re: Abit BX-6 and slow-running Win98se
Thursday, October 22, 2009 at 2:27 pm
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Kiwi
(2228 messages posted)
The first one (non-Windows) will be "Bee". I've ordered a copy of DSL on CD, so
I don't have another very long D/L to deal with (final time on Bee was about 15 hours
total).
There's only me; the oldest kid has managed to keep his rent paid on an apartment
for four years straight now, without getting so far behind he had to move back here
again, to avoid forcible eviction . .
(Which just leaves me as the only possible wringer of worried hands, Gewg.) And
I'll bet I'm in less of a hurry than most anyone (or I wouldn't have had the patience
for babying any system along with Win98se on it this long after it was obsolete).
.
Kiwi
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On Sunday, October 18, 2009 at 6:36 pm, Kiwi wrote:
>It's about to become academic. Of the several candidate systems for running Freespace
>I in a semblance of the hardware matching its release, the one using a Micronics
>i430TX mainboard is just abominably slow, maybe 10% of the potential performance
>of the processor. I sent that pile of junk to the recycling bin.
>
>Not quite as bad, but still "Annoying", was the Abit BX-6 board with the i440BX
chipset,
>which ran Win98se slower than it did Win2000, plus, wouldn't run Windows Explorer
>as per the second odd error here. I'm reformatting and repartitioning its jumpered
>40 GB Hdd (max it can use is 32 GBs) to give the first of Gewg's pets a shot.
>
>Right now, an Asus P2L97 board with an i440LX chipset seems to be the winning setup
>for the low end, 233 MHz Retro game system (not the one for Freespace any more;
I
>think it's a shade "too" retro for that), and perhaps a Via MVP4 system for the
450
>MHz Medium-old platform (but I wish I could figure out what makes that one take
so
>long loading Win98se before it's ready to go to work).
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>Kiwi
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