Am i missing some golden Boinc nugget because i'm just about to give up on this and go look for coins in the sofa instead!

Out of 5 computers that ran perfectly only one is now working.

Cleaned install / data files / registry the lot / fresh BOINC client install seems to make no difference.

Windows 10 pcs - if that makes any difference.

Help / suggestions happily received.

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Exit and restart BOINC and post the Event log here.
What AV/ Anti-malware software are you running? Many can be overly aggressive and block BOINC from accessing the net, or delete anything it tries to download.

Your computer list shows plenty of computers, 2 of which have contacted the servers today (one has work, the other doesn't), 2 others 3 weeks ago, and the rest were last year or even further back in time.

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Grant
Darwin NT

Cheers Grant - yeah it's odd. I'll pop the logs here in a tick. I haven't properly sat down and argued with it until this weekend ( got a cold so have time free in one place) and would like to get it sorted.

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23/02/2020 08:46:58 | | cc_config.xml not found - using defaults
23/02/2020 08:46:58 | | Starting BOINC client version 7.14.2 for windows_x86_64
23/02/2020 08:46:58 | | log flags: file_xfer, sched_ops, task
23/02/2020 08:46:58 | | Libraries: libcurl/7.47.1 OpenSSL/1.0.2g zlib/1.2.8
23/02/2020 08:46:58 | | Data directory: C:\ProgramData\BOINC
23/02/2020 08:46:58 | | Running under account Fester
23/02/2020 08:46:59 | | CUDA: NVIDIA GPU 0: GeForce GTX 1070 (driver version 436.48, CUDA version 10.1, compute capability 6.1, 4096MB, 3554MB available, 6463 GFLOPS peak)
23/02/2020 08:46:59 | | OpenCL: NVIDIA GPU 0: GeForce GTX 1070 (driver version 436.48, device version OpenCL 1.2 CUDA, 8192MB, 3554MB available, 6463 GFLOPS peak)
23/02/2020 08:46:59 | | Host name: Fester-10x64
23/02/2020 08:46:59 | | Processor: 16 AuthenticAMD AMD Ryzen 7 1700X Eight-Core Processor [Family 23 Model 1 Stepping 1]
23/02/2020 08:46:59 | | Processor features: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 htt pni ssse3 fma cx16 sse4_1 sse4_2 movebe popcnt aes f16c rdrandsyscall nx lm avx avx2 svm sse4a osvw skinit wdt tce topx page1gb rdtscp fsgsbase bmi1 smep
23/02/2020 08:46:59 | | OS: Microsoft Windows 10: Professional x64 Edition, (10.00.18363.00)
23/02/2020 08:46:59 | | Memory: 31.95 GB physical, 33.95 GB virtual
23/02/2020 08:46:59 | | Disk: 231.83 GB total, 113.67 GB free
23/02/2020 08:46:59 | | Local time is UTC +0 hours
23/02/2020 08:46:59 | | No WSL found.
23/02/2020 08:46:59 | SETI@home | URL http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/; Computer ID 8418735; resource share 100
23/02/2020 08:46:59 | SETI@home | General prefs: from SETI@home (last modified 14-Jan-2020 08:10:33)
23/02/2020 08:46:59 | SETI@home | Computer location: home
23/02/2020 08:46:59 | SETI@home | General prefs: no separate prefs for home; using your defaults
23/02/2020 08:46:59 | | Reading preferences override file
23/02/2020 08:46:59 | | Preferences:
23/02/2020 08:46:59 | | max memory usage when active: 29441.65 MB
23/02/2020 08:46:59 | | max memory usage when idle: 29441.65 MB
23/02/2020 08:46:59 | | max disk usage: 10.00 GB
23/02/2020 08:46:59 | | (to change preferences, visit a project web site or select Preferences in the Manager)
23/02/2020 08:46:59 | | Setting up project and slot directories
23/02/2020 08:46:59 | | Checking active tasks
23/02/2020 08:46:59 | | Setting up GUI RPC socket
23/02/2020 08:46:59 | | Checking presence of 271 project files
23/02/2020 08:49:47 | SETI@home | Resetting project
23/02/2020 08:50:56 | SETI@home | project suspended by user
23/02/2020 08:50:59 | SETI@home | project resumed by user
23/02/2020 08:51:01 | SETI@home | update requested by user
23/02/2020 08:51:06 | SETI@home | Master file download succeeded
23/02/2020 08:51:12 | SETI@home | Sending scheduler request: Requested by user.
23/02/2020 08:51:12 | SETI@home | Not requesting tasks: don't need (CPU: job cache full; NVIDIA GPU: not highest priority project)
23/02/2020 08:51:14 | SETI@home | Scheduler request completed
23/02/2020 08:51:16 | SETI@home | Started download of arecibo_181.png
23/02/2020 08:51:16 | SETI@home | Started download of sah_40.png
23/02/2020 08:51:16 | SETI@home | Started download of sah_banner_290.png
23/02/2020 08:51:16 | SETI@home | Started download of sah_ss_290.png
23/02/2020 08:51:18 | SETI@home | Finished download of arecibo_181.png
23/02/2020 08:51:18 | SETI@home | Finished download of sah_40.png
23/02/2020 08:51:18 | SETI@home | Finished download of sah_banner_290.png
23/02/2020 08:51:18 | SETI@home | Finished download of sah_ss_290.png


Is it that CPU job cache full that's causing the issue?

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Is it that CPU job cache full that's causing the issue?

What are your other projects?

GPUgrid / climate prediction and Rosetta - doesn't matter if i remove all the other ones and just leave SETI@home there - same issue.

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but in the interests of a clean slate ... i'll remove all projects. UNinstall. Clean up the reg / file system one more time and give it a go.

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Well now that seems to have fixed it! Weird - i wonder if this was related to that last crash and something that was 'stuck' in a buffer somewhere has now been marked as cleared.

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ANd the other machine that won't work was a winsock / adapter issue

netsh winsock reset
and
netsh int ip reset /all

Will see how that goes over the next few days.

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used my mobile as a usb modem for the initial connection registration. That worked. Once that was done, back on the domain network and it downloaded new units fine.

21 years and that client still gives me the odd surprise.

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