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Message 1765311 - Posted: 16 Feb 2016, 0:38:48 UTC

Prometheus, (GTX-750 TI SC system), just suffered a driver crash that killed two units! :-O

Aborted Units.

No matter what I tried, I couldn't get these Units to Resume crunching, and had to abort them.


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Message 1765314 - Posted: 16 Feb 2016, 0:46:47 UTC - in response to Message 1765311.  

Restart your machine.

Were you pushing the machine too hard? Look at the angle ranges on those work units.
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Message 1765315 - Posted: 16 Feb 2016, 0:48:31 UTC - in response to Message 1765311.  
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*anything* else, either system, user application, or Boinc application, CPU or IO intensive going on at the time you know of ? Those particular autocorrelations and pulsefinds will be relatively sensitive to system overload.

Win7 on Core2 class, I'd be looking for a sneaky process chewing up a whole core or more (with process explorer). If there, That's the Win10 compatibility telemetry runner exe going (and repeatedly failing).

Aside from that, check the dates/versions of Intel chipset devices against current for your chipset manually, since Intel installer often leaves the old versions, which are laggy on PCI express.
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Message 1765316 - Posted: 16 Feb 2016, 0:49:45 UTC - in response to Message 1765314.  

Restart your machine.

Were you pushing the machine too hard? Look at the angle ranges on those work units.

Nothing is using the CPU, except for FF, Hardware Monitor, Precision X 16, and BOINC...

This is the first crash of this kind I've seen on this system...


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Message 1765317 - Posted: 16 Feb 2016, 0:51:45 UTC - in response to Message 1765316.  

Restart your machine.

Were you pushing the machine too hard? Look at the angle ranges on those work units.

Nothing is using the CPU, except for FF, Hardware Monitor, Precision X 16, and BOINC...

This is the first crash of this kind I've seen on this system...


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Watch for repeatability then. A one off event can be attributed to radiation/cosmic-rays
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Message 1765321 - Posted: 16 Feb 2016, 0:55:07 UTC - in response to Message 1765315.  

*anything* else, either system, user application, or Boinc application, CPU or IO intensive going on at the time you know of ? Those particular autocorrelations and pulsefinds will be relatively sensitive to system overload.

Win7 on Core2 class, I'd be looking for a sneaky process chewing up a whole core or more (with process explorer). If there, That's the Win10 compatibility telemetry runner exe going (and repeatedly failing).

Aside from that, check the dates/versions of Intel chipset devices against current for your chipset manually, since Intel installer often leaves the old versions, which are laggy on PCI express.

Task Manager is showing between 15% to 42% CPU usage. All four cores on the QX9650 are in use, (according to TM), and fluctuating in the above mentioned range. System is Win 7 Pro x64.


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Message 1765371 - Posted: 16 Feb 2016, 5:54:40 UTC
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I have a Geforce GTX 750. When I installed it it had a nVidia driver 353.54. Then I downloaded an installer called Geforce_experience and now I have 361.75. All the Einstein@home GPU tasks have crashed. SETI@home are crunching but they seem rather slow moving. An Einstein@home user has advised me to uninstall 361.75 and install a developer version for which he gave me a link. Since I am a Windows novice I keep to standard versions. My Windows 10 PC has a 24 GB RAM since it runs several CERN Virtual Machines, but RAM usage is now at 77%.
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Message 1765374 - Posted: 16 Feb 2016, 6:07:57 UTC - in response to Message 1765371.  
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tullio,

you can always go to the Nvidia website and download any driver you like.

Just make sure you do a clean install when you do the installation.

If you want, here is a link for driver 355.82

http://www.nvidia.com/download/driverResults.aspx/90499/en-us

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after it downloads and as it start it will give you 2 options, a normal and a custom install, you want the custom install. when it start there will be an option to click a button at the bottom of the screen that says "Clean installation"
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Message 1765419 - Posted: 16 Feb 2016, 9:45:32 UTC - in response to Message 1765374.  
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I've downloaded and tried to install. It says this nVidia graphic driver is not compatible with this version of Windows. Thanks anyway for your help.
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Message 1765421 - Posted: 16 Feb 2016, 9:54:21 UTC - in response to Message 1765419.  

I've downloaded and tried to install. It says this nVidia graphic driver is not compatible with this version of Windows. Thanks anyway for your help.
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Possibly as that is the link to the US version, I assume you would require the Italian one.

Even here in the UK we cannot use the US version, has to be the "English (UK)" one.
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Message 1765426 - Posted: 16 Feb 2016, 10:00:37 UTC - in response to Message 1765421.  

The language may or may not be a problem, but more fundamentally the driver link is for a 32-bit version, whereas Tullio is running 64-bit.
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Message 1765431 - Posted: 16 Feb 2016, 10:16:26 UTC - in response to Message 1765426.  
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The language may or may not be a problem, but more fundamentally the driver link is for a 32-bit version, whereas Tullio is running 64-bit.

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The 64-bit is 361.91 while I have 361.75. I shall leave it because Geforce_experience will update it.
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Message 1765441 - Posted: 16 Feb 2016, 11:03:22 UTC

In the past I found that Gforce Experience caused some performance issues, so I stopped using it. These days I try to leave drivers alone once I find one that works well (no errors, no invalids) on a particular PC.
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Message 1765451 - Posted: 16 Feb 2016, 12:25:21 UTC

So you are supposed to uninstall the current driver before installing a new version, or is it rather better to install the new driver above the existing one?

I am aware that I have not been doing this for a while and most likely I am not receiving any Windows updates either.
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Message 1765453 - Posted: 16 Feb 2016, 12:49:27 UTC - in response to Message 1765451.  
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Probably the clean install (advanced option) would do it. Lately I have been removing more things like GeForce experience as well, just because these things seem to be getting more bloated while my poor old system stays the same.
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Message 1765587 - Posted: 17 Feb 2016, 1:12:58 UTC - in response to Message 1765453.  
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I have made a Clean install of nVidia 361.91 over the 361.75 I had running on SETI@home tasks. It reinstalled Geforce_experience but, after rebooting, all 3 SETI@home tasks complained of not finding a GPU, while the switch from 353.54 to 361.75 went painlessly. I aborted the tasks and now am waiting for new tasks both in SETI and Einstein. Wait and see, meanwhile I am crunching CPU tasks on 3 PCs, two Linux boxes ad a Windows 10 PC.
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Message 1765659 - Posted: 17 Feb 2016, 8:14:01 UTC - in response to Message 1765587.  

I have made a Clean install of nVidia 361.91 over the 361.75 I had running on SETI@home tasks. It reinstalled Geforce_experience but, after rebooting, all 3 SETI@home tasks complained of not finding a GPU, while the switch from 353.54 to 361.75 went painlessly. I aborted the tasks and now am waiting for new tasks both in SETI and Einstein. Wait and see, meanwhile I am crunching CPU tasks on 3 PCs, two Linux boxes ad a Windows 10 PC.
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Well as your Windows 10 machine is not showing a detected GPU, I would suggest something went wrong with the install. Probably best to try again.

I have just installed 361.91 over 361.75 on all three of my Win 10 crunchers, no problems at all. Didn't even need a reboot.

Geforce Experience is really for gamers as it tries to set up games for the best possible experience with the installed card.

Even though I am a gamer, I prefer to set things myself, so these day all I install is the drivers.
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Message 1765874 - Posted: 17 Feb 2016, 23:47:22 UTC - in response to Message 1765659.  

OK, I reinstalled it and is now working. Thanks.
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