What I'm running,

Intel Q6600 2.2ghz, 4gb RAM, nvidia GeForce 260GTX 768mb.
Windows 7 x64
BOINC v6.12.34 x64

Issue
I can get the SETI@home graphics to work for either the screen saver or the windowed options. When the screen saver runs it just shows me the BOINC logo and some text telling me how far along the current task has come. I can't even run the windowed graphics. I go to the advanced view of BIONC, I select the SET@home project, then go to the "tasks" tab and select the running task but the "Show Graphics" button stays greyed out.

Anyone able to help?

I believe that you are using the GPU for processing, and it is therefore unavailable for the graphics window or screensaver.

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BOINC WIKI

go to the "tasks" tab and select the running task but the "Show Graphics" button stays greyed out.

You have to select CPU running task (SETI@home Enhanced v6.03) for [Show Graphics] to work.
The GPU CUDA tasks can't Show Graphics as the app itself have no Graphics part.

(CPU app have 2 .exe parts:
setiathome_6.03_windows_intelx86.exe
setigraphics_6.03_windows_intelx86.exe

GPU CUDA app have only computing part (and NO 'setigraphics...__cuda...' part):
setiathome_6.10_windows_intelx86__cuda_fermi.exe

(or similar for 6.08 and 6.09
setiathome_6.08_windows_intelx86__cuda.exe
setiathome_6.09_windows_intelx86__cuda23.exe
)

You can see all the available app files here (at the two download servers):
http://boinc2.ssl.berkeley.edu/sah/download_fanout/

http://208.68.240.13/sah/download_fanout/
http://208.68.240.18/sah/download_fanout/

If you see some of the:
"Forbidden - You don't have permission to access /sah/download_fanout/ on this server."
"The service is not available. Please try again later."
"Could not connect to remote server"
... press F5
)

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hi got a similar problem,the tscreensaver tells me "No running Tasks"!
what do i need to do?

oh it runs now,awesome!!

hi got a similar problem,the tscreensaver tells me "No running Tasks"!
what do i need to do?

That means that you are temporarily out of tasks.

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BOINC WIKI

I'm sorry, ive had the same issue, but I don't know how to do what BilBg told him to do, so I don't know how to fix it. Anyone care to help?

I don'know what you have tried to do, but all your tasks (39 of them) have been abandoned or aborted by you.

If you let at least one task run, you'll see the graphics for it.

Gruß,
Gundolf

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Computer sind nicht alles im Leben. (Kleiner Scherz)

SETI@home classic workunits 3,758
SETI@home classic CPU time 66,520 hours

Yeah, I screwed up on that one. Now I have some new tasks and there are transfers but no tasks running.

Now there are lots of tasks all of them 0% and none allowing me to run graphics.

Are those tasks still downloading? (Look at the Status column)

If (at least) one task starts running, higlight it in the Tasks tab and then click "Show graphics".

Gruß,
Gundolf