First post, by squelch41
Hi,
I have an AMD 486 133 running on a VLB motherboard with the IDE controller on a VLB multi-io card.
I am running a CF 4Gb card (x133 speed transcend card) in a CF-IDE adapter.
64mb Ram.
I am using the XTEid bios extension as the bios is very finicky about hard disks otherwise but I have BIOS shadowing on.
When I am using windows 98SE, the system seems to pause when writing to the disk - short writes are ok but anything over about a second and the system freezes for 2-3 secs and the is fine. Gets quite annoying 😉
Is this just par for the course on a system of this age or have I got my config wrong somewhere?
I was wondering if it was just slow write speed on the CF card but it seems to happen when using a traditional IDE spinning harddisk too.
I dont get it in DOS on windows 3.11 but I wasnt sure if is just because it is gentler on the hardware anyway.
It's fine in DOS games, eg Duke3d, doom, tombradier demo, quake sharware etc - doesnt seem to freeze then.
Would appreciate any pointers.
V4P895P3 VLB Motherboard AMD 486 133MHz
64mb RAM, CF 4Gb HDD,
Realtek 8019 ethernet + XT-IDE bios ROM, ES1869 soundcard, VLB Cirrus Logic GD5428 1mb VGA
440bx MSI 6119, modified slocket , Tualitin Celeron 1.2Ghz 256mb SD-RAM, CF 4GB HDD, FX5200 gfx