Added second Cuda card and it is seen but boinc dosn't want to use it...
11/26/2009 8:51:49 PM NVIDIA GPU 0: GeForce GTX 260 (driver version 19107, CUDA version 2030, compute capability 1.3, 896MB, 537 GFLOPS peak)
11/26/2009 8:51:49 PM NVIDIA GPU 1 (not used): GeForce 9600 GSO (driver version 19107, CUDA version 2030, compute capability 1.1, 768MB, 276 GFLOPS peak)
It is set for Home and I thought I set all my preferences. I even opened App_info and changed the cuda from 1 to 2.

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If you changed
<count>1</count>
to 2, you want to change that back. Do you have a cc_config.xml file on that machine? If so, what's in it? Also, do you have a monitor or dummy plug on the second card? My machine with 2 GTX 260s (and another running 2 HD 4850s) needed to have a dummy plug to get projects to use the second card.

-Dave

[edit - grammar...]

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Never could find a cc_config so copied this one....

<cc_config>
<options>
<report_results_immediately>1</report_results_immediately>
</options>
</cc_config>

Can you put what I need in so I can copy and paste it back in?

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You don't need anything if you're using a recent Boinc (I use 6.10.17 - it looks like you have 6.10.18 on that machine?) what you have is fine. It sounds like you don't have anything connected to the second card and no dummy plug to me.

-Dave

[Edit]
You could try adding this to the cc_config.xml file:
<use_all_gpus>1</use_all_gpus>

see if that helps, add it just below the other setting:

<cc_config>
	<options>
		<report_results_immediately>1</report_results_immediately>
		<use_all_gpus>1</use_all_gpus>
	</options>
</cc_config>

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I was just coming back to say I added....
<cc_config>
<options>
<report_results_immediately>1</report_results_immediately>
<use_all_gpus>1</use_all_gpus>
</options>
</cc_config>

But it still doesn't work get same message.

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You don't need anything if you're using a recent Boinc (I use 6.10.17 - it looks like you have 6.10.18 on that machine?) what you have is fine. It sounds like you don't have anything connected to the second card and no dummy plug to me.

-Dave

[Edit]
You could try adding this to the cc_config.xml file:
<use_all_gpus>1</use_all_gpus>

see if that helps, add it just below the other setting:

<cc_config>
	<options>
		<report_results_immediately>1</report_results_immediately>
		<use_all_gpus>1</use_all_gpus>
	</options>
</cc_config>

What can I use for a dummy plug? would an old moniter turned off work?

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Well, someone else may have some other idea, but it really sounds to me like nothing is plugged into the card...

-Dave

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What can I use for a dummy plug? would an old moniter turned off work?

That would probably work, although with a trip to Radio Shack and a little time you can make up something much smaller.
Instructions have been linked to here before.....I did not find them with a quick little search, but they are here somewhere.
You just have to fool the card into thinking there is actually a monitor there.

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"Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster

This page is a pretty good place to start, if your Radio Shack is like mine, you can use 100-Ohm resistors.

-Dave

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Well that wasn't it. I plugged the other monitor in and it even has windows on it but boinc still doesn't want to run the second card....

11/26/2009 9:44:22 PM Starting BOINC client version 6.10.18 for windows_x86_64
11/26/2009 9:44:22 PM log flags: file_xfer, sched_ops, task
11/26/2009 9:44:22 PM Libraries: libcurl/7.19.4 OpenSSL/0.9.8l zlib/1.2.3
11/26/2009 9:44:22 PM Data directory: C:\ProgramData\BOINC
11/26/2009 9:44:22 PM Running under account Pete
11/26/2009 9:44:22 PM Processor: 8 GenuineIntel Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU 920 @ 2.67GHz [Intel64 Family 6 Model 26 Stepping 5]
11/26/2009 9:44:22 PM Processor: 256.00 KB cache
11/26/2009 9:44:22 PM Processor features: fpu tsc pae nx sse sse2 pni
11/26/2009 9:44:22 PM OS: Microsoft Windows 7: Ultimate x64 Edition, (06.01.7600.00)
11/26/2009 9:44:22 PM Memory: 2.99 GB physical, 5.98 GB virtual
11/26/2009 9:44:22 PM Disk: 74.52 GB total, 23.68 GB free
11/26/2009 9:44:22 PM Local time is UTC -8 hours
11/26/2009 9:44:22 PM NVIDIA GPU 0: GeForce GTX 260 (driver version 19107, CUDA version 2030, compute capability 1.3, 896MB, 537 GFLOPS peak)
11/26/2009 9:44:22 PM NVIDIA GPU 1 (not used): GeForce 9600 GSO (driver version 19107, CUDA version 2030, compute capability 1.1, 768MB, 276 GFLOPS peak)
11/26/2009 9:44:22 PM SETI@home Found app_info.xml; using anonymous platform
11/26/2009 9:44:22 PM Not using a proxy
11/26/2009 9:44:22 PM SETI@home URL http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/; Computer ID 5185924; resource share 1000
11/26/2009 9:44:22 PM SETI@home General prefs: from SETI@home (last modified 25-Nov-2009 16:34:20)
11/26/2009 9:44:22 PM SETI@home Computer location: home
11/26/2009 9:44:22 PM General prefs: using separate prefs for home
11/26/2009 9:44:22 PM Reading preferences override file
11/26/2009 9:44:22 PM Preferences limit memory usage when active to 2297.34MB
11/26/2009 9:44:22 PM Preferences limit memory usage when idle to 2756.81MB
11/26/2009 9:44:28 PM Preferences limit disk usage to 24.11GB
11/26/2009 9:44:28 PM SETI@home Started upload of 03mr07aa.18722.9070.6.10.112_1_0
11/26/2009 9:44:28 PM SETI@home Started upload of 03mr07aa.18722.9070.6.10.174_1_0
11/26/2009 9:44:28 PM SETI@home Restarting task 11oc06aa.11668.4162.3.10.230_2 using setiathome_enhanced version 603
11/26/2009 9:44:28 PM SETI@home Restarting task 11oc06aa.11668.1299.3.10.189_2 using setiathome_enhanced version 603

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Going to bed in a minute, but you plugged that monitor in when the system was powered off? I could be wrong, but I think it needs to be there when the driver loads...

-Dave

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Going to bed in a minute, but you plugged that monitor in when the system was powered off? I could be wrong, but I think it needs to be there when the driver loads...

-Dave

No it is on and working I can see my mouse on it and have since updated my drivers and restarted my machine....Have a good night and thanks for trying.

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Official Abuser of Boinc Buttons...
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Going to bed in a minute, but you plugged that monitor in when the system was powered off? I could be wrong, but I think it needs to be there when the driver loads...

-Dave

No it is on and working I can see my mouse on it and have since updated my drivers and restarted my machine....Have a good night and thanks for trying.

Hmmmmmm...
The clue is here........

11/26/2009 9:44:22 PM NVIDIA GPU 1 (not used): GeForce 9600 GSO (driver version 19107, CUDA version 2030, compute capability 1.1, 768MB, 276 GFLOPS peak)

But as to why it is 'not used', I cannot help with.....as I am only running one Cuda in each rig, and have not had to deal with it yet.

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"Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster

Going to bed in a minute, but you plugged that monitor in when the system was powered off? I could be wrong, but I think it needs to be there when the driver loads...

-Dave

No it is on and working I can see my mouse on it and have since updated my drivers and restarted my machine....Have a good night and thanks for trying.

Hmmmmmm...
The clue is here........

11/26/2009 9:44:22 PM NVIDIA GPU 1 (not used): GeForce 9600 GSO (driver version 19107, CUDA version 2030, compute capability 1.1, 768MB, 276 GFLOPS peak)

But as to why it is 'not used', I cannot help with.....as I am only running one Cuda in each rig, and have not had to deal with it yet.

Yep that is the clue...Some setting somewhere as the second monitor is working fine and I have the latest drivers that came out today and it didn't work before I upgraded from the last latest drivers.

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I don't see a message in the log saying it read the "use_all_gpus" option correctly. Make sure you put the cc_config.xml file in the correct directory, because I don't think it is getting read. It goes in the data directory named at the start of your log.

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I don't see a message in the log saying it read the "use_all_gpus" option correctly. Make sure you put the cc_config.xml file in the correct directory, because I don't think it is getting read. It goes in the data directory named at the start of your log.

Jackpot Puppy, thank you. Had it in data folder instead of bionc....

11/26/2009 10:26:37 PM NVIDIA GPU 0: GeForce GTX 260 (driver version 19562, CUDA version 3000, compute capability 1.3, 896MB, 537 GFLOPS peak)
11/26/2009 10:26:37 PM NVIDIA GPU 1: GeForce 9600 GSO (driver version 19562, CUDA version 3000, compute capability 1.1, 768MB, 276 GFLOPS peak)
11/26/2009 10:26:37 PM SETI@home Found app_info.xml; using anonymous platform

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Well I unplugged the extra monitor and restarted and both cuda's still show up so that is cool. And Santa is supposed to get me a 275 or 285, won't that be fun.

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Jackpot Puppy, thank you. Had it in data folder instead of bionc....

Hold on... Just to make sure we're talking the same talk, you had cc_config.xml in C:\ProgramData\BOINC\ but that didn't work?
Placing it in C:\Program Files (x86)\BOINC\ did?

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Jackpot Puppy, thank you. Had it in data folder instead of bionc....

Hold on... Just to make sure we're talking the same talk, you had cc_config.xml in C:\ProgramData\BOINC\ but that didn't work?
Placing it in C:\Program Files (x86)\BOINC\ did?

No I had it in C:\ProgramData\BOINC\projects\setiathome.berkeley.edu and now it is in C:\ProgramData\BOINC..Oppps!
Maybe my idiot mistakes will help others. Works great now, is cool watching 10 units go. Was someone saying it is better to disable one CPU?

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No I had it in C:\ProgramData\BOINC\projects\setiathome.berkeley.edu and now it is in C:\ProgramData\BOINC..Oppps!
Maybe my idiot mistakes will help others. Works great now

OK, phew. :-)

In case anyone wonders what the cc stands for in cc_config.xml, it is all based on the terminology used for BOINC.
BOINC = Core Client program.
Any project executable = project application.

So for cc_config.xml the 'cc" stands for Core Client, config is short for Configuration. That should tell you you're adding configuration options for BOINC.

That should also tell you, you have to add it in a central place, that it isn't a projects specific file. Of course, the difficulty is that some people still think Seti == BOINC. Once you learn it isn't, that they're two separate entities, it gets clearer.

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