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Originally Posted by jhersh
What is the processor utilization of the PC you are running on? Is it saturated?
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That seems to be the problem. Driver Station.exe is periodically jumping (and holding) to 100% utilization of one CPU (of two), even with the cRIO disconnected. The processor is an Intel Core 2 T7250 running at 2.0GHz with 1.0GB of RAM. There doesn't appear to be much if any load-sharing between the two processors. I'll try a "lower power" PC with a single CPU (if I can find one) and see if that improves things.
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Originally Posted by jhersh
It seems that most of the issues with the driver station are just getting the update installed. At least you can try again. Perhaps you don't recall that last year if a firmware update failed, the device was bricked and had to be sent in for recovery. How can you possibly step backward from that?
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I don't mean to throw stones. I know everyone has the best of intentions. I don't have a whole lot of sympathy for users who are having problems because they didn't read the manuals. But I do have a lot of sympathy/empathy for folks who are reading the manuals, who are installing the updates, who are reading the forums, who are using the proper help channels and yet are still having problems. This year's bugs will no doubt get worked out; let's just hope that a new batch of bugs aren't introduced again next year while attempting to add functionality.
As always, thanks for your help. I'm also going to try the console to see if it yields any new info, but at this point the theory I'm going to test is that its an issue caused by the CPU design of this laptop.