Posts by QuietDad
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Welcome to the 13 year club
(Message 1299449)
Posted 27 Oct 2012 by  QuietDad
Post: Just realized I belong in this club. Man, it's gone by quicker than it seems. |
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Quick Question
(Message 1286016)
Posted 20 Sep 2012 by QuietDad
Post: One quick word of advice when you swap out the motherboard/cpu. Run the driver installation CD/install all the drivers for your new board on the old system BEFORE you change the board. WinXP is less cranky when it finds new devices and the drivers are already there. |
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Win 7 and XP
(Message 1270627)
Posted 12 Aug 2012 by QuietDad
Post: If your machine is booting into Widows XP, you'll find a c:\boot.ini file that you can add entries to pick which partition to boot. One of my Dual boot files looks like : [boot loader] timeout=30 default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS [operating systems] multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINNT="Windows 2000 Professional" /fastdetect Or and even easier (?) way is START/RUN/CMD and enter bootcfg /? for all your options. |
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Looking for recommendations.
(Message 1229863)
Posted 10 May 2012 by QuietDad
Post: I usually don't "let" Microsoft update anything but I had issues with things and after 900 changes, I just "re-installed" XP with an SP3 upgrade CD, the did the updates thru windows update but didn't really go thru them. No harm, no foul, just alot of foul words. |
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Technical News :
Feijoada (Apr 30 2012)
(Message 1229555)
Posted 9 May 2012 by QuietDad
Post: Anybody here remember that before the ma bell breakup in 1982, you actully got timely service and a live operater. don't you just love the FCC and all their bright ideas. I really think I would have been happier born between 1880-1890..... oh well Any one remember ONE phone book with EVeRYONE in it? |
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Looking for recommendations.
(Message 1229554)
Posted 9 May 2012 by QuietDad
Post: The PSU and card seem to be ok. PSU tested with a volt meter and graphics card gets a beating with kids gaming. Computer runs fine as long as Seti isn't running.Latest is I removed the card, rebooted the machine, removed the drivers thru add/remove software, deleted the directories and ran a register cleaner. re-installed the card and the 290.53 drivers, which after research gave me no troubles for a long time till Microsoft updates changed them. Computer has now gone 12 hours without crashing for the first time in a week. We shall see how it plays out. |
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Looking for recommendations.
(Message 1229358)
Posted 9 May 2012 by QuietDad
Post: TEmps are ok. PSU is a THermaltake 850W. BSOD is pointing at NV_DISP4 or computer just locks up. the nv_disp4 leads me to think is a driver release issue but I've been wrong before. HWMonitor:Systin 35c <> 35c CPUtin 42c <> 97C Auxtin 41C <> 432C GPU-Z: GPU Temp 42.0C |
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Looking for recommendations.
(Message 1229318)
Posted 9 May 2012 by QuietDad
Post: I have a 2.0 ghz Pentium D with 4GB ram and a a EVGA GT 520 and it's driving me nuts. Can't get a stable set up. Tons of blue screens and such. It's nothing no one else hasn't gone thru, but I can't find a post with a consensus. I'm currently running Boinc 6.10.60, nVidia driver release 296.10 and the lastest Lunatics installer (unified win32 v0.40).The operating system is Win XP, Service pack 3 with all the updates. Just wondering what anyone would change. Thanks in advance. P.S I have every release of everything so don't worry about me getting things. |
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Upgrade from Win2k Advanced Server to XP?
(Message 1222215)
Posted 23 Apr 2012 by QuietDad
Post: What has worked for me in the past once or twice (and not worked also) is to use the Retail Pro CD and instead of booting from the CD is to run the setup.exe under Win2K. I've done it several times and it seems to be a 50-50 shot, but it.s an idea. Another option is to rum the user migration tool and select EVERYTHING. The install XP and import it all. There are ways I guess but I've learned over the years that a day of doing it clean is less time than a week spent looking for a shortcut. |
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Help Needed.
(Message 1147644)
Posted 31 Aug 2011 by QuietDad
Post: If I wanted patients, I'd have become a doctor. Having Patience 12 years later we wait..... |
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Time has come 2 this
(Message 1055687)
Posted 13 Dec 2010 by QuietDad
Post: No one is available on weekends You forget the whole concept was we donate unused cpu cycle for them to use as they please. This never started as we have a new thing we're giving up our lives for for your entertainment. |
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Cafe SETI :
When are the new servers going to be installed
(Message 1048723)
Posted 16 Nov 2010 by QuietDad
Post: The flux capacitor requires 1.21 Gigawatts of electrical power to operate. |
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Welcome to the 11 year club
(Message 1047128)
Posted 8 Nov 2010 by QuietDad
Post: Just notice (a month late) I'm in. Boy time flies. |
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Name the newest member to the server family!!!
(Message 1045152)
Posted 31 Oct 2010 by QuietDad
Post: One has already been designated as Oscar Then my vote goes for Meyer |
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Name the newest member to the server family!!!
(Message 1044836)
Posted 29 Oct 2010 by QuietDad
Post: Since they are getting two twins in, and since we're looking at the stars, Castor and Polydeuces (or Pollux) for the Gemini constellation for the both of them. |
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Quiting
(Message 1039141)
Posted 7 Oct 2010 by QuietDad
Post: 1st of all let me apologize for mt tone yesterday. It did kind of come off strong but it was a bad day. 2nd of all, while the tone was wrong, the context remains. Yes, I'm not a 31 gazillion pt per day cruncher, but I have had my pc's crunching since 1999. AT this point it's only one, but have had as many as 15 crunching at once. Never have I spent extra money on any PC to make it a super cruncher. They where all PC's in the house or at work that had idle time and I threw seti@home on them. When this all started, the folks at seti had an idea. They made a screensaver to use your computer when you weren't to crunch data. The community figured out how to have it run all the time. The community figured out how to optimize it. The community figured out how to cache work units. The community figured out how to crunch on GPU's. The community figured out how to move and transfer WU's between CPU's and GPUs to get the most RAC. And a hand full of users whine and moan that the folks at seti can't keep up. It gets real boring real fast folks. I submit to any of you. Go buy a new car. Any car. Spend $5000 in getting a race motor installed that is 300hp more than the motor in the car. Then drive the car to the dealer you bought the car and complain you keep burning off the tires, your gas mileage sucks and it won't stay on the road. FIX IT or i'm giving it back and I want a refund. The handful of guys at berkley still doing this, mostly part time and as volunteers are interested in the SCIENCE, not in the RAC and until the community realizes theis, the same 7 people will waste threads on this board complaining that they can find money to make super crunchers so why isnt seti finding money to accomadate them. We are helping them, The are NOT appeasing us...... |
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Quiting
(Message 1038913)
Posted 6 Oct 2010 by QuietDad
Post: Don't let the door hit your ass on the way out. Me being here from damnb near the the beginning and you for 11 years the ORIGINAL premise (which you forgot) was we would donate unused cpu cyles for the scientists to use as they saw fit and maybe BOTH parties would reap benifits of the research. It has now become the OMG I NEED POINTS free web game for most of the crowd. It was NEVER supposed to be a game. |
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more delay today it seems....
(Message 1016518)
Posted 17 Jul 2010 by QuietDad
Post: Because 1+1=2. Except when it doesn't. As a 30yr assmebly language programer 1+1 = 10 ... |
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Do I hear the sound of a riot?
(Message 1006045)
Posted 19 Jun 2010 by QuietDad
Post: Well, I'm one of those who just built a mega-cruncher, and it sits idle at SETI. I did fire up Einstein this morning, and it is crunching away at it. To me this is a fun project, whether it gives me work or not. Sure I liked it when I saw my RAC rise to 38,500, and still gain 1000 points a day, but that can be redone when things get fixed. My computer is just as powerful, and I use it with Starry night software, playing any of the highest graphics games I can find, or writing code and designing databases. I would have built this even if I knew the project would be wobbly for an extended period of time. I'm here for the science, and this is one way I can contribute. Express my sentiment exactly, just better. |
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Do I hear the sound of a riot?
(Message 1005841)
Posted 18 Jun 2010 by QuietDad
Post: And Quietdad, you miss my point. They do in fact have a right to complain. Im not "complaining" as much as stating an opinion. My opinion is just that, my opinon. Yes the heavy hitters "contribute" the most in a one sense, but in another sense they cost the most too. Are you "dedicated" to this project enough that if the message came "We have enough crunched data and we are stopping WU distribution while we analyze the results for now and determine what if/the next step is gonna be" that you will keep following it, or are you gonna say "DAmn, lets find something else to crunch my RAC is dropping". It's the second group that complains the loudest here. |
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