thanks to xyzzy for the fora! ("plugh. 'you are at the Y2 room.' go
back. 'you are in a maze of twisty passages, all alike.' xyzzy.")
>>>>> "Aaron" == Aaron Blosser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> >at work lately i've been trying to set up a dual-P4 win2k
>> system with >prime95. but when it boots only one of the
>> prime95 starts up when i >log in. both are set for "start at
>> bootup" & each with cpu-affinity >hard-coded.
>>
>> I'm guessing you've installed prime95 twice in two different
Aaron> directories.
yes George that is what i did.
>> If so, what is happening is both are trying to use the service
>> name "Prime95 Service" and overwriting each other.
>>
>> Try turning off "Start at Bootup" on both. Edit one of the
>> local.ini files and add "ServiceName=Prime95 Service #2". Turn
>> on "Start at bootup" on both.
acknowledged. i will do that when i get the machine back from our
admin folks, they are reimaging it with our corporate win2k for a
third time...
>> If you run the second prime95 from the same directory with the
>> -A1 command line argument, then you shouldn't have this
>> trouble.
i think as Aaron points out that i'm not able to adjust an "autoexec"
sort of startup command line to have the "-A1" since i do not have
admin access.
Aaron> However, if you don't have admin access on the Win2K
Aaron> system, it won't be able to write to the registry locations
Aaron> to autostart it at bootup.
Aaron> Your best bet then is just put it in your startup group and
Aaron> NOT check "start at bootup". Of course then it only runs
Aaron> when you're logged on...
hmm. i thought that was always the case. that is, prime95 does not
run if i am logged in to the win2k machine. generally that's ok since
i stay logged in for months at at ime.
thanks,
/eli, DTV viewer & prime-hunter
Aaron> Just one of those things... WinNT/2K is designed that way,
Aaron> with security in mind, so along with that come limitations
Aaron> to what non-admins can do, and installing services or
Aaron> modifying some registry locations are part of it.
Aaron> Aaron
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