BIOS Crash Bug loses workunits

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Message 375257 - Posted: 23 Jul 2006, 18:11:57 UTC
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I have just had a Bios crash (battery failed)
and I restored everything to normal after replacing it Date and time were restored manually
All went well booted up (did my housekeeping)
Opened the Boinc Manager
There were red messages galore telling me that the work units were out of date
and the Year date on the work units?..... 1901 !
Even Windows backdating doesn't go that far back (think it's the late 1980's)
And I'd only sent off (and reported) a completed work unit on the end of the last session
Can you ask the software guys to check out this Bug? Or is it a known issue?
I deleted all the work units and updated the program (and the new units are working OK)

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Message 375274 - Posted: 23 Jul 2006, 18:23:45 UTC - in response to Message 375257.  

I have just had a Bios crash (battery failed)
and I restored everything to normal after replacing it Date and time were restored manually
All went well booted up (did my housekeeping)
Opened the Boinc Manager
There were red messages galore telling me that the work units were out of date
and the Year date on the work units?..... 1901 !
Even Windows backdating doesn't go that far back (think it's the late 1980's)
And I'd only sent off (and reported) a completed work unit on the end of the last session
Can you ask the software guys to check out this Bug? Or is it a known issue?
I deleted all the work units and updated the program (and the new units are working OK)

The problem was your system reporting the wrong date to Boinc. In actual fact there was no need to abort the WUs. Boinc could have continued to crunch them dispite the overdue date on your system. The project know what the correct due date is and would have accepted your results and given you credit.

Boinc V7.2.42
Win7 i5 3.33G 4GB, GTX470
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