When my computers have strange intermittent freezes, the first two things I think about is the graphics card and the PSU. And, I hope it is one of them and not the motherboard or something more frustrating.
In theory I could see RAM (doubtful), processor (maybe) SQL (very maybe) causing this issue. Of course, it could simply be just a very buggy part of the program, but some are having luck with the above.
I just don't see how a graphics card could slow it down. During all this time, I have not seen (maybe it is on here) what part of ePrescribe is slow. Opening it up? Writing the script? Preparing it? Sending it. One test would be (depending on the place where the problem is would be to start Camstudio and have it running, set the mouse on the right button, then remove the DVI or VGA cable from the computer. Has anyone tried using the onboard VGA? Of course, one could just go out and get or borrow a $300 card and time ePrescribe, then time it after the card, then go to another computer.
But, I should be able to test it this weekend as I will have two ways of doing so. Most of my computers have graphics and gaming graphics with WEI scores of 5.2 average. They should have no problem. Of course they are couple with 8GB of RAM, the SSDs and the i7s, so that may skew things given all the theories about processors. I also have the bookends. I have one with a WEI score of 1 for the video cards with 32-bit and a rather mediocre processor. On the high end, I have a graphics card that scored 7.9 on both Windows Aero Graphics and Gaming graphics. 7.9 is the highest score. This computer has the i7 2600k, (really wanted to go with a Xenon W3690 but I had to limit my budget somewhere}, a 240GB SATA III 6Gb/s SSD and 8GBs of RAM and the nVidia GTX 570, hence the 7.9s.
Just for reference, on the PassMark scores the i7-2600k gets 9568, the 2600 gets 8878. The Xeon mentioned scores 11179 and is the highest-rated desktop processor currently. It would have scored a 7.9. I guess a PassMark score of 8568 is only good enough for 7.8 without overclocking.
I plan on installing v6 this weekend and may upgrade SQL. I am installing it with my SQL expert friend remotely. I am purposely going to ePrescribe on the three sets of computers, take notes on speeds, then have Raja look at the connections to SQL Express first. Should be interesting.
What do people see on their servers, not main computers. I would imagine that video cards on servers would be rather cheap.
