weeks of misery & frustration. boinc has totally screwed with my head. haven't been able to connect with setiathome for days. it may all be over for me before it's begun unless i get some decent advice.... preferably in idiot speak. help...help...help

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A good place to start is the BOINC Wiki at

http://boinc-doc.net/boinc-wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page

and follow the links to installing the BOINC client software.

also check out the hints for new users at

http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=22458#191732

If you are still stuck try asking for help in the Windows forum at

http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_forum.php?id=12

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weeks of misery & frustration. boinc has totally screwed with my head. haven't been able to connect with setiathome for days. it may all be over for me before it's begun unless i get some decent advice.... preferably in idiot speak. help...help...help

If none of that advice helps set out what you are doing and what is happening and we will see if we can help. Show us logs please.

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thanks for the advice, i can be such a zombie... will try and sort it out and post outcome.

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thanks for the advice, i can be such a zombie... will try and sort it out and post outcome.

problems with bionc (error 500) seems to right itself if you run the repair wizard twice in quick succession every time the problem occurs. this is probably not the right way of going about things, but it's working for me. have been running seti almost continuosly since last post, which is something of record!

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Glad to hear it worked out for you.

problems with bionc (error 500) seems to right itself if you run the repair wizard twice in quick succession every time the problem occurs.

Interesting. You may want to alert the developers about this.