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Regarding Win2K and motherboards/processors...
When I installed W2K at the office and on several of my systems at home,
it worked fine. However on my primary home workstation, I had some bugs
that popped up. I have a dual-400, PentiumII with .5Gb memory. It
turns out that W2K is a bit insensitive to older motherboards.
In my case it would not recognize IDE devices. I modified the
motherboard (surface-mount resistor had to be moved). After the fix,
all is well.
I like W2K and do NOT like Win98, but if your system is more than about
two years old, that might be an issue.
Regards,
Dan.
-----Original Message-----
From: Dale Andren [mailto:dale@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Friday, June 29, 2001 6:12 AM
To: Jim Bronke; omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: time to compare processors again
Jim,
I would think that any AMD processor on windows 98 would cause more
problems than the same AMD on win2000. If these problems require
software or OS reinstallation I would assume this is because the machine
is crashing all the time. How can you possibly tell where in the
computer food chain the crashes are occuring. Is the OS crashing the
system, is the hardware crashing the system, is the installed software
crashing the system? How would you begin to even try to find the root
cause when there are so many variables. If you run Tradestation 24/7 on
an AMD 1000 and get 5 crashes per week with win 2000 and then run an AMD
800 and get 25 crashes per week with win 98 is it the AMD processor
thats the problem. If you use your computer for trading 24/7 I would
probably stay with Intel. They have been in bed with Microsoft for so
long, Gates probably has code in windows to f with AMD at a processor
level. CPU's basically execute instructions. How much extra does it cost
to buy Intel and not risk this kind of problem. Im not sure wintel is
truly reliable now either, but win2000 is substantially more reliable
than win98 and will run TS2000 24/7 without crashing.
Dale
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Bronke" <jvbronke@xxxxxxxx>
To: "Dale Andren" <dale@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, June 29, 2001 7:51 AM
Subject: Re: time to compare processors again
> but that isn't my question. Is AMD really reliable now? Some people
> are having to reinstall their SW.
>
>
> Jim Bronke
> Phoenix, AZ
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dale Andren" <dale@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: "Jim Bronke" <jvbronke@xxxxxxxx>; <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Friday, June 29, 2001 5:46 AM
> Subject: Re: time to compare processors again
>
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > This has been discussed many times. Win NT and 2000 are completely
> different
> > than win98 or win me when it comes to Tradestation. For all
> > practical purposes TS2000 on win98 is junk .....period. All the
> > hardware in the world will not make win 98 stable.
> >
> > Dale
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Jim Bronke" <jvbronke@xxxxxxxx>
> > To: <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Sent: Friday, June 29, 2001 7:41 AM
> > Subject: time to compare processors again
> >
> >
> > > Listers,
> > >
> > > Much was touted recently about processors, AMD and the like. Speed
> > > is important, but, nothing is really more important than
> > > reliability. I
am
> > > currently running an Iwill motherboard with dual pentiums at
> > > 500MHz
and
> > > Win2000. I have .77G of RAM. Although I have had instances of te
> program
> > > hanging many times, I can say that I haven't had to reinstall
ProSuite.
> > Can
> > > those with the other processors say that?
> > > I had an AMD 333MHz with Win98 and it was the biggest dog system
> > > alive
> as
> > > far as reliability is concerned with TS. Won't get fooled again.
> > >
> > > Jim Bronke
> > > Phoenix, AZ
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
>
>
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