I have a new computer how do I make sure that all CPUs and maybe a GPU are used

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If you mean this computer, http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/show_host_detail.php?hostid=7208900, then the Windows Task Manager Performance tab will show the load on all available cores.

As to the GPU, GPU-Z will show the load, but looking at your details shows no GPU detected (you didn't install BOINC in protected mode did you?).

Cheers.

I just ran it as I had problems with my internet

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Well you now have 100 tasks for your CPU, but BOINC still hasn't detected your GPU which ATM makes me think that you installed BOINC in 'protected Application Execution' mode which means that BOINC won't use your GPU.

Check this post out, http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=71499&postid=1361441#1361441.

Cheers.

Click on what it said now will have to wait as computer needs to be restarted and have over 139 windows updates to do or have I done it wrong need information so that my gpu is checked to see if it can run Seti etc

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Done things wrong it says that it is working but it is not advancing what can I do to redo it so it is working

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Please post your Boinc startup from the Event Log.

Claggy

08/02/2014 18:49:16 | | cc_config.xml not found - using defaults
08/02/2014 18:49:16 | | Starting BOINC client version 7.2.33 for windows_x86_64
08/02/2014 18:49:16 | | log flags: file_xfer, sched_ops, task
08/02/2014 18:49:16 | | Libraries: libcurl/7.25.0 OpenSSL/1.0.1 zlib/1.2.6
08/02/2014 18:49:16 | | Data directory: C:\ProgramData\BOINC
08/02/2014 18:49:16 | | Running under account Chris
08/02/2014 18:49:16 | | No usable GPUs found
08/02/2014 18:49:16 | SETI@home | Found app_info.xml; using anonymous platform
08/02/2014 18:49:16 | | Host name: Chris-PC
08/02/2014 18:49:16 | | Processor: 8 AuthenticAMD AMD FX(tm)-8320 Eight-Core Processor [Family 21 Model 2 Stepping 0]
08/02/2014 18:49:16 | | Processor features: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 htt pni ssse3 fma cx16 sse4_1 sse4_2 popcnt aes syscall nx lm svm sse4a osvw ibs xop skinit wdt lwp fma4 tce tbm topx page1gb rdtscp
08/02/2014 18:49:16 | | OS: Microsoft Windows 7: Home Premium x64 Edition, Service Pack 1, (06.01.7601.00)
08/02/2014 18:49:16 | | Memory: 15.48 GB physical, 30.96 GB virtual
08/02/2014 18:49:16 | | Disk: 1.82 TB total, 1.77 TB free
08/02/2014 18:49:16 | | Local time is UTC +0 hours
08/02/2014 18:49:16 | SETI@home | URL http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/; Computer ID 7208900; resource share 200
08/02/2014 18:49:16 | SETI@home | General prefs: from SETI@home (last modified 22-Dec-2010 12:30:21)
08/02/2014 18:49:16 | SETI@home | Computer location: home
08/02/2014 18:49:16 | | General prefs: using separate prefs for home
08/02/2014 18:49:16 | | Preferences:
08/02/2014 18:49:16 | | max memory usage when active: 15853.54MB
08/02/2014 18:49:16 | | max memory usage when idle: 15853.54MB
08/02/2014 18:49:16 | | max disk usage: 100.00GB
08/02/2014 18:49:16 | | don't use GPU while active
08/02/2014 18:49:16 | | suspend work if non-BOINC CPU load exceeds 25%
08/02/2014 18:49:16 | | (to change preferences, visit a project web site or select Preferences in the Manager)
08/02/2014 18:49:16 | | Not using a proxy
08/02/2014 18:49:17 | SETI@home | Restarting task 17my13ac.9206.21071.438086664202.12.112.vlar_1 using setiathome_v7 version 700 in slot 0
08/02/2014 18:49:17 | SETI@home | Restarting task 17my13ac.9206.21071.438086664202.12.118.vlar_0 using setiathome_v7 version 700 in slot 1
08/02/2014 18:49:17 | SETI@home | Restarting task 17my13ac.9206.21071.438086664202.12.48.vlar_1 using setiathome_v7 version 700 in slot 2
08/02/2014 18:49:17 | SETI@home | Restarting task 17my13ac.9206.21071.438086664202.12.181.vlar_1 using setiathome_v7 version 700 in slot 3
08/02/2014 18:49:17 | SETI@home | Restarting task 17my13ac.9206.21071.438086664202.12.6.vlar_0 using setiathome_v7 version 700 in slot 4
08/02/2014 18:49:17 | SETI@home | Restarting task 17my13ac.9206.21071.438086664202.12.22.vlar_1 using setiathome_v7 version 700 in slot 5
08/02/2014 18:49:17 | SETI@home | Restarting task 17my13ac.9206.21071.438086664202.12.28.vlar_1 using setiathome_v7 version 700 in slot 6
08/02/2014 18:49:17 | SETI@home | Restarting task 17my13ac.9206.21071.438086664202.12.58.vlar_0 using setiathome_v7 version 700 in slot 7

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Think I have done Lunatics wrong so shall I get rid it and how then do I run. Uninstalled BOINC seems like everything went wrong after doing running Lunatics need to know what I should run it as. Yet it still shows on here that I have them to do

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Well no "Running as a daemon" mentioned there so you havn't installed BOINC in 'protected Application Execution' mode.

What GPU do you have installed and where did you get the driver for it from? (do not use Windows supplied drivers)

"08/02/2014 18:49:16 | | suspend work if non-BOINC CPU load exceeds 25%" you may want to increase that setting.

Cheers.

How do I cange the setting of the CPU load to more than 25%

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How do I cange the setting of the CPU load to more than 25%

In the advance mode click on Advanced and then Preferences then it'll be under the Processor Usage tab.

I still see that no GPU is being detected by BOINC though.

Cheers.

Now, why tell him to use the local preferences, when his clearly log shows he isn't using them yet? Why not just tell him to use the website preferences? There's no Reading preferences override file line in his log.

Also, in an earlier post, you asked him if he hadn't installed BOINC in 'protected Application Execution' mode. It hasn't been called that since BOINC 7.0.65. Since that version, it's been called Service Install, as that's essentially what it is.

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Now, why tell him to use the local preferences, when his clearly log shows he isn't using them yet? Why not just tell him to use the website preferences? There's no Reading preferences override file line in his log.

Also, in an earlier post, you asked him if he hadn't installed BOINC in 'protected Application Execution' mode. It hasn't been called that since BOINC 7.0.65. Since that version, it's been called Service Install, as that's essentially what it is.

Sorry, I'm a little rusty with the latest versions. :-(

Cheers.

But then again why arn't you young brainiacs trying to lend a hand?

Plus arn't local preferences suppose to override web preferences?

And your post maybe critical but I can't really see any help there Jord.

Cheers.

Do I need to do a service install as I have restarted it again and not done that so how can I do that with uninstalling it againAlso have changed preferences in website to zero is this correct? Timing for the WUS are now 20 hours even with an app file showung

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Do not do a "Service Install" as doing so will stop the use of your GPU by S@H (tee-shirt is very uncomfortable).

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Bob Smith
Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society)
Somewhere in the (un)known Universe?

No, you do not need the service install. Instead, you'll need to install drivers for the GPU, and then drivers by the maker of the GPU, not those supplied by Windows.

In the case of an AMD add-on videocard, or one built into the CPU, get your drivers from AMD.
In the case of an Nvidia add-on card, get your drivers from Nvidia.
You don't seem to have a new Intel CPU, so it isn't an Intel GPU built into the CPU.

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After win 7 (or Vista not sure), if you want to use GPU you can´t install Boinc as a service as we do before in the XP era. Why? simple M$ changes the way the video drivers are DL, so we can´t do nothing from our side. But that afects only the video driver so if you not use GPU then you could still install as a service even with Win 7 or 8 as before.

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Plus arn't local preferences suppose to override web preferences?

You're trying to order a beer, but the waiter tells you that water is better for you. What do you do?

It doesn't matter what local preferences are or aren't supposed to do. When the user ('s log) shows he isn't using them in the first place, and the user is already easily confused, don't force him to use a whole new set of things. As the next time he'll change something in his web preferences, but forgets he was instructed to use the local ones, and then he'll come complain that it doesn't work.

I'm now staying out of this thread. Too many helpers in here, making things difficult to follow.

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