CompuServe Messages

Mike: Power.exe is a utility which is automatically executed from your computer's startup routine. Many new computer vendors put this "feature" in their boxes to appeal to those interested in saving electricity. After x minutes or seconds your machine, if sitting idle, will basically go to sleep until you hit a key, move the mouse, etc. It can be thought of as a screen saver for your cpu. So anyways, this utility is either in your config.sys or your autoexec.bat in the form of a line: C\xxx\POWER.EXE. I would edit the file and simply put a REM in front of this line. BTW, have you verified that you have plenty of disk space for swapping and temporary file storage on each system. Does your log file show that your machines are swapping to disk when they are network rendering? Are you rendering to 'SERVER' or 'LOCAL'? – Bob Ritger