Re: Mersenne: W2K screen saver vs. Prime95
From my experience with dozens of cases on all flavors of Windows, the power save mode has no effect on screensavers. They will continue running with the monitor off. The ones with sound effects (such as underwater) continue producing their noises. If anyone has any ideas on how to make it otherwise, I would love to hear them. Steve Harris Note: If you have power saving on your monitor, once your monitor turns off, any running screen saver is supposed to stop running. Whether that's the case or not for many screen savers, I have no idea. Besides the blank screen, another good, low impact saver is the logon one. Aaron _ Unsubscribe list info -- http://www.scruz.net/~luke/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.tasam.com/~lrwiman/FAQ-mers _ Unsubscribe list info -- http://www.scruz.net/~luke/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.tasam.com/~lrwiman/FAQ-mers
RE: Mersenne: W2K screen saver vs. Prime95
On my Win2K boxes here the default screen saver is a blank screen. It doesn't look that way when you select it, but it is. I just tested it and it didn't steal a single cpu cycle from Prime95. Yeah, it doesn't look like a blank screen so I didn't try it. Thanks for the pointers to the Default screen saver, I'm now using it so Prime95 gets the max cycles when I'm away. Cheers... Russ _ Unsubscribe list info -- http://www.scruz.net/~luke/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.tasam.com/~lrwiman/FAQ-mers
Mersenne: W2K screen saver vs. Prime95
I just up(?)graded from NT4 to Win2000. In the old NT4 screen saver selections was a Blank Screen option that I used. It would blank the screen when it locked my keyboard but it didn't run any active screen program that would take cycles from Prime95. Under W2K I don't have any Blank Screen option. If I want the screen saver active to lock the unattended keyboard I have to pick one of their 'active' display selections. Any ideas on how I can get automatic keyboad lockup with a blank (or cleared) screen AND leave the most cycles for Prime95? Cheers... Russ _ Unsubscribe list info -- http://www.scruz.net/~luke/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.tasam.com/~lrwiman/FAQ-mers
