Marktait 0 Posted September 23, 2001 i recently upgrading the whole of my computer from : Jetway 542BX M/Board AMDK6/2 500 128MB PC100 RAM 50x CDRom 4x4x24 Mitsumi writer 8MB AGP Savage 3DCard Voodoo1 6MB 56k Modem Rockwell V.90 Maxtor 17GB 5400RPM 3DSound Card To : Gigabyte 71XE4 AMDK7 1.2GHz Thunderbird 512MB PC133 RAM 40x Compaq CDRom 36x Creative CDRom 16x10x40x LiteOn Writer 64MB NVidia GeFore2MX 56K Modem Ambient V.92 40GB Seagate ATA100 5400RPM Hauppage WinTV Creative 128PCI Sound When loading Win2k SP2 with exactly the same size partition as the old PC, its a hell of a lot slower.Iv updated all the drivers for the board,etc and still no difference.Any ideas? Thanx Share this post Link to post
Marktait 0 Posted September 24, 2001 Yes but i did have SP2 previously on the older 500Mhz Machine. Share this post Link to post
reversing_drive 0 Posted September 25, 2001 OK I don't know much (Technical Detail that is... ) But i know Win2K has A LOT of Disk Activity during Startup. Now the significant difference between your two systems i see here i relation to that aspect is the size of your HD. Now i'm not sure if Win2K checks the entire disk during bootup, or if so, what it scans the disks for. I doubt it checks the entire disk for errors every boot, though there may be other routine processes that require scanning the HD for info of some sort or other, indexing service:confused ;( Anyway, that is the only possibility i can think of In that case maybe an upgrade from 5400rpm to 7200rpm is due... it seems to be the bottle neck to me. Cheers, PS: What File system due you use for most of your partitions. If you use NTFS on all your partitions, then it could be the volume information, MFT ect.. being updated/verified every boot. NTFS keeps all kinds of records on all the files ect.. such as security, file info(indexing service) ect.. Share this post Link to post
GTwannabe 0 Posted September 27, 2001 Hmmm... I've got 512MB RAM, and I have very little disk activity on boot Share this post Link to post
yakkob 0 Posted September 28, 2001 When you said you upgraded all the mobo drivers etc.. Did you mean you just plonked your HD into your new machine???? If so, you really need to format and reinstall everything again. That should quicken everything up no end. Share this post Link to post
Marktait 0 Posted September 30, 2001 No this was a complete new system. had nothing in from the old one Share this post Link to post