Posts by John Bartlett

1) Message boards : Number crunching : Boinc chokes 2000 machine (Message 707700) Posted 3 Feb 2008 by John Bartlett Post: Hmmmm..... This almost sounds like you have a graphics thread (screensaver) related issue. Try setting the screensaver to none in the Display properties. I run the non graphics Coop/Cruch3r apps on my 2K old timers and BOINC almost never gives me any trouble of this nature, so you could give that try and see what happens (and it will give your Athlon somewhat longer legs performance wise too). Regarding the uninstall problem, try install 5.8.11 again over the current 5.8.11, then uninstall it before trying to upgrade to 5.10.x. HTH, Alinator I just shut off the burn in program after 16 hours. No probs, CPU temp, 45. Thanks for the ideas. I have been sniffing around the grafics card idea, too. I don't use screen savers but I do blank out and shut off monitors and this system has an old CompUSA 9200SE card that won't run on ATI drivers, only the Comp drivers that came with the card. I've been thinking about swapping to NVidia anyway... I never heard of Coop/Cruch3r but will have to look it up. This is on my wife's machine so as long as she can run her apps... Putting 5.8.11 back in did indeed let me uninstall everything, so I'll clean up, install the latest Boinc and keep my fingers crossed. Thanks for your help. Hopefully we will never speak of this again. jb
2) Message boards : Number crunching : Boinc chokes 2000 machine (Message 707501) Posted 3 Feb 2008 by John Bartlett Post: I have an Athlon 64 computer running Windoze2000 and Boinc runs well but sometimes it will not release CPU time to other apps like it should. Screens get very slow and you barely have enough power to Net surf (it is also very slow). I have updated to 5.10.28 from 5.8.11 recently but the problem persists and now it won't let me uninstall it (I was going to try the old uninstall/reinstall). I have a burn-in program currently running and it seems to think the computer is doing just fine under the stress of constant full load (It's been running for a couple of hours) and 50 C is about as hot as it ever gets. I have been doing this for a few years now and have several computers cranking, including 3 or 4 other Win2000 machines running with no problems. Now I'm stumped. Any help is appreciated. jb
3) Message boards : Number crunching : Only one process... (Message 414196) Posted 3 Sep 2006 by John Bartlett Post: Right on the mark! Thanks, OzzFan1. I noticed there was a slightly newer BIOS so I updated but with no effect. Then I checked out HAL on the MS site and followed their set up for ACPI Multiprocessor PC and - bang - one reboot later, everything took off just like you described. Thanks for the great advice - I owe you one. jb
4) Message boards : Number crunching : Only one process... (Message 413588) Posted 2 Sep 2006 by John Bartlett Post: Hi all, I just installed a 4400 x2 Dual core on my Windows 2000 Pro machine and launched BOINC. I have my preferences set to use a maximum of 8 processors, but when I look, only one project is running. In addition, when I look at the task manager, I see only one 100% CPU usage process for seti. My sons machine has a dual xeon, hyper-threaded machine and his runs 4 processes at once. Why doesn't mine, is something wrong? Thanks!
5) Questions and Answers : Web site : Bad XML Feed (Message 256163) Posted 2 Mar 2006 by John Bartlett Post: Janus wrote: Well that clears it up then - It isn't an RSS feed, it's an XML file describing the current server status. This RSS feed has the most current SETI@home news: http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/rss_main.php RSS, XML, sigh... Basically, I want to have the server status show up on my Google homepage. Google accepts RSS & XML feeds, so I believe the server status XML file should work. But it isn't, and presumably because the feed is bad. Possible? If so, how? Thanks! Chris
6) Questions and Answers : Web site : Bad XML Feed (Message 255757) Posted 1 Mar 2006 by John Bartlett Post: You aren't talking about an RSS feed are you? Yes, it's an RSS feed supplied by SETI. But it's invalid, and because of that, I can't add it to my Google IG homepage...
7) Questions and Answers : Web site : Bad XML Feed (Message 255755) Posted 1 Mar 2006 by John Bartlett Post: You might want to send this to someone one this web page: http://boinc.berkeley.edu/contact.php E-mailed them. Thanks
8) Questions and Answers : Web site : Bad XML Feed (Message 254636) Posted 27 Feb 2006 by John Bartlett Post: Hi all, I am trying to add http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/sah_status.xml as a feed. I can't however, seemingly because the feed is not valid accoriding to validators. I get: "This feed does not validate." "line 1, column 0: Undefined root element: server:status [help]" "<server_status>" Can someone at SETI fix this, please? Thanks! Chris
9) Questions and Answers : Windows : Always fails upload (Message 187414) Posted 10 Nov 2005 by John Bartlett Post: Well, at the very time you write this post, the servers are down for the weekly 'cleanup'. But I reckon that your issue happens at other times as well. For me there's too few information to 'know why'. One wild guess could be that - if you are on dial up - you have a noisy line. Please copy/paste the messages from the 'messages' tab in here, so one or another can figure out what happens. :-)= Greybeard It must be the weekly cleanup then. I have a broadband connection. God, dialup would kill me. ;) For fun, have a look at my screen shot from the last few hours worth of messages. http://www.chrisbartlett.net/pix/Untitled-2.png Chris PS. And what are these newfangledd stats I see on the left? RAC? Eh?
10) Questions and Answers : Windows : Always fails upload (Message 187352) Posted 9 Nov 2005 by John Bartlett Post: Hi all, It seems as though every single WU that is finished always fails at least a few times when trying to upload the result. Eventually they always go through, but it's annoying that this happens constantly. Anyone know why? XP SP2 w/ Boinc 5.2.7 Thanks! Chris
11) Message boards : Number crunching : Wanna run 4 instances! (Message 186870) Posted 8 Nov 2005 by John Bartlett Post: Ever since we went to BOINC, I can't seem to do this... I have a dual proc xeon box running XP Pro SP2. HT is turned on, so in essence I have 4 procs. Why does the BOINC manager only run TWO WU's at a time? I want to run 4 because the two only take up 25% cpu power anyway. Have you remembered to change the global preference "On multiprocessor, use at most N processors" to 4? Well hot damn... I guess this really is seriously web-based now, eh? Sheesh! I never even bothered to look there... Thanks! Chris
12) Message boards : Number crunching : Wanna run 4 instances! (Message 186836) Posted 8 Nov 2005 by John Bartlett Post: Ever since we went to BOINC, I can't seem to do this... I have a dual proc xeon box running XP Pro SP2. HT is turned on, so in essence I have 4 procs. Why does the BOINC manager only run TWO WU's at a time? I want to run 4 because the two only take up 25% cpu power anyway. Thanks! Chris
13) Questions and Answers : Getting started : Why can't I attach a project?! (Message 186832) Posted 8 Nov 2005 by John Bartlett Post: This for 5.2.x CCs When you activated your account, you got an account key, but did you create a password for your account. If you didn't, you can do it when you go to "Your account" with "Change password". With that password, not the password of Classic, and your e-mail address it should work. Thanks, that worked. It's strange, though that I didn't need to do this when I FIRST installed BOINC. I simply used the key my father gave me from the e-mail sent to him from SETI and it worked. Why it is different now is beyond me. But it's working, so cool. Thanks. Chris
14) Questions and Answers : Getting started : Why can't I attach a project?! (Message 186826) Posted 8 Nov 2005 by John Bartlett Post: ARGH!!!! I've been using SETI/BOINC for years. My father started the account. I recently wiped my Windows PC and reloaded everything, but I absolutely cannot attach SETI. I have included the proper e-mail address and am using the "Project Key" from the e-mail we were sent from SETI. It keeps telling me that it can't find the account. Hell, I used the Project Key to log in to post THIS, so it must be somewhere! This is all after I couldn't install the stupid thing as a service which I would prefer. This is really irritating. I just want it to work. I'm a sys admin for Heaven's Sake. This isn't rocket science (well, not on my end anyway). Why won't this work?! Thanks!
15) Questions and Answers : Windows : BOINC 4.45 not recognizing SETI (Message 171775) Posted 25 Sep 2005 by John Bartlett Post: I am running several machines using BOINC 4.25, processing SETI and EINSTEIN data. I recently had to rebuild a laptop (reformatted hard drive, so it was a clean install) and then downloaded BOINC, which was now 4.45. Set up SETI and EINSTEIN but, the next day, I noticed only ENISTEIN was running. Discovered SETI is telling BOINC I have an invalid or missing account key. But all is fine on the systems running 4.25 and the same account name and key. It seems stupid to have to creat a new account when the old one is working fine everywhere else. Suggestions?

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