Just for the coders:

I have 2 x XPSP2 and 2 x 98SE on a home lan. I was running Boinc 4.09 on all and got the message that 4.12 is out and ready. So, I downloaded and installed as a test on 1 XP machine and all went fine. So, I put it on the other XP machine and again, all fine.

I decided to put it on both 98SE machines, 1 being a P2 400Mhz and the other being a P3 600Mhz. No good. Seti@Home appears to be working so far as I can tell but Boinc 412 GUI does NOT respond to anything and is marked that way when I ctrl-alt-del to check how things are going. Double clicking on the Boinc GUI does nothing. Right clicking on it does nothing.

I did the normal install on all machines. I suspect a problem, once more, with Boinc GUI and 98SE.

Any chance you guys can look into this please? Thanks.

Greg.

I installed Boinc 4.12 yesterday on an AMD 2500+ running Win98se. Doing 3 projects S@H LHC CPDN. All is running great. No problems what so ever!

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98SE XP2500+ @ 2.1 GHz Boinc v5.8.8

And God said"Let there be light."But then the program crashed because he was trying to access the 'light' property of a NULL universe pointer.

> I installed Boinc 4.12 yesterday on an AMD 2500+ running Win98se. Doing 3
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Yeah but 4.12 still doesnt work properly. Almost the same prob as 4.11 and 4.10.

Not a coder but the one box i installed 4.12 was Win98se. All good.
For me no diff from 4.11 or 4.09

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Had the same symptoms with Boinc 4.12. Running Win98se on P3 500 MHz.

Reverted to version 4.09 and back to crunching.

> Just for the coders:
>
> I have 2 x XPSP2 and 2 x 98SE on a home lan. I was running Boinc 4.09 on all
> and got the message that 4.12 is out and ready. So, I downloaded and installed
> as a test on 1 XP machine and all went fine. So, I put it on the other XP
> machine and again, all fine.
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> I decided to put it on both 98SE machines, 1 being a P2 400Mhz and the other
> being a P3 600Mhz. No good. Seti@Home appears to be working so far as I can
> tell but Boinc 412 GUI does NOT respond to anything and is marked that way
> when I ctrl-alt-del to check how things are going. Double clicking on the
> Boinc GUI does nothing. Right clicking on it does nothing.
>
> I did the normal install on all machines. I suspect a problem, once more, with
> Boinc GUI and 98SE.
>
> Any chance you guys can look into this please? Thanks.
>
> Greg.
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I have had 4.12 lockup on both benchmarks and on uploads(not everytinme, usually it works fine) on a 2.0 GHZ Celeron and 98SE...however when I do a CAD it quits after a few minutes and then seems to work fine on restart. For now I am sticking to 4.12 as I have lost 3 or four days of work with 4.09.

Don

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IMHO the dev at seti have enough on their plate at the mo.

Even Microsoft no longer support Windows 98.

I think an investment of around £90 for windows XP HE could be a good choice.

Besides. I installed Boinc on a 98 machine last week... it took over 26 hours to complete a work unit. i upgraded that same machine to XP Pro and now WU's are taking around 6 hours...

I think it would be money worth spending peeps.

No malice intended

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Agreed the developers at seti have a lot on their plate.

However, it seems that some crunchers who are having problems of the type noted in this thread are using WinXP and are suffering the same problems as noted in other threads.

Could there be a bug in the code (boinc) that affects both operating systems in conjunction with various hardware and software configurations? If that is the case, and is corrected, then no upgrade of the user's operating system would be required.

Some users are using AMD processors. Would you also advocate that the AMD users switch to an Intel processor to reduce the workload on the developers?

With all due respect, I disagree that the answer to any problems running boinc or seti is an upgrade of the user's operating system.

No offense was taken at your remarks. I am just of another opinion.

> IMHO the dev at seti have enough on their plate at the mo.
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> Even Microsoft no longer support Windows 98.
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> I think an investment of around £90 for windows XP HE could be a good choice.
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> Besides. I installed Boinc on a 98 machine last week... it took over 26 hours
> to complete a work unit. i upgraded that same machine to XP Pro and now WU's
> are taking around 6 hours...
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> I think it would be money worth spending peeps.
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> No malice intended
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