My WU time just doubled!!! WTF !!! help!!!

[Slain]

OK my system used to crunch a WU in 6hrs 20 mins I reinstalled win2K and my last 2 units have taken 12 hrs each!!! The only difference between the last install and the new one is a change in Via 4in1 drivers from 4.31 to 4.32. No BIOS seting were changed. Are the 4in1 drivers the problem or am I just dumbass missing something? heeeeeeeeeeelp plz

[DeltaSierra]

I didn't see any increase in times when I installed the 4in1 drivers. I don't know for sure, but what it sounds like to me is that W2K has some other programs running that are taking CPU cycles away from SETI. In W2K, touch Ctrl-Alt-Del and look at the task manager (processes) to see what's all running.

[Slain]

Done that, no other tasks running, this is what is really making me scratch my head. Maybe I'm just getting some hard WU's.

[Basher]

are you running the screen saver? if so make sure that in you screensaver setting you have it set to goto black screen after 1 minute. If you are running the screen saver I would like to suggest the clc :). Here are the direct downloads you need Windows CLC (ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/setiathome/setiathome-3.03.i386-winnt-cmdline.exe), Seti Spy (http://pages.tca.net/roelof/setispy/SetiSpy.exe), Seti Driver (http://www.wakeassoc.com/setidriver/SETIDriver.zip) and here are the instructions (http://overclockers.ws/seti/Instr1.htm) you need to follow to get them up and running. It saves anywhere from 10-50% on wu times.

[LandShark]

did u check the ar angle? may be that was a low ar one! it seems to coming back these couple days. had a couple of 0.004-0.002, ouch! :confused:

[Basher]

should not make that BIG of a difference. My Tbird @ 1000 does a normal WU in 6:10 and a 0.001 in 6:40, but maybe if he is using the screensaver it makes that big of a difference.

[Slain]

I use the screen saver client but use it running in the background. I don't actually use the screen saver portion of the program. BTW the WU I'm on is on course to be 16 hrs !!!! Back to hunting through windows and bios foe a cause :(

[Mictlan]

I suffered the same problem about 3 or 4 months ago. My work PC (a Dell OptiPlex PII 450) crunches a WU in 12-13 hours but suddently it began to crunch in 24-26 h!!!!!

I tried all the tricks under my sleeve, and asked for advice, but everything was unsuccesful. The last resort was fdisk-format-reinstal and.....I manage to correct the problem. My only guess at the possible problem was windows corruption (even if I didn't get any BSOD).

Hope this last resort is not needed

[Slain]

Thanks for that post it put on a new line of thought, what I think the problem now is a software conflict with another program when the SETI client is installed. I just starting to install and re-install stuff now, I let you know what I find if I find anything. Btw I'm not gonna re-install win2K as this install of it is only 3 days old :)

[Slain]

WOOOOOOT problem solved. Found a piece of shareware that was interfering somehow with SETI. Don't ask me how it interfers I have absolutely no idea, the shareware was not even running. Must install something into the seti software though, perhaps in the registery?

[LuKE]

here's just a crazy idea, install the clc version and get back to us on the times, minimized or not you should see a noticable speed improvment over the screen saver version.