Mark wrote:

Is the "gate A20" option enabled in the bios? if not then enable it, this

will

give you a lot more zazz and is not dangerous in any way ( I don`t know

why

this is still there in newer bios`s anyway )

The mobo is a Gigabyte GA8SDX with a dual BIOS arrangement.
BIOS is Award V6.00PG and was flashed with the latest download a month ago.
No 'gate A20' option in it.
Incidentally, the BIOS's PC Health page shows the temperature at 47C (rather
than 51C in XP-Motherboard Monitor) and the fan returns a sensible value,
while XP says zero.

Could we have a "standard WU" so that everyone could benchmark themselves
against it and report/brag here?

Perhaps it could be built into BOINC.