Older machine and 100% CPU problem

[tlaskows]

I sold a machine just recently that was top of the line back some 10 years ago. No cheap parts in there. It was my brother's old desktop. The case alone was close to 200 CAD when it was new, solid. Sold it with my 4 year old NEC IPS panels for not much. I even told the guy, if anything breaks in the next two weeks, I will fix it. Because I knew, it wouldn't .

He called me a week later that he couldn't get on the network. Well, I tried to help him, but I don't think he knows how to use a computer. The computer has wifi card and Ethernet and they both did not work for him, when it was working fine on my home network. I gotta stop fixing peoples' networks for free. Come on, just look at the manual. I told him to download the driver on his laptop for the network card. He said Chrome said not enough space (for a 20MB file).

Old computers with good parts are still good. Hey, then can still run Scope with PCI cards

-Tom

[Bud Weiser]

Your newer than me.
Still using the Matrox 16GB AGP4X.

You mean MB (megabytes) isn´t it ?
In the other machine, Intel P4 2.66GHz / FSB 533 and also 2GB RAM, I still use a Matrox G550,- newer too but 32MB only ...

I only mentioned graphics card because the OP in his original post said: "... and onboard graphic and soundcard."

I guess onboard graphics use the RAM and then 2GB might be too little.

anyway ...

Like you and for the audio/MIDI world, I use old machines for old applications, Steinberg Wavelab 4.01b because it´s the last version supporting SCSI and EMU E64 directly.
New apps like E.M.X.P. w/ DPX- and P2K-tools and supporting all kind of old sampler formats,- EI, EII, EIII, Emax, Emax II and AKAI S series, SF2 & WAV,- also Wavosaur, Audacity etc., they all run well and don´t need overkill machines at all.
I also have a SCOPE PCI card installed and it ran well w/ SCOPE 4.0 & 4.5.
I guess it will run 5.1 well too.
Adaptec SCSI card in addition,- has SCSI 50 mini connector and there´s a cable to SCSI Centronic 50.
Ideal machine for preparing everything for STS !
It also runs older Phead ReCycle version, supporting SCSI and floppy drives and delivers .rex files and loops.



Bud

[tlaskows]

You don't really need more than 128MB of graphics memory if you are only using it for 2D stuff. I don't think the onboard video card will use more than that. My 15$ Quadro has 512MB and that's way too much.

I set up a Virtual Box image with Windows 98 on it and the only way it would boot up properly was to set the graphics memory at 7MB. And that was plenty enough for 800x600 resolution and 32 bit colour depth.

-Tom