? (as a rough guide, you can use
the BOGOMIPS statement on bootup. If you close / open jumpers, tune for
maximum. Do not belive in a glowing turbo led or speed display.
2nd: did you enable CPU cache und 2nd level cache in the system BIOS?
There might be more BIOS options as well, CPU/Mem wait states, cache
strikes most.
For finding oout about hardware conflicts, I�d use as less hw as
possible for a test:
video card(s) (different) and boot floppy and watch the boot process.
Furthermore, I�d check jumper settings, maybe the proud previous owner
made a mistake setting up his system and took never notice.
That�s as much "standard stuff" as I can think of in the moment. Others
will react as well and you�ll end up with a nice collection....
Juergen
Keith Snape wrote:
>
> I apologize for posting this message here, as its not
> FULLY SuSE related, but I'm at mind end here. I
> recently aquired a Pentium 60, with 40 Megs ram, which
> I used to take place of my old 486 DX4 100MHZ, with 8
> Megs ram. I thought that an upgrade of such, even
> with the 100mhz of the dx4 being equivilant to a P75,
> would help. I even got a 2 meg video card in the
> process, taking place of my old VGA card, which I
> havent even any idea of how much it had. To my UTTER
> suprise, I noticed when booting of the SuSE install
> disk, the new system was MUCH slower. In the 486, the
> little ansi/ascii menu's just popped up, and all,
> without thinking (too much), or blank screens. With
> the pentium, the menu's display in a choppy, blinky,
> all around messy process that takes yast around 5 mins
> to load up. (scary huh?) I was wondering if anyone
> would know if there might be a hardware conflict I
> might have missed, or if the boot disks are just
> automatically set up to act like its running on a
> crappy 386. (I figure, based on the fact it took me 4
> 1/2 hours to compile my flippin' kernel, that the
> system is running equivilant to a 386/16 (dx2 even!)).
>
> Anyways, sorry to post this here, but I didnt know of
> elsewhere to go :).
>
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