Thank you for the tips!
1) I looked in the BIOS and didn't see any power throttling applications.
I am using an ASUS M4A785T-M motherboard. Does that help?
There is an option to unlock more cores on my AMD Phenom II processor. Should I do that?
2) My physical drive is a SATA, so I am confused about why VMware defaults it as a SCSI. In any case, I would be happy to make it an IDE drive. How do I do that?
I tried deleting the VM and creating from scratch, but when I get to the section on selecting a drive, it grays out the IDE option an only offers me SCSI. Can I change setting or dive into a settings file and adjust there?
