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The idle process is simple math to tie up the processor while it's bored. That's all. Nothing more. The problem you are having isn't related to the OS. I have had Win98SE, WinNT4, and Win2K on the same PC running MBM. All reported the same temp within a degree or two (around 25C at idle and 40C at full load) on a Socket P3 800. Dig in to the article, and try to look at the forest for the trees... ------------------ Regards, clutch

Quote: <font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Cynan: Excuse my ignorance, but how can a software firewall be better then a hardware one ? hmm ? IMO, there is no need for a firewall, these so called personal firewalls are just hype. All you need is a good router that is setup properly. --Cynan.</font> Simple, the "firewall" that he says he has is actually a NAT system. It isn't a real firewall, as ZoneAlarm is. A true hardware firewall (like a Cisco PIX) would be better still, since the hardware and software are integrated for the task at hand. And as far as "hype" goes, you evidently have not been scanned for open ports before. Even if you do your best to go to "safe" sites, you can get a sweep by an unknown server joining games or what have you. It happens, and it happens regularly. The best thing about these simple firewalls (and NAT) is that NetBIOS is controlled along with other unwanted normal traffic. This one guy I knew would go "shopping" on the computers in his neighborhood for MP3s and other misc stuff when cable first came out a few years ago to his area. Now, while most broadband providers control traffic by locking ports, you can still get hit with weaknesses of your own system. For instance, most people install OSs by their defaults, or check on options so they can play with them. PWS (Peer Web Services) used to get installed on a lot of machines, and then the ASP exploits would be used to get anything from raw ASP code, to access to other non-web directories. Using a firewall or NAT, you can control who comes in from the outside, that way you can work on your system without being pestered by script-kiddies and the like. ------------------ Regards, clutch

Bummer, must have missed these posts... Here's some resources: www.swynk.com www.swinc.com www.microsoft.com/exchange As far as Nutscrape goes, I don't know. I only use Outlook... ------------------ Regards, clutch

With Win2K? Practice. If you can, go to the classes. They have some really awesome books for training (I am in 1560B: Up[censored] Support Skills from NT to Win2K at the moment) and you get eval copies of Win2K Pro and Win2K AS to play with. This way, you get classroom training AND software to practice with. With the new structure of the exams, I don't know if the bootcamps are so hot anymore. ------------------ Regards, clutch

You were a newbie at one time too, jd. Just remember that. BTW, while it's poor form to use bad grammer, it isn't much better to point it out to others. There are many nationalities on the forum, so you may not know the entire situation. The person you are correcting may speak more languages than you have heard. ------------------ Regards, clutch

Must have missed that, eh? ------------------ Regards, clutch

Honestly? Not a lot. Since the strong point of a firewall is to limit what traffic can come in to a PC/Network from the outside, you will essentially have two filters overlapping each other. ZoneAlarm is a better firewall solution, but unless you are: 1. Serving a site or something and 2. Cannot adequately log transactions on that site then there really isn't a pressing need for both. ------------------ Regards, clutch

Here is a clearer explanation taken from this link: http://www.microsoft.com/TechNet/winnt/perform.asp Processor : % Processor Time. This counter provides a measure of how much time the processor actually spends working on productive threads and how often it was busy servicing requests. This counter actually provides a measurement of how often the system is doing nothing subtracted from 100%. This is a simpler calculation for the processor to make. The processor can never be sitting idle waiting to the next task, unlike our cashier. The CPU must always have something to do. It's like when you turn on the computer, the CPU is a piece of wire that electric current is always running through, thus it must always be doing something. NT give the CPU something to do when there is nothing else waiting in the queue. This is called the idle thread. The system can easily measure how often the idle thread is running as opposed to having to tally the run time of each of the other process threads. Then , the counter simply subtracts the percentage from 100%. ------------------ Regards, clutch

Well, I don't believe that the idle process is a function that "controls" idle time, but rather monitors it. The other programs you are referring to control the idle time. Like jay stated, it would be a "bad thing" to remove that function (assuming you could, which I don't think would yield any benefit anyway). What is the case temp? How about the ambient (room) temp? Do you have decent circulation? I can see that you have air blowing in, but what about evacuation of that air? Most power supplies blow in from the outside, you may want to check on how yours in configured. ------------------ Regards, clutch

Remove and restore the IP stacks on the 98 boxes. I have had to do this for similar issues, and it fixes it. ------------------ Regards, clutch

3COM 3C905C-TX 10/100 seems to do it fine on my work PC. I have an Intel Pro/100 Management adapter at home that does it too. Both sharing IRQ9 with the SBLive. ------------------ Regards, clutch

http://search.microsoft.com/us/itresourc...=1314%2526ERROR None of these articles helped? Do you have any symptoms that you can tell us about? Or did you happen to see these in your log and decided to research them? ------------------ Regards, clutch

Smart man, they are too cheap to keep fiddling with PCs like that... ------------------ Regards, clutch

People have spoken about politics or whatever for a while here. That is the point of "other". Besides, I think that Eddie wasn't *that* serious. Besides, I saw "The Gift" this weekend and it was pretty cool. My wife is burned on movies like "Thirteen Days" ever since Costner's "JFK". ------------------ Regards, clutch

WinRoute or Winproxy should do fine. ------------------ Regards, clutch

That would be the IP forwarding thing that I mentioned before. However, I would recommend that you use some sort of proxy rather than just using IP forwarding. This way, you have a basic "firewall" (usually NAT being called a firewall) and it will negotiate the connection between both NICs. ------------------ Regards, clutch

If you setup a DHCP server with 2 NICs, the only one that HAS to have a fixed IP is the one on the assigning network. For example, let's say you have 2 NICs, A and B. A is on the side connected to the LAN you want to service with DHCP and B is on the side connected to the Cable/DSL modem. A HAS to be static, but B does not. A has to be static because that is the segment that the DHCP service is supporting on the server. ------------------ Regards, clutch

Well, I go for performance and sound. I use Dynamat in my case to control the noise from fan-induced vibration. ------------------ Regards, clutch

PCs are not dead. Appliances are fine for some internet usage and email. But you can't run CAD/CAM apps on them, or graphics apps, or much of anything requiring real horsepower. In addition, what do you think the appliances are connecting to? Servers? Most of those are PCs on steroids running NTx/Linux. There isn't a huge amount of clustering going on yet, and not everybody can get some Solaris-driven behemoth. ------------------ Regards, clutch

GeForce 2 GTS Pro running on an AOpen AX34 (Via Apollo Pro 133A), 4X and Fast Writes. However, I did have major problems with a GeForce Ultra on the same system when Fast Writes was enabled. ------------------ Regards, clutch

Get more RAM. You could tweak the hell out of it in an attempt to fix it, but more RAM will get you a lot further. I have used 256MB the whole time, and never had a problem. I have heard others talk about how going from 128 to 256MB fixed their UT stuttering problems. ------------------ Regards, clutch

Ouch. At least you have a working system again. ------------------ Regards, clutch

Got a good thermal paste? The stuff that comes with the HSF usually sucks. Oh and btw, the HSF *should* be a little warm, since that would indicate good heat transfer from the CPU to the HSF. ------------------ Regards, clutch [This message has been edited by clutch (edited 17 January 2001).]

Ditto that. I will reinstall Win2K on my home box for just about any reason I can think of. Then again, having your own server and another workstation at home makes it a lot easier to keep things from being lost forever. ------------------ Regards, clutch

Do you have a NEED for SMP? Are you in to program development, database design, graphics design, CAD/CAM work, and the like? The only SMP box that we have at the moment runs email and SMS/SQL (quite well I might add). It should be something to think about (though having one is pretty cool, and great bragging rights ). ------------------ Regards, clutch