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#1 User is offline   Marktait 

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Posted 23 September 2001 - 02:01 AM

i recently upgrading the whole of my computer
from :

Jetway 542BX M/Board
AMDK6/2 500
128MB PC100 RAM
50x CDRom
4x4x24 Mitsumi writer
8MB AGP Savage 3DCard
Voodoo1 6MB
56k Modem Rockwell V.90
Maxtor 17GB 5400RPM
3DSound Card

To :

Gigabyte 71XE4
AMDK7 1.2GHz Thunderbird
512MB PC133 RAM
40x Compaq CDRom
36x Creative CDRom
16x10x40x LiteOn Writer
64MB NVidia GeFore2MX
56K Modem Ambient V.92
40GB Seagate ATA100 5400RPM
Hauppage WinTV
Creative 128PCI Sound

When loading Win2k SP2 with exactly the same size partition as the old PC, its a hell of a lot slower.Iv updated all the drivers for the board,etc and still no difference.Any ideas?

Thanx

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#2 User is offline   Marktait 

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Posted 24 September 2001 - 10:47 PM

Yes but i did have SP2 previously on the older 500Mhz Machine.
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Posted 25 September 2001 - 12:58 PM

OK I don't know much (Technical Detail that is... :))
But i know Win2K has A LOT of Disk Activity during Startup.

Now the significant difference between your two systems i see here i relation to that aspect is the size of your HD.

Now i'm not sure if Win2K checks the entire disk during bootup, or if so, what it scans the disks for. I doubt it checks the entire disk for errors every boot, though there may be other routine processes that require scanning the HD for info of some sort or other, indexing service:confused ;(

Anyway, that is the only possibility i can think of smile

In that case maybe an upgrade from 5400rpm to 7200rpm is due... it seems to be the bottle neck to me.

Cheers,

PS: What File system due you use for most of your partitions. If you use NTFS on all your partitions, then it could be the volume information, MFT ect.. being updated/verified every boot. NTFS keeps all kinds of records on all the files ect.. such as security, file info(indexing service) ect..
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#4 User is offline   GTwannabe 

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Posted 27 September 2001 - 09:46 PM

Hmmm... I've got 512MB RAM, and I have very little disk activity on boot smile
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Posted 28 September 2001 - 02:03 AM

When you said you upgraded all the mobo drivers etc..

Did you mean you just plonked your HD into your new machine????
If so, you really need to format and reinstall everything again.
That should quicken everything up no end.
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Posted 30 September 2001 - 09:35 PM

No this was a complete new system. had nothing in from the old one
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