I've just downloaded the seti enhanced 6.08 version, which enables me to use GPU to do the culculation. And 3 other WUs using 6.03 were on going.
But problems came soon after that. My pc shuts itself down 5 minutes after 6.08 ran. I tried again, the same situation occured.
I'm posting just to report this problem. Maybe the 6.08 can be improved.
My cpu: i3 M370
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce 310M
Memory: 2GB

Anyone have come to similar situations? Hope to have a solution.
Million thanks! :)

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Did you are new to seti with this GPU? 310M? is it a laptop? Perhaps it overheats? Try to use GPUz to analyse GPU Temp while computing.

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It is the first time my GPU on SETI, and I think it is overload. Because same situation happened when I run the game MLB 2k11 on this laptop... Is there something I can do to control perfromence or temperature of the GPU? I hope to run SETI on my GPU, but now I have no choice but to rely only on CPU.

THX!

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You're running Windows 7, as I am on my mobile 420M GPU.

You need to ensure that you are making the best use of whatever cooling hardware your laptop manufacturer has provided. I went to 'More power options' from the battery charge indicator in the notification area, then 'Change plan settings' for the active power plan. Then 'Change advanced power settings', 'Processor power management', 'System cooling policy', and finally changed both settings to 'Active'. Now, the fan speeds up everytime the GPU is active.

It's probably quicker to buy a 'laptop cooling pad' - a base with additional fans to rest the laptop on while crunching. And Fred's TThrottle can both monitor and control system temperatures when running BOINC - recommended.

Oh i dont ment overload i ment overheat ^^

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You're running Windows 7, as I am on my mobile 420M GPU.

You need to ensure that you are making the best use of whatever cooling hardware your laptop manufacturer has provided. I went to 'More power options' from the battery charge indicator in the notification area, then 'Change plan settings' for the active power plan. Then 'Change advanced power settings', 'Processor power management', 'System cooling policy', and finally changed both settings to 'Active'. Now, the fan speeds up everytime the GPU is active.

It's probably quicker to buy a 'laptop cooling pad' - a base with additional fans to rest the laptop on while crunching. And Fred's TThrottle can both monitor and control system temperatures when running BOINC - recommended.

I bought a cooling pad for my laptop, and temp went about 10c down, before my laptop started rebooting when temp got too high.

TThrottle works, but I prefer downclocking instead, seems to me it works better. O/c now with the pad I have infact overclocked it instead :)

Thanks so much for your recommandations.. Unfortunately, the power management software on my laptop doesn't have the functions like those on your computer.. And, my computer is already with a cooling base, but it seems to me that the cool base doesn't cool my computer very well.. As soon as I turn on GPU culculaton, the 310M get overheat...

Is there any software that can speed up the GPU fan?

Thanks again!

Kak-Hee

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If your cooler/heatsink is accessable from the bottom of your laptop, try to remove cover and clean/blow the dust away. That procedure can help A LOT with overheating problems.

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Who the hell is General Failure and why is he reading my harddisk?¿

I think I'm going to do so... thx!

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