Win95 in running very slowly shocker!

From: Russ Blakeman <rhblake_at_bigfoot.com>
Date: Thu Dec 31 23:38:13 1998

Gareth Knight wrote:

> Tim Hotze wrote:
> >I agree here, too. Windows 95 really won't like a 486/20. Sure, in
> >theory, it SHOULD boot, but your lifetime warranty on RAM might
> >expire before you get to see a Start button.
>
> Win95 OSR1 runs fine on my 486 33MHz. Well, good enough to run the
> occasional game of multi-player Doom at any rate. Now if only I could work
> out how it managed to upgrade itself from an SX to a DX whilst I was
> installing Win95 ;)

I have Win98 running with 48mb ram on a Dell 4066/XE server and it runs great
and had an AMD 386DX-40 running Win 95 OSR1 running with 16mb ram until a
while ago, no speed problems.

As for the SX to DX thing, have you added a math coprocessor? I know when I
added a 487 to my wife's P70 portable that we chaged the 386DX-20 out with a
"Make It 486" processor it went from showing 486SX in MSD to a 486DX, probably
due to the presence of the FPU.
Received on Thu Dec 31 1998 - 23:38:13 GMT