Duals and win2k pro

[strubby 0]

I have a Dual P3 550, 256SDRAM, SBlive!, i740, Promise ATA100, IBM DTLA 15GB. On a QDI BrillianX 4 mobo.

 

In linux my system runs sweet.... but as soon as i go to Win2k Pro everthing starts pissing me off. The system starts to run at the speed of a 200, when I play multi sounds or movies or any sounds whilst accessing the HDD stagger. And it doesn't do in Linux or WinME. And games and progs just run generally damn slow. Nothing is unstable it is just that it is sooo sooo soooooo SLOW.

 

Can anyone help me? Is there issues with duals, SBlive!...... please help.

 

I've tried a differnt sound card, RAM, vid card, onboard controller, HDD. ( everything but taking a processor out )...

 

cheers, Ian

[Ge0ph 0]

Do you have the latest bios on your motherboard. Their were some bios versions for the BP6 that would cause this under W2k so it's possable that other motherboards have the same problem.

 

Flashing the bois with the latest is not always the best either. The bios on my BP6 is not the latest because the latest bios breaks a few things under W2k.

[EddiE314 0]

i never had any problems when i had Dual Celeron 400@550's, just remember that no games support SMP except for Q3A. (there may be a few more that do but i don't know about them)

[MarksmanX 0]

1.) Is your motherboard bios updated?

2.) What is the RPMs on your HDD?

3.) Howmuch RAM do you have free when in taskmanger

 

I think it's the motherboard. How old is it? Plus did you make your RAM setting in your bios Automatic or manual?

 

 

 

 

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Supermicro P6DBE Rev 3.0 Motherboard

Dual Intel Pentium III 850

512 MEGS of ECC RAM

Sound Blaster Live!

Adaptec 29160 SCSI Card

GeForce 2 GTS 64MB

IBM DMVS18N Ultra 160 Hard Drive

Seagate Cheetah X-15 ST318451LW Ultra 160 SCSI Hard Drive

Razer Boom Slang 2000 (USB)

Roland Sound Canvis SC-55

3COM 3CR990-TX-97 with 3XP Processor 10/100 PCI Network Interface Card

Plextor Plexwriter 12/4/32

Pioneer 10X DVD-ROM

Sony GDM-F500R Monitor

[strubby 0]

It is a 7200 RMP HDD. The bios is the lastest version becuase the mainboard needed this otherwise the PIII 550's were not able to be used. They are the max that the board supports. The board is about 2 1/2 years old. It was only running one chip until about a year ago. And there are no RAM settings in the bios that I know of, ie for setting the amount of RAM.

[DosFreak 2]

Are you running 2000 in ACPI? If so turn it off. Your other CPU is probably peaked at 1000%.

[strubby 0]

How do I disable ACPI?

 

I have noticed that one processor is always about 50% and the other doesn't start to do anything usually until the first is almost peaked.

 

My onboard USB is also stuffed, it works in everything else except Win2k.

[EM 0]

USB on the BP6 I had required MPS to be set at 1.1 in the BIOS or else USB would not work.

 

Ed