Bug in server affecting older BOINC clients with NVIDIA GPUs.

... in the next few days I will be getting in a GeForce 295GTX dual GPU 1.7GB memory card.
I would get something better but that is the top end card supported by my motherboard.

Was I wrong in believing I had read that you could force BOINC through the resource share option to partition out the work in the percentage that you wanted?

Running BOINC client version 7.0.28 for windows_x86_64 , using anonymous platform , AMD Athlon II X4 640 Processor , ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series , Catalyst Version 12.8

Please help i keep getting computation errors on gpu wu's

28/08/2012 7:46:08 PM | SETI@home | Aborting task 14my12ab.21457.20108.13.10.152_1: exceeded elapsed time limit 665.45 (1902.40G/2.86G)

my brothers computer is getting the same error , two other comps in the house are ok but they running a different client version and cat version

Thanks

Andrew

Melbourne AU

That's probably true. But we'd need more than four part time employees. A budget of 1.5 million dollars a year would help a lot towards getting 97% uptime. We'd really like a time machine to allow us to go back and put more effort into convincing the State of California that saving money by forcing the people who understood the campus power system to take early retirement was a bad idea.

Unfortunately none of those things is going to happen, unless you happen to have a billionaire in your pocket. Uptime costs money, salaries cost money, network bandwidth costs money. We don't have money. It's amazing what you can do without money, but it's equally amazing what you can't do.

When my computer slowed to a crawl and my CPU wound up, I took it for repair and the IT guy said it was running multiple applications of SETI. He uninstalled it and I reinstalled the latest BOINC - he said to just shut down the extra applications if it happened again. It did and I did, while I was at my computer, but when I wasn't, my computer died and now won't boot. I keep getting a command screen that says "trying to load MS NVIDIA", then it stops and nothing happens. I can't even get to the recovery app, and I can't boot from the DVD drive. How do I fix this? I am not a computer geek. SETI isn't supposed to kill its hosts!!
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You very probably didn't watch for Temperatures (for CPU, GPU)

There are many Temperature Monitoring Programs for this:
http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=59292
http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=62044

Any 'heavy' computing program (as almost all of projects running under BOINC, not only SETI) will Heat the computer if it have no adequate cooling.
Dust buildup in the heatsinks/fans (in the computer) is the most often cause for poor cooling.

The high temperature probably killed your GPU (NVIDIA)

I just made a post about TThrottle here:
http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=68948&postid=1277084#1277084

But it is listed at this site from long time ago if you click PARTICIPATE -> Add-on software:
http://boinc.berkeley.edu/addons.php

(No program can revive your GPU if it is already burned, but if you see some picture on your monitor (you say "I keep getting a command screen") the GPU may still be alive.
You may try to load/boot OS (e.g. Linux) directly from a LiveDVD to see is the monitor/GPU working in graphics mode.

If you "can't boot from the DVD drive" this computer fault may be a different issue (e.g. PSU problem - not enough electrical current to 'feed' CPU+GPU+HDD+DVD++).
Or you may have 2 unrelated problems: GPU burn because of heat, DVD drive fault because of dirty/weak/old laser or bad/scratched DVD disk.
)

P.S.
You may see some strange example of 'burn' here:
MSI Mainboard no good for BOINC; can/will fry at 100% use (admitted by manufacturer):
http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=69178


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- ALF - "Find out what you don't do well ..... then don't do it!" :)

You very probably didn't watch for Temperatures (for CPU, GPU)

There are many Temperature Monitoring Programs for this:
http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=59292
http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=62044

Any 'heavy' computing program (as almost all of projects running under BOINC, not only SETI) will Heat the computer if it have no adequate cooling.
Dust buildup in the heatsinks/fans (in the computer) is the most often cause for poor cooling.

The high temperature probably killed your GPU (NVIDIA)

I just made a post about TThrottle here:
http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=68948&postid=1277084#1277084

Well, uh, non-geeks don't monitor temps. In over a decade of running SETI, I've never had a problem like this (caused by running SETI). But thanks for the info.

Anyway, it will boot from the DVD but ONLY if I disconnect the HD power first. And I did have it set to boot from DVD first. So I can read the recovery wizard from DVD - does that mean the GPU is OK? And does that mean the HD is bad, the PS is bad, or the CPU is bad? I am really trying to save some info on my HD and I'm running out of acronyms. Don't want to reformat except as last resort. Ideas?

How 'big' is the PSU (read the label on it)?
I mean e.g.: what brand/manufacturer/model, 500 W, +5V max 30A, +12V max 20A ...

Which of these is the Computer you speak about (e.g. ID: 6715925):
http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/hosts_user.php?sort=rpc_time&rev=0&show_all=1&userid=442383

No nVidia GPU shown (which means SETI can't run on your GPU so can't damage it)


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- ALF - "Find out what you don't do well ..... then don't do it!" :)

Just to be clear and possibly save some others a lot of fooling around with it, the OpenCL support is Not Available for Mac, even though other BOINC applications work nicely with the ATI GPUs.

The OpenCL support for SETI is, sadly, windows-only, it would appear.
Sigh...

Hi :)
Prolly an old question, but...
What does 'Unable to connect to core client' mean?

edit: weird, I closed it and reopened it and now it works.
Yaay!
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I has a MiniCity :)
http://en-ki-du.myminicity.com

ID: 6017961. 1 yr old. PSU: Liteon PS-5251-08. 5v/25A, 12v/14A, 3.3v/18A, -12v/.8A, 5vsb/2A. DC pwr 250W. I don't think it's just coincidence that it died while I was having those SETI/Astropulse problems. Guess that's what the fine print on the agreement is for, eh? I just wish they had warned us sooner before my warranty expired 2 months ago. I'll bury it in the backyard and grieve for my lost data.

From your Win7 DVD Recovery Options and Command Prompt:
bootrec.exe /fixmbr

also run a CHKDSK c: /f the /f means fix your file system.
and select yes on next reboot because it cannot unmount the volume while in Windows.

If you're using two hard drives in RAID 0 and you get a RAID volume error(s) at POST, and you want to recover your RAID...have a spare drive with Win7 updated and installed with the Intel RST Program interface which allows you to clear the
RAID error condition or reset the drives to NORMAL seen at POST and RAID init screens. The Intel RST utility does not reset the RAID to a NON RAID (NORMAL),
it clears the RAID error condition. All of your data remains safe. But you still may want to run a chkdsk. Be prepared to swap your data cables between the RAID drives and spare drives or have a spare hard drive data cable for this procedure. You will also have to frequent your BIOS's boot order settings while swapping drives...you should intuitively be able to advance from one step to the next in this process.

Motugirl

You might also try a SYSTEM RESTORE from your DVD if that procedure can find valid restore points on the drive, and only if you have system restore enabled to have restore/recovery points. Pick the most recent one.

Google any further information on System Restore and study a variety of posts on the forums regarding it. You want the information that corroberates and compares well. And you can practice the procedure knowing how far to go into the procedure before backing out of it. You should immediately create a new user created restore point, but there is a max limit on restore points and windows update will ovewrite them, so you should be aware of your restore point status, and view available restore points from time to time. Otherwise it can be a big data backup and reinstall problem.

GTX 550TI

Stopped receiving the multiple SETIs when the bug was found.

They started back again, almost a dozen at one time ...

GTX 550TI

Stopped receiving the multiple SETIs when the bug was found.

They started back again, almost a dozen at one time ...