Computer is running quarter speed - clock and everything!

[Alan]

This is weird - brand new install of Win2K on emachines etower 700.
Everything running fine, no AV or anything yet, but machine is running
quarter speed - nothing is eating CPU, no weird services.
But the cursor is blinking at quarter speed....any ideas?

 

[Alan]

This is weird - brand new install of Win2K on emachines etower 700DVD.
Everything running fine, no AV or anything yet, but machine is running
quarter speed - nothing is eating CPU, no weird services.
But the cursor is blinking at quarter speed....any ideas?

I spent ages finding out why Windows 2000 was suddenly on a go-slow.
I found what it was in the end - disabling Hauppauge WinTV-Go in Hardware
manager makes everything good again. Still not sure why - using latest
drivers and nothing in event viewer to suggest a fault.

However, here are some pointers other people might find useful:
The Cognac BIOS flash update for the HP Pavillion can be used on the
emachines Cognac-based machines.
Here's where I found the original info at the very useful
http://www.e4all.info/ site:
http://www.e4all.info/motherboards/cognac_end_users.htm (halfway down)

Here's where I found a new link for 3.07 (the old link was broken)
http://snipurl.com/3quv or
http://h20015.www2.hp.com/en/softwa...19286&lc=en&plc=&sw_lang=en&pagetype=software -
the machine is a 6636 if that link breaks as well.

I also updated the graphics drivers:
http://snipurl.com/3quz

For Win2K, only the graphics drivers appear to be needed, and even then
Win2k works fine without them.