I had a similar problem with my Soyo K7VEM-PRO motherboard and Athlon 1700 -
took 5.5 to 6.5 hours per wu and increased unless I rebooted.  Spent $50 on
a decent video card and turned off the on-board video.  Sped up the wu
processing by an hour - now most process in 4.5 hours.



"Steve" <steve@nospam4me.org> wrote in message
news:PdsNa.2966$9f7.314325@news02.tsnz.net...

Darth Vader allegedly said:

I have a win98se system using
SETI drive 1.5.0.0 and cmd line setiathom303.
1 GHZ  512 MB

My problem is that that the wu times are increasing.
Starts at about 6 h / wu after boot and then increasing about
1 h / day.
So after a couple of days it is over 10 h / wu.
All other background tasks are killed( checked by dllview ).

any sugestions ??

john rehn

Do you have one of those "all-in-1" motherboards?

I bought one for my yougest daughter's PC - a PCCHIPS M810 (SiS mobo
chipset).

It has sound, video (shared ram) and ethernet all on the system

board...and

it does exactly what you describe.  A WU that take 11 hours on day one

will

17 hours a week later.

Only way to keep it fast is re-boot it every day.

My other 9 systems don't do that....and they aren't PCCHIPS and they

aren't

"all-in-1" with an SiS chipset.

(I mainly run LInux and those shared-ram video arrangements create more
problems than the yare worth.)

-- 
Steve
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"Naturally, the common people don't  want war;
neither in Russia nor in England nor in America,
nor for that matter in Germany.
That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders
of the country who determine the policy and
it is always a simple matter to drag the people
along, whether it is a democracy or a fascist
dictatorship or a Parliament or a Communist
dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can
always be brought to the bidding of the leaders.
That is easy. All you have to do is tell them
they are being attacked and denounce the
pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing
the country to danger. It works the same way
in any country."
           - Hermann Goering, Nazi Reichsmarshall