3.8.6 sb version

[rayman]

I just sent shopbot tech team? a message, here is what I said.....This morning I brought my computer that I use in the house out to my shopbot and tried to run the new software 3.8.6 on my shopbot. Well it ran like a champ no problems at all..now here is the problem the computer I used has a intel core 2 cpu 6300 @ 1.86 GHz ,3 GB memory, new version 3.8.6 ran just fine...The computer I use on my shopbot daily runs AMD 9750 Quad-Core 2.4GHz, 4 GB memory, 32 bit OS...Now from what I understand is that quad-core processors are used in 64 bit systems? maybe wrong maybe not just sayin so put your thinking hats on and see what you think because i am really confused at this point.
Raymond

[GlenP]

Hey Raymond. So i guess the suggestion to try a older pc worked. Have you hooked up your quad core to the shopbot AFTER running it with the older pc? Also I am no computer guru but if you have quad core processor and 32 bit os is that ok? I have windows 7 ultimate 64 bit running on my quad core. I, like you could not get it to work and tried a older pc and the older pc with 1.8 ghz 1 gig of ram running xp worked great. I am now running my quad core and it is fine. I did check the "affinity" as Ron Sloan advised. It seems to default to all porcessors. I did set it to cpu 0 once, not sure if that helped or not. Heck run the older house pc and take the quad core in the house...lol
Edit-
Raymond how did you find machine run? Did you do any cuts or speed tests?

[gerryv]

This won't answer your question but maybe don't worry about it and just leave them switched if it's working for you right now. You can always switch back later. Haha, Glen just beat me to the punch - with some good additional thoughts.

[rayman]

It worked really well actually too well ,I hooked my shop PC back up and no it did not work, so, it is so frustrating, my shop PC starts out works great for a few minutes then poop, Shopbot called we talked 20 minutes or so and they are just as confused as I am , I am not sure what is interfering with it. Yea I told my wife we will be swapping PC's.

[ron_moorehead]

I think a lot of the problems we are having is what processes are running in the back ground of your computer. I was having problems with my computer and turned off a lot of processes that I don't need to run the ShopBot. Below is a list of processes that maybe running on your PC and a lot of them you don't need. Once I turned a lot of them off I have not had one problem running the Bot.

See Blackviper web site.

Display
Name
Alerter

Application Layer Gateway Service

Application Management

Automatic Updates

Background Intelligent Transfer Service

ClipBook

COM+ Event System

COM+ System Application

Computer Browser

Cryptographic Services

DCOM Server Process Launcher

DHCP Client

Distributed Link Tracking Client

Distributed Transaction Coordinator

DNS Client

Error Reporting Service

Event Log

Extensible Authentication Protocol Service **

Fast User Switching Compatibility

Fax

FTP Publishing

Health Key and Certificate Management Service **

Help and Support

HTTP SSL

Human Interface Device Access

IIS Admin

IMAPI CD-Burning COM Service

Indexing Service

IPSEC Services

IPv6 Helper Service

Logical Disk Manager

Logical Disk Manager Administrative Service

Media Center Receiver Service

Media Center Scheduler Service

Message Queuing

Message Queuing Triggers

Messenger

MHN

MS Software Shadow Copy Provider

Net Logon

NetMeeting Remote Desktop Sharing

Network Access Protection Agent **

Network Connections

Network DDE

Network DDE DSDM

Network Location Awareness (NLA)

Network Provisioning Service

NT LM Security Support Provider

Peer Name Resolution Protocol

Peer Networking

Peer Networking Group Authentication

Peer Networking Identity Manager

Performance Logs and Alerts

Plug and Play

Portable Media Serial Number Service

Print Spooler

Protected Storage

QoS RSVP

Remote Access Auto Connection Manager

Remote Access Connection Manager

Remote Desktop Help Session Manager

Remote Procedure Call (RPC)

Remote Procedure Call (RPC) Locator

Remote Registry

Removable Storage

RIP Listener

Routing and Remote Access

Secondary Logon

Security Accounts Manager

Security Center

Server

Shell Hardware Detection

Simple Mail Transport Protocol (SMTP)

Simple TCP/IP Services

Smart Card

SNMP Service

SNMP Trap Service

SSDP Discovery Service

System Event Notification

System Restore Service

Task Scheduler

TCP/IP NetBIOS Helper Service

TCP/IP Printer Server

Telephony

Telnet

Terminal Services

Themes

Uninterruptible Power Supply

Universal Plug and Play Device Host

Volume Shadow Copy

WebClient

Windows Audio

Windows Firewall / Internet Connection Sharing

Windows Image Acquisition (WIA)

Windows Installer

Windows Management Instrumentation

Windows Management Instrumentation Driver Extension

Windows Time

Wired AutoConfig **

Wireless Zero Configuration

WMI Performance Adapter

Workstation

World Wide Web Publishing

[dana_swift]

Ron- the list you gave is ONLY for the case where the computer is not attached to a network.

If you are attached to a network you will need some of those services. This is not a complete list, but to start with:



DHCP (gets your assigned network address from the router)
DNS (convert english names "talkshopbot.com" to network addresses)
HTTP SSL (I'm not shure why HTTP needs its own SSL tho, SSL should work for anything.)
Simple Mail Transport Protocol (SMTP) (Thats your outgoing email)
Simple TCP/IP Services (This is part of the network protocols)


Other things with "network sounding" names, are probably less important, but I would look them up before nuking them and be sure you are not using that feature.

Personally I like an isolated computer for my Shopbot so its almost impossible to get a virus, or to be interrupted by foreign spies snooping around. Software cant phone-home either.. and put up those annoying "an update for xxx is available now" messages.

My design computer is not hooked to the internet either, for all the same advantages.

Hope that helps-

D

[jhedlund58]

Yep... I have been running new version for a month now... my machine has been stripped to bones... no virus protection... no windows update for 2 years now... win7 laptop... dedicated machine meens just that... get it stable and leaf it alone. I use a thumb drive to xfer files... no network.. nuttin runnin in background. KISS... keep is simple stu...

don't over think it!!!