My BOINC problem. win7 64x

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SouthTexasDeathride Send message Joined: 16 Oct 06 Posts: 6 Credit: 135,341 RAC: 0	Message 1025348 - Posted: 15 Aug 2010, 17:34:38 UTC Last modified: 15 Aug 2010, 17:35:06 UTC any thoughts? tyvm ID: 1025348 ·

John McLeod VII Volunteer developer Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 15 Jul 99 Posts: 24806 Credit: 790,712 RAC: 0	Message 1025349 - Posted: 15 Aug 2010, 17:50:58 UTC Probably a corrupted download. Delete the downloaded file, and ALL of the caches of it and try the download again. Unfortunately Windows has the habit of caching internet files and not letting you easily delete those caches. You have to go searching. BTW, the error message was very hard to read from your image hosting site. Most of these sites reduce the size of the images which makes reading text difficult. BOINC WIKI ID: 1025349 ·

SouthTexasDeathride Send message Joined: 16 Oct 06 Posts: 6 Credit: 135,341 RAC: 0	Message 1025353 - Posted: 15 Aug 2010, 18:20:49 UTC - in response to Message 1025349. Last modified: 15 Aug 2010, 18:22:48 UTC ive run a few reg cleaners trying to clear it out .. any particular file/folder .. search brings up nothing named BOINC on my system ... its the 3rd fresh download of boinc_6.10.58_windows_intelx86 im running 64bit btw .. if that matters tyvm ID: 1025353 ·

Jord Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 9 Jun 99 Posts: 15184 Credit: 4,362,181 RAC: 3	Message 1025379 - Posted: 15 Aug 2010, 20:48:43 UTC Last modified: 15 Aug 2010, 20:50:34 UTC See the options in this FAQ. By the way, there is a 64bit client... Download page. You're also not trying to update an already 64bit version of the client with the 32bit version, are you? As that will not work. 64bit BOINC will install its program files to default C:\Program Files\BOINC\ 32bit BOINC will install its program files to default C:\Program Files(x86)\BOINC\, but for if you already have a 64bit client installed as then it will use the old path. But you cannot install 32bit programs to the C:\Program Files\ directory. ID: 1025379 ·

soft^spirit Send message Joined: 18 May 99 Posts: 6497 Credit: 34,134,168 RAC: 0	Message 1025424 - Posted: 15 Aug 2010, 23:41:42 UTC - in response to Message 1025348. My Solution Janice ID: 1025424 ·

SouthTexasDeathride Send message Joined: 16 Oct 06 Posts: 6 Credit: 135,341 RAC: 0	Message 1025458 - Posted: 16 Aug 2010, 3:53:14 UTC - in response to Message 1025424. I never saw the download " page" ... alas , it still wont install .. 6.10.58 recommended version Windows 64-bit XP/Vista/7. same exact error as before, while mid install .. unable to find BOINC.msi Ageless.. ive always had this 64bit os, ive looked in program files / and program files 86 ... no boinc on my machine at all im stumped tyvm ID: 1025458 ·

John McLeod VII Volunteer developer Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 15 Jul 99 Posts: 24806 Credit: 790,712 RAC: 0	Message 1025475 - Posted: 16 Aug 2010, 5:03:27 UTC - in response to Message 1025458. I never saw the download " page" ... alas , it still wont install .. 6.10.58 recommended version Windows 64-bit XP/Vista/7. same exact error as before, while mid install .. unable to find BOINC.msi Ageless.. ive always had this 64bit os, ive looked in program files / and program files 86 ... no boinc on my machine at all im stumped tyvm Reinstall the EXACT version that you are installing over. Old versions are available at http://boinc.ssl.berkeley.edu. Then install the new version. This sometimes works. BOINC WIKI ID: 1025475 ·

Jord Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 9 Jun 99 Posts: 15184 Credit: 4,362,181 RAC: 3	Message 1025476 - Posted: 16 Aug 2010, 5:06:38 UTC - in response to Message 1025458. Last modified: 16 Aug 2010, 5:07:49 UTC im stumped You did check the options in this FAQ? Please read all the options therein before doing any of them. Don't just discard it as the error on one of them is different than the one you see. Is this a fresh installation of BOINC, on a completely fresh installation of Windows, or is this an upgrade installation of BOINC? If it's an upgrade, which version did you have on the system before? If you haven't deleted the registry key at HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Space Sciences Laboratory, U.C. Berkeley\BOINC Setup yet, check in it what the installation paths are for the BOINC and BOINC Data directories. Anything in those paths? What happens when you delete the registry path, as it says to do in that FAQ? ID: 1025476 ·

SouthTexasDeathride Send message Joined: 16 Oct 06 Posts: 6 Credit: 135,341 RAC: 0	Message 1025730 - Posted: 17 Aug 2010, 0:38:56 UTC - in response to Message 1025476. not a fresh install of windows .. Went into regedit .. deleted the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Space Sciences Laboratory.... did a fresh DL/install of boinc_6.11.4_windows_x86_64.. same problem.. unable to locate BOINC.msi / error 1706 no valid source for product boinc. windows installer cannot continue ty for the help guys ... ID: 1025730 ·

Jord Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 9 Jun 99 Posts: 15184 Credit: 4,362,181 RAC: 3	Message 1025799 - Posted: 17 Aug 2010, 11:09:37 UTC What if you do a system restore to a point before you started to try to install BOINC? As each time you try to install something, a restore point is made. ID: 1025799 ·

John McLeod VII Volunteer developer Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 15 Jul 99 Posts: 24806 Credit: 790,712 RAC: 0	Message 1025913 - Posted: 17 Aug 2010, 22:27:35 UTC - in response to Message 1025730. not a fresh install of windows .. Went into regedit .. deleted the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Space Sciences Laboratory.... did a fresh DL/install of boinc_6.11.4_windows_x86_64.. same problem.. unable to locate BOINC.msi / error 1706 no valid source for product boinc. windows installer cannot continue ty for the help guys ... You have to find the place where the Windows uninstaller has squirreled away its link to the MSI file. That is under the windows uninstaller, NOT Space Sciences. BOINC WIKI ID: 1025913 ·

Jord Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 9 Jun 99 Posts: 15184 Credit: 4,362,181 RAC: 3	Message 1025914 - Posted: 17 Aug 2010, 22:28:51 UTC - in response to Message 1025913. HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Installer\Features\{fancy 32 character value}\ ID: 1025914 ·

SouthTexasDeathride Send message Joined: 16 Oct 06 Posts: 6 Credit: 135,341 RAC: 0	Message 1025962 - Posted: 18 Aug 2010, 0:53:47 UTC - in response to Message 1025914. I dont have that string Ageless ... someone mentioned a system restore... I guess I can do that. ID: 1025962 ·

Jord Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 9 Jun 99 Posts: 15184 Credit: 4,362,181 RAC: 3	Message 1025965 - Posted: 18 Aug 2010, 1:07:19 UTC - in response to Message 1025962. That someone was me as well. ;-) Checking my registry, I see that BOINC.msi lives at HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Installer\Products\EFA63CBFB97294243A790E783A253E3E\SourceList You could do a search in your registry for BOINC.msi and delete that key. (So in the case of my install, that would be the key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Installer\Products\EFA63CBFB97294243A790E783A253E3E. Your key will differ). ID: 1025965 ·

John McLeod VII Volunteer developer Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 15 Jul 99 Posts: 24806 Credit: 790,712 RAC: 0	Message 1026001 - Posted: 18 Aug 2010, 4:00:36 UTC - in response to Message 1025965. That someone was me as well. ;-) Checking my registry, I see that BOINC.msi lives at HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Installer\Products\EFA63CBFB97294243A790E783A253E3E\SourceList You could do a search in your registry for BOINC.msi and delete that key. (So in the case of my install, that would be the key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Installer\Products\EFA63CBFB97294243A790E783A253E3E. Your key will differ). Unfortunately the string is different at least for every single version of BOINC, possibly every install. Start a search for BOINC at HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Installer\Products. That should find it fairly quickly. You may need to do the search from an admin account. BOINC WIKI ID: 1026001 ·

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