Grant it I'm not really running BOINC because of overheating issues during processing but I do have the client run for post notifications etc. Any way, I came accross somethin in the event log after startup that I was hoping someone might explain.

7/29/2011 11:48:13 PM | | Starting BOINC client version 6.12.26 for windows_intelx86
7/29/2011 11:48:13 PM | | log flags: file_xfer, sched_ops, task
7/29/2011 11:48:13 PM | | Libraries: libcurl/7.19.7 OpenSSL/0.9.8l zlib/1.2.5
7/29/2011 11:48:13 PM | | Data directory: C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\BOINC
7/29/2011 11:48:13 PM | | Running under account Owner
7/29/2011 11:48:13 PM | | Processor: 2 AuthenticAMD AMD Turion(tm) 64 X2 Mobile Technology TL-60 [Family 15 Model 104 Stepping 2]
7/29/2011 11:48:13 PM | | Processor: 512.00 KB cache
7/29/2011 11:48:13 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 svm rdtscp 3dnowext 3dnow
7/29/2011 11:48:13 PM | | OS: Microsoft Windows XP: Home x86 Edition, Service Pack 3, (05.01.2600.00)
7/29/2011 11:48:13 PM | | Memory: 2.87 GB physical, 4.72 GB virtual
7/29/2011 11:48:13 PM | | Disk: 231.42 GB total, 2.28 GB free
7/29/2011 11:48:13 PM | | Local time is UTC -4 hours
7/29/2011 11:48:13 PM | | No usable GPUs found
7/29/2011 11:48:13 PM | | A new version of BOINC is available. <a href=http://boinc.berkeley.edu/download.php>Download it.</a>
7/29/2011 11:48:13 PM | Einstein@Home | URL http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/; Computer ID 4134681; resource share 100
7/29/2011 11:48:13 PM | lhcathome | URL http://lhcathome.cern.ch/lhcathome/; Computer ID 9923035; resource share 100
7/29/2011 11:48:13 PM | SETI@home | URL http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/; Computer ID 6010844; resource share 100
7/29/2011 11:48:13 PM | SZTAKI Desktop Grid | URL http://szdg.lpds.sztaki.hu/szdg/; Computer ID 331543; resource share 100
7/29/2011 11:48:13 PM | SETI@home | General prefs: from SETI@home (last modified 31-May-2011 03:19:22)
7/29/2011 11:48:13 PM | SETI@home | Computer location: home
7/29/2011 11:48:13 PM | SETI@home | General prefs: no separate prefs for home; using your defaults
7/29/2011 11:48:13 PM | | Preferences:
7/29/2011 11:48:13 PM | | max memory usage when active: 1470.78MB
7/29/2011 11:48:13 PM | | max memory usage when idle: 2647.40MB
7/29/2011 11:48:13 PM | | max disk usage: 0.00GB
7/29/2011 11:48:13 PM | | don't use GPU while active
7/29/2011 11:48:13 PM | | suspend work if non-BOINC CPU load exceeds 35 %
7/29/2011 11:48:13 PM | | (to change preferences, visit the web site of an attached project, or select Preferences in the Manager)
7/29/2011 11:48:13 PM | Einstein@Home | Task h1_0265.05_S6GC1__1016_S6BucketA_1 is 46.09 days overdue; you may not get credit for it. Consider aborting it.
7/29/2011 11:48:13 PM | SETI@home | Task 03ap11ac.7388.17654.12.10.210_1 is 46.09 days overdue; you may not get credit for it. Consider aborting it.
7/29/2011 11:48:13 PM | SETI@home | Task 02ap11aa.17681.20517.12.10.238_0 is 45.34 days overdue; you may not get credit for it. Consider aborting it.
7/29/2011 11:48:13 PM | SETI@home | Task 02ap11aa.17681.20517.12.10.237_0 is 45.34 days overdue; you may not get credit for it. Consider aborting it.
7/29/2011 11:48:13 PM | | Not using a proxy
7/29/2011 11:50:11 PM | | Suspending computation - CPU is busy
7/29/2011 11:50:21 PM | | Resuming computation

Note the bit in red, whats the deal with that becaue while I might not be able to run any tasks right now I do have some DL that are taking up disk space.

Ty.

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What are the values for:

Disk: use at most X GB
Disk: leave free at least
Values smaller than 0.001 are ignored Y GB
Disk: use at most Z% of total

In your prefeerences?

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What are the values for:

Disk: use at most X GB (50GB)
Disk: leave free at least (5GB)
Values smaller than 0.001 are ignored Y GB
Disk: use at most Z% of total (75% of total)

In your prefeerences?

Answers in red...

Edit: Would the 0.00 be a reflection of low available disk space ?

If so that might be the reason the log shows 0.00 since I only have available 3.11GB's of disk space.

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Yes, your low disk free is what's causing this. Increase the "Disk: use at most Z% of total" to 100% and you should be able to get work again.

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Yes, your low disk free is what's causing this. Increase the "Disk: use at most Z% of total" to 100% and you should be able to get work again.

I'm not worried about work right now because I can't run BOINC before my CPU overheats and shuts down. Laptops kind of old, probably need to replace a cooling fan or something. In any case, I have work DL, outdated mind you. I was just curious about the 0.00 figure given my chosen settings but then a while ago made the edit an was like hmm, that might be why.

Any way, ty for the assistance :-)

I just wish I has some RAC or soemthing so I could post on the other boards.

Edit: For arguments sake, even if it were at 100% wouldnt the below figures interfere with it, namely the leave free 5GB one ?

Disk: use at most X GB (50GB)
Disk: leave free at least (5GB

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Yes, your low disk free is what's causing this. Increase the "Disk: use at most Z% of total" to 100% and you should be able to get work again.

I'm not worried about work right now because I can't run BOINC before my CPU overheats and shuts down. Laptops kind of old, probably need to replace a cooling fan or something. In any case, I have work DL, outdated mind you. I was just curious about the 0.00 figure given my chosen settings but then a while ago made the edit an was like hmm, that might be why.

Any way, ty for the assistance :-)

I just wish I has some RAC or soemthing so I could post on the other boards.

Edit: For arguments sake, even if it were at 100% wouldnt the below figures interfere with it, namely the leave free 5GB one ?

Disk: use at most X GB (50GB)
Disk: leave free at least (5GB

You probably only need to use compressed air (or air in a can) and blow the dust out of the cooling.

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Yes, your low disk free is what's causing this. Increase the "Disk: use at most Z% of total" to 100% and you should be able to get work again.

I'm not worried about work right now because I can't run BOINC before my CPU overheats and shuts down. Laptops kind of old, probably need to replace a cooling fan or something. In any case, I have work DL, outdated mind you. I was just curious about the 0.00 figure given my chosen settings but then a while ago made the edit an was like hmm, that might be why.

Any way, ty for the assistance :-)

I just wish I has some RAC or soemthing so I could post on the other boards.

Edit: For arguments sake, even if it were at 100% wouldnt the below figures interfere with it, namely the leave free 5GB one ?

Disk: use at most X GB (50GB)
Disk: leave free at least (5GB

You probably only need to use compressed air (or air in a can) and blow the dust out of the cooling.

In either event, it seems anything like BOINC or really intensive video streaming heats the CPU to the point of instant shutdown to protect the system. Even with my A/C blowing somewhat accross it (not on purposes jsut good loc) it still heats to the point of shutdown. For arguments sake, I can't even play WoW or more than 10 minutes before it goes offline. I'll need to try and sit down tomorrow and disassemble the thing to see whats goin on.


I do have a new build in the works but I would so love to run BOINC etc on this damned laptop.

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Yes, your low disk free is what's causing this. Increase the "Disk: use at most Z% of total" to 100% and you should be able to get work again.

I'm not worried about work right now because I can't run BOINC before my CPU overheats and shuts down. Laptops kind of old, probably need to replace a cooling fan or something. In any case, I have work DL, outdated mind you. I was just curious about the 0.00 figure given my chosen settings but then a while ago made the edit an was like hmm, that might be why.

Any way, ty for the assistance :-)

I just wish I has some RAC or soemthing so I could post on the other boards.

Edit: For arguments sake, even if it were at 100% wouldnt the below figures interfere with it, namely the leave free 5GB one ?

Disk: use at most X GB (50GB)
Disk: leave free at least (5GB

You probably only need to use compressed air (or air in a can) and blow the dust out of the cooling.

In either event, it seems anything like BOINC or really intensive video streaming heats the CPU to the point of instant shutdown to protect the system. Even with my A/C blowing somewhat accross it (not on purposes jsut good loc) it still heats to the point of shutdown. For arguments sake, I can't even play WoW or more than 10 minutes before it goes offline. I'll need to try and sit down tomorrow and disassemble the thing to see whats goin on.


I do have a new build in the works but I would so love to run BOINC etc on this damned laptop.

Over time, dust builds up a layer of insulation on the heat sink. Take a can of compressed air and blow the dust off.

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BOINC WIKI

Thats probably what it is (layer of dust), wont know for sure til I take the casing off since a can of air would only do so much blowing through vents etc.

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To open and clean a laptop is very hard (unless you have special opening for reaching the fan/heatsink)
- sometimes you have to remove all the components to reach the fan.

Compressed air (by compressor, not can (I don't know what the pressure was))
blown through the exit hole inside (in opposite direction of normal airflow)
made magic in a matter of seconds (4-5 blows 1 sec each with 10 sec pause)
to my daughter's HP laptop - the temperature afterwards keeps around 20-30°C lower than was before (now 50-55°C at idle, was ~75°C even using Power Saver profile in Vista).

And you can use Power Saver profile (tested on Windows Vista, not XP) to avoid overheating and shutdown.

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I've opened up laptops before so thats not an issue even though it is a PIA depending on the laptop being worked with.

Nice thougt on the exit hole blowing through, if anything thats worth a first shot ;-)

To open and clean a laptop is very hard (unless you have special opening for reaching the fan/heatsink)
- sometimes you have to remove all the components to reach the fan.

Compressed air (by compressor, not can (I don't know what the pressure was))
blown through the exit hole inside (in opposite direction of normal airflow)
made magic in a matter of seconds (4-5 blows 1 sec each with 10 sec pause)
to my daughter's HP laptop - the temperature afterwards keeps around 20-30°C lower than was before (now 50-55°C at idle, was ~75°C even using Power Saver profile in Vista).

And you can use Power Saver profile (tested on Windows Vista, not XP) to avoid overheating and shutdown.

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