Recent content by pauldryan

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    Athlon 1400 vs P4 1.7ghz, LOAD TIME question

    Windows should load the appropriate drivers in a DOS session opened in Windows. So you should have no troubles removing the contents of your config.sys & autoexec.bat. Look, you can worry this to death or just try it out. If you've saved the files as I advised earlier, it is very easy to...
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    Athlon 1400 vs P4 1.7ghz, LOAD TIME question

    Sorry Eden....I was out of town. If you're concerned about potential startup troubles when you remove everything from your autoexec.bat and config.sys files, just go Start>Run>and type SYSEDIT Save your existing files as autoexec.bak and config.bak by using the file dropdown menu. Then delete...
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    Athlon 1400 vs P4 1.7ghz, LOAD TIME question

    My Celeron 550 o/c'd to 850 on a BX6R2 with a Maxtor 30gb @ 7200 (only 128mb ram)takes exactly 28 seconds from power on (cold boot) through free mouse action (no more hourglass) on a win98 setup that has been running for more than a year. This includes manual sign on to my home lan (three...