Hi - I recently upgraded my laptop to Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit from Vista Home Premium 64 bit - no problems with Boinc/Seti. (No hardware changes - video card is Nvidia GeForce 96000M GT with driver version 179.48).

After a week, I then moved from BOINC 6.6.41 to 6.10.17 (uninstalling 6.6.41 before installing 6.10.17) and now I get the message "GPU missing, waiting to start" next to each of my CUDA tasks.

Any help would be appreciated -

Dave

My startup messages follow -


09/11/2009 11:52:47 AM Starting BOINC client version 6.10.17 for windows_x86_64
09/11/2009 11:52:47 AM log flags: file_xfer, sched_ops, task
09/11/2009 11:52:47 AM Libraries: libcurl/7.19.4 OpenSSL/0.9.8k zlib/1.2.3
09/11/2009 11:52:47 AM Data directory: C:\ProgramData\BOINC
09/11/2009 11:52:47 AM Running under account David
09/11/2009 11:52:47 AM Processor: 2 GenuineIntel Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU P8400 @ 2.26GHz [Intel64 Family 6 Model 23 Stepping 6]
09/11/2009 11:52:47 AM Processor: 3.00 MB cache
09/11/2009 11:52:47 AM Processor features: fpu tsc pae nx sse sse2 pni
09/11/2009 11:52:47 AM OS: Microsoft Windows 7: Home Premium x64 Edition, (06.01.7600.00)
09/11/2009 11:52:47 AM Memory: 3.97 GB physical, 7.93 GB virtual
09/11/2009 11:52:47 AM Disk: 288.20 GB total, 179.45 GB free
09/11/2009 11:52:47 AM Local time is UTC -5 hours
09/11/2009 11:52:47 AM No usable GPUs found
09/11/2009 11:52:48 AM SETI@home Application uses missing NVIDIA GPU
09/11/2009 11:52:48 AM SETI@home Missing coprocessor for task 04ap07aa.26076.567918.6.10.134_0
09/11/2009 11:52:48 AM SETI@home Missing coprocessor for task 04ap07aa.26076.567918.6.10.128_1
09/11/2009 11:52:48 AM SETI@home Missing coprocessor for task 03ap07aa.31439.15205.9.10.61_0
09/11/2009 11:52:48 AM SETI@home Missing coprocessor for task 01ap07ab.21006.1299.10.10.123_2
09/11/2009 11:52:48 AM SETI@home Missing coprocessor for task 03ap07aa.30198.11933.12.10.11_1
09/11/2009 11:52:48 AM SETI@home Missing coprocessor for task 04ap07aa.4590.560147.8.10.185_1
09/11/2009 11:52:48 AM SETI@home Missing coprocessor for task 05ap07aa.20568.6616.6.10.242_1
09/11/2009 11:52:48 AM SETI@home Missing coprocessor for task 05ap07aa.20568.22976.6.10.93_0
09/11/2009 11:52:48 AM SETI@home Missing coprocessor for task 04ap07aa.15633.555239.14.10.120_0
09/11/2009 11:52:48 AM Not using a proxy
09/11/2009 11:52:50 AM SETI@home URL http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/; Computer ID 5078478; resource share 100
09/11/2009 11:52:50 AM SETI@home General prefs: from SETI@home (last modified 04-Nov-2009 13:26:53)
09/11/2009 11:52:50 AM SETI@home Host location: none
09/11/2009 11:52:50 AM SETI@home General prefs: using your defaults
09/11/2009 11:52:50 AM Reading preferences override file
09/11/2009 11:52:50 AM Preferences limit memory usage when active to 2031.60MB
09/11/2009 11:52:50 AM Preferences limit memory usage when idle to 2031.60MB
09/11/2009 11:52:51 AM Preferences limit disk usage to 50.00GB
09/11/2009 11:52:51 AM Preferences limit # CPUs to 1
09/11/2009 11:52:53 AM SETI@home Restarting task 04ap07aa.26076.567918.6.10.110_1 using setiathome_enhanced version 603

From http://boinc.berkeley.edu/gpu.php:

3) Get the latest driver
Run BOINC, and look at the Messages. If BOINC reports a GPU, your current driver is OK. Otherwise

* Get latest NVIDIA driver
* Get latest ATI driver.

The 179.48 drivers are very old. Even though a Geforce 96000M may be from the future. ;-)

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Hi,

I updated the latest nVidia driver but it still shows the same message, GPU missing, Waiting to run (0.01 CPUs + 1.00 NVIDIA GPUs).

Application SETI@home Enhanced 6.08 (cuda)
Workunit name 20mr07ab.28701.2935.4.10.214
State Waiting to run
Received 12/6/2009 5:44:43 AM
Report deadine 1/22/2010 5:04:21 PM
Resources 0.01 CPUs + 1.00 NVIDIA GPUs
CPU time at last checkpoint 00:31:29
CPU time 00:31:29
Elapsed time 18:35:36
Estimated time remaining 00:09:27
Fraction done 99.159 %
Virtual memory size 117.79 MB
Working set size 94.97 MB
Directory slots/2

My video card is 8400GS.