I would not necessarily turn of paging, I have found over time it makes things unstable even when you have 3 gigs installed (plus I doubt if that would be the culprit). Can you bring up the services manager and take a screenshot of it and send it to me?
Neal Campbell Abroham Neal Software Programming Services www.abrohamnealsoftware.com (540) 242 0911 GRANITE DIGITAL Firewire cables $36.00 http://www.abrohamnealsoftware.com/proddetail.php?prod=gran0012 LOW-COST COMPUTER FOR SDR at http://www.sdrsystems.com On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 3:45 PM, Brian Lloyd<[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 12:36 PM, Dan Eisenman<[email protected]> wrote: >> I have been using an iMac dual core with the Flex 5000A for a few months >> now.I works great but I get freeze every so often in XP home SP3 . >> It is not caused by RF as it happens in receive mode most of the time. >> I have a number of service already turned off to include wireless, IR, auto >> software updates, apple updates,search , indexing the external 1394 network >> and host of others.I would like to hear from another iMac user that are >> freeze free and get a list of turned off services. >> The spike I get is hugh around 45,000 and last 5-6 seconds.This usual >> happens in the first few minutes of turning on the 5000A, after that it >> might go for hours without and issue > > Have you disabled paging? If you haven't and you have 1GB of RAM or > more, do so. Also, have you installed the IEEE 1394 hotfix from > Microsoft? If not, you need to. > > My list of disabled services is at home so I can't give it to you > right now. Regardless, my DPC values on my Mac Mini run consistently > at around 250us with no spikes. I even run the Flex driver in normal > mode. I can leave my radio on for days with no freezes. That should be > achievable on any contemporary Mac platform. > > > -- > 73 de Brian, WB6RQN/J79BPL > > _______________________________________________ > FlexRadio Systems Mailing List > [email protected] > http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz > Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ > Knowledge Base: http://kc.flex-radio.com/ Homepage: > http://www.flex-radio.com/ > Message delivered to [email protected] > _______________________________________________ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List [email protected] http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ Knowledge Base: http://kc.flex-radio.com/ Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/ Message delivered to [email protected]
