Greetings, all,

If this is a repost of an old problem, I apologize; truth be told, I sepnt a few minutes trying to find something similar, wasn't able to, and wasn't going to spend much more time on that hunt. I never used to have this problem back int he day with the old SETI set up. Please advise because I like BOINC and like SETI and would to continue using both. Thanks.

Here's what happens:

NOTE: this machine and a Linux box share a monitor using a KVM.

* Eventually SETI starts as a screensaver.

* I switch screens back over to the XP machine by hitting Scroll-Lock twice then the number 4 then the Enter key.

* move the mouse and SETI freezes on the screen but the pointer still moves.

* occasionally the pointer will switch over to a finger or a grabber as if I'd moved it over a link or scalable window. No such luck.

* stays frozen until I do a hard reboot.

Come to think of it, this also happened with the World Community Project, too, so I'm pretty sure it's a BOINC issue.


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OS Name Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition
Version 5.1.2600 Service Pack 2 Build 2600
OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation

System Type X86-based PC
Processor x86 Family 15 Model 4 Stepping 3 GenuineIntel ~2994 Mhz
Processor x86 Family 15 Model 4 Stepping 3 GenuineIntel ~2994 Mhz
BIOS Version/Date American Megatrends Inc. 080012, 12/10/2005
SMBIOS Version 2.3
Windows Directory C:\WINDOWS
System Directory C:\WINDOWS\system32
Boot Device \Device\HarddiskVolume1
Locale United States
Hardware Abstraction Layer Version = "5.1.2600.2180 (xpsp_sp2_rtm.040803-2158)"
User Name AREA51\Max Nomad
Time Zone Eastern Standard Time
Total Physical Memory 1,024.00 MB

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* Eventually SETI starts as a screensaver.

SETI does not start as a screensaver (as it was in old times) -
usually (if you don't choose otherwise) it runs all the time at the background as a very low priority process.

You do not need the BOINC screensaver so the easy solution is to change the screensaver to (None).

Or upgrade the video driver.

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- ALF - "Find out what you don't do well ..... then don't do it!" :)
 

BOINC 6.6 is no longer in production. Update to 6.10.21 first, then see if you can reproduce this problem.

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Also XP SP3 has been out for a long time. You might want to make sure your system has *all* updates, not just the video driver.

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