Very Slow new MoBo & HD

[Larry C]

installed new TX-PRO II mainboard, 128 mem stick and IBM 10gig to computer. Now I am the lucky owner of the slowest computer in town! When clicking on a icon I wait 5-10 seconds for response ....I can hear the HD clicking off& on almost like it dozes then wakes again. Works great just slow. Graphic drivers installed,mainboard drivers installed....i am at a loss at what to do. Is possible the wait state is adjusted wrong?........help!

[seti]

Have you set your dma/pio modes in your bios? It shouldn't make THAT big of a difference though, but it's all I can think of.

Oh, also, maybe if it's a new drive...maybe there's some glitch with ATA66, check IBM's technical support.

[This message has been edited by seti (edited 06-12-99).]

[This message has been edited by seti (edited 06-12-99).]

[Dash800]

I think its the TX chipset that only uses 64megs of RAM effectively, any more and it slows down a lot... , if you got a 64mb or 32mb stick try putting that in instead and see what it does.

[jokostel]

VERY likely that you disabled the L1 cache or the L2cache.... (either on chip or onboard)....
either of these disabled will severly slow down the system....
check youre bios....

[steves]

Win95/98 never cope very well with motherboard upgrades (just too many drivers to update/install). Assuming you haven't, and nothing else works, already try re-installing Win98.

Also make sure DMA box is checked under the device manager -> disk -> settings, as I have a 10G IBM (16GP) and this didn't get set automatically on my machine (and really made a differnce).

[CMonster]

The amount of installed memory is NOT the problem, going over 64 MB on a TX board will barely make a difference that is detectable by human senses. I have a TX board (shuttle Hot 569) with 233mhz Pentium and 128MB memory and it open apps about at the snap of my fingers.

I would side with Jokostel, and look there first.

Next, I would check very carefully for problems relating to the hard disk. To start, check the device manager for conflicts. Next, give the drive mfgrs website a visit. I would also recommned that you install the latest Intel busmaster IDE drivers - I believe it is version 3.02.

continued diagnostics: set your drive as primary master and physically remove all other hard drives and CDROMs and then check if the problem is still there.

I ran into a computer that used the same port address and IRQ for a CDROM and hard drive that were on the same data cable/ IDE channel but the device manager showed no conflict - that was the slowest system I ever saw. it worked but took like 5 minutes to open the control panel. It turned out that a DOS driver that specified port/IRQ settings in autoexec.bat was to blame.