I.M.O.G. Posted March 29, 2012 Share Posted March 29, 2012 I've only gotten odd behavior on MTT2 on certain platforms with certain tweaks in place. Disabling visual themes or running in 256 colors on fmpad worked around that problem in MTT2. When the problem occurs, one of the bars in MTT2 progresses normally, while the other bar hangs until it completes, then the hung bar completes... You get a score as it doesn't report an error, but that subtest score is very low like between 0 and 2 or something. I'd be interested to hear if that fixes the problem for you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
K404 Posted March 29, 2012 Share Posted March 29, 2012 Looks like that dealt with it Thanks! I owe you a beer "one of the bars in MTT2 progresses normally, while the other bar hangs until it completes, then the hung bar completes..." That's EXACTLY what I was getting I'm scared that i'm almost beginning to enjoy PCM05 again..... that means £££ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
knopflerbruce Posted March 30, 2012 Share Posted March 30, 2012 What's the easiest way to cripple xp startup+ Trying to run dual spi2m on a dual core, but it's a PITA. Also tried to create txt files using FSUTIL, but also a PITA to do (neither of these two methods are accurate). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
I.M.O.G. Posted March 30, 2012 Share Posted March 30, 2012 Depends how strong the storage is you are using. I use iometer, which takes some tweaking, but once dialed in can be accurate within <10mb/s for XP startup... that's to pull down the areca which scores around 1000 or so uncrippled. On anything else, a file copy started just before pcmark starts did the trick for me. You could also use a copy wazaa app, or something like that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
knopflerbruce Posted March 30, 2012 Share Posted March 30, 2012 At the moment i'm just running 4x m4's on ICH9R:p I think I get about 265 or so uncrippled, but not sure if the CPu speed is high enough for that to be the real limit of the storage configuration. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
I.M.O.G. Posted March 30, 2012 Share Posted March 30, 2012 With a 265 XP startup, I would just throw a file copy at the drives. Different types of files work differently. For that in the past I would have usually grabbed a copy of a few program file folders, or some benching app/tool folders and just push them over. If it needs pulled down more, I'd grab more folders, if it needs less, I'd pull fewer. I'd just run XP startup until I was sure I had it timed right. Throwin a bunch of smaller files might work better than one large file - if you throw a large file at it, the xp startup may initialize but not actually run until the large file copy is done. You want the copy running at the same time as XP startup for a few seconds to pull it down just by 50MB or so. I just use IOMeter. It was a pain to figure out, but its the best solution. Stevero pointed me in the direction, and I put in some time getting it to work well - at first it was inconsistent and needed constant tweaking. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crew Antinomy Posted March 30, 2012 Crew Share Posted March 30, 2012 Can't get the file copy method working. I can either start to copy it before running PCMark - that way PCMark halts and can't run till the copy ends. Or I can run it right after running PCMark - that way 50% is that the bench halts like described above. And then I get over 250MB/s. Or copy runs during test and I get about 32MB/s The less files I take the more frequently the copy ends before the test runs (halting it). Now where's that IOmeter? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
I.M.O.G. Posted March 31, 2012 Share Posted March 31, 2012 Iometer is the top result in google. Stevero pointed me in that direction a while back, just to give credit where credit is due. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveRo Posted March 31, 2012 Share Posted March 31, 2012 iometer works well in most setups but not all - 1x sempron and 2x e86 come to mind as erratic. iometer takes time to learn but its the best I have found for xpstartup limiting (so far). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Mutt Posted March 31, 2012 Share Posted March 31, 2012 So I did a reinstall of W7x64 yesterday and I still have the same problem still, the bob80 tweak works about 1% of the time. I've tried everything I can thing of, yesterday I tried disabling services that i don't use and that did not help that problem... When you start Pcmark does it say "Pcmark needs stay on top windows to be closed to work properly"? When I turn off themes thet message disappear but then 2D windows is super slow due to no Aero I guess. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
K404 Posted March 31, 2012 Share Posted March 31, 2012 I've only gotten odd behavior on MTT2 on certain platforms with certain tweaks in place. Disabling visual themes or running in 256 colors on fmpad worked around that problem in MTT2. When the problem occurs, one of the bars in MTT2 progresses normally, while the other bar hangs until it completes, then the hung bar completes... You get a score as it doesn't report an error, but that subtest score is very low like between 0 and 2 or something. I'd be interested to hear if that fixes the problem for you. I tried Server 08 and the problem re-appeared, even with your advice in place If I can sort out this and one other problem, server08 will be giving me the best efficiency out of the O.S. i've tried so far One more to try after this Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
I.M.O.G. Posted March 31, 2012 Share Posted March 31, 2012 (edited) It worked for me on server 08 as well. You can use other options on that same property page, like 256 colors or something. I found server 08 to be good for some things, but a trade off in some subtests. At the end of the day, it catered to some platforms better than others. Also depends on storage setup for me, which is best. Edited March 31, 2012 by I.M.O.G. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
K404 Posted March 31, 2012 Share Posted March 31, 2012 Your reply is too fast bro My scores appear to have "come correct" and Server08 now has a lead of 8-10% for me I don't have any SSD arrays to play with, nor a 58x0 card... so plenty more points to be found Probably need a Sempron 145 to compete anyway, but this is chilled out fun, I like it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
knopflerbruce Posted March 31, 2012 Share Posted March 31, 2012 Thanks for the iometer advice, I guess I have to learn to use that program then none of you ever tried raid0 on the nf4 controller, did you? I've slipstreamed a bunch of drivers, and i get a 0x0000007B error, which inciated a problem with the storage drivers. Works on the SIl3114 chip, but that one is SATA I, and I don't think it scores better than a single SSD on the nf4 controller lol. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
I.M.O.G. Posted March 31, 2012 Share Posted March 31, 2012 (edited) I only get 0x7B when BIOS configuration for the sata port mismatches driver configuration in the OS. AHCI/RAID/IDE is set wrong for installed drivers -> BSOD when trying to load windows. I have not tried NF4 though, so there may be something weird about NF4 controllers that I don't know about. I wouldn't install my OS to the disks you are planning to run the storage benches on though either, if you can avoid it. So, your OS disk should preferably be AHCI/IDE. IOMeter can be intimidating at first, plenty of options - I figured it out and wrote a guide for our team. Edited March 31, 2012 by I.M.O.G. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
K404 Posted April 10, 2012 Share Posted April 10, 2012 (edited) IE9.... Every time I try to install on W7, I have to get a working net connection and have to install updates. KB2454826 fails every time. I've also downloaded that .msu separately and the problem is still there. I can't be the only person to have had this problem. Does anyone have a complete, standalone (offline), BS-free install of IE9? I even dared to try official Microsoft update...... and it still didn't install Edited April 10, 2012 by K404 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
knopflerbruce Posted April 10, 2012 Share Posted April 10, 2012 I had an issue with IE9 not installing on one setup, but i don't think I ever solved it. So.. you're not alone... but it was just on that one system. Where's IE10? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christian Ney Posted April 11, 2012 Author Share Posted April 11, 2012 Sorry Kenny, never had this issue. None of my systems had it, wonder what you are doing to your OSes to be such Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saint19 Posted April 11, 2012 Share Posted April 11, 2012 IE9.... Every time I try to install on W7, I have to get a working net connection and have to install updates. KB2454826 fails every time. I've also downloaded that .msu separately and the problem is still there. I can't be the only person to have had this problem. Does anyone have a complete, standalone (offline), BS-free install of IE9? I even dared to try official Microsoft update...... and it still didn't install I have one, give me one or two days for find it on my hdds. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
K404 Posted April 11, 2012 Share Posted April 11, 2012 Thanks for the replies I managed to get things running smoothly using Home Premium 64. Zero fuss. Random. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bob80 Posted April 12, 2012 Share Posted April 12, 2012 Have you already tried IE10 ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
knopflerbruce Posted April 12, 2012 Share Posted April 12, 2012 No, but i feel IE9 is old:p Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crew pro Posted April 13, 2012 Crew Share Posted April 13, 2012 still on IE9, but warming up with Sandy Bridge/Z77 in anticipation of Ivy launch, think theres still some more in Trans Windows though Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
I.M.O.G. Posted April 13, 2012 Share Posted April 13, 2012 Nice web page score. I still haven't figured that out. Cool classic window border on PCM05 and aero on the others too. Transparent should have more, but the quality of that score all kinda depends on CPU speed so hard to judge your screen. Mine is a little better, but you are probably on stock or some crap. lol This was at 5.7, which helps transparent a bit, but there are little tweaks that give a bit extra, and others have done better yet: http://hwbot.org/image/747513.jpg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crew pro Posted April 13, 2012 Crew Share Posted April 13, 2012 nice nice yeah your efficiency is looking real nice Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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