I am a new user of SETI@home and in looking at my results at the server-level, I notice that about 80% of my work is listed with "client error". I don't want to be wasting my computer time if it's just going to error out all the time. I am having trouble finding an explanation or a troubleshooting guide to see if it's something on my end that is causing all these "client errors".

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Could be a lot of things, like bad vid drivers, heat, bad WUs, app hiccuped..


http://boinc-doc.net/boinc-wiki/index.php?title=%2A%2A%2AUNHANDLED_EXCEPTION%2A%2A%2A%2A_Reason:_%27%28reason%29%27 look here

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And the beat goes on
Sonny and Cher

BOINC Wiki

Thanks for the reply. The link you give in the wiki - I have never seen anything like that in my messages. Unfortunately, it hasn't happened since my last reboot, but I do get a lot of red lines in my messages - I will try to copy one in here when I see one and maybe someone can interpret it. If it's my problem, I'd like to fix it so that I can be effective.

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Here's another page in the Wiki that gives different detail, including some possible causes for the errors you're seeing. Common causes of these errors can be:

• Over stressed hardware, usually by heat.
  
• Flaky, or bad device drivers.
  
• An actual problem (Bug) in the BOINC Client Software, Science Application, or Operating System.
  
• A bad Work Unit (usually a rare occurrence).
  

[/quote]The first two are more likely in this instance than the second two, as it would be happening a lot more often for others in the case of #3, and not as often for you for #4. There are suggestions for things to check on that page that may help. Give it a shot, and let us know how you make out.

MJ

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