1.3 GHz Athlon. It takes so long to do anything that I've just given up on it.
There's maybe something wrong with your Athlon box ...
I have an old test Athlon Thunderbird (AXIA) box (@ ~1.33Ghz) that doesn’t have characteristics as your Athlon box (i.e. slowing down effect).
This box has the following;
+ PC133 512Mb SDRAM.
+ Win XP-Pro–SP1.
+ MSI-6330 V3.5 (with RAID HD controller).
+ 7200 RPM 60Gb UltraDMA100 HD (Seagate).
+ nVidia Geforce 2.
+ SBLive 5.1 DE (color ports variant).
+ Hibernating feature works fine.
I have several AMD Athlon based test boxes** to verify this. For example;
Athlon XP @~2.0Ghz
+ Win XP-Pro–SP1.
+ PC3200 512MB DDR (Samsung) (dual channel mode).
+ ASUS nForce 2 Deluxe (SPP/MCP-T)(400Mhz DDR FSB capable)(aggressive FSB/Memory settings).
+ 7200 RPM 80Gb UltraDMA133 HD (Seagate), 7200 RPM 40Gb UltraDMA133 HD (Maxtor).
+ nVidia Geforce 4 TI VIVO (Mepg2/Mepg4/DIVX in real time via the CPU).
+ nVidia Sound Storm (DirectSound/DirectMusic audio accelerator) .
+ Hibernating feature works fine.
**Athlon based Motherboard types limited to MSI and ASUS.
Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition was tested with above set-ups. Hardware operational abnormalities were not detected.
They are all connected via 100/10BaseT NICs and 16Port D-Link Hub (Usual DVD –ROM/RW/CD-ROM/RW devices remains unlisted).
My WINUAE-JIT setup is at AmigaOS 3.9 (tweaked with usual visual bloating patches). I tried Amithlon, but I don’t the have time to set-up an Amithlon based X86 PCs, maybe in the holidays.
AmigaOS 4.0 is probably the call card for me in purchasing a PPC based board. I don’t mind Pegy II but it doesn’t have ‘AmigaOS 4.0’ (sigh)....
Hibernating the PC is problematic on Windows. Once it wakes, your memory as as fragmented
How could that cause the memory to be fragmented? Hibernation file is fundamentally a memory snapshot of your last session.