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Bleep

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A little off topic but I have a seti cruncher that had win 98se and was doing about 4-5 wu a day. I upgraded with a clean install of XP sp1A. It now had dropped to 2 wu's a day and the Hard Drive acess led is blinking on about every 1/2 second can someone tell me what services I may have running that needs to be turned off ?
This machine has 2 hard drives one with XP and the other with Mandrake 9.1 could it be looking for the other hard drive?

Bleep
 
how much memory did that box have? it's possible it keeps going to the swap file to run seti.
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Well it only has 256 meg but I dont think that is the problem because the HD is being accessed the same if I shut down the Client. It has to be some indexing service or something. I will try the link provided above and see what happens.

Bleep
 
If the MB is nforce2 based make sure you installed the M$ ide drivers. There has been a lot of problems with the nvidia ide drivers (i.e. slow and lots of disk accesses)
 
Bleep, I hope you find the problem. Win xp will give you more workunits a day then 98 because it handles lower ar wu's much better. I don't find services to play to much of a roll in wu times. I can run 20 or 30 services and don't see a big differance in wu times. For you to drop 2 or 3 wu's a day, there's something running in the backround for sure. Good Luck..
 
Textlobadobadingdong
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try this, from the run box type in msconfig, and disable all startup items, and see what that does for it
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Well I have a bunch of stuff shut down in selective start up but that really screwes up the bootup time. Most of the stuff I dont even understand what it is. I have several boxes with win 2000 and they do really good I have some more liciences for 2K pro so I just may do a new install of that. I edited everything that I could but still indexing the HD.
I will work on it for a couple of more days, I am really stubborn, I hate to give up.

Bleep
 
There is an indexing service, and a backup/restore service (they might not be services, I'm not a Microsoft guy 😉). Those could be a big part of the HD issue. Not sure how to turn them off though.

EDIT:
From the blackviper site:
Get rid of System Restore Service and Indexing Service. I disable both, plus check the box, just in case it may decide to fire back up. This is valid for Windows XP Home and Pro. Where do you find it?

With the default Category Control Panel:

Head to Start
Select Control Panel
Select Performance and Maintenance
Select System
Select System Restore Tab
Check "Turn off System Restore"
Select the Ok button to apply the settings
With the Classic Control Panel:

Head to Start
Select Control Panel
Select System
Select System Restore Tab
Check "Turn off System Restore"
Select the Ok button to apply the settings
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If you have those disabled already, let us know. Maybe we can find something else. 🙂
 
You might also try opening task manager and try to see if any specific processes are using CPU when the computer is idle (if something is constantly writing to disk, it should be using some CPU). Also, check how much memory is used through task manager. I know 256MB is enough to run XP Pro and Seti on a clean install, however if you have other applications installed that are running processes in the background you may be using more that 256, thus disk swapping constantly occurs.

Hope this helps.
 
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