On September 16, 2004 3:38 am, Edward wrote: > The only thing I can think of is to check your hdparm settings. I don't know what that means. > Oh, and just because it is a new hard drive in that notebook, don't > assume it is faster than your desktop. Notebook hard drives supplied > with the factory notebooks are usually notoriously slow. 4500 RPM or so True, for sure. But I had FC1 on this notebook and it was MUCH faster than my old desktop had been. I suspect partly because of the HD. Either way, FC1+OO was fast, FC2+new OO is slow on the same hardware. -- Trevor Smith // trevor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx