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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