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TimeLord04 Send message Joined: 9 Mar 06 Posts: 21140 Credit: 33,933,039 RAC: 23 |
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. TL TimeLord04 Have TARDIS, will travel... Come along K-9! Join Calm Chaos |
Zalster Send message Joined: 27 May 99 Posts: 5517 Credit: 528,817,460 RAC: 242 |
Restart your machine. Were you pushing the machine too hard? Look at the angle ranges on those work units. |
jason_gee Send message Joined: 24 Nov 06 Posts: 7489 Credit: 91,093,184 RAC: 0 |
*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. "Living by the wisdom of computer science doesn't sound so bad after all. And unlike most advice, it's backed up by proofs." -- Algorithms to live by: The computer science of human decisions. |
TimeLord04 Send message Joined: 9 Mar 06 Posts: 21140 Credit: 33,933,039 RAC: 23 |
Restart your machine. 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... TL TimeLord04 Have TARDIS, will travel... Come along K-9! Join Calm Chaos |
jason_gee Send message Joined: 24 Nov 06 Posts: 7489 Credit: 91,093,184 RAC: 0 |
Restart your machine. Watch for repeatability then. A one off event can be attributed to radiation/cosmic-rays "Living by the wisdom of computer science doesn't sound so bad after all. And unlike most advice, it's backed up by proofs." -- Algorithms to live by: The computer science of human decisions. |
TimeLord04 Send message Joined: 9 Mar 06 Posts: 21140 Credit: 33,933,039 RAC: 23 |
*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. 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. TL TimeLord04 Have TARDIS, will travel... Come along K-9! Join Calm Chaos |
tullio Send message Joined: 9 Apr 04 Posts: 8797 Credit: 2,930,782 RAC: 1 |
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%. Tullio |
Zalster Send message Joined: 27 May 99 Posts: 5517 Credit: 528,817,460 RAC: 242 |
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 edit.. 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" |
tullio Send message Joined: 9 Apr 04 Posts: 8797 Credit: 2,930,782 RAC: 1 |
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. Tullio |
Bernie Vine Send message Joined: 26 May 99 Posts: 9954 Credit: 103,452,613 RAC: 328 |
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. 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. |
Richard Haselgrove Send message Joined: 4 Jul 99 Posts: 14649 Credit: 200,643,578 RAC: 874 |
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. |
tullio Send message Joined: 9 Apr 04 Posts: 8797 Credit: 2,930,782 RAC: 1 |
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. Correct The 64-bit is 361.91 while I have 361.75. I shall leave it because Geforce_experience will update it. Tullio |
rob smith Send message Joined: 7 Mar 03 Posts: 22160 Credit: 416,307,556 RAC: 380 |
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. Bob Smith Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society) Somewhere in the (un)known Universe? |
bluestar Send message Joined: 5 Sep 12 Posts: 6995 Credit: 2,084,789 RAC: 3 |
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. |
jason_gee Send message Joined: 24 Nov 06 Posts: 7489 Credit: 91,093,184 RAC: 0 |
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. "Living by the wisdom of computer science doesn't sound so bad after all. And unlike most advice, it's backed up by proofs." -- Algorithms to live by: The computer science of human decisions. |
tullio Send message Joined: 9 Apr 04 Posts: 8797 Credit: 2,930,782 RAC: 1 |
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. Tullio |
Bernie Vine Send message Joined: 26 May 99 Posts: 9954 Credit: 103,452,613 RAC: 328 |
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. 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. |
tullio Send message Joined: 9 Apr 04 Posts: 8797 Credit: 2,930,782 RAC: 1 |
OK, I reinstalled it and is now working. Thanks. Tullio |
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