Install sp1 FIRST so it does not overwrite your firewire driver setting. On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 10:06 AM, Tim Ellison <telli...@itsco.com> wrote:
> In Win7, make sure you are using the legacy 1394 Firewire driver and have > installed SP1 > > http://kc.flexradio.com/KnowledgebaseArticle50433.aspx > > > -Tim > > > -----Original Message----- > From: flexradio-boun...@flex-radio.biz [mailto: > flexradio-boun...@flex-radio.biz] On Behalf Of Gary Keating > Sent: Saturday, April 30, 2011 9:58 AM > To: flexradio@flex-radio.biz > Subject: [Flexradio] CPU load for Firewire > > I just switched to Windows 7 64 bit after a year using XP for the Flex > computer. I notice that the CPU load seemed quite a bit higher so I took a > closer look at what was happening. I saw that the CPU load on one of the > four cores was swinging from 20 to 80% with Flex-5000 turned on but no > applications running. The other 3 cores showed zero load. If I turn the Flex > off or unplug the Firewire plug the CPU load goes to zero. I rebooted into > XP and found that the same kind of thing happens but the load on the one > core goes to about 16% when the Flex is on so I never noticed that it was > happening. I am continuing to use Windows 7 and the radio works fine but > this load for no good reason is bugging me. Any ideas what is going on? > > Driver Version: 3.5.5.10185 > PowerSDR Version: 2.0.22 > CPU: Core i5-750 2.67GHz > Memory: 8 GB > _______________________________________________ > FlexRadio Systems Mailing List > FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz > http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz > Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ > Knowledge Base: http://kc.flexradio.com/ Homepage: > http://www.flexradio.com/ > > _______________________________________________ > FlexRadio Systems Mailing List > FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz > http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz > Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ > Knowledge Base: http://kc.flexradio.com/ Homepage: > http://www.flexradio.com/ > _______________________________________________ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ Knowledge Base: http://kc.flexradio.com/ Homepage: http://www.flexradio.com/
