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probs on gateway P5100xl

    30-Mar-95 22:41:55
Sb: probs on gateway P5100xl
Fm: Dave Edge 75170,1461
To: all
I just recently upgraded to a gateway 200 p5-100XL system and am having one problem. During rendering, there is often a 30sec+ pause in the "Preparing materials" stage. It seems to be related to the CDROM somehow. Anyone experienced anything like this? Any ideas? For example, I made a sphere with two lights and it took 7 seconds to render if I start 3ds without a CD mounted. With a CD mounted, it sometimes takes 39 seconds. There are no map-paths to the CD and I can't figure out what is going on. Any help would be appreciated. The CD drive is an IDE type.