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Speed this puppy up?
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New MessageSpeed this puppy up? (modified 0 times) CQDX
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What have people done to speed the touchpad up? Presently I run ME with 128mb of ram. One thing I found that seems to help is to choose the "mobile" setting under file system settings under the performance tab in the system properties screen. I have also turned off every background app that is not essential. Performance is still pretty dismal.

I tried to install win2k but it reported it didn't like the apci settings in the bios. Has anyone had any luck getting win 2k to install? Is win 2k any faster?

08-21-2001 08:08:20

New MessageRE:Speed this puppy up? (modified 0 times) mrgoodbar
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Win2k feels quicker, but I don't really know if its better, winME kinda lags. In order to install win2k, you need to hit F6 durring setup when it asks for extra drivers (scsi) durring the initial install with the blue background screen. And then it will later ask you what kinda of computer you are setting up, and just pick 'pc'. I've installed WinMe and 2k in dual boot, and 2k is way better.
08-21-2001 14:43:48

New MessageRE:Speed this puppy up? (modified 0 times) CQDX
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Where did you find the video drivers for win2k? I have 1 PCI device with a yellow question mark and I am not sure what it is. The rest set up well

Win 2k is clearly superior to ME in terms of performance

Thanks for the info MrG

08-22-2001 22:04:48

New MessageRE:Speed this puppy up? (modified 0 times) mrgoodbar
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the 2k drivers for the video are here, (at the silicon motion website):

http://www.siliconmotion.com/eng/pageHub.html?band=lowband&url=accept.html&title=Support

I assume your yellow question mark is the video, because the only other thing it could be is the modem or network card.

I only have the stock amount of ram (80megs), so I assume your 128megs in win2k runs even better, but I know with even my 80 it runs better in 2k than any other OS.

08-23-2001 09:24:24

New MessageRE:Speed this puppy up? (modified 0 times) CQDX
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With ME and 2k setup with the same network, other peripherals and software running and 128mb ram, win2k has 56mb free and ME has 30mb free.

Even though win2k setup complained about acpi, I enabled it and it seems to work fine. I loaded service pack 2 as well. I also can get hibernate to work. It takes about 15 sec to resume including the network re-stablishing itself

Thanks for the driver URL

08-23-2001 17:37:22

New MessageRE:Speed this puppy up? (modified 0 times) locovaca
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Does the touchscreen work under 2k? Or is there another driver?
08-24-2001 06:19:43

New MessageRE:Speed this puppy up? (modified 0 times) CQDX
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The software I downloaded for the touch screen did not work, but I haven't had the time to search for anything win2k compliant.

Does anyone know what the speed of the IDE bus is? I wonder if this could be a bottleneck to performance. I didnt find it in the gateway specs I looked at.

08-24-2001 09:13:03

New MessageRE:Speed this puppy up? (modified 0 times) mrgoodbar
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I've looked all over for 2k drivers (touchscreen) and could not find any (that would work). I would assume the IDE bus is 33.
08-24-2001 12:24:37

New MessageRE:Speed this puppy up? (modified 0 times) CQDX
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I think you are right regarding the IDE bus speed being 33mhz. I tried a drive compatable with 66mhz but it didn't seem to make any difference in performance. Maybe this could be changed in the bios at some point.

I had some problems with the win2k set up hanging, but I found that if you hit f5 then f6 when prompted to load scsi drivers it loads without a hitch. First choose "standard pc" from the f5 screen and then hit enter at the f6 screen. I never had to hit f7 to diable acpi, it seemded to disable automatically. I was able to re-enable acpi within win2k and it works fine.

Thus far I'm very pleased with the improved performance.

what is the ctl-alt-del key combination with the gateway keyboard? I haven't been able to get anything to work. I plugged in a standard USB keyoboard and it works in a normal fashion

08-25-2001 21:20:15

New MessageRE:Speed this puppy up? (modified 0 times) Naplm1
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installed win2k pro, works very good, my sound didnt come thru the upgrade are there win2000 drivers for the sound anywhere?
I would have to say it is twice as zippy on w2k than winME
08-26-2001 20:50:27

New MessageRE:Speed this puppy up? (modified 0 times) mrgoodbar
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I know I've gotten the sound to work on mine, but I don't recall if I had to install drivers for it, or if they were auto detected.
08-27-2001 09:25:21

New MessageRE:Speed this puppy up? (modified 0 times) BigDog
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There aren't any drivers for Win2k as far as I know, the 9x/me driver I got from ICS were for the eval chip kit and only to provide functionality for testing purposes. The chip controller is designed to be integrated with the motherboard and then that motherboard manufacture creates the drivers for the necessary application.

There isn't an ALT key on the standard GW keyboard, you need to get a "real" Siltek 7100 keyboard and you get the functionality of the ALT key.

If you want speed, you might try loading Win95-SR2, you get the useb support and the older operating system is faster than Win 98/ME or Y2k. I loaded 95 on a 1ghz machine the other day and it screamed twice as fast as y2k on the same box.

08-27-2001 11:11:15

New MessageRE:Speed this puppy up? (modified 0 times) CQDX
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With regard to the audio drivers I just loaded the ALI driver pack from BigDogs freedrive folder, rebooted and it picked up most of the audio. The win2k network and modem drivers are on the Gateway ftp site and these had the remainder of the multimedia drivers used by the modems.

I still have the actiontec modem plugged in, and for that I used a standard 56k v90 driver. I still have one unknown which I think is the touchscreen. I haven't found any win2k drivers for the touchscreen and the ME/98 touchscreen drivers do not work under win2K.

I am using a dlink dwl-120 802.11b wireless adhoc network which works fine under win2k and winME not sure how well it would work under win95-sr2. I may have to dust off the old CD and see.

08-27-2001 14:38:29

New MessageRE:Speed this puppy up? (modified 0 times) Neutronflux
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Hey guys -- I'm about to order my Gateway Connected unit -- have you tried running XP on it? If you have an increase in performance from Windows 2000, there might be a better increase from XP...

Also, how did you load the OS? With a Win9X system, I just copy all the cabs over to the hard drive and run the install from there. I don't think that's possible with 2K. How did you go about installing it from the cd?

Thanks!
Neutron

10-14-2001 23:20:08

New MessageRE:Speed this puppy up? (modified 0 times) yellow2
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"about to order" ?
I've got an Ethernet version New In Box and would be happy to let you have it.
email me with offer.
cheers
10-15-2001 01:31:13

New MessageRE:Speed this puppy up? (modified 0 times) yellow2
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"about to order" ?
I've got an Ethernet version New In Box and would be happy to let you have it.
email me with offer.
cheers
10-15-2001 01:31:16

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