> Hi
>
> I put a system together for my pal.... it has been going well except
> for occasional slowness i.e. click on a menu and wait... a couple of
> seconds and up it pops.. no obvious reason. He then decided to try
> video editing on it.. worked a treat for a few weeks and then dropped
> frames capturing or outputting and slow at times, again.
>
> I know it's not the ideal platform:
>
>  1Ghz Duron 512Mb MSI KM2M Combo L board and 120Gb IBM 7200rpm Hd Win
> 98SE
>
> but when it is working ok, it is well up to the few small jobs
> required. So.... thinking it might be the 98 installation, we bought
> a large HD and installed Wk2 in it's own partition (NTFS) and left
> some free for capturing (NTFS formatted)
>
> Ok for a time and now it goes into slow mode at 'seemingly' random
> times and Turbo mode (normal) the rest of the time.  User has noticed
> the clock is affected too. I'm stumped on this one..
>
> It is not running hot @ 29c, memory is not old or slow. PSU is 400w
> and came out of my AMD XP2400 with three HDs so has been tested to a
> greater degree than the Duron system.
>
> suggestions?

"Burning_Ranger" <aziz@NOSPAMaziz99.fsnet.co.uk> wrote in message
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> grazuncle wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> I put a system together for my pal.... it has been going well except
>> for occasional slowness i.e. click on a menu and wait... a couple of
>> seconds and up it pops.. no obvious reason. He then decided to try
>> video editing on it.. worked a treat for a few weeks and then dropped
>> frames capturing or outputting and slow at times, again.
>>
>> I know it's not the ideal platform:
>>
>>  1Ghz Duron 512Mb MSI KM2M Combo L board and 120Gb IBM 7200rpm Hd Win
>> 98SE
>>
>> but when it is working ok, it is well up to the few small jobs
>> required. So.... thinking it might be the 98 installation, we bought
>> a large HD and installed Wk2 in it's own partition (NTFS) and left
>> some free for capturing (NTFS formatted)
>>
>> Ok for a time and now it goes into slow mode at 'seemingly' random
>> times and Turbo mode (normal) the rest of the time.  User has noticed
>> the clock is affected too. I'm stumped on this one..
>>
>> It is not running hot @ 29c, memory is not old or slow. PSU is 400w
>> and came out of my AMD XP2400 with three HDs so has been tested to a
>> greater degree than the Duron system.
>>
>> suggestions?
>
> Is DMA enabled? Does it have the latest video drivers?
>
> --
>
> Burning_Ranger
>
> To email: a***@aziz1removethisbit.fsnet.co.uk
>
>
>

> Thanks for reply.....
>
> DMA is enabled and video drivers ..don't know what latest version
> is... will check.
>
> Would video drivers cause occasional slowing down?
>
> I'm open to any suggestions at present..
>
> I have run dry!
>
>
>
> "Burning_Ranger" <aziz@NOSPAMaziz99.fsnet.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:381bfnF5h6t3tU1@individual.net...
>> grazuncle wrote:
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> I put a system together for my pal.... it has been going well except
>>> for occasional slowness i.e. click on a menu and wait... a couple of
>>> seconds and up it pops.. no obvious reason. He then decided to try
>>> video editing on it.. worked a treat for a few weeks and then
>>> dropped frames capturing or outputting and slow at times, again.
>>>
>>> I know it's not the ideal platform:
>>>
>>>  1Ghz Duron 512Mb MSI KM2M Combo L board and 120Gb IBM 7200rpm Hd
>>> Win 98SE
>>>
>>> but when it is working ok, it is well up to the few small jobs
>>> required. So.... thinking it might be the 98 installation, we bought
>>> a large HD and installed Wk2 in it's own partition (NTFS) and left
>>> some free for capturing (NTFS formatted)
>>>
>>> Ok for a time and now it goes into slow mode at 'seemingly' random
>>> times and Turbo mode (normal) the rest of the time.  User has
>>> noticed the clock is affected too. I'm stumped on this one..
>>>
>>> It is not running hot @ 29c, memory is not old or slow. PSU is 400w
>>> and came out of my AMD XP2400 with three HDs so has been tested to a
>>> greater degree than the Duron system.
>>>
>>> suggestions?
>>
>> Is DMA enabled? Does it have the latest video drivers?
>>
>> --
>>
>> Burning_Ranger
>>
>> To email: a***@aziz1removethisbit.fsnet.co.uk

>Hi
>
>I put a system together for my pal.... it has been going well except for
>occasional slowness i.e. click on a menu and wait... a couple of seconds and
>up it pops.. no obvious reason. He then decided to try video editing on it..
>worked a treat for a few weeks and then dropped frames capturing or
>outputting and slow at times, again.
>
>I know it's not the ideal platform:
>
> 1Ghz Duron 512Mb MSI KM2M Combo L board and 120Gb IBM 7200rpm Hd Win 98SE
>
>but when it is working ok, it is well up to the few small jobs required.
>So.... thinking it might be the 98 installation, we bought a large HD and
>installed Wk2 in it's own partition (NTFS) and left some free for capturing
>(NTFS formatted)

>
>It is not running hot @ 29c, memory is not old or slow. PSU is 400w and came
>out of my AMD XP2400 with three HDs so has been tested to a greater degree
>than the Duron system.
>
>suggestions?

"Jon Danniken" <jonREMOVETHISdanni***@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:381hn3F5hitu0U1@individual.net...
> "grazuncle" wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> I put a system together for my pal.... it has been going well except for
>> occasional slowness i.e. click on a menu and wait... a couple of seconds
> and
>> up it pops.. no obvious reason. He then decided to try video editing on
> it..
>> worked a treat for a few weeks and then dropped frames capturing or
>> outputting and slow at times, again.
>
> Indexing service and other resource hoggers turned off?
>
> Jon
>
>

>
> I put a system together for my pal.... it has been going well
> except for occasional slowness i.e. click on a menu and wait... a
> couple of seconds and up it pops.. no obvious reason. He then
> decided to try video editing on it.. worked a treat for a few
> weeks and then dropped frames capturing or outputting and slow at
> times, again.
>
> I know it's not the ideal platform:
>
>  1Ghz Duron 512Mb MSI KM2M Combo L board and
>  120Gb IBM 7200rpm Hd Win 98SE
>
> but when it is working ok, it is well up to the few small jobs
> required. So.... thinking it might be the 98 installation, we
> bought a large HD and installed Wk2 in it's own partition (NTFS)
> and left some free for capturing (NTFS formatted)

"CBFalconer" <cbfalco***@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:421BBA55.4CB56A8F@yahoo.com...
> grazuncle wrote:
>>
>> I put a system together for my pal.... it has been going well
>> except for occasional slowness i.e. click on a menu and wait... a
>> couple of seconds and up it pops.. no obvious reason. He then
>> decided to try video editing on it.. worked a treat for a few
>> weeks and then dropped frames capturing or outputting and slow at
>> times, again.
>>
>> I know it's not the ideal platform:
>>
>>  1Ghz Duron 512Mb MSI KM2M Combo L board and
>>  120Gb IBM 7200rpm Hd Win 98SE
>>
>> but when it is working ok, it is well up to the few small jobs
>> required. So.... thinking it might be the 98 installation, we
>> bought a large HD and installed Wk2 in it's own partition (NTFS)
>> and left some free for capturing (NTFS formatted)
>
> It is probably doing just what you told the power control to do -
> powering down the HD after a quiescent period, and taking a couple
> of seconds to power it up.  Check your power delay settings.
>
> --
> Some informative links:
>   news:news.announce.newusers
>   http://www.geocities.com/nnqweb/
>   http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
>   http://www.caliburn.nl/topposting.html
>   http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html
>
>
>

> "CBFalconer" <cbfalco***@yahoo.com> wrote in message
>> grazuncle wrote:
>>>
>>> I put a system together for my pal.... it has been going well
>>> except for occasional slowness i.e. click on a menu and wait... a
>>> couple of seconds and up it pops.. no obvious reason. He then
>>> decided to try video editing on it.. worked a treat for a few
>>> weeks and then dropped frames capturing or outputting and slow at
>>> times, again.
>>>
.... snip ...
>>
>> It is probably doing just what you told the power control to do -
>> powering down the HD after a quiescent period, and taking a couple
>> of seconds to power it up.  Check your power delay settings.
>
> Thanks for suggestion...
>
> However in power section.. HD power down is set to never.