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I've been doing S@H for a while and a couple of days ago the office gave me a new Core i7 laptop. I got everything set up on it correctly (at least I think), including downloading the latest optimized app from Lunatics. I have 500+ WUs in the cache, 100+ have been turned in.

I'm in the situation where I can see and work with BOINC Manager under an admin account but not my user account. Note: the Admin account does not have rights to do everything on this laptop, but it is enough to get most common admin tasks done. In the user account, I see warning messages that BOINC Manager is already running under another account or I need to add the user to the boinc_users group (don't know how to do that). During installation I do not believe that I selected to install it as a service or as a protected app. The only choice I made was for no screensaver.

How do I work with BOINC under the user account? If I need to add the user account to a group, how do I do that?

TIA
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Assuming you have permission to run BOINC on the laptop, you should have selected "Allow all users to control BOINC" on that same page where it was selected for Protected Execution and set the BOINC screen saver.

Otherwise, you go into Computer Management and find the BOINC_Admins group and add your user account to that.

I signed up for seti@home about a year ago. It ran great for a while. We had a lightning strike and I lost my connection. When the computer was fixed, I downloaded the latest version of the software. I cannot get it to run. The status page tells me that the program was stopped by me. Did not do that. Any suggestion that I can have to get it going. By the way, I am very new to this.
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The status page tells me that the program was stopped by me. Did not do that.

Otherwise, you go into Computer Management and find the BOINC_Admins group and add your user account to that.

Tried to do this, but the odd thing was that my username was not one of the various items on the list that could be selected. Instead, I added 'everyone'. That didn't help because, under the user account, I still can't connect to localhost or see any activity.

Likely your user account is a domain account, so when you add your user account, it needs to be in the form of domain\user.

Unfortunately, what you seem to be describing is a different problem altogether. If you cannot connect to localhost (which is BOINC Manager connecting to the BOINC daemon over local TCP/IP port 31416), then you seem to have a firewall issue. If your firewall is managed by your corporate security department through group policy, you'll need to ask them to allow local port 31416. You may or may not be able to change this setting even if you have Administrative privileges.

I've been a member of S@H since the end of May, using a Pentium IV machine with XP Pro, functioning as well as computers will. I've had a semi-retired Pentium II machine available for sometime, and decided to make use of this for Seti as well.

I therefore upgraded W95 to W98 so available BOINC software could be used, and added the machine to my home network. Using BOINC version 6.6.38 as recommended by the BOINC site. As luck would have it, as soon as I joined S&H I was given an AstroPulse v6 job. Est. time to completion was about 1980 hours! After an elapsed time of over 17 hours it has completed all of 0.38% of the job and says 2018 hours and 3 minutes remaining. Job is due back 8/08, so doesn't appear it will be possible to make that deadline, as don't have ~300 days available to complete this job.

1. Am I using the correct BOINC client for W98? It has 256 MB of RAM + virtual memory usage. When I first started up BOINC, the log in red suggested I use the latest version of BOINC, which I doubt would work at all with this hardware/software combo. I had Windows 2K on it previously, and it never completed any jobs, they were just pulled back due to errors. That's why I was hoping 98 would work.
2. Is there any way to block AstroPulse jobs for the P-II while allowing my P- IV machine to receive them. Appears in preferences that whatever's marked applies to all computers in use in the project.
3. Is there any way to speed this process up? I'm sure it could manage the Seti programs much more efficently. I did use this machine with Seti back in 2000 (believe it or not) using W95 when the client basically was a screensaver.

Hopefully I will be able to use this machine alone with my P-IV to help in the Seti efforts. Thanks in advance.
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1. Am I using the correct BOINC client for W98?

2. Is there any way to block AstroPulse jobs for the P-II while allowing my P- IV machine to receive them.

3. Is there any way to speed this process up?

Thank you all so much for the suggestions. My W98 system is working much smoother now, once I set up a separate profile and started working on a Seti enhanced job. Slow (to be expected), but significantly smoother.

Would adding more RAM benefit the Seti number crunching? I think I have one empty RAM slot left. Thank you all again!

your windows 98 only has 256mb of ram. Since you are unlikely to be running any modern apps I'd have to agree. you have sufficient RAM onboard
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I'm having a little configuring my BOINC Wizard Manager to run my Seti@home screen saver as well as a few other projects in which my Internet Explorer from MICROSOFT just doesn't want to communicate with my server let alone find a server using the 1-800-857-3121 number because of my URL etc.,?

What to I have to do to configure and get started with my projects ?

?? As I can't make any sense from this post - did you try to ask yourself?:
http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/show_user.php?userid=9262315


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