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feels like I lost 200mhz
Name: Thomas Fitzpatrick Date: December 18, 2002 at 15:19:40 Pacific OS: Win 98 SE CPU/Ram: P3 500mhz \ 384MB PC100
Comment:
Today I went to turn on my PC and it took it about 8 minutes too boot up. So I turned off all the start up items but it still lagged way behind the usual start up time. I ran wcpuid and it was clocked at 498.9 but feels way slower. Any help I get would be greatly apreciated, Thanks in Advance
Name: Artman Date: December 20, 2002 at 06:22:24 Pacific
Reply:
When was the last time you ran scandisk and defragmented your harddrive? Have you changed your setup at all? Updated any drivers or your OS prior to the slowdown? Have you added anything like a network card to your system? Have you installed any programs that run at startup?
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