Ryan Malayter wrote: > On Nov 23, 1:08 pm, "David J Taylor" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED] bit.nor-this-bit.co.uk> wrote: >> In the event log NTP is showing errors: "Unable to initialise the >> .rnd file", but I don't think that's key to the operation of NTP >> itself. The NTP service shows as running, and the W32time service >> as stopped. >> >> Thanks, >> Puzzled from Edinburgh (a.k.a. David) > > What are the Power Options settings in Vista? Can you try creating a > custom power profile which prevents processor power management (in > Vista, every default power profile - even the "High Performance" > profile - seems to use processor frequency scaling.) > > If things work fine with processor frequency scaling turned off, that > would be an interesting. > > Besides processor power managmeent, the power management options for > the Indexing service as well as the multimedia power options could > potentially affect ntpd, I suppose. (The former because of lost > interrupts, and I know the Meinberg build uses multimedia timers on > windows).
Ryan, Some interetsing points there - I've just changed to the High Performance plan and, while there are no BIOS or Processor settings there (even with the Show Me Everything enabled), the HD turn-off time was 20 minutes by default. So I've changed that to Never. Let's see what that does.... Thanks, David _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
