[ale] new ASUS T2 running Suse 10.0 is slooowwww

[James P. Kinney III]

On Wed, 2005-11-02 at 08:39 -0800, Barlow, Jim D wrote:
> Hi Greg,
> 
> I've had problems like this before with an ASUS board, and it took a bit
> of head scratching to figure out.
> 
> The system was so painfully slow that my teenage son refused to use it
> as an IM platform.
> 
> In my case the BIOS had a memory to bus speed ratio set to [AUTO].
> When I set it to an explicit ratio, everything got snappy!
> 
> These [auto] settings in your BIOS may be worth a check.   - Jim 


I concur. The bios is probably set up wrong for speed. It is common to
have some default setting that is safe but won't utilize the parts well.

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Greg
> Tucker
> Sent: Wednesday, November 02, 2005 11:29 AM
> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
> Subject: [ale] new ASUS T2 running Suse 10.0 is slooowwww
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> I got a new ASUS Terminator barebones T2-P. After I put it together I
> loaded an old copy of Win98 just to see if everything was okay and I
> deleted the Win partition. Ok so I cut corners and got a Celeron 2.93
> Ghz
> Socket 478 533 FSB for $49 with rebate. I added 1 gig pc3200 and a 120GB
> Seagate with 8Mb cache to the T2. I loaded SUSE 10.0 and it is quite
> slow.
> Everything seems to run okay but it takes a full ten minutes just to
> boot.
> Clicking on Firefox it takes 35 seconds to popup. I have SUSE 9.1 on an
> older box and it boots in a little over a couple of mins.
> 
> I updated the bios and all patches.
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> I could upgrade to a P4 3.2 GHz/ 1 MB cache and 800 MHz FSB and/or add a
> SATA drive.
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>  Any suggestions? (Besides get an Opteron.) Should I try re-installing?
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> Greg Tucker
> CSC Consulting
> cell: 678-643-7431
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