Posts by Bill G
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Apologies to my wingmen!!
(Message 1358251)
Posted 62 days ago by  Bill G
How is that SSD working out for you? |
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How to setup UEFI for win 7 Pro 64 on new HD
(Message 1358245)
Posted 62 days ago by Bill G
And I too would start to look at the memory. Basically UEFI or non-UEFI basically only affects the protected boot sector of the HD, so if you are past that it is something else. When you are running you can look at the HD in Disk Manager and it will tell you how the drive is working/running. |
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How to setup UEFI for win 7 Pro 64 on new HD
(Message 1358242)
Posted 62 days ago by Bill G
Take a look in the BIOS at boot up, (F8 usually) and see what it is telling you about drives you have hooked up. If your CD drive is marked at UEFI in the BIOS then the Windows 7 install disk will create a UFI boot sector on the HD. If your CD drive is marked as non-UEFI (called BIOS) then Windows 7 will install as normally. Either way I do not believe that this is being caused but the UEFI or non-UEFI of either as once you have loaded the files and start to expand them you are already past Windows deciding which to use. Insure that you have loaded the default BIOS setting after the F8 look there. I am certain that something else is going on here and that the UEFI is just a red herring. |
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Continuing errors on 560, updated
(Message 1357333)
Posted 64 days ago by Bill G
Floyd, it does not look like it could be as it will either work or not. If you look at your disk in Disk Management it will show the "hidden" system partition as UFI. It is a different Boot Manager and will either work or not, it will not be intermittent. (I had read you thread before and did not think it applied). |
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Continuing errors on 560, updated
(Message 1357315)
Posted 65 days ago by Bill G
What power supply are you using, as those cards can be very picky about them. Sorry to take so long in replying but right after this posting I went to the hospital and am just getting back. I am using an ULTRA 1400......but the 560s are history. One seemed to just fail so I continued on the other one and it also just failed. I have to get at sending them back.... This particular computer basically was down for a month as I had a system HD failure on it and when I went to restore the image backup it would not restore. Between over 2 weeks in hospital and really in a bad way, I could not work on the computer. Finally got the restore to work this past Saturday and now have just a spare video card processing away on this computer now. Upgrades will have to wait until I get back from a trip to visit with my daughter. Problem was that the image was created from a UEFI system drive and when I put a new HD on, it would initialize as BIOS and you have to have the new drive UEFI as well.......then you have to have the CD drive UEFI as well and use the Windows OS install disk, not the Restore Disk that you have created. There is no way in the UEFI BIOS to actually designate what the drive will be, so it was a lot of doing this and that. Putting on an external CD drive, which came up as UEFI (for what reason I do not know) was what got me going. Doing a Windows install from that drive made the OS Drive, C:, a UEFI drive so I was able to proceed from there with the restore. Oh yes, I will probably not go with the same video cards.........even though I found out what the problem was, it was the Cool & Quiet setting in the BIOS which for some reason is partially on by default even in the none basic setup. That kept the voltage flat and the cores were processing perfectly after I disabled that, but the fluctuating clock speed had caused some bad writes to the HD and that is why I had to replace it. |
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Continuing errors on 560, updated
(Message 1346822)
Posted 96 days ago by Bill G
I've had a similar issue with one of my AMDs, I traced it back to a slightly soft motherboard voltage regulator - not soft enough to cause under voltage trips, but soft enough to give some very strange results (I hasten to add this in not on one of my crunchers but another machine that works for its living) Cure was a bit of very delicate soldering assisted by lots of expletives... I do not think that could be it, I have now tried the 560s in two different computers with different CPUs and MBs. But it may be the 560 that is causing this as that is the only common factor. No that is not true, I think the Power Supply is the same. I am not certain if I tried a different one or not. I will have to check that out as soon as I get a chance. |
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Continuing errors on 560, updated
(Message 1346321)
Posted 97 days ago by Bill G
My HD went bad and it seems like there is a processor problem with some AMD processors. The core voltage seems to drop and then the clock falls off and strange things happen. From a quick look at the AMD boards, it seems this happens in 8 core processors. Strange this did not happen when I did not have the new 560's in the computer?? Sorry to have not had the forethought to shut down GPU processing as I was too involved with restoring the system as it also caused (apparently) bad writes to the HD. There are just too many errors on the GPU (down to one as apparently one just stopped working). I am going to persue this problem on the AMD site as the voltage needs to be stabilized before I can even attmept to look for the erros from the GPU. |
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Errors with new GTX 560's
(Message 1344586)
Posted 102 days ago by Bill G
Good thought Sirius. What I have done is put in the new MB and it would appear that there are some (expected) problems with the HD. It has been running a CHKDSK now for 14 hours, finding errors and fixing, so I do not have much hope for it to run when this is finished but I have will try to wait it out. When it rains it pours, my server, with my backup on it, has decided to act up and so at this moment I do not have a reliable set of my data, or rather one that I can get at. |
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Windows TCP Settings - Follow up - Help with server communication
(Message 1344283)
Posted 102 days ago by Bill G
I just wanted to point out that the download site does not mention Win8.....I tried it on my Win8 computer and it does not work there. It has both...... I will give it a try tomorrow..too involved right now with me down computer. |
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Windows TCP Settings - Follow up - Help with server communication
(Message 1344282)
Posted 102 days ago by Bill G
I just wanted to point out that the download site does not mention Win8.....I tried it on my Win8 computer and it does not work there. That was the one. |
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Windows TCP Settings - Follow up - Help with server communication
(Message 1344104)
Posted 103 days ago by Bill G
I just wanted to point out that the download site does not mention Win8.....I tried it on my Win8 computer and it does not work there. |
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Errors with new GTX 560's
(Message 1344056)
Posted 103 days ago by Bill G
It will run in spurts, and that is with no active programs running. Sometimes it is at normal clock speed, but most time it is slower. I am trying to get a new disk running but as luck would have it there is a dBase error on my Server and it will not repair (shuts down) and I am unable to restore to a new HD from there. Guess I will try a new OS on the disk shortly, but while I have legal Win7, new in box, I can not locate my normal disk with 10 licenses on it. If I install a new OS on the new HD that will tell me if the problem is with the MB/CPU. Hope the new one will arrive later today but the 8 inches of snow here may delay UPS. |
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Errors with new GTX 560's
(Message 1343921)
Posted 103 days ago by Bill G
No offense meant, but did you check the bios No offense taken, yes I did and it said I was running with a fixed speed on the clock. Actually I think it is some files/driver that was bad but I have not way to find out what is missing or corrupted. |
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Errors with new GTX 560's
(Message 1343786)
Posted 104 days ago by Bill G
Just a bit of an update. I had to shut down the 560's as they were throwing nothing but non-valids. Somewhere along the way, and this was before the 560's were pulled, the processor stepped down its clock. It was not because it was hot as it was running at about 30C. Whenever the clock stepped down the computer basically went into suspended animation mode. I am able to boot the computer, most easily into Safe Mode, but it takes about 1-2 hours to get to the desktop with the CPU stepped down like it is and I am afraid of writing bad data to the HD. I have tried everything I can get the CPU running so I am going to replace the MB tomorrow when a replacement which should arrive. I will let you know what transpires. |
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Errors with new GTX 560's
(Message 1342869)
Posted 107 days ago by Bill G
I believe I could do that from the ap I have shut down to correct the latency problem, AI. I could restart that for a bit and see if the voltage would fix the problem. It really seems worse now with the number of inconclusivies I am getting, (also the lack of validated WUs). I think I will wait for morning as I am off to bed right now. |
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Errors with new GTX 560's
(Message 1342829)
Posted 107 days ago by Bill G
I think it is best right now to just wait a bit. I am not able to download enough S@H work for the GPUs right now and something happened last night and BOINC had just stopped working. It now seems to work most of the time but if I click on it it stops all processing until it finds itself again. When I rebooted the computer after this problem this morning, it ran a chkdsk all on its own and apparently there were some problems. (all this at the same time my server is having hardware problems). My time line right now is 1700UTC when I was working again. |
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Errors with new GTX 560's
(Message 1342561)
Posted 108 days ago by Bill G
Well I found what was causing the red and yellow bars.....it was a program called A1 or AI Suite which is part of the MB monitoring and tuning. When I stopped that program I had nothing but the small green bars. I do not know how good things are working as I have not had much time since then but it would seem that I am still getting Validation Inconclusive but no more Invalid's just yet. Still hoping that downloads would free up a bit..... |
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Errors with new GTX 560's
(Message 1342214)
Posted 109 days ago by Bill G
OK, still looking at results periodically, and finding that the spike overflows still dominate. That means same behaviour, totally different app & Cuda version. As far as I can tell I have the latest nVidia driver installed and there does not seem to be any difference. I am still getting red and yellow bars on the Latency graph. This is occuring without any S@H projects running on the GPU, I can not get any downloaded waiting for all the AP downloads in the way. Very slow downloads here, many stops and bumps. Thanks for taking that additional look. I keep hoping something will turn up as this really is not helping my S@H production at all. |
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Errors with new GTX 560's
(Message 1341608)
Posted 111 days ago by Bill G
William: I did not see it was a zip file so never saw the ReadMe. Thanks for the instructions seperate. (the "unpack" was the clue I needed) I have followed them and am running with the latest beta now. Just waiting for some GPU SETI WU's to start. Thanks, and I will keep on asking. |
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Errors with new GTX 560's
(Message 1341605)
Posted 111 days ago by Bill G
My graph has red and yellow spikes on it. Not much hair left to pull out! |
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