Mach 2 slow on Intel Centrino P1.6 Notebook

[daddyhobby]

Hi Guys,

I just started w CNC software and I set myself on the Mach 2. Things seems good on a P4, 2.4GHZ notebook system but when I got a new P1.6/512MB Toshiba notebook on XP home edition yesterday, I could not get the Mach 2 to work properly.

Did the OCX test and everything seems fine. After I launched Mach 2, every thing comes to a crawl. I will need to reboot and there is no way I can get the Mach 2 to run smoothly.

I had checked there is no "qtask.exe" running in background. I did msconfig but also did not find the qtask program which a few ppl mentioned.

Appreciate if someone out there can give some pointer to it.

Thanks

Mike

[ger21]

Some systems just won't run Mach2 well. Try updating your video drivers. Go to msconfig and delete everything from the startup tab and try it.

[CNCadmin]

Personally, I have aways found Centrinos and Celerons to be a bit on the slow slide of computing.

[JavaDog]

Well, Centrino is not a proccessor - they are actually a Pentium-M (Mobile) chip. The Pentium-M cpus do have performance similar to a Celeron, though generally a little bit better.

[daddyhobby]

Thank u for the input, I got a reply fr ART as below:-

"Try killing all the startup processes in the msconfig. I suspect
>one of them is the culprit.."

I followed this and now everything is running well

Thanks

Mike

[joecnc2006]

see if you have qttask running, I stoped that and not mach2 opens and closes normal. (nvm) you already checked it

[milgo]

In your bios you will have a setting that enables/disables the varispeed thing on your cpu. If you dissable it, it will force the cpu to run at 1.6 all the time. I found this solved the problem with mine.

[JFettig]

My centrino laptop just comees to a crawl aswell. qttask is a quicktime program, I dont even have quicktime on here.

My other 2 computers I use for mach2 are celerons, 700mhz and 950mhz.

Centrinos are rather higher performance for the clock speed. they cannot ever be classified anywhere near a celeron.

Jon