Seti freezes my notebook

[hox]

I have a new T41 with 1 GB PC 2700 ram. I installed Seti today version 3.08 and had some major problems with the machine locking up and programs not responding. I had no problems before seti was loaded. This is my first experience with Seti doing bad things, at a previous time I had it running on every machine with minimal impact. Somehow on my T41 it was totally using up all the resources (a guess). Does anyone have a suggestion. For now I have uninstalled the program.

Thanks

 

[dnuggett]

Were you running the GUI or the screensaver?

 

[hox]

I was running the GUI, but my notebook does use a Microsoft Plus screen saver (the aquarium).

 

[dnuggett]

Usually if your computer is lower on resources the GUI works better than the screensaver. You may want to go to the DC board and ask them what's up...

 

[fr]

Originally posted by: hox
I was running the GUI, but my notebook does use a Microsoft Plus screen saver (the aquarium).

That screensaver will use up 100% of your CPU which leaves nothing for SETI.

 

[sciencewhiz]

I haven't had any problem with seti on my t40 with only 128 mb of ram. I use the cli version.