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PII/233
HD of 3.4GB, IDE
96MB memory, virtual memory is fixed size, 192MB (2x96)
Testing was performed by means of WinTune98
Cached Disk : 53.4MB/s (read/write)
Uncached Disk : 0.09 MB/s (read/write)
What can be the cause of this extremely low performance :
Faulty disk ?
Faulty disk controller ?
BIOS-settings ?
Software settings ? (installed WIN95/WIN98 several times)
Thanks for the comments already received, question is refined
HD of 3.4GB, IDE
96MB memory, virtual memory is fixed size, 192MB (2x96)
Testing was performed by means of WinTune98
Cached Disk : 53.4MB/s (read/write)
Uncached Disk : 0.09 MB/s (read/write)
What can be the cause of this extremely low performance :
Faulty disk ?
Faulty disk controller ?
BIOS-settings ?
Software settings ? (installed WIN95/WIN98 several times)
Thanks for the comments already received, question is refined
Increase virtual memory. Make it 192 MB.
How did you check the performance, bcos I don't think that the results are correct.
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Tried virtual memory 0, fixed, managed by windows
Tried defrag, scandisk
Test on clean system (no applications, online wintune98)
Removed hardware from system (soundcard, network-card) before reinstalling win98.
Tried several partitions, 1 partition, FAT16, FAT32.
IDE-disk connected to the primary disk disk controller, but windows gives error about secundary disk-controller as being disabled in BIOS ! (only 1 disk present in PC)
Intel 82371AB/EB PCI Bus Master IDE Controller
HD recognized as GENERIC IDE DISK TYPE40 (is SAMSUNG)
Tried defrag, scandisk
Test on clean system (no applications, online wintune98)
Removed hardware from system (soundcard, network-card) before reinstalling win98.
Tried several partitions, 1 partition, FAT16, FAT32.
IDE-disk connected to the primary disk disk controller, but windows gives error about secundary disk-controller as being disabled in BIOS ! (only 1 disk present in PC)
Intel 82371AB/EB PCI Bus Master IDE Controller
HD recognized as GENERIC IDE DISK TYPE40 (is SAMSUNG)
ASKER
Learned something, thanks leew !
Now I know there are two disk controllers present in my system.
Disk was connected to primary disk controller.
Changing disk (and CD Rom) to the secundary disk controller was the solution !
The comment of leew wasn't the direct answer to the question but certainly a usefull tip.
Greetings, dvds
Now I know there are two disk controllers present in my system.
Disk was connected to primary disk controller.
Changing disk (and CD Rom) to the secundary disk controller was the solution !
The comment of leew wasn't the direct answer to the question but certainly a usefull tip.
Greetings, dvds