I have recently re installed my operating system, and also i am running bioc client on my laptop too. my laptop is working fine, but my windows 7 pc is bringing up a red error message in the messages box saying that my computer has not got a gpu. can someone please enlighten me as to what this actually meens. will it effect the number crunching done by both seti and milkyway@home. any help on this would be greatly apreciated thank you.

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You can continue as usual - all is normal.
Just Ignore the message (do not pay any attention to it).

The message for sure is "No NVIDIA GPU" but it does NOT prevent the work to be done by CPU.

Computing on GPU (video card) is only supplemental - if you have NVIDIA GPU (you have ATI)
your computer can use it to compute faster for SETI.

http://boinc.berkeley.edu/wiki/GPU_computing


P.S.
MilkyWay@home will continue to run on your CPU (processor).
I do not know if MilkyWay@home can use your ATI GPU.
If it can it will benefit much in speed of computing (10s times faster)

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I see the W7 machine has an ATI 4600 card. I think the message you are seeing is trying to tell you this card isn't suitable for running SETI or MW. I know SETI wont run on ATI cards right now but I'm not sure on Milkyway. This wont affect your crunching on your CPUs at all. It is just a minor little annoyance.

Someone more in the know may be along soon to fill you in on exactly what this message means and I think I've seen posts on how to stop from getting that message.

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It can run on MW if its a double precision card. single precision cards are good on collatz, DNTEC or with Seti for Astropulse if you use the Lunatics hybrid app.

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ok thanks for the info, i was just getting a bit worried that my computer wasnt actually crunching anything. I dont suppose you know if there will be an ati patch soon do you? I know its nothing but I hate seeing red error messages anywhere, its like having a smudge on your monitor that just wont go away, very annoying

It can run on MW if its a double precision card. single precision cards are good on collatz, DNTEC or with Seti for Astropulse if you use the Lunatics hybrid app.

You will have to speak in idiot terms. I dont know much about the technical terms such as "mw" or double precision card etc etc.

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MW = MilkyWay@home

Your video card's GPU is
ATI Radeon HD 4600 series (R730) (512MB)

ATI Radeonâ„¢ HD 4600 Series
http://www.amd.com/us/products/desktop/graphics/ati-radeon-hd-4000/hd-4600/Pages/ati-radeon-hd-4600-overview.aspx

ATI Radeonâ„¢ HD 4600 Series GPU Specifications
http://www.amd.com/us/products/desktop/graphics/ati-radeon-hd-4000/hd-4600/Pages/ati-radeon-hd-4600-specifications.aspx

It says:
"128-bit floating point precision for all operations"

I think this is "double precision"

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MW = MilkyWay@home

Your video card's GPU is
ATI Radeon HD 4600 series (R730) (512MB)

ATI Radeonâ„¢ HD 4600 Series
http://www.amd.com/us/products/desktop/graphics/ati-radeon-hd-4000/hd-4600/Pages/ati-radeon-hd-4600-overview.aspx

ATI Radeonâ„¢ HD 4600 Series GPU Specifications
http://www.amd.com/us/products/desktop/graphics/ati-radeon-hd-4000/hd-4600/Pages/ati-radeon-hd-4600-specifications.aspx

It says:
"128-bit floating point precision for all operations"

I think this is "double precision"

Nope, that is only single precision.

ATI Radeon graphic cards with Double Precision processing:
(HD3800 series or HD4700/HD4800 Series, HD5800 Series, Firestream 9100/9200 series)

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