Have you tried looking in the BIOS listing two things for turbo? One for
turbo switch enable or disable and another for turbo on or off? I recall
seeing such the lists for turbo in 486's motherboard bios. If turbo switch
is disabled then putting a jumper will not help until you enable it in BIOS.
CH
----- Original Message -----
From: "fred smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2001 3:47 PM
Subject: Re: Speed optimization for 486DX
> On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 06:41:06AM -0700, Drew Hunt wrote:
> > Thanks for the kind words, Ed! I'm on a really short budget, so I have
to
> > use whatever junk I've got lying around. :)
> >
> > If VLB means Vesa Long Bus, then yes, that would describe the SCSI
adapter.
> ^^^^^
> Local
>
> > It worked under slackware and RH 6.0, but magically started barfing up
at
> > boot when I went to 6.2 and up. Also (ifyou can believe it) had Windows
95
> > and 98 on it until I opted for Linux. I usually started booting when I
got
> > up and it would be done by the time I was finished with shower and
> > breakfast. Chug chug chug.
>
> I can't **BELIEVE** it's that slow.... I used to run Linux a 486DX100,
> though a 2.0.x kernel, not a 2.2, and it wasn't anything like as slow as
> you describe. I also didn't run X very much because it didn't have
> either enough horsepower or RAM to do it justice, but for text-mode
> stuff it was fine. BogoMips was, if I recall, somewhere around 48-50.
> That box had (at first) 16 megs then later up to 32 megs RAM and 256kb
> cache. Based on your earlier postings, it sounds as if the "turbo" mode
> isn't working.
>
> When it finally gets booted, how much total RAM does it show when you run
> top (or free)? Does it show all the physical RAM you actually have?
> Perhaps it's swapping like mad, making it slow?
>
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