My friend has a Dell PC with a Pentium 3 700 CPU, running Win98 SE. Originally, the memory was 128 MB and recently I added a 256 MB Crucial stick (384 total). No other modification has been made. Lately, he reported extremely slow POSTs and I witnessed it yesterday. The process can take more than 5 minutes. During one of these periods, I hit the DELETE key and it eventually went into setup. The DELL logo screen went away and I could see the memory being counted at a rate of about one MB per second, or slower. After counting the RAM, it went through the other checks at a normal rate and then entered setup. While there, it took several seconds to move from one item to another. Would appreciate any advice as to how I can help him to overcome this problem.
#1. "RE: Very slow P.O.S.T." In response to HF (Reply # 0)
for my pc, is that it suddenly display the post after the splash screen. last time, it just shows the splash screen ( the win me)& it juz go to the windows.but a few weeks later, it shows the post after the splash screen??
#4. "RE: Very slow P.O.S.T." In response to HF (Reply # 3)
Just for your info, I also have a PIII 750, had 2 stks of 64 in the 1/2 slot, got a stk of 256 (384 total), moved the 256 to slot 1 and the 2 64's to the 2/3 slot. Never hiccup'd and its a flyin!
I talked my friend thru the memory switch, by telephone, and the problem remains the same. He lives 30 miles away and is afraid to go into setup. I will have to go there next week and try Bob's suggestion. Thanks.