From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 21 02:12:18 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id CAA23365 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 21 Feb 1996 02:12:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from wiley.csusb.edu (wiley.csusb.edu [139.182.2.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id CAA23358 for ; Wed, 21 Feb 1996 02:12:12 -0800 (PST) Received: (from wwong@localhost) by wiley.csusb.edu (8.6.11/8.6.11) id CAA04335; Wed, 21 Feb 1996 02:16:32 -0800 From: William Wong Message-Id: <199602211016.CAA04335@wiley.csusb.edu> Subject: Re: my machine seems slow To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Date: Wed, 21 Feb 1996 02:16:31 -0800 (PST) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <22790.824795883@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Feb 19, 96 09:58:03 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL22] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk I've seen the turbo button functioning just the opposite on some machines. Pushed in and having the turbo light go on slows the machine down. They were cheap clones though. Switched wires perhaps. > > > I just ran some DOS based diagnostic/benchmark software I have, > > and there is definately something wrong with my hardware. > > Disk speeds are way too low there, and the CPU benchmarks > > are also way too low. It does pass all the diagnostics I > > could throw at it. > > Is your turbo button popped out? :-) > > Jordan > > William T. Wong Network Analyst, Assistant Cal State University, San Bernardino Phone: (909) 880-7281 email: wwong@wiley.csusb.edu