>Hi,
>
>Thank for your advise. However, when I looked at the control panel. Everything
>under the System are okay without any unknown device. Every device is okay with out any conflicting report. Therefore, I do not know what to change. Or is there any references of address or IRQ for certain device/hardware that I should set to ? Please advise. My system still had the random halting problem as before which is causing some error reading file problem to my program.
>Thank you
>

Virusim,

There may very well be no "conflict" shown with the System Properties/Device Manager. I had to change mine from sharing the IRQ 10 with my NIC, video card , and my SCSI card, even though there was no conflict. When I changed the BIOS for the slot for the SCSI card to use IRQ 9, there still were no conflicts, but the sluggishness went away. But as Ed, has pointed out, changing the hardware without being aware of other consequences you can cause is a sure recipe for disaster. If you do change your BIOS, be very careful, since if the machine fails to boot up, you may have to force the BIOS to reset to default settings just so it can boot. Find out how you do that BEFORE attempting to change any settings like that, just in case.

Fred


>>>Hi,
>>>
>>>My old application run fine on my old AMD K5 133Mhz PC loaded Win9x
>>>on 32M of RAM.
>>>
>>>However, when we tested it out on a new system with AMD K6 II 350Mhz PC loaded with Win9x on 32-64M of RAM, the whole system including my application and Window explorer and DOS prompt temporarily will halt
>>>for a few seconds and then resume back to normal. It often happen
>>>to all program. Anyone had similar experience, please kindly advise
>>>me on the cause and solution.
>>
>>This sounds more like a hardware configuration problem. I had a similar problem with my machine when I installed a SCSI card that was using IRQ 10, the same as my video card and my network adapter card. Changed the BIOS for the slot the SCSI card was in to use IRQ 9, and the "pausing" went away.