OldSpiceAP 0 Posted April 18, 2005 Hey all, I'm having some annoying problems with my work machine. Specs: NEC Powermate 2000 PIII 600 128 MB Ram 18 GB HD The machine is an all in one machine with a flat panel monitor built into it. The monitor base houses all components. Problem: This machine is slow! Very very very slow! I'm currently running Ubuntu Warty Warthog, but I previously ran SuSE 8.2 and Yoper 2.1 on it with the same issues. It used to have windows 98 on it but I formatted it off. The problem did not occur in windows but all linux distros run extremely slowly. GNOME is unbearably slow. WindowMaker even is slow - 2-4 seconds just to open the Applications menu by right clicking on the desktop. Up to a minute to switch between Firefox and Openoffice, which is extruciating. What could the problem be? I enabled Unix large disk access mode in the bios but it didn't help, neither did enableing and disabling DMA. There is a 800 MB swap partition also... Anyone know why this machine is so slow? Share this post Link to post
