Hi. Am established SETI@home user, have switched to BOINC a few years ago, and am now trying to make BOINC sware work on my new laptop.
No work will start. Sometimes file download but I never see them reach "100%" downloaded.
For past 2 weeks no job of work has even started.
I've tried turning off norton 360 firewall (in any case BOINC is allowed with this).
I use a wireless broadband internet link ("Virgin mobile dongle).
I dont understand what problem is. Have messed around with account/computer configurations to no effect. I used to have trouble with my last pc using BOINC (never using old SETI@home sware).
Glad of good advice, so I can get back to crunching work units, like in the good old days!

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Can you unhide your computers, so we can see what is going on in respect to work? For this go to Your account->Seti@Home preferences->Edit them->change "Should SETI@home show your computers on its web site?" to yes->Click Update preferences. Then it will still take about an hour for those changes to propagate as pages around here are cached.

We can't see anything private about your systems, not IP addresses, not machine names. But we can check what happens to your work.

There is also a preference in Your account->Global preferences that says "Suspend work while computer is in use?" .. if you don't mind BOINC continuing to do work while you have the computer on, set this one to No.

"Suspend work if no mouse/keyboard activity in last" is best kept at zero (or ---), it's used if you want to hibernate the system.

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I think the problem lies within downloading, not running. So, could you post some (error) messages around a download attempt?

Gruß,
Gundolf

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Computer sind nicht alles im Leben. (Kleiner Scherz)

SETI@home classic workunits 3,758
SETI@home classic CPU time 66,520 hours

Jord. Tks for response. I've done the 3 things you mentioned. AL.

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Gruß Gott, Gundolf.

It is hard to actually screenshot any error msgs (there are'nt any I dont think).

The "Status" on the "projects" tab just says "download failed"; And whilst watching relevant files download on the "transfers" tab, I see the files download, but none ever reaches 100% downloaded.

Something is stopping them complete their download.

I think its true that the problem is not with the running - the processes never get that far.

I suspect my Vista home basic sp2 operating system is behind it, but have no evidence.

AL.

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Grüß Gott, Gundolf.

It is hard to actually screenshot any error msgs (there are'nt any I dont think)...

You don't need a screenshot. In the Messages tab, you should find the respective messages for a download. You can copy them to the clipboard (button Copy selected messages) and paste them here.

Gruß,
Gundolf

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Computer sind nicht alles im Leben. (Kleiner Scherz)

SETI@home classic workunits 3,758
SETI@home classic CPU time 66,520 hours

Gundolf, there's rather a lot, I'm afraid:
21/11/2009 23:43:08 Starting BOINC client version 6.10.18 for windows_intelx86
21/11/2009 23:43:08 log flags: file_xfer, sched_ops, task
21/11/2009 23:43:08 Libraries: libcurl/7.19.4 OpenSSL/0.9.8l zlib/1.2.3
21/11/2009 23:43:08 Data directory: C:\ProgramData\BOINC
21/11/2009 23:43:08 Running under account harry lloyd
21/11/2009 23:43:09 Processor: 1 GenuineIntel Genuine Intel(R) CPU 575 @ 2.00GHz [x86 Family 6 Model 15 Stepping 13]
21/11/2009 23:43:09 Processor: 1.00 MB cache
21/11/2009 23:43:09 Processor features: fpu tsc pae nx sse sse2 pni mmx
21/11/2009 23:43:09 OS: Microsoft Windows Vista: Home Basic x86 Edition, Service Pack 2, (06.00.6002.00)
21/11/2009 23:43:09 Memory: 1.99 GB physical, 4.21 GB virtual
21/11/2009 23:43:09 Disk: 74.52 GB total, 45.23 GB free
21/11/2009 23:43:09 Local time is UTC +0 hours
21/11/2009 23:43:09 No usable GPUs found
21/11/2009 23:43:09 Not using a proxy
21/11/2009 23:43:09 SETI@home URL http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/; Computer ID 4914600; resource share 200
21/11/2009 23:43:09 SETI@home General prefs: from SETI@home (last modified 21-Nov-2009 01:49:44)
21/11/2009 23:43:09 SETI@home Computer location: home
21/11/2009 23:43:09 SETI@home General prefs: no separate prefs for home; using your defaults
21/11/2009 23:43:09 Reading preferences override file
21/11/2009 23:43:09 Preferences limit memory usage when active to 815.39MB
21/11/2009 23:43:09 Preferences limit memory usage when idle to 815.39MB
21/11/2009 23:43:09 Preferences limit disk usage to 10.00GB
21/11/2009 23:44:35 SETI@home update requested by user
21/11/2009 23:44:39 SETI@home Sending scheduler request: Requested by user.
21/11/2009 23:44:39 SETI@home Requesting new tasks
21/11/2009 23:44:50 SETI@home Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks
21/11/2009 23:44:50 SETI@home Message from server: No work sent
21/11/2009 23:44:50 SETI@home Message from server: (reached daily quota of 1 tasks)
21/11/2009 23:45:19 Running CPU benchmarks
21/11/2009 23:45:50 Benchmark results:
21/11/2009 23:45:50 Number of CPUs: 1
21/11/2009 23:45:50 1880 floating point MIPS (Whetstone) per CPU
21/11/2009 23:45:50 3297 integer MIPS (Dhrystone) per CPU
21/11/2009 23:45:51 Resuming computation
21/11/2009 23:46:05 SETI@home Sending scheduler request: To fetch work.
21/11/2009 23:46:05 SETI@home Requesting new tasks
21/11/2009 23:46:15 SETI@home Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks
21/11/2009 23:46:15 SETI@home Message from server: No work sent
21/11/2009 23:46:15 SETI@home Message from server: (reached daily quota of 1 tasks)
21/11/2009 23:46:25 Not using a proxy
21/11/2009 23:46:40 SETI@home update requested by user
21/11/2009 23:46:41 SETI@home Sending scheduler request: Requested by user.
21/11/2009 23:46:41 SETI@home Requesting new tasks
21/11/2009 23:46:44 Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site
21/11/2009 23:46:46 Internet access OK - project servers may be temporarily down.
21/11/2009 23:46:46 SETI@home Scheduler request failed: Failure when receiving data from the peer
21/11/2009 23:47:01 SETI@home Sending scheduler request: To fetch work.
21/11/2009 23:47:01 SETI@home Requesting new tasks
21/11/2009 23:47:11 SETI@home Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks
21/11/2009 23:47:11 SETI@home Message from server: No work sent
21/11/2009 23:47:11 SETI@home Message from server: (reached daily quota of 1 tasks)
21/11/2009 23:47:31 SETI@home update requested by user
21/11/2009 23:47:36 SETI@home Sending scheduler request: Requested by user.
21/11/2009 23:47:36 SETI@home Requesting new tasks
21/11/2009 23:52:41 Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site
21/11/2009 23:52:41 SETI@home Scheduler request failed: Timeout was reached
21/11/2009 23:52:43 Internet access OK - project servers may be temporarily down.
21/11/2009 23:53:42 SETI@home Sending scheduler request: To fetch work.
21/11/2009 23:53:42 SETI@home Requesting new tasks
21/11/2009 23:53:47 SETI@home Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks
21/11/2009 23:53:47 SETI@home Message from server: No work sent
21/11/2009 23:53:47 SETI@home Message from server: (reached daily quota of 1 tasks)
22/11/2009 00:13:25 SETI@home update requested by user
22/11/2009 00:13:29 SETI@home Sending scheduler request: Requested by user.
22/11/2009 00:13:29 SETI@home Requesting new tasks
22/11/2009 00:13:39 SETI@home Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks
22/11/2009 00:13:39 SETI@home Message from server: No work sent
22/11/2009 00:13:39 SETI@home Message from server: No work is available for SETI@home Enhanced
22/11/2009 00:13:39 SETI@home Message from server: No work is available for Astropulse v5
22/11/2009 00:13:39 SETI@home Message from server: (reached daily quota of 1 tasks)
22/11/2009 02:11:18 Windows is suspending operations
22/11/2009 02:11:19 Suspending network activity - user request
22/11/2009 03:21:08 Resuming computation
22/11/2009 03:21:08 Resuming network activity
22/11/2009 03:21:11 Windows is resuming operations
22/11/2009 05:03:25 Windows is suspending operations
22/11/2009 05:03:26 Suspending network activity - user request
22/11/2009 14:58:36 Resuming computation
22/11/2009 14:58:36 Resuming network activity
22/11/2009 14:58:36 SETI@home Sending scheduler request: To fetch work.
22/11/2009 14:58:36 SETI@home Requesting new tasks
22/11/2009 14:58:38 Windows is resuming operations
22/11/2009 14:58:42 SETI@home Scheduler request failed: Couldn't resolve host name
22/11/2009 14:59:07 Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site
22/11/2009 14:59:08 BOINC can't access Internet - check network connection or proxy configuration.
22/11/2009 14:59:43 SETI@home Sending scheduler request: To fetch work.
22/11/2009 14:59:43 SETI@home Requesting new tasks
22/11/2009 14:59:49 SETI@home Scheduler request failed: Couldn't resolve host name
22/11/2009 15:00:49 SETI@home Sending scheduler request: To fetch work.
22/11/2009 15:00:49 SETI@home Requesting new tasks
22/11/2009 15:00:54 SETI@home Scheduler request completed: got 1 new tasks
22/11/2009 15:00:56 SETI@home Started download of setiathome_6.03_windows_intelx86.exe
22/11/2009 15:00:56 SETI@home Started download of setigraphics_6.03_windows_intelx86.exe
22/11/2009 15:01:24 SETI@home Finished download of setiathome_6.03_windows_intelx86.exe
22/11/2009 15:01:24 SETI@home Started download of setiathome-6.03_AUTHORS
22/11/2009 15:01:26 SETI@home Finished download of setiathome-6.03_AUTHORS
22/11/2009 15:01:26 SETI@home Started download of setiathome-6.03_COPYING
22/11/2009 15:01:28 SETI@home Finished download of setiathome-6.03_COPYING
22/11/2009 15:01:28 SETI@home Started download of setiathome-6.03_COPYRIGHT
22/11/2009 15:01:29 SETI@home Finished download of setiathome-6.03_COPYRIGHT
22/11/2009 15:01:29 SETI@home Started download of setiathome-6.03_README
22/11/2009 15:01:30 SETI@home Finished download of setiathome-6.03_README
22/11/2009 15:01:30 SETI@home Started download of seti_603.jpg
22/11/2009 15:01:37 SETI@home Incomplete read of 4250.000000 < 5KB for seti_603.jpg - truncating
22/11/2009 15:01:37 SETI@home Finished download of seti_603.jpg
22/11/2009 15:01:37 SETI@home Started download of 03mr07ae.6541.24612.11.10.160
22/11/2009 15:01:37 SETI@home [error] File seti_603.jpg has wrong size: expected 9068, got 0
22/11/2009 15:01:37 SETI@home [error] Checksum or signature error for seti_603.jpg
22/11/2009 15:01:55 SETI@home Finished download of 03mr07ae.6541.24612.11.10.160
22/11/2009 15:01:56 SETI@home Finished download of setigraphics_6.03_windows_intelx86.exe
22/11/2009 15:02:40 SETI@home Sending scheduler request: To fetch work.
22/11/2009 15:02:40 SETI@home Reporting 1 completed tasks, requesting new tasks
22/11/2009 15:02:45 SETI@home Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks
22/11/2009 15:02:45 SETI@home Message from server: No work sent
22/11/2009 15:02:45 SETI@home Message from server: No work is available for SETI@home Enhanced
22/11/2009 15:02:45 SETI@home Message from server: No work is available for Astropulse v5
22/11/2009 15:02:45 SETI@home Message from server: (reached daily quota of 1 tasks)
22/11/2009 17:48:39 SETI@home update requested by user
22/11/2009 17:48:44 SETI@home Sending scheduler request: Requested by user.
22/11/2009 17:48:44 SETI@home Requesting new tasks
22/11/2009 17:48:54 SETI@home Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks
22/11/2009 17:48:54 SETI@home Message from server: No work sent
22/11/2009 17:48:54 SETI@home Message from server: No work is available for SETI@home Enhanced
22/11/2009 17:48:54 SETI@home Message from server: No work is available for Astropulse v5
22/11/2009 17:48:54 SETI@home Message from server: (reached daily quota of 1 tasks)
22/11/2009 17:54:11 SETI@home update requested by user
22/11/2009 17:54:15 SETI@home Sending scheduler request: Requested by user.
22/11/2009 17:54:15 SETI@home Requesting new tasks
22/11/2009 17:54:25 SETI@home Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks
22/11/2009 17:54:25 SETI@home Message from server: No work sent
22/11/2009 17:54:25 SETI@home Message from server: No work is available for SETI@home Enhanced
22/11/2009 17:54:25 SETI@home Message from server: No work is available for Astropulse v5
22/11/2009 17:54:25 SETI@home Message from server: (reached daily quota of 1 tasks)
22/11/2009 17:54:26 SETI@home General prefs: from SETI@home (last modified 22-Nov-2009 17:51:40)
22/11/2009 17:54:26 SETI@home Computer location: home
22/11/2009 17:54:26 SETI@home General prefs: no separate prefs for home; using your defaults
22/11/2009 17:54:26 Reading preferences override file
22/11/2009 17:54:26 Preferences limit memory usage when active to 815.39MB
22/11/2009 17:54:26 Preferences limit memory usage when idle to 815.39MB
22/11/2009 17:54:26 Preferences limit disk usage to 10.00GB
22/11/2009 17:59:26 SETI@home Sending scheduler request: To fetch work.
22/11/2009 17:59:26 SETI@home Requesting new tasks
22/11/2009 17:59:37 SETI@home Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks
22/11/2009 17:59:37 SETI@home Message from server: (Project has no jobs available)
22/11/2009 18:00:25 SETI@home update requested by user
22/11/2009 18:00:27 SETI@home Sending scheduler request: Requested by user.
22/11/2009 18:00:27 SETI@home Requesting new tasks
22/11/2009 18:00:38 SETI@home Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks
22/11/2009 18:00:38 SETI@home Message from server: No work sent
22/11/2009 18:00:38 SETI@home Message from server: No work is available for SETI@home Enhanced
22/11/2009 18:00:38 SETI@home Message from server: No work is available for Astropulse v5
22/11/2009 18:00:38 SETI@home Message from server: (reached daily quota of 1 tasks)
22/11/2009 18:01:26 SETI@home update requested by user
22/11/2009 18:01:28 SETI@home Sending scheduler request: Requested by user.
22/11/2009 18:01:28 SETI@home Requesting new tasks
22/11/2009 18:01:38 SETI@home Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks
22/11/2009 18:01:38 SETI@home Message from server: No work sent
22/11/2009 18:01:38 SETI@home Message from server: No work is available for SETI@home Enhanced
22/11/2009 18:01:38 SETI@home Message from server: No work is available for Astropulse v5
22/11/2009 18:01:38 SETI@home Message from server: (reached daily quota of 1 tasks)
22/11/2009 18:51:33 SETI@home update requested by user
22/11/2009 18:51:36 SETI@home Sending scheduler request: Requested by user.
22/11/2009 18:51:36 SETI@home Requesting new tasks
22/11/2009 18:51:41 SETI@home Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks
22/11/2009 18:51:41 SETI@home Message from server: No work sent
22/11/2009 18:51:41 SETI@home Message from server: No work is available for SETI@home Enhanced
22/11/2009 18:51:41 SETI@home Message from server: No work is available for Astropulse v5
22/11/2009 18:51:41 SETI@home Message from server: (reached daily quota of 1 tasks)
22/11/2009 18:52:09 SETI@home update requested by user
22/11/2009 18:52:12 SETI@home Sending scheduler request: Requested by user.
22/11/2009 18:52:12 SETI@home Requesting new tasks
22/11/2009 18:52:23 SETI@home Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks
22/11/2009 18:52:23 SETI@home Message from server: No work sent
22/11/2009 18:52:23 SETI@home Message from server: No work is available for SETI@home Enhanced
22/11/2009 18:52:23 SETI@home Message from server: No work is available for Astropulse v5
22/11/2009 18:52:23 SETI@home Message from server: (reached daily quota of 1 tasks)
22/11/2009 18:52:33 SETI@home update requested by user
22/11/2009 18:52:38 SETI@home Sending scheduler request: Requested by user.
22/11/2009 18:52:38 SETI@home Requesting new tasks
22/11/2009 18:52:43 SETI@home Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks
22/11/2009 18:52:43 SETI@home Message from server: No work sent
22/11/2009 18:52:43 SETI@home Message from server: No work is available for SETI@home Enhanced
22/11/2009 18:52:43 SETI@home Message from server: No work is available for Astropulse v5
22/11/2009 18:52:43 SETI@home Message from server: (reached daily quota of 1 tasks)

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Gundolf, there's rather a lot, I'm afraid:

That's why I wrote "Copy selected messages" and not "Copy all messages" ;-)

In your Computing preferences, there's one option, near the bottom

Skip image file verification? 
Check this ONLY if your Internet provider modifies image files (UMTS does this, for example). 
Skipping verification reduces the security of BOINC.

Set it to "yes" and click the Update button in the Projects tab. Then you'll have to wait for 24 hours, because your quota is too low.

Gruß,
Gundolf

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Computer sind nicht alles im Leben. (Kleiner Scherz)

SETI@home classic workunits 3,758
SETI@home classic CPU time 66,520 hours

Still wont download anything:
24/11/2009 09:35:11 SETI@home Message from server: (Project has no jobs available)
24/11/2009 09:36:33 SETI@home Sending scheduler request: To fetch work.
24/11/2009 09:36:33 SETI@home Requesting new tasks
24/11/2009 09:36:48 SETI@home Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks
24/11/2009 09:36:48 SETI@home Message from server: (Project has no jobs available)

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What's your work request preferences on http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/prefs.php?subset=project for the following:

Use Central Processing Unit (CPU)
Use NVIDIA GPU if present
(enforced by 6.10+ clients)

Run only the selected applications
SETI@home Enhanced:
Astropulse:
Astropulse v5:
If no work for selected applications is available, accept work from other applications?
Use Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) if available
Use Central Processing Unit (CPU)

Edit: Ah, at this moment Seti has problems. A disk crashed, they're not giving out work. From the front page:

November 23, 2009
We just had a disk failure on our raw data storage device, which we're in the process of fixing, but still we'll probably run out of workunits to send out tonight.

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Work request preferences are:

Use Central Processing Unit (CPU) yes
Use NVIDIA GPU if present yes
(enforced by 6.10+ clients)

Run only the selected applications SETI@home Enhanced: yes
Astropulse: yes
Astropulse v5: yes
If no work for selected applications is available, accept work from other applications? no
Use Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) if available yes
Use Central Processing Unit (CPU) yes

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Work request preferences are:

Use Central Processing Unit (CPU) yes
Use NVIDIA GPU if present yes
(enforced by 6.10+ clients)

Run only the selected applications SETI@home Enhanced: yes
Astropulse: yes
Astropulse v5: yes
If no work for selected applications is available, accept work from other applications? no
Use Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) if available yes
Use Central Processing Unit (CPU) yes

You might want to change "If no work for selected applications ...? to YES.

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BOINC WIKI

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You might want to change "If no work for selected applications ...? to YES.[/quote]

Done it. tks.

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Still doesnt work.

Any good suggestions welcome, or I'm going to have to give up and uninstall.

Would my IP address be relevant here? (I note the Seti@home configuration for my computer states it starts with a "10", which is for an internal ip address within a network)

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What errors do you get?

"(Project has no jobs available)" is no error!

Gruß,
Gundolf

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Computer sind nicht alles im Leben. (Kleiner Scherz)

SETI@home classic workunits 3,758
SETI@home classic CPU time 66,520 hours