Powerdesk NT - MGABG 20% CPU time

[apwelch]

every release of Powerdesk NT seems to install and run at startup a program called MGABG and according and generally causes my PC to slow up because (according to Task Manager) it permanently consumes 20% of the CPU's time.

what is the purpose of this program?

I've removed it from loading from HKEY\Local Machine\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\ Run and by not having it run it doesn't appear to have caused any ill effects.

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Andrew Welch

Supermicro P6DBE board
Dual PII 400mhz
Matrox Millennium G200 16MB
Intel Pro 100+ ethernet
Soundblaster Live 1024
128MB PC100 SDRAM
Pioneer 6x DVDROM
Mitsumi 4801TE CDR
Fujitsu 10.2GB EIDE
Western Digital 3.2GB EIDE
Windows 98 SE
Windows NT4 SP6a

[MartinS]

Beat ya. Took 30% CPU timne on my system

I asked the very same question after it took over my system (asked on Matrox Hardware Forum) and apparently MGABG.EXE prevents a Bios corruption which Matrox denies happens, but still writes code (MGABG.EXE) to stop it hapenning - you figure. You'll be pleased to know it's still in W2K drivers too I was told. I also removed it as you did without any problems so far.

I'm glad it's not just me it picked on. It didn't seem to do it all the time, just once I noticed it because I was raytracing and my machine started crawling.