On Thursday 16 August 2001 17:13, you wrote: > Are you saying that it may be bacause the two OSs are on the same HD? > > Unfortunately with the laptop installing them on seperate HDs is not an > option. > > -e- > > >Ed wrote: > > 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. > > > >I run a AMD K6-2 533 MHz with 256 Meg SDRAM, WinME and Mandrake 7.2 on > >separate hdds and everything works fine. WinME was fine even when I had > >Mandrake 8.0 Standard installed. ---------------------------------------- Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; name="message.footer" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: ---------------------------------------- Excuse my jumping in here, but, did you load LM 8.0 and do you have the infamous via 686b southbridge chipsets on the computers. I am no expert but would LM 8 disabling DMA carryover to the windows boot? That may be what slowed down the system. This is just speculation on my part, cause I'm no expert. Maybe Tom Brinkman or one of the other hardware gurus knows for sure. -- Dennis M. registered linux user # 180842
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