Hi everyone!
I've been having a repeating issue on dual boot winME + MDK
machines, and I was wondering if anyone could help to shed some light
on the subject, or ideally point me toward a solution.
Machine A:
AMD Athlon 700 Mhz
DMA 20gig drive
376 MB ram
machine B:
HP 5340 Notebook
Amd Duron 800 Mhz
18 Gig drive
256 MB ram
On both of the machines, when WinME is installed ALONE, it
screams, all games are really fast, and launching apps is nearly
instant.
Once Mandrake (and Grub) are installed, the machines slow
down significantly. I would say they run at 10-20 percent of the
speed they were at. This includes opening new windows, launching
apps, and 3d performance.
Does WinME require some special boot options? Or Some type
of special configuration to allow dual boot? It seems like once it
notices that "another" OS is on the disc that it /voluntarily/ slows
itself. Can it be tricked somehow?
I even tried the "real mode DOS" patch on one of the boxes,
and that only slowed it down more... =(
Normally I wouldn't care, and just run linux all the time.
But gaming is the only thing that windows can do that linux can't and
the speed needs to be there for that.
Any ideas?
TIA!
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