Hi,
At 04:39 PM 6/7/99 -0700, J. Williams wrote:
>Error: Illegal Sumout
This error can be a hardware problem, but is very often caused by a
faulty driver or program (usually related to the audio card).
>Is this anything I need to be concerned about and is there a listing of
>such messages?
This error and the others are briefly discussed in the readme.txt file.
Prime95 recovers from ILLEGAL SUMOUT ERRORs quite well, so there is
little to be concerned about. If you get either of the other two errors,
then almost certainly you have a hardware problem, and a cause for concern.
>Also, a while ago the program reserved about 20 numbers for testing (all
>the way into the year 2001) then it and released them a few minutes later.
>Is this normal operation?
No. It is possible the program misguessed your CPU speed (say it
thought you had a 2000 MHz Pentium), reserved a lot of exponents to
keep you busy, and then when your actual progress was less than
expected it returned the excess exponents.
>Any tips for optimization and usage?
No, there really is little you can do other than remove screen savers
and power save features that slow the CPU speed down.
>Finally, when and why does it communicate with the server (besides getting
>new numbers to test)?
Every 28 days it checks in to let the server know you are still
working on the number. It may also call in to let the server know
of any changes in the expected completion date.
Best regards,
George
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