This may be a dumb question but is there a way to set how much processing power "CPU" this program will use? When I loaded this program at work and it ran it made my computer sound like a jet engine was sitting on my desk. Ctrl Alt Del - task list and bam! 99% usage. Naturally the jet engine is not so good for a positive work environment. So can I "force" set the processing power for say 50 or 75 percent? Any help would be great!

I suspect the noise is your hard disk. I suppose it COULD be your cooling fan.

Yes, you will see 99% usage... but that isn't what's making the noise. And throttling it down to 70% isn't likely going to help. But there is an add-on called threadmaster that is used to reduce CPU %, and help avoid overheating problems on some machines. So, I don't think it will help your case, but the literal answer to your question is in the list of add on software.

How much memory does that PC have? If you need further help, please go in to your Rosetta preferences, and say "yes" for the "Should Rosetta@home show your computers on its web site?" entry. It's just going to show the specs of your machine, which will help get you a more specific answer to your question.

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I suspect the noise is your hard disk. I suppose it COULD be your cooling fan.

Yes, you will see 99% usage... but that isn't what's making the noise. And throttling it down to 70% isn't likely going to help. But there is an add-on called threadmaster that is used to reduce CPU %, and help avoid overheating problems on some machines. So, I don't think it will help your case, but the literal answer to your question is in the list of add on software.

How much memory does that PC have? If you need further help, please go in to your Rosetta preferences, and say "yes" for the "Should Rosetta@home show your computers on its web site?" entry. It's just going to show the specs of your machine, which will help get you a more specific answer to your question.

Thanks this really helped.... my co-workers thank you, we all thank you!
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How much memory does that PC have?
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So, I see you've got three machines. One has the recommended minimum of 512MB of memory (that's the one on Win XP, the other two have more memory and are running Win 2000 Professional)... does the one on XP happen to be the noisy one?

I should have explained a little more. The REASON I think the noise may be your hard drive, is, well that's one of the more common noises to hear I guess, and the addition of Rosetta to that machine may have caused it to do a lot more page faulting then it used to. This means disk accesses have increased. It ALSO may mean your PC's hard drive is about to fail. MAKE BACKUPS! (good advice for all of us).

I'd suggest you go to the BOINC Manager, go to the "Commands" pulldown menu, and select the "Suspend" option. This will hold all WUs that any BOINC project is running. So, you'll see your CPU usage drop back to normal where most of it is taken by the System Idle Process. Leave BOINC suspended like this for say an hour. That gives your PC plenty of time to cool off, and return to normal... now, did that help the noise? ...I'm thinking your computer is still making noise, even without BOINC running, and basically it's a sign that it needs to be repaired. If the noise comes and goes rather suddenly, that's probably the cooling fan threw a bearing or something. If it kinda groans and fades in and out periodically, that sounds like your hard drive is about to pack it in.

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