No, it shows the NTPrime service taking 98% of the CPU time. I've run
benches on it, too, and it is just plain running slow, like a 66 Mhz or
slower machine.... I'll be looking for that compatibility mode thing shortly.
At 03:11 PM 12/7/99 -0500, you wrote:
>On Tue, 7 Dec 1999, Jeff Woods wrote:
>
> > I have a P-II/233 running NT 4.0 that I think is severely
> > underperforming. It has 256 MB of RAM, and much of it remains
> free. Some
> > applications take literally MINUTES to load, and I suspect a CPU problem,
> > although PrimeNT reports no calculation errors. I suspect that the CPU is
> > simply underclocked for some unknown reason -- the fan is working properly.
> >
> > It is taking 1.788 seconds per iteration for exponents in the 8,290,000
> range.
> >
> > Could someone else who has a machine similar to this let me know if
> that is
> > an unreasonably high time per iteration? It doesn't have to be an
> > identical machine, but one reasonably close.
>
>Jeff,
>
>Sounds to me as if something is wrong with the PII-233. I have a pretty
>lightly loaded PII-266 machine with 128MB RAM running WinNT 4 (SP3) that
>is getting iteration times of .398 on an exponent around 8.4 million.
>
>Does task manager show some other process stealing cycles from Prime95?
>
>Kel
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