Although I have been able to run SETI-BOINC in July and August, the SETI-BOINC server now tells me NO!:

SETI@home - 2004-09-11 09:28:09 - Message from server: To participate in this project, you must use major version 4 of the BOINC core client. Your core client is major version 3.

What should I do?

Why don't I see lots of messages about "MAJOR VERSION 4"?

Well gee how about downloading the new version and installing it....
You must not be looking very hard, posts all over the forums about Version 4 ....
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This news has already been posted some days ago:

August 27, 2004
We are currently experiencing a hardware issue with our scheduling server, we expect this issue to be resolved within the hour. The upgrade to 4.x will start around 11am PDT and will take roughly an hour. Anybody who has any remaining results to report should get them in before the upgrade. After the upgrade you'll need the 4.x clients to report new results, and upgrading to the 4.x client will reset the project on your machine. Roughly 100,000 results are queued up and ready to be sent out after the upgrade, plus the three splitters will be up and running producing work as quickly as possible..

What you should do in order not to go into problems:
1. Download v4.05
2. Uninstall the old version
3. Delete everything that sits inside the Boinc folder
4. Install the new version
5. Run and attach.

Sounds silly but a lot of people had problems by overwwritting the excisting one, including myself ;-)

Be aware there are problems with this version running under Win98.

Greetings from Belgium.

Help Desk: use "Most recent answer first" sorting.

Try installing over the top of first, it usually works, and you can save yourself some trouble. If you do have to uninstall, save the account_*.xml files, and move them back into the new installation. This will reattach you to all of the projects again with no typing of those long validators.

> Try installing over the top of first, it usually works, and you can save
> yourself some trouble. If you do have to uninstall, save the account_*.xml
> files, and move them back into the new installation. This will reattach you
> to all of the projects again with no typing of those long validators.
> <a> href="http://www.boinc.dk/index.php?page=user_statistics&project=cpdn&userid=13">
>

John: Thanks! What country is .dk? Denmark? Did they make that little stat display? And pah is predictor.scripps.edu?

I tried to use Major Version 4 with predictor. Guess what - They're still using Major Version 3. I'm not going to try to run both together - probably can't be done.

2004 Sep. 11