Just updated my CUDA drivers and I'm hoping for the best.

But SETI won't give me any GPU work! It just says "Project down" or something along those lines, after it says "To fetch GPU work".

How do I fix this?

I don't have patience. I want to make sure this thing does some good before it blue screens again. For some reason it did that last night, can't figure out why.

But I want to show my parents that, yes, these computers are being WASTED on spreadsheets and word documents, and that they can be used for so much more!

The newest attached computer here is a LAPTOP, and the specs you are seeing are being wasted on spreadsheets!

So I'm quick to want this thing going full tilt boogie.

And would it be a good idea to sit this thing above an AC vent?

on the ac= yes.... the cooler the air around it, the better the heat sink will function... and gpu going blue screen??? what it exactly is it doing...... crunching and going to blue screen? if, so get evga precision or something that can control fan speed.... make sure gpu is not too darn hot.....


and if boinc computer page is correct.... you have all laptops?

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Well, heres the story... parents put a b00t password on it, so I have to make do without rebooting.

So I installed BOINC, it found a GPU, but said the drivers were out of date, so I updated them, and walked away (turning the machine upside down)

I come back in the morning, Bluescreen.

So I restarted, tricked them into entering the b00t password, and it's crunching fine now (just got some GPU tasks)

I learned that we have 3 CUDA machines in the house, one of them is the Quadro FX 5200... Something like that, I do know we asked NVIDIA which of their cards was the most expensive, and we bought two of them, so we could have 4 monitors (video editing suite).

If the laptop works out OK, they have agreed to install BOINC and CUDA on the other two machines that support it, so I really want to make the laptop work.

I have noticed that Grey objects have little dot grids in them on my screen. Other colors do, too, after I installed CUDA, so that might need to change.

I have noticed that Grey objects have little dot grids in them on my screen. Other colors do, too, after I installed CUDA, so that might need to change.

Looking at that computer, BOINC says driver: 17626

I don't work with laptops, so I can't say for sure, but the desktop drivers are numbered around 185.xx-186.xx, so I'd verify if you do indeed have the latest nVidia driver for that system. The older drivers have had all sorts of problems running the CUDA apps.

I got the driver install from NVIDIA yesterday. I think I have the latest.

There is a 185.85 driver that:

http://www.nvidia.com/object/quadro_nvs_notebook_winxp_185.85_whql.html

Quadro NVS Release 185 for Notebooks WHQL
This driver will install on the following GPUs with the exception of some notebooks listed below:

Quadro NVS 320M
Quadro NVS 160M
Quadro NVS 150M
Quadro NVS 140M
Quadro NVS 135M
Quadro NVS 130M

The following notebooks are not supported in this release:

1. Lenovo ThinkPad notebooks (please contact the notebook OEM for driver support for these notebooks)
2. Any notebook that is launched after the release date of this driver

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I'm on a 160M...

I'm on a 160M...

Which is on the list.

Claggy

Edit: I see you've updated to 185.85 now

Yeah, I can communicate with the servers just fine, but I can't upload. At all.

Which is bad because this card is spitting one out every 47 minutes, and the editing suite will probably spit one out every 10 minutes. Plus 8 CPUs.

(GenuineIntel
Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5345 @ 2.33GHz [x86 Family 6 Model 15 Stepping 11]
(8 processors) )


So that's going to go through them like a hot pocket.

you should also join gpugrid and aqua.... both have cudawu's....hey i made a new word....coo-da-woo's.

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I want to help SETI a lot more.

thats good and all but, seeing how seti has a lot of issues to over come right now, having a other projects to keep your stuff going is key....

i have a system for my quad-core computer... i put all projects on no new tasks. and allow each project to grab task everyother day....

so i do, wcg, rosseta, seti, gpugrid, milky, wcg, and repeat process only i have about 11 projects i take part in.

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Are you using the unified installer from lunatics?

Well, heres the story... parents put a b00t password on it, so I have to make do without rebooting.

So I installed BOINC, it found a GPU, but said the drivers were out of date, so I updated them, and walked away (turning the machine upside down)

I come back in the morning, Bluescreen.

So I restarted, tricked them into entering the b00t password, and it's crunching fine now (just got some GPU tasks)

I learned that we have 3 CUDA machines in the house, one of them is the Quadro FX 5200... Something like that, I do know we asked NVIDIA which of their cards was the most expensive, and we bought two of them, so we could have 4 monitors (video editing suite).

If the laptop works out OK, they have agreed to install BOINC and CUDA on the other two machines that support it, so I really want to make the laptop work.

I have noticed that Grey objects have little dot grids in them on my screen. Other colors do, too, after I installed CUDA, so that might need to change.

So in other words, you've installed BOINC on a machine for which you did not obtain the owner's permission, which is against the rules and this entire conversation is off limits.

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No, I've gotten permission to benchmark. I forgot to stop the download of work units before they downloaded, so I figure I might as well see how well this thing deals with them so I can report that, too.

I want to make it as transparent as possible so that they see that the software will not interfere with daily activities in any way.

vistro, pm me and i'll get you going, ways to make it so that things don't interfere with each other.

you can set up exceptions in the config file...

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Huh?

It got work already, and it's kicking them out every 40 minutes, which I assume is pretty fast.

The problems are:

1. If I log in to a limited account, BOINC won't start.

2. If nobody is logged in, BOINC won't start.

And that's pretty much it.

when you installed it..you should have put a check next to: allow all users to control boinc.

thats why i put my computer into a non-standby, nor sleep mode.... it only goes to sleep if boinc is not running, and only 4 hrs after computation has stopped. but i have it set to where the monitor turns off after 20 mins..

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I installed it with the default settings because changing them in any way requires a reboot.