Hey folks,

I hope, this hasn't been posted too much already and I haven't seen it on the last sites.
I got a 8800gs, which is seen and used by BOINC, and I added aditionally the 8400gs with 256 MB ram, that BOINC might use it also, as I got it lying here.
Drivers etc. are fine ...
If you need the specs of my Serversys:
AMD X4 630
4 GB Ram
8800 320 & 8400 256
780G Chipset.

I know, that the 8400gs isn't the big bang, but if Boinc can use it, why shouldn't it do?

Now, how can I make Boinc use the 8400gs?

In the cc_config.xml I got already that:

<cc_config>
<options>
<use_all_gpus>1</use_all_gpus>
</options>
</cc_config>

Thanks in advance.[/list]

Is your cc_config.xml recognised by BOINC? You can see that in the Messages tab after a restart (reboot).

The file has to be in the BOINC data directory, the path of which you can also find in the startup messages of BOINC.

If you don't know how to interprete them, post the first about 20 lines 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

[list=]4/9/2010 5:27:48 PM Starting BOINC client version 6.10.43 for windows_x86_64
4/9/2010 5:27:48 PM Config: use all coprocessors
4/9/2010 5:27:48 PM log flags: file_xfer, sched_ops, task
4/9/2010 5:27:48 PM Libraries: libcurl/7.19.7 OpenSSL/0.9.8l zlib/1.2.3
4/9/2010 5:27:48 PM Data directory: C:\ProgramData\BOINC
4/9/2010 5:27:48 PM Running under account Administrator
4/9/2010 5:27:49 PM Processor: 4 AuthenticAMD AMD Athlon(tm) II X4 630 Processor [Family 16 Model 5 Stepping 2]
4/9/2010 5:27:49 PM Processor: 512.00 KB cache
4/9/2010 5:27:49 PM Processor features: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 htt pni cx16 syscall nx lm sse4a osvw wdt rdtscp 3dnowext 3dnow
4/9/2010 5:27:49 PM OS: Microsoft Windows Server 2008 "R2": Standard x64 Edition, (06.01.7600.00)
4/9/2010 5:27:49 PM Memory: 4.00 GB physical, 7.99 GB virtual
4/9/2010 5:27:49 PM Disk: 76.59 GB total, 28.11 GB free
4/9/2010 5:27:49 PM Local time is UTC +2 hours
4/9/2010 5:27:53 PM NVIDIA GPU 0: GeForce 8800 GS (driver version 19713, CUDA version 3000, compute capability 1.1, 368MB, 264 GFLOPS peak)
4/9/2010 5:27:54 PM boincsimap URL http://boinc.bio.wzw.tum.de/boincsimap/; Computer ID 170247; resource share 100
4/9/2010 5:27:54 PM Poem@Home URL http://boinc.fzk.de/poem/; Computer ID 68738; resource share 100
4/9/2010 5:27:54 PM Einstein@Home URL http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/; Computer ID 2535455; resource share 100
4/9/2010 5:27:54 PM Milkyway@home URL http://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/; Computer ID 167477; resource share 100
4/9/2010 5:27:54 PM SETI@home URL http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/; Computer ID 5345814; resource share 100
4/9/2010 5:27:54 PM GPUGRID URL http://www.gpugrid.net/; Computer ID 67360; resource share 100
4/9/2010 5:27:54 PM malariacontrol.net URL http://www.malariacontrol.net/; Computer ID 158562; resource share 100
4/9/2010 5:27:54 PM No general preferences found - using BOINC defaults
4/9/2010 5:27:54 PM Reading preferences override file
4/9/2010 5:27:54 PM Preferences:
4/9/2010 5:27:54 PM max memory usage when active: 2046.75MB
4/9/2010 5:27:54 PM max memory usage when idle: 3684.14MB
4/9/2010 5:27:55 PM max disk usage: 10.00GB
4/9/2010 5:27:55 PM suspend work if non-BOINC CPU load exceeds 25 %
4/9/2010 5:27:55 PM (to change, visit the web site of an attached project,
4/9/2010 5:27:55 PM or click on Preferences)
4/9/2010 5:27:55 PM Using proxy info from GUI
4/9/2010 5:27:55 PM Not using a proxy
4/9/2010 5:27:56 PM Milkyway@home Restarting task de_s222_3s_13_128675_1270810348_1 using milkyway version 19
4/9/2010 5:27:56 PM SETI@home Restarting task 24ja07ac.28513.24612.13.10.209_2 using setiathome_enhanced version 609
4/9/2010 5:27:56 PM Poem@Home Restarting task data_436_1270482422_2132510793_0 using poem version 100
4/9/2010 5:27:57 PM Poem@Home Restarting task data_433_1269877983_1028232863_1 using poem version 100
4/9/2010 5:27:57 PM Milkyway@home Restarting task de_s222_3s_13_206708_1270825363_0 using milkyway version 19
4/9/2010 5:28:56 PM boincsimap Sending scheduler request: To fetch work.
4/9/2010 5:28:56 PM boincsimap Requesting new tasks for CPU
4/9/2010 5:28:57 PM Re-reading cc_config.xml
4/9/2010 5:28:57 PM Re-read config file
4/9/2010 5:28:57 PM Config: use all coprocessors
4/9/2010 5:28:57 PM log flags: file_xfer, sched_ops, task
4/9/2010 5:29:01 PM boincsimap Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks
4/9/2010 5:29:01 PM boincsimap Message from server: Project has no jobs available


The file is in C:/Programdata/Boinc..

Still doesn't work, the temp doesn't rise, still I can't read out of the gfxcard, how much % the workload is... On my 4870 I can for example.

Damn und ich dachte des funzt.

And you are sure that the 8400gs is CUDA-capable?

Gruß,
Gundolf

Read:

BOINC Not Using Both GPUs
http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=59329

I'm a little confused. WIN 7 recognizes ALL cores
http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=59371

The 30 Second Dummy Plug
http://www.overclock.net/overclock-net-folding-home-team/384733-30-second-dummy-plug.html

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

Hey...
Since I plugged a monitorcable to the 8400gs, and marked it as active, the Cudasupport etc. is enabled.. So Boinc is using it now, thanks people.
At last I got a little improvement, for no money @crunching.

But at very last I'll create such a dummy plug. :-)

Good evening