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by nannig3

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I have a Dell GX1 that has a Pentium II 400 MHz with MMX. The problem I’m having is
It’s running very slow. I reformatted the hard drive thinking that windows 98 was corrupted.. It was taking 2 hours just to install 65% of windows. I stopped the installment and took out the hard drive from out of the Dell and placed it in a different computer. Reformatted the hard drive again and reinstalled 98. It was completely done in 20 min. I can rule out the hard drive was not the problem. I’m thinking the CPU is bad.
Please help. Thank you

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by Brien Posey

A bad CPU is certainly a possibility, but I wouldn't rule out memory. Bad memory is more likely to cause the problem than a bad CPU. Try reseating the memory that's in your system. That alone might fix the problem. You can try reseating the processor too while you're at it. As cheap as memory is though, it makes sense to try replacing the memory before replacing the processor.

by nannig3

I tried reseating the RAM, cards & cpu still the same.Even replaced the RAM still very slow

by saihib

Your CPU is not slow, you are. And if you think you installed Win98 in 20 minutes, you're full of shit

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