Second that.... If you are running an NON Intel processor like my 686... the power management might not work right. Mine polls about once a minute, even though its programmed to OFF... It gets slow to the point of non-operation. so check with the cntl/alt/del and see if 'Power Saving' is on... then KILL it !!! H^) harry (resume lurk) Mark Christenson wrote:
At 10:56 PM 12/12/02 -0500, you wrote:
Hi,
Just a (maybe) technical question...
I have observed that on many ".par" (from fotd) projects that are rather slowly rendered on my computer, there is an "accidental" way to speed up the rendering.
That is just by pressing a key (which has no function in fractint, like "shift", to not disturb otherwise the rendering).
The effect is that the rendering process seems to speed up for a while (one or two lines of pixels), then slows again.
It could also be the power management in your BIOS. Even my Jurassic 486 with Award BIOS has settings for monitor, hard drive, and CPU inactivity timeouts. If your CPU timeout is enabled, disable it; the "sleep" mode operates based on user interaction rather than CPU activity (I'd like to throttle the guy who made *this* judgement call). I hope this helps.
Aloha, Bud
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