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Computer running slow.
Name: John Smith Date: September 18, 2002 at 04:45:32 Pacific OS: Windows 3.1 CPU/Ram: Athlon 1600Mhz/512MB Ram
Comment:
I have an AMD Athlon machine with a 1.6Ghz processor and 512DDR RAM. I have Windows 3.1 installed, does anyone have any idea why the machines running so slow and why I can't play many games. Additional info is below.
80 GB Hard Disk Drive ATI Radeon 7500 AGP Graphics On Board Sound
Name: Richie Date: September 18, 2002 at 13:57:46 Pacific
Reply:
Hello John
That seems like overkill running win3.1 on a 1.6Ghz athlon with 512DDR ram. Do you have any other OS installed (ie multiboot), if so does the other OS also run slow. What kind of FAT do you have NTFS or FAT32?
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Response Number 2
Name: Peter Date: September 18, 2002 at 18:13:36 Pacific
Reply:
Well under DOS you will not run the Ultra ATA drivers. this will slowdown the computer.
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Response Number 3
Name: Timmer Date: September 20, 2002 at 04:48:15 Pacific
Reply:
hellow john,
Iam from belgium. So excuse me if my english is not very wel. But i know your problem. Install at least windows 98. Windows 3.x supports no AGP cards. Thats the reason wy your computer runs so slow. Al the graphical s--- (That normaly goes trough your AGP graphics-card) goes trough your main processor. And tis wil slow down everything. And the 80GB harddisk is also a problem: Windows wil knock down your harddisk sooner or later because windows 3.x has a limit of 2GB. Now the games: New games requires windows 95 or higher. Thats also a reason wy you can't play most of your games. Windows 3.x Belongs to 286, 386, 486, maybe an old pentium75 processor. This s--- belongs to the past. You have a powerful computer, 3.x can't deal with it . So install windows 98 or later en everything wil run fine. I hope i've helped you out. Good luck T.
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