Slow

Hi,

Working on an old Dell computer--P75, 32MB RAM...It takes forever to load
anything. It took all night to install Win95...IE4 has taken over 2 hours
to install, and it's still not done...no errors, just slow....hard drive LED
flashes once every ten seconds or so....Any ideas what is wrong? I've never
seen any computer this slow. Thanks in advance.

Bill

In its defense it IS a 75 /w 32m although those speed are tediously slow. HD is the original ..850 meg or so?




"Bill Eversole" wrote in message ...
Hi,

Working on an old Dell computer--P75, 32MB RAM...It takes forever to load
anything. It took all night to install Win95...IE4 has taken over 2 hours
to install, and it's still not done...no errors, just slow....hard drive LED
flashes once every ten seconds or so....Any ideas what is wrong? I've never
seen any computer this slow. Thanks in advance.

Bill

Bill Eversole wrote:
Hi,

Working on an old Dell computer--P75, 32MB RAM...It takes forever to load
anything. It took all night to install Win95...IE4 has taken over 2 hours
to install, and it's still not done...no errors, just slow....hard drive LED
flashes once every ten seconds or so....Any ideas what is wrong? I've never
seen any computer this slow. Thanks in advance.

Bill



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From: "Bill Eversole"
Newsgroups: alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
Date: Sun, 7 Sep 2003 10:41:07 -0500


Hi,

Working on an old Dell computer--P75, 32MB RAM...It takes forever to load
anything. It took all night to install Win95...IE4 has taken over 2 hours
to install, and it's still not done...no errors, just slow....hard drive LED
flashes once every ten seconds or so....Any ideas what is wrong? I've never
seen any computer this slow. Thanks in advance.

Bill

What are the minimum system requirements for Win95 and IE4, seem to have lost
my notes?

I would 2X or 4X the RAM.




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"Bill Eversole" wrote in message ...

Hi,

Working on an old Dell computer--P75, 32MB RAM...It takes forever to load
anything. It took all night to install Win95...IE4 has taken over 2 hours
to install, and it's still not done...no errors, just slow....hard drive LED
flashes once every ten seconds or so....Any ideas what is wrong? I've never
seen any computer this slow. Thanks in advance.

Bill



Win95 should be fine on that spec. I'd try resetting the BIOS to make sure
nothing screwy has been entered into there (like turning off the cache).
Try a memory test (www.simmtester.com) and try a different HDD if poss.

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In article , says...
Hi,

Working on an old Dell computer--P75, 32MB RAM...It takes forever to load
anything. It took all night to install Win95...IE4 has taken over 2 hours
to install, and it's still not done...no errors, just slow....hard drive LED
flashes once every ten seconds or so....Any ideas what is wrong? I've never
seen any computer this slow. Thanks in advance.

It shouldn't have taken that long. Even on a 486 with 8MB of RAM Win95
only tooka couple of hours to install. Make sure that if it has a
turbo button that it's pressed in otherwise its running at 8MHz, not
75.. The only other time I've seen this is on a hard drive with alot of
corrupted sectors. Usually a FDISK sorts it out although I've had to
resort to using the BIOS Low Level Format or the HDD manufacturers
utilities to wipe the drive completely.



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Thanks for the suggestions.

The specs for this box should be ample to run Win95. Hey, I used to run
Win95 on a 486DX2 50Mhz w/ 16 MB RAM every day for at least a year. It did
a lot of hard drive thrashing...this one doesn't thrash at all...wish it
did...maybe then it would get something done. ;-)

Since my last post, I ghosted the hard drive over to another known good hard
drive. It didn't help. Ran simmtester docmemory tester. It found no errors
in 1-1/2 hours before I stopped it. Found directions for running onboard
hardware test on Dell's web site. No errors except this one:

PCI IDE interface error code A601
Failu Hard-disk subsystem failure
Invalid jumper settings on PCI IDE interface chip

Have no idea what jumper setting this message is referring to. There is no
such jumper on the motherboard.

My best guess is something is wrong with the IDE controller on the
motherboard, and this box is ready for the dumpster. What do you think?

Bill

"Andrew Z Carpenter" wrote in
message ...
"Bill Eversole" wrote in message
...

Hi,

Working on an old Dell computer--P75, 32MB RAM...It takes forever to
load
anything. It took all night to install Win95...IE4 has taken over 2
hours
to install, and it's still not done...no errors, just slow....hard drive
LED
flashes once every ten seconds or so....Any ideas what is wrong? I've
never
seen any computer this slow. Thanks in advance.

Bill



Win95 should be fine on that spec. I'd try resetting the BIOS to make
sure
nothing screwy has been entered into there (like turning off the cache).
Try a memory test (www.simmtester.com) and try a different HDD if poss.

--
AZC


---
*** Three steps to computer security: ***
1. Patch your system with all updates available from
WindowsUpdate: http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com
2. Install or enable a firewall. One's included with
Windows XP, or better, get ZoneAlarm Basic Free from
http://www.zonelabs.com
3. Update your antivirus software and do a complete scan
of your computer. If you do not have antivirus software,
AVG 6 is available free from http://www.grisoft.com

Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com).
Version: 6.0.515 / Virus Database: 313 - Release Date: 01/09/2003

what have you set the jumper on the hD to? tried different cables?


"Bill Eversole" wrote in message ...
Thanks for the suggestions.

The specs for this box should be ample to run Win95. Hey, I used to run
Win95 on a 486DX2 50Mhz w/ 16 MB RAM every day for at least a year. It did
a lot of hard drive thrashing...this one doesn't thrash at all...wish it
did...maybe then it would get something done. ;-)

Since my last post, I ghosted the hard drive over to another known good hard
drive. It didn't help. Ran simmtester docmemory tester. It found no errors
in 1-1/2 hours before I stopped it. Found directions for running onboard
hardware test on Dell's web site. No errors except this one:

PCI IDE interface error code A601
Failu Hard-disk subsystem failure
Invalid jumper settings on PCI IDE interface chip

Have no idea what jumper setting this message is referring to. There is no
such jumper on the motherboard.

My best guess is something is wrong with the IDE controller on the
motherboard, and this box is ready for the dumpster. What do you think?

Bill

"Andrew Z Carpenter" wrote in
message ...
"Bill Eversole" wrote in message
...

Hi,

Working on an old Dell computer--P75, 32MB RAM...It takes forever to
load
anything. It took all night to install Win95...IE4 has taken over 2
hours
to install, and it's still not done...no errors, just slow....hard drive
LED
flashes once every ten seconds or so....Any ideas what is wrong? I've
never
seen any computer this slow. Thanks in advance.

Bill



Win95 should be fine on that spec. I'd try resetting the BIOS to make
sure
nothing screwy has been entered into there (like turning off the cache).
Try a memory test (www.simmtester.com) and try a different HDD if poss.

--
AZC


---
*** Three steps to computer security: ***
1. Patch your system with all updates available from
WindowsUpdate: http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com
2. Install or enable a firewall. One's included with
Windows XP, or better, get ZoneAlarm Basic Free from
http://www.zonelabs.com
3. Update your antivirus software and do a complete scan
of your computer. If you do not have antivirus software,
AVG 6 is available free from http://www.grisoft.com

Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com).
Version: 6.0.515 / Virus Database: 313 - Release Date: 01/09/2003

The jumper on the hard drive that I am trying now is set for "cable
select." CMOS wouldn't pick it up jumpered as master. The original hard
drive was jumpered as "master"--same problems. Have not tried a different
cable.

Bill

"JAD" wrote in message
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what have you set the jumper on the hD to? tried different cables?


"Bill Eversole" wrote in message
...
Thanks for the suggestions.

The specs for this box should be ample to run Win95. Hey, I used to run
Win95 on a 486DX2 50Mhz w/ 16 MB RAM every day for at least a year. It
did
a lot of hard drive thrashing...this one doesn't thrash at all...wish it
did...maybe then it would get something done. ;-)

Since my last post, I ghosted the hard drive over to another known good
hard
drive. It didn't help. Ran simmtester docmemory tester. It found no
errors
in 1-1/2 hours before I stopped it. Found directions for running
onboard
hardware test on Dell's web site. No errors except this one:

PCI IDE interface error code A601
Failu Hard-disk subsystem failure
Invalid jumper settings on PCI IDE interface chip

Have no idea what jumper setting this message is referring to. There is
no
such jumper on the motherboard.

My best guess is something is wrong with the IDE controller on the
motherboard, and this box is ready for the dumpster. What do you think?

Bill

"Andrew Z Carpenter" wrote
in
message ...
"Bill Eversole" wrote in message
...

Hi,

Working on an old Dell computer--P75, 32MB RAM...It takes forever to
load
anything. It took all night to install Win95...IE4 has taken over 2
hours
to install, and it's still not done...no errors, just slow....hard
drive
LED
flashes once every ten seconds or so....Any ideas what is wrong?
I've
never
seen any computer this slow. Thanks in advance.

Bill



Win95 should be fine on that spec. I'd try resetting the BIOS to make
sure
nothing screwy has been entered into there (like turning off the
cache).
Try a memory test (www.simmtester.com) and try a different HDD if
poss.

--
AZC


---
*** Three steps to computer security: ***
1. Patch your system with all updates available from
WindowsUpdate: http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com
2. Install or enable a firewall. One's included with
Windows XP, or better, get ZoneAlarm Basic Free from
http://www.zonelabs.com
3. Update your antivirus software and do a complete scan
of your computer. If you do not have antivirus software,
AVG 6 is available free from http://www.grisoft.com

Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com).
Version: 6.0.515 / Virus Database: 313 - Release Date: 01/09/2003

In article , says...
The jumper on the hard drive that I am trying now is set for "cable
select." CMOS wouldn't pick it up jumpered as master. The original hard
drive was jumpered as "master"--same problems. Have not tried a different
cable.

If it's an IDE cable with two connectors try the second. It could
actually e that you're using a drive set as CS on a non CS ribbon
cable.


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ICQ:31909763
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