Strange PC hang, using Nvidia GPU (optimized)

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Message 1242122 - Posted: 6 Jun 2012, 11:26:12 UTC
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0) I'm running seti@home since 2000, as you can see
1) it's the firts time I see what I' tryng to explain now

I'he got an infinite loop of "black screen and restart".
I have seen that PC hang and restart happens some minutes after restart.
So I had some time to try something.
I have tried to stop boinc (exiting as soon as it starts)
This is working.
PC continue to work and doesn't restart any more.
So this was a strong suggestion to someting connecterd with seti (the only one project I run)
As I see boinc running, I have to wait some seconds in orded to see next hang, so my olny two neurons told me that may be it was something about GPU.
In this moment Boinc is stopped so I can write you.
later I will do some test but I prefere to wrte someting now, just to help you in helping me (and perhaps also other cruncers).

host is http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/show_host_detail.php?hostid=2693912

4 CPU + 1 NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250 (1023MB) driver: 295.73
Microsoft Windows XP
Home x86 Edition, Service Pack 3, (05.01.2600.00)

I'm running the latest lunatics optimized application (Lunatics_Win32_v0.40_setup.exe)

Next try is to update NVIDIA drivers and I will try to determinate the exact GPU Task involved

News at next boot
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Update: now "I am NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250 (1023MB) driver: 301.42"
Boing is runnig fine but I have suspended GPU.

Task suspended seems to be
Computer:	Juppiter
Project	SETI@home
	
Name	01jl10ac.26305.8251.13.10.90_0
	
Application	setiathome_enhanced 6.10 (cuda_fermi)
Workunit name	01jl10ac.26305.8251.13.10.90
State	Waiting to run
Received	27.05.2012 01:32:32
Report deadline	12.07.2012 13:01:32
Estimated app speed	2.81 GFLOPs/sec
Estimated task size	3'301 GFLOPs
Resources	0.04 CPUs + 1 NVIDIA GPU
CPU time at last checkpoint	00:00:38
CPU time	00:00:39
Elapsed time	00:04:07
Estimated time remaining	00:14:57
Fraction done	21.439%
Virtual memory size	79.12 MB
Working set size	78.07 MB
Directory	slots/2
Process ID	2820
	


I will try to resume task and see if pc is still hanging
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Message 1242130 - Posted: 6 Jun 2012, 11:50:33 UTC - in response to Message 1242122.  
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Happy end? I hope.
Everything is running fine. CPU and GPU too.
Maybe it was something about task "01jl10ac.26305.8251.13.10.90" and "295.73 drivers" with optimized apps.

I don't know if someone is able to replicate what happening (same card, same driver, same pgms, same task) but if someone is having similar problems, he can try to updaate NVIDIA Drivers.

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Message 1242399 - Posted: 6 Jun 2012, 18:43:41 UTC

Or it could be just a tired power supply or graphics card getting close to failure.
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Message 1242654 - Posted: 7 Jun 2012, 6:43:31 UTC - in response to Message 1242399.  

Or it could be just a tired power supply or graphics card getting close to failure.

Ok, I was thinking the same thing.
But later I have noticed that "black screen and restart" is appening every time I suspend work using Boinc icon in the appliction bar (suspend all or suspend GPU). As I restart, after some seconds I get the problem. Some times even if I exit from boinc and restart it. Seconds, I think, are the ones necessary to prepare the data for GPU and send data to it.
I stop GPU because when I use my PC with a VOIP application, sound is not good (I listen good but my interlocutor doesn't) and I have seen that if I stop BOINC (or olny GPU) the sond is good. As I restart the GPU task, I get the "black screen and restart". And at restart I get a new stop. I never have this in orher situations. I see that if PC is autorestartng (after maintenance) I don't have problems.
So I think that can be something in the suspend/restart in the 7.0.25 version
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Message 1248419 - Posted: 19 Jun 2012, 20:51:40 UTC - in response to Message 1242399.  
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Or it could be just a tired power supply or graphics card getting close to failure.

Yes. The problem was arising and I have changed PS. All OK now.
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