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Windows 98 SE lags on Averatec 5100 Laptop

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First post, by thepirategamerboy12

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Hi. I've actually posted about this on VCF forum, but haven't had much luck in fixing this issue, so this is my second resort. Basically, I'm having an issue with Win98 SE on my Averatec 5100 laptop. A long time ago, I had Win98 working flawlessly with it (other than USB flash drives, floppy drives, etc. only working in MS-DOS mode for some reason.) Anyways, I installed it again recently with all the drivers and am having a weird issue where the sound and performance lags quite oddly. System sounds get cut off, sound lags/stutters, weird performance spikes, etc. Tried a few games, and some worked okay and others like Riana Rouge (in which this is the only PC I can really run it on) had very bad sound issues. Not sure how else to describe it other than to show a quick vid I filmed of what I'm talking about at least with the sounds cutting off:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kyfJnY2W7Y

Any help would be very much appreciated, because I absolutely need to have a good working Win98 setup. Thanks.

Reply 1 of 4, by BitWrangler

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First thing that comes to mind is, did you set your HDD interfaces to DMA mode in device mangler after you installed the chipset drivers?

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Reply 2 of 4, by thepirategamerboy12

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Yeah, I did. Forgot to mention that. It helped a bit, but still didn't completely fix it. Not sure if it's normal or not, but Windows calls the HDD "generic":

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Also, if you're curious, here's the thread I previously asked about this in:
http://www.vcfed.org/forum/showthread.php?593 … tec-5100-Laptop

Reply 3 of 4, by Jo22

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Hmm.. Strange. Maybe it's related to the Power Managment (ACPI/APM) or an IRQ conflict.
I remember that some machines stuttered when they changed clock speed:
Some PCs automatically increase/decrease the processor speed depending on the CPU load.

In Windows XP, it's possible to change that in the energy applet in control panel
(Desktop PC instead of laptop). I don't know about 98 anymore, though.
As a last resort, you could try to install Windows ME and see what happens.

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Reply 4 of 4, by thepirategamerboy12

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I look into the power management soon. I'd really prefer not to use ME because I've had some really bad experiences with it...

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