I just installed W2K Pro (pristine install) and now the machine is almost unusably slow. As I write this, I'm about five letters ahead of what I see, and I'm not *that* fast of a typist. I try to play a fullscreen mpeg at 1600x1200 and I get about 1 frame/sec.
Anyway, the machine wasn't like this when it was running NT4, so its either W2K's fault or poor drivers.
Heres the machine:
2x pII 400
Iwill DBS100 (i44BX, Adaptec 7895)
Adaptec 2930CU
Elsa Gladiac (nvidia geforce 2)
intel eepro100
creative live value
Now, my first thought was crappy display drivers. Unreal Tournament will bench at about 40fps, but will play like its running about 3fps.
Then I noticed that moving files around on disk, copying to/from my network would make explorer use 100% of one cpu for the duration of the copy, and the copy would take way too long, too. Its almost as if I had IDE disks using pio, not UW SCSI disks.
There are precious few optimizations that I found poking through the control panel. I'm sure there are many more in the registry. Has anybody seen this problem before? Any ideas on what the culprit might be, or at least some direction I can go toward finding whats going wrong?
