1) Message boards : Number crunching : Beeping Mad (Message 41933) Posted 1 Nov 2004 by BrokenCrust Post: Low voltage is an interesting thought. I've installed a monitor to check for this so that next time a wave of beeping takes over I can immediately check it. I've joined the climate prediction project (no beeping so far) so it may be a little while before it starts again, but I'll report back. Thanks.

2) Message boards : Number crunching : Credit sharing is a joke nowadays, pissing me off ... (Message 41918) Posted 1 Nov 2004 by BrokenCrust Post: @Goliath, Dude: Credit rage? I did a search on Ebay and, well, there aren’t any credits for sale so I don't know what a credit is actually worth, but I can't buy a god damn thing with mine, so if you want I'll send them to you. As for wasting machine time; well not really, it's using otherwise unused CPU power that would achieve sod all in left untapped, but by processing units it has allowed you to bitch about your missing credits and find out that you're not alone in the universe.

3) Message boards : Number crunching : Beeping Mad (Message 41910) Posted 1 Nov 2004 by BrokenCrust Post: Whilst I agree overheating is a cause of beeping, I don't think so in this case, because a) uGuru hardware monitoring from Abit says that my CPU is at a comfy 46 degrees C and my alarm is set to 80 degrees C and I doubt that some calculations in BONIC are so CPU intensive as to raise the temperature 34 degrees C during a short period and irregularly at that. I'd expect BOINC to raise temperature in a linear fashion ending with a high temperature representative of CPU effort, which could be at the point of alarm thus pushing the reading over in sometimes - but this would be regular (because monitoring is regular) and in any case unlikely with a 36 degree C margin. b) It happens in the same place (and has roughly the same pattern of beeps) across a defined set of work units and appears to be cyclic. Ie. Some units produce no beeps, then one will start the beeps at around 95% and continue to the end of the unit, then the next unit will cause very many beeps in the first 1% then beeps stop for the rest of the unit. This cycle is repeated, with occasional odd beep. This isn't representative of overheating but sometime related more directly to the data and the way it is processed (perhaps by the 64bit processor) c) BOINC doesn't tax my PC especially when compared to other work it does, and so you'd expect this work to heat the CPU more, only it doesn't. and d) It used to happen with Classic as well is just the same way, but more predicatively in each work unit, but only if SETI was running in the foreground, ie I had the graphics shown or the screensaver was running. It would stop immediately the graphics was hidden (ie behind another application) but yet still processing the work. This was rarer and easily fixed, but with BONIC it happens even without graphics being shown.

4) Message boards : Number crunching : Beeping Mad (Message 41897) Posted 1 Nov 2004 by BrokenCrust Post: I do many thing with my PC, SETI processing being only moderately difficult for it, in comparison. Nothing else make it beep, it beeps in roughly the same place in each work unit (alternating) regardless of how long / hot the PC is. The beeps start wide spaced, then get grouped a bit with the odd solo then (in the next unit) the beeping is almost constant and then it stops suddenly and all is quiet. There is, I repeat, no sign that anything is wrong with the PC, and it is not overheating ('cos if it was it'd stop, etc etc). There is no lack of performance in BOINC or other apps during the beeping, but it's not conducive to work / sleep / happy relations so it must be stopped.

5) Message boards : Number crunching : Beeping Mad (Message 41894) Posted 1 Nov 2004 by BrokenCrust Post: I'm running BOINC 4.13 on XP with AMD Athlon 64 with an Abit mobo. During some of the processing (normally towards the 95% to 100% complete in some work units and then there is a mental beeping performance during the first minute of the next work unit) the computer beeps a whole lot (beep....beep beep......beep) etc. This happens even with the speakers off (ie the beeps are like MB warning beeps). I don't get these otherwise and if I stop BOINC they stop. I've checked the PC and it's not showing any problems. I used to get these also in classic SETI as well. I don’t get beeping on my other PC at all (AMD athlon 32 with Abit mobo) which is still running classic in the background as a service. Does anyone have any ideas? These are very annoying now and I guess eventually I'll uninstall BOINC before I go completely insane.

 
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