Re: Mersenne: Error message from prime95 on an old Win95 box
Try http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/source/regmon.shtml to get the name and value of the registry entry. (or maybe anyone knows what's going wrong) Greetings, Mohk Am Mittwoch, 17. Juli 2002 03:34 schrieb A T Schrum: Hi Folks, I didn't find a reference to this problem. My old PentiumMMX 200 Mhz box running Win95 OSR2 (with tons of patches) now has Prime95 2.26.1 on it and it runs reasonably faster (about 20ms faster at 768K FFT size). But upon startup, Prime95 reports Can't write registry value and continues on. Should I be concerned? Thanks, -Allan _ Unsubscribe list info -- http://www.ndatech.com/mersenne/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.tasam.com/~lrwiman/FAQ-mers _ Unsubscribe list info -- http://www.ndatech.com/mersenne/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.tasam.com/~lrwiman/FAQ-mers
Re: Mersenne: Error message from prime95 on an old Win95 box
At 09:34 PM 7/16/2002 -0400, A T Schrum wrote: I didn't find a reference to this problem. My old PentiumMMX 200 Mhz box running Win95 OSR2 (with tons of patches) now has Prime95 2.26.1 on it and it runs reasonably faster (about 20ms faster at 768K FFT size). But upon startup, Prime95 reports Can't write registry value and continues on. Should I be concerned? I doubt it. Prime95 should be trying to create a registry entry to run the program at bootup. If you uncheck the Options/Start at Bootup menu item the problem should go away. I'm curious though. Do other Win95 users have the same trouble? _ Unsubscribe list info -- http://www.ndatech.com/mersenne/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.tasam.com/~lrwiman/FAQ-mers
Re: Mersenne: Error message from prime95 on an old Win95 box
No go. The box was unchecked. I checked it, restarted Prime95, and the error message was not there. So I unchecked it, restarted Prime95, and the error message came back. George Woltman wrote: At 09:34 PM 7/16/2002 -0400, A T Schrum wrote: I didn't find a reference to this problem. My old PentiumMMX 200 Mhz box running Win95 OSR2 (with tons of patches) now has Prime95 2.26.1 on it and it runs reasonably faster (about 20ms faster at 768K FFT size). But upon startup, Prime95 reports Can't write registry value and continues on. Should I be concerned? I doubt it. Prime95 should be trying to create a registry entry to run the program at bootup. If you uncheck the Options/Start at Bootup menu item the problem should go away. I'm curious though. Do other Win95 users have the same trouble? _ Unsubscribe list info -- http://www.ndatech.com/mersenne/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.tasam.com/~lrwiman/FAQ-mers
Re: Mersenne: Error message from prime95 on an old Win95 box
Sounds like the opposite problem: Prime95 is trying to delete a registry entry that doesn't exist. I had one do that to me recently. Rather than uncheck the box, manually edit ( in prime.ini ) the line windows service=1 (or whatever line it has to that effect) to ...=0 and it will no longer see a need to try to delete the registry entry. And the box will now show as unchecked. Hope that helps, Steve Harris -Original Message- From: A T Schrum [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wednesday, July 17, 2002 5:26 PM No go. The box was unchecked. I checked it, restarted Prime95, and the error message was not there. So I unchecked it, restarted Prime95, and the error message came back. George Woltman wrote: At 09:34 PM 7/16/2002 -0400, A T Schrum wrote: I didn't find a reference to this problem. My old PentiumMMX 200 Mhz box running Win95 OSR2 (with tons of patches) now has Prime95 2.26.1 on it and it runs reasonably faster (about 20ms faster at 768K FFT size). But upon startup, Prime95 reports Can't write registry value and continues on. Should I be concerned? I doubt it. Prime95 should be trying to create a registry entry to run the program at bootup. If you uncheck the Options/Start at Bootup menu item the problem should go away. I'm curious though. Do other Win95 users have the same trouble? _ Unsubscribe list info -- http://www.ndatech.com/mersenne/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.tasam.com/~lrwiman/FAQ-mers _ Unsubscribe list info -- http://www.ndatech.com/mersenne/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.tasam.com/~lrwiman/FAQ-mers
Re: Mersenne: Error message from prime95 on an old Win95 box
At 06:01 PM 7/17/2002 -0400, A T Schrum wrote: No go. The box was unchecked. I checked it, restarted Prime95, and the error message was not there. So I unchecked it, restarted Prime95, and the error message came back. I reactivated an old Win98 box for debugging. You are correct. The error message is harmless. I've got a fix ready for download at ftp://mersenne.org/p95v227.zip The only new feature a v22.7 is SSE2 based trial factoring for factors above 2^64. It is about 4 times faster than v22.6. Since most P4 users are getting assigned prefactored exponents, the speedup is of no value. However, if you are working on 10 million digit numbers, you may get assigned a number that needs factoring and the new code will certainly help. _ Unsubscribe list info -- http://www.ndatech.com/mersenne/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.tasam.com/~lrwiman/FAQ-mers
Re: Mersenne: Error message from prime95 on an old Win95 box
Hi Steve, My current prime.ini has Windows95Service=0, and the Win95 Service box is not checked. However, whenever the program starts, it gives me the Can't write registry value error. I looked into the latest source (source22.zip) and I see that for Win95 systems, it seems to always try to delete the key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\ Software\ Microsoft\ CurrentVersion\ RunServices\ Prime95 but cannot because it is not there (as you said). This is in the routine Service95(). But this is not supposed to be called unless Prime95 is setup as a Windows service. For some reason, on my Win95 box, Service95() is always called. I tried deleting the Windows95Service option from prime.ini, then set Prime95 to be a service and it properly changed the prime.ini file. I do not use the -A option with Prime95, so the prime.ini in the Prime95.exe directory is used. But whether the Windows95Service option is deleted or just set to zero, I still get the error. The code in Prime95.cpp looks fine, but I must be missing something. But wait, there's more. Just for grins, I tried it on my Win98 SE box and it shows the same behavior! If I uncheck the Start at bootup box, restart Prime95, I get the exact same error message. So this is not a Win95-specific problem. I always had my Win98 box set with Start at bootup so I never noticed this before. And just for more fun, I found another problem with Prime95 in how it operates. I have my Prime95 setup with Tray Icon. If I start Prime95, double-click on the icon to open Prime95, do a File- Exit real quick, the program hangs and stops responding to all mouse clicks. At this point, you must kill it. This is reproducible on my Win98 and Win95 box. If you wait a few more seconds before doing the File- Exit, then there is no problem. Note to everyone else: None of these problems are critical to the operation of Prime95. They amount to minor annoyances, so please don't blow this out of proportion. The details I supplied are to help George figure this out sometime when he is looking for something to do :-) Thanks for the air time. Regards, -Allan Steve Harris wrote: Sounds like the opposite problem: Prime95 is trying to delete a registry entry that doesn't exist. I had one do that to me recently. Rather than uncheck the box, manually edit ( in prime.ini ) the line windows service=1 (or whatever line it has to that effect) to ...=0 and it will no longer see a need to try to delete the registry entry. And the box will now show as unchecked. Hope that helps, Steve Harris _ Unsubscribe list info -- http://www.ndatech.com/mersenne/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.tasam.com/~lrwiman/FAQ-mers
Mersenne: Error message from prime95 on an old Win95 box
Hi Folks, I didn't find a reference to this problem. My old PentiumMMX 200 Mhz box running Win95 OSR2 (with tons of patches) now has Prime95 2.26.1 on it and it runs reasonably faster (about 20ms faster at 768K FFT size). But upon startup, Prime95 reports Can't write registry value and continues on. Should I be concerned? Thanks, -Allan _ Unsubscribe list info -- http://www.ndatech.com/mersenne/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.tasam.com/~lrwiman/FAQ-mers
