[WriteLog] General Problems with Writelog

[Steve Baron - KB3MM]

If you read the recvision history for direct-io, you will see that had some
problems in the past.  Maybe you must be sure to have the latest version,
and remember it is essentially an attempt to 'trick' the OS.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Marijan Miletic, S56A" <artinian@siol.net>
To: "George Skoubis" <george.skoubis@verizon.net>; <writelog@contesting.com>
Sent: Monday, December 31, 2001 11:22
Subject: Re: [WriteLog] General Problems with Writelog


> I have similar problems with Canon fax/printer driver which went mad
> when I tried to use LPT port for Writelog keying with Digital-io.
>
> I'd like to tell Bill Gates few words about LPT port under XP and Win2K...
>
> 73 de Mario, S56A, N1YU
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "George Skoubis" <george.skoubis@verizon.net>
> To: <writelog@contesting.com>
> Sent: Monday, December 31, 2001 5:14 AM
> Subject: [WriteLog] General Problems with Writelog
>
>
> > Hi,
> >
> >   If any of you are using Creative Labs sound cards you may want to
> confirm
> > you don't have the newsupd.exe program running on your computer.
> >
> >   I won an AMD 1800+ processor and a motherboard and just built a system
> > around it this weekend.  I ran the setiathome program to get a benchmark
> for
> > how this system stacked up against my other computers (Athlon 900,
Athlon
> > 700, Pentium 200, Pentium 120).  I used Win2k for the OS and used the
> > onboard soundcard chip (Gigabyte GA7DX motherboard). The only software I
> > installed other than the device drivers for the onboard soundcard were
> > drivers for the video card and lan card, as well as the text version of
> the
> > setiathome software.
> >
> >   I used my Athlon 900 as a proxy server with Setigate software working
as
> a
> > workunit cache and keeping the workunit statistics. I started the
> setiathome
> > software, waited 5 minutes to make sure the Athlon 1800 was
communicating
> > with the Athlon 900 and went to bed.
> >
> >   In the morning the workunit was only 10 percent completed.  I knew
> > something must be configured incorrectly since the Athlon 900 averages
> > around 9 1/2 hours to finish a workunit.  I checked the power
> configuration
> > to make sure the computer wasn't going in to suspend mode.  I then
> examined
> > the processes that were running and newsupd.exe was using 94% of the
> > processor time.
> >
> >   I searched Google for this exe and found this site:
> > http://www.cexx.org/newsupd.htm
> >
> >   After following the instructions and deleting this executable from my
> > computer (don't edit the registry if you haven't done this before, or
make
> > sure you have a backup copy of every file that you think is important).
I
> > then averaged 3 1/2 hours per workunit for 10 workunits.  Setiathome now
> > uses 99 percent of the processor.
> >
> >   I'm going to load Writelog and the rest of the applications that I use
> on
> > this computer but just thought that those of you that have choppy CW, or
> > have computers that slow down after getting a few hundred qso's might
want
> > to check for this exe.
> >
> >   Wayne and others on this reflector tell everyone to check your active
> > programs when you have problems with erratic Writelog performance.  This
> is
> > just another reason to do so and it may save one of you from a few hours
> of
> > head scratching and cursing.
> >
> >   I don't have any problems with Writelog on any of my slower computers
> and
> > I don't think I will with the Athlon 1800+.  It does take some
> > troubleshooting to get everything working correctly, but I have found
that
> > it has always been a problem with a software driver or my MS Operating
> > System configuration that has been the problem.
> >
> >   Hope you all have a great New Year (hope you all work me in the
contests
> > also!!!),
> >
> > 73,
> >
> > George / KF9YR
> >
> >
> >
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