I've gotten a couple of private messages about one of my machines, that seems to be producing mostly junk: errors and invalid results. At first I thought this might be due to the video card; my driver locks up periodically and resets the card and driver on me. So I suspended GPU usage, thinking that might solve it, but alas, it seems not.

What are the steps to take in order to begin diagnosing the problem? This problem relates to the following machine: http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/show_host_detail.php?hostid=5889577

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Right now , it appears that disabling GPU use has stopped your error production, however it certainly has not solved your problem.

computer 5889577 wrote:

CPU type GenuineIntel
Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2500K CPU @ 3.30GHz [Family 6 Model 42 Stepping 7]
Number of processors 4
Coprocessors NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti (2047MB) driver: 301.42
Operating System Microsoft Windows 7
Ultimate x64 Edition, Service Pack 1, (06.01.7601.00)
BOINC version 7.0.28
Memory 8162.12 MB
Cache 256 KB
Measured floating point speed 3403.72 million ops/sec
Measured integer speed 12157.97 million ops/sec
Average upload rate 36.78 KB/sec
Average download rate 369 KB/sec
Average turnaround time 0.27 days
Application details Show
Tasks 1063
Number of times client has contacted server 17044
Last contact 21 Oct 2012

application details clip wrote:

SETI@home Enhanced 6.10 windows_intelx86 (cuda_fermi)
Number of tasks completed 7390
Max tasks per day 100
Number of tasks today 0
Consecutive valid tasks 0
Average processing rate 248.75388612667
Average turnaround time 0.24 days

Looks like your problem is with the cuda fermi application from seti@home.

Try to obtain and install an optimized gpu application.
if this resolves your problem , you will also enjoy a higher RAC for doing it.

upon further inspection it appears your gpu is overclocked , slowing it back down should solve your issue.

nvidia specs for gtx 560ti wrote:

CUDA Cores 384
Graphics Clock (MHz) 822
Processor Clock (MHz) 1645

ID# 5889577 randomly chosen invalid task wrote:

Device 1 : GeForce GTX 560 Ti
totalGlobalMem = 2147155968
sharedMemPerBlock = 49152
regsPerBlock = 32768
warpSize = 32
memPitch = 2147483647
maxThreadsPerBlock = 1024
clockRate = 1840000
totalConstMem = 65536
major = 2
minor = 1
textureAlignment = 512
deviceOverlap = 1
multiProcessorCount = 8

I've gotten a couple of private messages about one of my machines, that seems to be producing mostly junk: errors and invalid results. At first I thought this might be due to the video card; my driver locks up periodically and resets the card and driver on me. So I suspended GPU usage, thinking that might solve it, but alas, it seems not.

What are the steps to take in order to begin diagnosing the problem? This problem relates to the following machine: http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/show_host_detail.php?hostid=5889577

Your CPU processing looks fine, but probably most of the tasks which have already been reported from GPU processing will end up being invalid. They're waiting for results to be reported from another host, then the Validator will render its judgement.

The 560Ti cards are good but somewhat temperamental, see post 1240004 by jason_gee for some things to check.

                                                                    Joe

What brand and model of 560Ti is that?

Easiest fix for the 560ti will be Jason's app when it goes live soon.

I had an EVGA 560ti that loved nothing more than to make my life miserable.

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Executive Director GPU Users Group Inc. -
brad@gpuug.org

Easiest fix for the 560ti will be Jason's app when it goes live soon.

I had an EVGA 560ti that loved nothing more than to make my life miserable.

I well recall.

I had the same thing going-on, if you remember. It took more than Lunatics' to fix mine. One card went back for repair and the other I flashed the BIOS myself (it was available on Gigabyte's website, I'm not saying I wrote my own BIOS).

<knocking wood>

They do seem to be better.

But one card or another will let me down from time-to-time and start spouting junk.