This pair of items is aimed more or less at George.
1) I run prime95 on my laptop (266 P-II with 64MB RAM). It is probably my
fastest machine for prime95.
However, if I unplug it and let prime95 run, my battery drains in about 1/4
the time (or less) it takes with prime95 stopped.
Is there a way for prime95 to check to see if external power is in use? I
suspect that Win98 supports a call like this.
So far I have not looked into the APIs to see what might be available. As
a suggestion, assuming a call exists, we
might have a new option: suspend prime95 when on battery? with options yes
(at first detection), no (user must do it
manually if user wants to stop prime95 == the same as now, of course), and
ask. On yes and ask, the program must
check for battery power or not. If yes, then stop like {File|Stop} with a
message in the prime95 window.
A suitable time to ask about continuing is when backup files get saved.
On ask, a message box should pop up with a yes/no choice for stop or
continue. There choice could be three choices:
continue and do not ask again this session, continue and ask at next save,
stop.
2) I have had a lot of internet hassles over the past two weeks. This has
turned into a need to reboot a Win98 desktop
frequently because of software crashes of one sort or another.
Something caused an error in prime95: sumout != suminputs. Previously,
this error has just caused prime95 to back up a few hundred iterations from
a save file. Today, prime95 crashed. Several times. I think that all of
the crashes may have been caused
by the same set of events following the sumout error. prime95 attempted to
contact primenet immediately after the sumout error. As I was not
currently logged on, a DUN connectoid popped up. I cancelled the
connectoid and prime95 crashed pretty fatally in
a dll (I goofed: I did not write down the name of the dll and did not save
the crash data ... rpdc.dll??) I ended up rebooting and cancelled the DUN
connectoids that popped and prime95 kept crashing. Finally, I let a DUN
connection go through and prime95 stopped crashing, backed up a few hundred
iterations and seems to be running properly again.
This is probably old news to lots of people, but I wanted to pass it along
in case others are getting hit by it.
Thanks,
Joth
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