h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Traveller in Time on top
"Can you configure the BIOS to use a low processor clock ?

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No idea - how do I do that?

Traveller in Time with no idea of the actual brand of laptop and or BIOS version
"Probably hit [Delete] key during power on (perhaps this is advertised in a small line at the bottom, other keys are possible).

You will see a menu system look chapter about for processor/ motherboard components. Find a line with Processor Clock and see if there is an option to modify this. Some systems can be slowed down to less then half the speed without having to change anything else. This change

Caution however with restoring the value, setting it too high will generate more heat then expected by the processor. "

Ti, there is a program specifically designed to do what you need to do. It' called MoSlow. It will only use a percentage of the cycles of the processor. I strongly recommend not fiddling with the clock rate in BIOS as that effects everything. MoSlow is the way I would go.

Thanks Marv, will give it a try

Traveller in Time on top
"Had never heard of the concept Mo'Slo

Best program I knew was a defrag "

When 1 GB was a *lot* - nostalgia:

http://m3.bestpicever.com/pics/pic_11905866446435.JPG

1 GB?? Luxury!! When I were lad, my first computer had 4 MB of RAM and a separate chip for floating point processing. *folds her arms and sits back, all self-satisfied*

4MB RAM? Luxury!

My first peecee was a 8088 at a whopping 4 MHZ with a full size ISA RAM card that had 512K working memory. It was supposed to be 640K, but some banks died and I used the DIP switches to turn off the bad sectors. I was lucky and the 10 MB hard card was my c:.

My first computer was actually an Atari 600XL.

Traveller in Time counting
"Was it not 4.77 Mhz ?
With 128 KB on the mother board . . . NO 'Winchester Disk'. "

More nostalgia: 'The hard disk you've been waiting for'

http://www.rawimages.org/stuff/harddisk.jpg

Traveller in Time reading
"With 64K local Cache "

And today we put in a support call to get a 300GB disk in a 7.5TB disk system replaced. The engineer should be here with a new disk tomorrow sometime. The only problem the users are seeing is that it can be slow doing disk access.

And I am building a multi terrabyte SAN that will be mirrored across dimensions, errm, sites. Storage is cheap, finally. I just can't wait till bandwidth is also cheap.

An engineer turned up, took one look at the supercomputer and there was an intake of breath through clenched teeth. Then he looked at the storage array and did it again. Turns out he'd been told that one of the disks in the server needed replacing and had brought a spare for that. Not one of the fibre channel disks for the storage array attached to the server. Someone else should be coming out tomorrow with the right part...

Traveller in Time on top
"Nothing changed over the years there . . . "

When I was just a kid, my dad purchased a TI 994A computer. It had a color monitor and a tape deck for playing programs into the computer. One of the add-ons was an external RAM box that held 64k. It was about the size of a 4-slice toaster.

STP is my nemesis right now. I HATE YOU SPANNING TREE!

So the wait for an engineer goes on. There hadn't been one turn up before I left at 10 to 5. The engineer was supposed to arrive before 5.
Lets see what monday brings.

*looking up from her DOS 6 manual* Can you still run FDISK and FORMAT /s to prep a hard drive for a WinXP installation, or has the method changed since I last did this?

A friend has a drive with some obnoxious Norton stuff that won't go away after an upgrade. She's got the full WinXP, not the upgrade, so I'm fixing to recommend this.