Subj : Re: About To Blow A Gaske
To   : ROB MCCART
From : Digital Man
Date : Sun Jun 19 2005 10:44 am

  Re: Re: About To Blow A Gaske
  By: ROB MCCART to MIKE POWELL on Fri Jun 17 2005 07:16 pm

 > BE>>rock on brother. I'm all about OpenSource personally. i only have 1 wind
 >   >>box now and it's running my bbs. other than that, my fileserver, mainbox
 >   >>my dos gaming box are all opensource operating systems running opensourc
 >   >>software. *dos box is running old dos games that were not opensource of
 >   >>course* but other than that =)
 > 
 > MP>Which DOS are you running?
 > 
 > Speaking of...  This is really odd..  I still use quite a few
 > DOS programs (Win 98 DOS) and with warmer temps I was watching
 > the processor temps more closely the last few days..  It's cooled
 > down again, barely 70f in here today, but my processor, that usually
 > can run virtually anything in Windows up to mid-level Games and
 > stay at 52c, will run itself up to 63c - 65c just doing mail in
 > a DOS Mail Reader or playing Dos games designed to run reasonably
 > well on a 386. I dunno why it gets so hot running those...
 > (P4 3.0 GHz Prescott - 512 ram)

Check your CPU utilization (using Windows task manager or the like).

                                                  digital man

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