Hey guys,

I have seen some 'generic' answers that somewhat answer my question, but not entirely, so I thought I'd repost.

I've replaced my failig motherbaord and CPU, and have tested with SETI and everything seems to be running fine. I'm not generating the errors I was getting with my previously failing equipment, which is always a good sign :)

Anyways, I've still got some work units sitting on the old hard drive. I don't really want to crunch with the old PC because that'll cause them all to fail, however I want to import the old work units.

My question is essentially two-fold:

1. I know that if I haven't already started work on my new PC, I can simply copy the contents of the old data directory over and SETi _should_ start working on this. However, my new PC ahs already started work. Is there an easy way to 'merge' the two data directories?

2. Given that my old machine was processing a few WUs, and these ones are likely to cause errors when finished, is there a way during the 'merging' to make sure these WU's don't get carried across?

Cheers in advance.

Merging data directories isn't impossible, but very cumbersome and error-prone. I'd suggest one of the following approaches to your 'problem':

The easiest way would be to abandon the tasks in the old data directory. Lest your wing persons have to wait for the deadline, you could either abort each task and report it or detach from SETI and re-attach. That's under the assumption that the old computer still works.

The other possibility is that you 'pause' the new data by renaming the directory and finish the old tasks on the new computer after copying the data directory.

Gruß,
Gundolf
[edit]The tasks that were already started on the old computer you should abort in any case, to avoid wasting processing time on the new one.[/edit]

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I just updated to Windows 7, and installed Boinc for SETI@Home. This morning I noticed that I had no processing of work, and received these messages.

2/21/2010 8:40:24 AM|SETI@home|Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks
2/21/2010 8:40:24 AM|SETI@home|Message from server: No work sent
2/21/2010 8:40:24 AM|SETI@home|Message from server: Your NVIDIA GPU has insufficient memory (need 254MB)
2/21/2010 8:40:24 AM|SETI@home|Message from server: CUDA version 2.3 needed

What do I need to do to get work from Seti@Home? Also please note that mu correct e-mail address is YYY@YYY.YYY, the bellsouth ID is no longer valid. So please respond to the Road Runner ID. Thanks

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The message is very clear about the reason you are not getting work for you NVIDIA GPU. It does not have sufficient RAM. You should be able to get work for your CPU.

You can change your email address easily on "your account" pages.

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