I am not clear on how the graphics card, old tho' it is, is causing my browser and other applications to suddenly scroll up/down even when I am NOT running the SETI screen saver. If I were, I could maybe see that SETI was too much for it to handle at the same time. But I have not used since that first attempt, when I found the graphics of the SETI stuff way to poor quality to read. But thanks for thinking about it.

I am not clear on how the graphics card, old tho' it is, is causing my browser and other applications to suddenly scroll up/down even when I am NOT running the SETI screen saver. If I were, I could maybe see that SETI was too much for it to handle at the same time. But I have not used since that first attempt, when I found the graphics of the SETI stuff way to poor quality to read. But thanks for thinking about it.

It's not that you have graphics from BONIC on the screen. I too have many older cards, mine are older in fact than the powerful 16MB you use. I found that going into BIOS and disabling "VGA Pallette snoop" (I think that's what it was called, cured one problem. On a Dell machine there was a different setting for VGA graphics to "use above 16 megs are for video", again not true quotes but the idea is there. If video is using areas of RAM is this the possible cause? I have only seen this behavior on a Dell and a Acer.
-Paul

Well, my problem has not gone away. I get bizarre auto-scrolling of my browser (Firefox) and certain other applications. They jump up or down about an inch, several times while reading a single article (or document page). But as soon as I suspend SETI, the problem goes away. Annoying, and I have to remember to re-activate it once I am finished web work.

This is now becoming a very serious problem. Not only is my screen
image randomly scrolling up or down, but the very focus of the
page semms to be changing. This results in my typing a character, and having
it "appear" NOT on the line subsequent to the previous character, but
in some "field", which as often as not, closes the entire page, and
often "backs out" to the previous screen, thereby losing
all my typing up to that point. I actually had this problem
cause my "message board" note to close prematurely 6 times,
before I gave up and typed this separately in a text editor, then
paste it into here.

I CAN stop this, by suspending BOINC/SETI. The problem immediately
goes away. When I resume BOINC/SETI, the problem re-appears.

I've just switch off seti because it looks as if it was causing me graphics problems the screen was flickering lines running veritically up the screen the screen would freeze then blank it's even managed to crash the computer & I've had the screen saver switch off. I've got a nvidia 6800gti with the latest driver this has been going on since bionic started, it was fine on the classic programme.I'm not a computer wizz kidd but it's the bonic programme that causing my problem so it's switched off which is a shame.

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I honestly don't know what else to tell you. Many have SETI running 24/7 without the issues you describe (or andymcdermid), so it's hard to figure out what's different about your system that causes SETI to run erratically.

Logically, why would BOINC-SETI run fine on so many machines and not well on yours? IF BOINC were solely the problem, then it would be problematic on so many other machines, correct? I admit, it is curious that the problem goes away when you suspend BOINC, but it must be conflicting with some other piece of software that is causing it to act this way, otherwise the forums would be flooded with these kinds of problems specifically, and the developers would be able to immediately track down the issue and fix it.

I am not one of the developers, so I cannot help you further. You can do as andymcdermit has done and choose to discontinue use of BOINC, or at least wait until the next release, in hopes that it will be fixed (though if the developers can't track it down, there's little chance of that happening).

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I've just switch off seti because it looks as if it was causing me graphics problems the screen was flickering lines running veritically up the screen the screen would freeze then blank it's even managed to crash the computer & I've had the screen saver switch off. I've got a nvidia 6800gti with the latest driver this has been going on since bionic started, it was fine on the classic programme.I'm not a computer wizz kidd but it's the bonic programme that causing my problem so it's switched off which is a shame.

It's entirely possible that Classic did not exhibit these kinds of issues on your machine. However, please keep in mind that SETI@Home Classic had to close down, so it does no good to compare BOINC to Classic as Classic will not be coming back.

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