Posts by thinksnow
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Dual-booting Xp and Vista
(Message 464159)
Posted 23 Nov 2006 by  thinksnow
Post: I'm setting up my new machine and I've got XP on one partition and Vista on another and was wondering if it is possible to have just a single repository of work units to draw on, regardless of which OS I'm on at the time? Well, that's the catch: if i spend a few days or weeks doing things on Vista or on XP, and don't fire up the other OS, I'll have a slew of expired WU's, which seems a waste. |
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Dual-booting Xp and Vista
(Message 463984)
Posted 23 Nov 2006 by thinksnow
Post: I'm setting up my new machine and I've got XP on one partition and Vista on another and was wondering if it is possible to have just a single repository of work units to draw on, regardless of which OS I'm on at the time? I suppose this is the same as having two XP partitions, but I doubt it'd be like Linux-Windows... Anyway, any help would be appreciated. |
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So...is it okay to use optimized apps?
(Message 326766)
Posted 5 Jun 2006 by thinksnow
Post: Thank you to all'y'all for the replies, you've put my mind to ease. I'm going to leave the stuff alone for now and leave it crunching away in the name of science (which, you may remember, was the point of this in the first place!) Robert Brooke, I'd email you a copy if I have one around. I'm sure someone will eventually gather them up and host them again. |
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So...is it okay to use optimized apps?
(Message 326509)
Posted 4 Jun 2006 by thinksnow
Post: I don't want to add the stirring of the pot, I seem to have missed the beginning of the whole debacle and am only now beginning to catch up on events so I have to ask: if we already have the optimized app running, are we supposed to un-install it or is there a penalty for not doing so or what? edit to add: I (kinda) don't really care about the credit, I'm honestly interested in crunching the signals. The credit is all relative, when you think about it, so if I'm getting 800 RAC instead of 2,000 RAC, but someone who used to get 1,000 RAC is now getting 400, well, it works out the same, no? |
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Complete lockup
(Message 324302)
Posted 3 Jun 2006 by thinksnow
Post: I've got some 120mm fans on order from nexfan.com (awesome deal, btw), but I don't think it's the heat, I think it's just something about my mobo. It was working fine for months, then it started having periodic flake-outs where it would lock up. I mean, I guess it could be the heat, now that it's summer, but it could also be the rather serious O/C I've got going on...had going on, that is.I checked out AMD's website and they have an AMD suport forum where you may get some answers. I have paste the info below.Franz Turns out that I might have had a burp on my overclock. I backed the FSB down from 274 to 250 (HTT from 1100 to 1000, RAM from 224 to 205) and everything seems fine now (knock wood). Hmmm... |
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Complete lockup
(Message 324066)
Posted 3 Jun 2006 by thinksnow
Post: I checked out AMD's website and they have an AMD suport forum where you may get some answers. I have paste the info below.Franz Turns out that I might have had a burp on my overclock. I backed the FSB down from 274 to 250 (HTT from 1100 to 1000, RAM from 224 to 205) and everything seems fine now (knock wood). |
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Complete lockup
(Message 322784)
Posted 1 Jun 2006 by thinksnow
Post: You can download the utility programs from the Intel web site to help diagnose your computer system if you are having problems with running BOINC with multiple CPUs. These are OS specific.I appreciate the thought, but the system with problems is the AMD dual core. I've overclocked the pants off it, so I'm always wary when I see errors. |
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Complete lockup
(Message 322093)
Posted 1 Jun 2006 by thinksnow
Post: rig = gear, stuff, pieces-parts I dunno, I really first saw it over on Overclockers.com As for something to get 100% CPU utilization: Prime95 has a "torture test" that will do the trick. |
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Complete lockup
(Message 321866)
Posted 31 May 2006 by thinksnow
Post: Consider me humbled: I was running Prime95 torture test last night, two instances with each set for affinity to either core (dual core CPU). One registered a hardware failure at 23 minutes and the other registered a failure at 1 hour, 11 minutes. So tonight I disassemble my main rig and piece-by-piece ensure it is connected snug and secure and that MemTest runs through the night. Dang. |
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Complete lockup
(Message 320442)
Posted 30 May 2006 by thinksnow
Post: Grant (SSSF)I'm an overclocker and I've always taken great care to rigorously brake in/burn-in my systems. This one was certainly no exception. It was Prime95 stable at 24+ hours. I don't know what's going on, but it sure seems like BOINC is doing something wacky. I'm running checkdisk now, but I plan on re-validating my overclock and heat setup with superPi or Prime95 again, just to factor those out. Assuming that goes well, it's looking like I'm going to have to get one of my spare drives and do a fresh install. |
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Complete lockup
(Message 319999)
Posted 29 May 2006 by thinksnow
Post: cdr100560I don't know whether the Task manager would capture that. I'll give it a try. No power management enabled at all, anywhere. I defragged a few weeks ago and just rechecked and am at 7%, so not too fragmented (with 41% free disk space, too.) I've scheduled a sector check for next reboot. Lord VaderI've some Netgear routers I'm using that have never been anything but flawless, but have been tinkering with the idea of setting up one of my spare PCs with Smoothwall in between the cable modem and the routers. I disconnect the LAN because I was shutting down ZoneAlarm and didn't want to leave my computer open to the outside. ZA Suite has my firewall and antivius, so with that off, I thought it best to remove the ability for outside intrusion. I'm going to review [b[trux[/b]s security post later tonight (family picnic things today) and see if there is something I can be doing better there, too. |
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Complete lockup
(Message 319941)
Posted 29 May 2006 by thinksnow
Post: I had SPybot off yesterday evening and things were still locked up when I came back to look a few hours later. Last night, I disconnected from the LAN and shut off Zone Alarm. This morning, system was still completely frozen. The task bar was un-hidden with the pop-up message "BOINC Manager needs to connect to the internet..." and the clock was frozen at 12:30AM, ~1 hour after I'd last touched the computer. So now I'm leaving my computer up all day with BOINC and Seti shut down and we'll see what there is to see, I guess. This would be somewhat less irritating if the computer would at least keep crunching when it was locked up! |
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Complete lockup
(Message 319484)
Posted 28 May 2006 by thinksnow
Post: Imagine that- it had locked up at 12:05 (~15:05 UTC) and I had to reboot just now. StefanLooking at my P4, I just now realized that is is not, in fact, running the "TeaTimer" SD program. So my AMD is now SB S&D free, we'll see what happens in a few hours. cdr100560 and kev1701eYup, I clean the machine about twice a month and make sure everything, IDE & SATA cables, power/molex, AGP/PCI cards, and HSF are all secure. That is good advice, in general, though! MikeSW17Sure have (Ultimate Boot is a must-have tool!). Whenever I have odd behavior, I run that and Prime95, checking in with Speedfan for temps. The highest recorded temp for my Opti is 54 degrees under full load. I thank you all for the replies. I'm going to go ahead and check, check, double-check everything connections and dust wise, just to be absolutely sure. Hopefully, it was just the Spybot TeaTimer that was hosing things. That'd be a curious outcome, for sure! |
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Complete lockup
(Message 319356)
Posted 28 May 2006 by thinksnow
Post: I've been posting in the Lockup curiosity thread, but I wanted to start my own, since I've got apparantly idfferent issues than the OP of that one. My AMD system is the one locking up, ad has been on and off for almost a month, though it's been doing it constantly since going enhanced. My Intel system seems totally unaffected. Both are running XP Pro w/SP2, Zone Alarm Suite, and Spybot SD Resident. By leaving my monitor on all night, I noticed this morning that the AMD isn't just ignoring input commands, it's totally locked up to the point that the system clock was frozen at 7:23PM. Check work units, nothing had completed since sometime yesterday, which would surely not be the case, normally. As a control, I have run the computer overnight with BOINC & Seti shut down and everything was fine in the morning. I then tried shutting down just BOINC manager, leaving boinc.exe & Seti running, and that locked things up, too. I have not tried shutting off ZoneAlarm and leaving Boinc, etc. running, though. I'm considering a complete reformat and reinstall, so any help or suggestions prior to that would be greatly appreciated. |
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Lockup Curiousity
(Message 319342)
Posted 28 May 2006 by thinksnow
Post: Bottomline point is that this SETI's BOINCy thing most likely has nothing to do with my computer problems. Unless... it has something to do with mscoree.dll... Can anyone verify that???I can verify that it McAfee isn't the sole source of the issue: I'm not running McA, I'm running ZoneAlarm and I've been having lockups for over a week. Intersting, though, that I've only had them on my AMD system, and never on my Intels, despite having essentially identical software setups. |
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Lockup Curiousity
(Message 316890)
Posted 25 May 2006 by thinksnow
Post: Has anyone been getting total computer system lockups while using Windows XP? (mouse cursor stuck and keyboard not working with every open application frozen) While running SETI@Home of coarse...Yes No- Zone Alarm Security Suite No...well, kind of. I've just started paying attention to hoe many results complete when my system is locked up and in the 18-hour span from last night to tonight, I had 2 (two!) results complete. That's more than a little slow for my system. |
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Thank you for Boinc 5.5.0 to Crunch3r
(Message 315765)
Posted 25 May 2006 by thinksnow
Post: I just came back to my computer after dinner and it was completely locked up. Checking the Wiki, I saw that BOINC version 5.4.8 included a change to "Notify the firewall and security packages of the screensaver's need to communicate with the client when the manager launches to avoid screensaver lockups due to the firewall and security packages."Lemme second this question. Mats Nilsson, can you please point it out for the rest of us?(Re: This post) Just saying that I have found the answer to my problem under question and answers for windows but it I still thinkit is annoing.And the answer is? I've got Zone Alarm and have been having sporidic issues with complete lockups for few weeks now (but not when I don;t have BOINC runnning over night) Any chance this change hasn't made it's way to Crunch3r's app? I had to hard reboot the thing to get any response. Neither jiggling the mouse nor Ctrl-Alt-Del fazed it and my monitor just kept blinking "No input. Check your connections." |
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Thank you for Boinc 5.5.0 to Crunch3r
(Message 315568)
Posted 24 May 2006 by thinksnow
Post: Lemme second this question. Mats Nilsson, can you please point it out for the rest of us?Just saying that I have found the answer to my problem under question and answers for windows but it I still thinkit is annoing. |
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Seti Enhanced Credit Fair?
(Message 307948)
Posted 16 May 2006 by thinksnow
Post: Maybe I'm missing something, but aren't people using the optimized clients still getting through the WU's faster? And if they get through the units faster, then that means they crunch more per day. If tey crunch more per day, then they get more credit per day, yeah? If you're still getting more credit per day using an optimized client than you would be using the standard core, then what is all the gnashing of teeth and cry-babying about? As soon as everyones queues are depleted, there will be only enhanced units to work on and those who crunch them faster will still get more credit than those who are slower and they'll *still* get to brag about their massive crunching ability (and teh science will still get done). ...or am I missing something? |
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Seti Enhanced Credit Fair?
(Message 304614)
Posted 14 May 2006 by thinksnow
Post: here is a link to a 3.6Ghz Xeon doing Seti Enhanced Beta that takes 19,465.36 Seconds (5.4 hours)56.96 CC AR 0.4847 or 5.4 Credits/hour... Opteron 165, O/C'ed to 2.46 (~on par with an FX-55) came in @ 8,081 seconds and I'm usually right in there at 7.5k-8.5k on the enhanced units. The longest it's taken me for an enhanced WU is 17,773 seconds with a short run of some that took 12k. 2,600 seconds on the old 4.18 units, meaning ~32WU/day. Now, if you're talking about "pure," non-Crunch3r processing, then nevermind, but it can be done, relatively easily, by a non-server machine. |
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