Question with win2k and UD THINK

[ElDonAntonio]

Hey guys,
just installed UD THINK (the cancer project) on my laptop (DELL inspiron 800Mhz with win2k), and I had a few questions:

1) I am used to immediatly locking my laptop after leaving it with a simple Ctrl-Alt-Del, Spacebar. It seems the UD screen saver won't start after I do that. Any way to get it to run? I don't like leaving my laptop unsecured for 5 minutes before the screensaver goes on automatically.

2) The fan on my laptop is *constantly* spinning when UD is running...is this normal??? during normal use, my fan spins only for 5 minutes every ~20 minutes.

3) the UD system tests seem a little messed up...it says my Celeron 800Mhz is as fast as a P4 1.5Ghz and that my 10GB HD measures in fact 0.98 GB. What the heck?

Anyways, I'm proud to have joined team Anandtech, this really is a great community!!

Good luck for the race guys, I'd like to participate but I'd really prefer to help in the cure for cancer...

Antonio

 

[cirrus1]

<< 1) I am used to immediatly locking my laptop after leaving it with a simple Ctrl-Alt-Del, Spacebar. It seems the UD screen saver won't start after I do that. Any way to get it to run? I don't like leaving my laptop unsecured for 5 minutes before the screensaver goes on automatically. >>



You can configure the client for also running when the screensaver isn't active. This is done in the "Preferences" section which is accessed by clicking on the button with a checkmark. In the top left corner you will find a section called "Device options" Uncheck the "Run only as screen saver".
As for getting the screensaver to run that is more difficult. There is nowhere in W2K where the screensaver used when the computer is locked can be configured. A solution though, would involve renaming the logon.scr that is normally used for screensaver. I will research this further and get back to you ASAP.



<< ) The fan on my laptop is *constantly* spinning when UD is running...is this normal??? during normal use, my fan spins only for 5 minutes every ~20 minutes. >>



For a laptop that is perfectly normal. Under normal use the CPU is almost unused (1-4% load) and therefore it produces less heat. In a laptop where power consuming is critical, it would be dumb to leave the fan(s) running all the time. They are therefore temperature controlled and only starts when the heat rises to a certain level.
When your computer runs UD, the cpu is used 100% and therefore emits more heat.



<< 3) the UD system tests seem a little messed up...it says my Celeron 800Mhz is as fast as a P4 1.5Ghz and that my 10GB HD measures in fact 0.98 GB. What the heck? >>



Don't trust the system test. The CPU test is very weird, and it gives higher scores to Intel CPU's (and yes Intel sponsors this project My AMD Athlon T-bird 750@1000 scores 98, and the Pentium III Cu 800 in my laptop scores 82.
The storage is how much diskspace you have given the client utilize, that is not how much it gonna actually use.
Another weird thing is the network bench. My Wireless Cisco 802.11b 11mbit card has a higher score than any 10/100 mbit card I have seen.

Glad to have you on the team

 

[ElDonAntonio]

Thanks a lot Cirrus, I appreciate your detailed reply!

I am glad I joined this forum, I think it's the one with the friendliest atmosphere on Anandtech!!

Antonio

 

[htmlmasterdave]

I also wouldn't use the screensaver if you let it run all the time, since the screensaver wastes cpu time, I would run the default screen saver or blank screen.

 

[cirrus1]

<< I also wouldn't use the screensaver if you let it run all the time, since the screensaver wastes cpu time, I would run the default screen saver or blank screen. >>



Right, but in W2K the default screensaver and blank screen is the same, and is called default screensaver

You will get the highest score by disabling the UD screensaver. I dunno how much, since it's a bit hard to monitor processes while a screensaver is running.

Oh and as a side note: I just looked at the processor score for my 400 mhz K6-2: It scores 100 points = P4 1,4 ghz