Derek
June 17th, 2001, 09:48 AM
Small business environment with peer to peer Windows 98 network. We have a particular PC with a good spec - 500Mhz Pentium III with 128Mb of memory - which is quick in all instances, except network access, which is crippingly slow to and from this PC from any other on the network. I have removed Norton Antivirus, thinking that this running in the background might slow the machine, but it made no difference. I have tried 3 network cards with a variety of TCP/IP, NETBUI and IPX settings but still no improvement, so the network card cannot be the bottleneck - these cards work fine on other machines on the network. The PC is very slow when copying files, to and from any other machine on the network, and accessing large ones (such as large Word documents). All other PCs on the network run much faster, including those with a much inferior spec. The motherboard is a Microstar model. Could it be the I/O subsystem on this board that is causing the problem? Otherwise I have no idea at all. Many thanks for your time.