Windows 2000 = FAST Windows 98SE = SLOW???

[Slurm]

Configuration...

Iwill KK266-R
AMD T-bird 1.33 Ghz OC'ed to 1.5 w/ 150 Mhz FSB
ASUS Pro Pure MX 400 64MB AGP
Win 2K Professional
Win 98SE


I am dual booting the operating systems. Windows 2000 is blazing fast! Windows 98SE is runs worse than my old system, a Pentium 200MX!!!!
I'm somewhat convinced that it is my video card or its drivers. Screen redraws are what's so slow.

Any idea? I have the most current drivers from ASUS. Loaded all the VIA 4in1 drivers.

P.S. did a fresh install of 98 and is slow even on first bootup.

[RedDeathDrinker]

Opposite. Win98SE at home = Fast. Took a couple of nights to set up, but runs sweet and fast on a PIII 600.......


Win2000 at work = Slowest piece of software ever used. They make me run it on a grotty 400Mhz Dell with 128 meg of memory, run more than two apps and you're fubar'd. Only good thing is the fast internet connection......

[Smizack]

Originally posted by reddeathdrinker
Opposite. Win98SE at home = Fast. Took a couple of nights to set up, but runs sweet and fast on a PIII 600.......


Win2000 at work = Slowest piece of software ever used. They make me run it on a grotty 400Mhz Dell with 128 meg of memory, run more than two apps and you're fubar'd. Only good thing is the fast internet connection......

Agreed.

[Pinky]

I'm having the same problem. I don't bother with 98se, only use it as a backup and for running my version of ghost...

If I drop to default CPU/bus speeds, my problem goes away, so it's the overclock in my case.

[phendish]

I'm not sure of this, so take this with a bunch of salt (as opposed to a grain).

I've heard that Windows 2000 doesn't like to be dual booted with Windows 98/95, so this maybe why Win98SE is running slower.

Also, if you have over 512 MB of RAM, the performance begins to diminish.

[Zeke009]

Maybe I am lucky, I have no problem at all running Win98SE dual booted with Win2000 Pro. In fact, sometimes I boot to Win2000 just to see how well it works. I unpack and burn a alot of cd's in Win2000.

I also use Win2000 at work on a 300PII with 96MB RAM, no problems.

[dugans]

I have run a bunch of oses on a bunch of systems, although the fastest is my duallie 400: My 2cents-

400mhz of more with 256 mb ram or more-

233 to 400mhz, 64 to 128 ram 98se ok, but crashes; NT 4.0 stable and faster

less than 233/less than 64mb ram- Windows for Workgroups (3.11 for those brought up on Win9x!)

I have also run a couple of Linux distro's, Solaris, Netware and QNX, but......................................