I had left my computer on all night last night so that boinc could do its work,right,but every 20 min. it kept switching to the desktop picture then 4 min. of the desktop showing,it would switch back to the screensaver...then 20 min. later it would do the same thing...
well,i was just wanting to know if thats a normal thing that happens becouse if it is then i have to change my desktop pic. becouse its too bright when trying to sleep lol...

Must be me, but why don't you shut down your monitor when you go to sleep? Or use either its or Windows power saving mode?

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Yeah i hear ya,but why does it switch like that?...doesnt seem right becouse any other screensaver doesnt do it not that i know of...

You didn't say which BOINC version you're using. BOINC 6.4.6 has fixes towards the screen saver. See my post here where you can download it.

The screen saver can only show one task at the same time, so if you're running two or more, it'll switch between them each 10 minutes. Perhaps that in your case one task was having some problems, or it was paused. It's impossible to say what happened as we didn't see it and you didn't post a log of the messages of what happened at that time.

But again, try it with BOINC 6.4.6 and else power down the monitor. That's an easier fix than anything else.

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Try switching to some other screensaver to see if it still does the save thing. It could be some other process kicking in like indexing.

Ok kool,ill go there and dl the newest version becouse if im reading it right i have version 5.0...yeah when you click on the boinc in the tray at the bottom of the screen beside what time it is it says astropulse v5...
but see,wonder which would be the best though like 32 bit or 64 bit...i"ll have to do it later though becouse my AVG is running a scan and my computer seems slow right now...thnx for the info man...kool.

No, that is the version of the science application!

Try the help menu in BOINC manager's advanced view and click "About BOINC Manager...".

Before installing a new version, check other screensavers, as Aurora Borealis suggested.

Gruß,
Gundolf

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Windows can be rather finicky. I don't use the screensaver, but I have noticed that the monitor power save doesn't always activate if the display updates frequently such as when the top screen is utorrent upload/download or the task tab of Boinc.

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