*** F@H Tech Assistance Thread ***

[popswala]

I followed everything exact. I have two gpu's up and running. I'm using FAHmon also. On there it shows points at 450 for both gpu's WU. the PPD is showing 0.00*. ? huh. I can tell there doing something cause the gpu1 temp is up but not gpu2 temp. Must be better cooling since both progress is at 1%. I know diff tasks = diff pnts. 450 is a lil higher then 106 that I normally got. lol. But there's no PPD and I thought it was going to be a bigger leap in pnts then that.

I wanted to get a better cpu like a 965 but that seemed a lil steep at time so I snatched what I thought was a decent x4 at the time. I would crunch cpu but if its not gonna do much, then I'll just stick w/ gpu's for now.

 

[thebluebumblebee]

The WU is worth 450 points. If the PPD shows 0.00, wait for a least 3 frames and it should show a respectful PPD. So, do you have 2 clients running, one for each GPU?

 

[popswala]

Yep. I got 2 clients running. GPU1 and GPU2. That was actually pretty easy.

I'm curious, I also fold on my laptop which has dual 260m sli with 9400gt onboard. Should I do the same thing (running dual clients) or is laptops diff? That 1's getting round 755pnts. I don't use the laptop. Its just sittin there folding away.

 

[thebluebumblebee]

Laptop should be the same. Watch those temps!

 

[Networker4321]

Yep. I got 2 clients running. GPU1 and GPU2. That was actually pretty easy.

I'm curious, I also fold on my laptop which has dual 260m sli with 9400gt onboard. Should I do the same thing (running dual clients) or is laptops diff? That 1's getting round 755pnts. I don't use the laptop. Its just sittin there folding away.

I use the simple SMP client for folding on notebooks. How do you fit 260's and 9400gt. Onboard? New to me and I thought I knew folding?

Thanks,

 

[popswala]

Lol. I have an alienware. I wish I waited a lil on getting it tho since not to long after I got mine they came out with the i7 in them. Mine has the c2d p8600 2.4GHz.

 

[popswala]

I was able 2 get 1 client running on the laptop. Its PPD is 3K+. nice. But can't get 2nd client running. I get error saying cudart.dll was not found. Cuda is installed. Client1 is up and running. any ideas?

 

[thebluebumblebee]

You're in new territory for us. I don't recall anyone here with something like that. Search for that error on http://foldingforum.org/

 

[msgclb]

I was able 2 get 1 client running on the laptop. Its PPD is 3K+. nice. But can't get 2nd client running. I get error saying cudart.dll was not found. Cuda is installed. Client1 is up and running. any ideas?

The file cudart.dll should be installed in your folding folder where you run the fah6 application. A long time ago I had this running XP. A Google search for 'cudart.dll was not found' might give you some ideas.

Since client one is running then there's a 100% chance that cudart.dll is in that folder. If you made a second folder for the 2nd gpu using the same install method then cudart.dll should be in that folder. It could be both clients are trying to run from the same folder and the second client can't see cudart.dll because it's being used. Check the following...

Did you configure the first gpu client parameter using -gpu 0 and the second -gpu 1?
Did you use different machine ID # for the two gpus? i.e. 2 for gpu #1 and 3 for gpu #2?

What OS and were are the clients located? The folding client won't work on some gpus if there's not a monitor or dummy vga connector. I'm out of ideas!

 

[popswala]

I found the file. Copied it and stuck it in diff folders till I got to work. lol. I have the 2nd client up and running.

2nd client on desktop won't run now. "[04:00:53] EUE limit exceeded. Pausing 24 hours." I tried reloading it it and got nothing. I did get a sys unstable shutting down. So I turned the clocks down a lil and I'm back 2 this error. Had it for some time now. Any ideas?

 

[thebluebumblebee]

pops, which system are you talking about?

 

[p_o_s_pc]

I found the file. Copied it and stuck it in diff folders till I got to work. lol. I have the 2nd client up and running.

2nd client on desktop won't run now. "[04:00:53] EUE limit exceeded. Pausing 24 hours." I tried reloading it it and got nothing. I did get a sys unstable shutting down. So I turned the clocks down a lil and I'm back 2 this error. Had it for some time now. Any ideas?

are you using a dummy plug or a 2nd screen on the 2nd card? Do you have the desktop extended? I had that problem before when i ran dual cards. Also don't forget the
-gpu 0 and -gpu 1 flags if you haven't already.

 

[thebluebumblebee]

are you using a dummy plug or a 2nd screen on the 2nd card? Do you have the desktop extended? I had that problem before when i ran dual cards. Also don't forget the
-gpu 0 and -gpu 1 flags if you haven't already.

I've run my 2 9600GSO's without anything connected to the second card. Problems start when you get to the third GPU. If anything, pops' OC is too high.

 

[popswala]

Problems with desktop. Sys specs. I did a slight overclock so i dont get flicks or tears. The cards arent connected sli. Waitin on flex bridge. I tried lowerin lil by lil thinkin that'll help. Im gonna see if itll run at stock in the mornin.


The laptops fine now. That runnin 2 clents.

 

[p_o_s_pc]

Problems with desktop. Sys specs. I did a slight overclock so i dont get flicks or tears. The cards arent connected sli. Waitin on flex bridge. I tried lowerin lil by lil thinkin that'll help. Im gonna see if itll run at stock in the mornin.


The laptops fine now. That runnin 2 clents.

this may sound stupid but enable SLI and give it a try. IIRC you can enable SLI without the bridge.

 

[bogmali]

IIRC you can enable SLI without the bridge.

With the newer Nvidia drivers yes you can without the bridge

 

[popswala]

I'm just going to redo the whole install on here. I did it 1st on here then the laptop from memory and that 1s running. can't get 2nd client running on here. I updated the nvidia drivers 2day. And sli is enabled w/o bridge so I dunno what else it is. I tried redoing the install on 2nd client with the folders and shortcut and got errors saying start in/target don't exist when i'm looking right at the folder. So i'm just going to redo the whole set up. client1 also.

I was doing something right. I moved up 200 spots in under 2wks.

 

[thebluebumblebee]

I'm just going to redo the whole install on here. I did it 1st on here then the laptop from memory and that 1s running. can't get 2nd client running on here. I updated the nvidia drivers 2day. And sli is enabled w/o bridge so I dunno what else it is. I tried redoing the install on 2nd client with the folders and shortcut and got errors saying start in/target don't exist when i'm looking right at the folder. So i'm just going to redo the whole set up. client1 also.

I was doing something right. I moved up 200 spots in under 2wks.

You will scream up the list if you get 2 GTS250's and 1 GTX260m going.

 

[popswala]

lol. I'm trying to. I spend alot of time on this site and figured I'd give a lil something back. heres where I come to stay up on new stuff and reviews. look round the forums 2 learn things and better my mind. I'm always tryin to learn more bout pcs. Theres no way I'll know as much as u guys tho. You all sure have helped me alot on here. I've moved up the list pretty decent I think.

The laptop has dual 260m sli. My desktop system specs has the dual 250's.

 

[AphexDreamer]

Ok so I have my 5870 Matrix folding and it seems to be folding just fine. Thing is I have my CPU SMP client folding as well and it tends to terminate early which it has never done before. At first it was my GPU that was doing that but I changed ID's to make sure they both weren't the same and now when I run my GPU Client parallel to my CPU SMP client CPU just terminates early.

I am clueless.

I've tried googling not much on it.

 

[Chicken Patty]

Ok so I have my 5870 Matrix folding and it seems to be folding just fine. Thing is I have my CPU SMP client folding as well and it tends to terminate early which it has never done before. At first it was my GPU that was doing that but I changed ID's to make sure they both weren't the same and now when I run my GPU Client parallel to my CPU SMP client CPU just terminates early.

I am clueless.

I've tried googling not much on it.

Same issue I was having when i installed my GX2, not sure if it's your same issue but here I go:

When I extracted the F@H folder you know you have to create a shortcut of the F@H application to your desktop. Well what I was doing is that I was creating two of the same shortcuts instead of one that was from folder labeled GPU 0 and one from GPU 1. So yeah in the desktop I would name them respectively but they both pointed to the same folder. It was something I was overlooking. Not sure if you issue can relate as I have no clue on how you setup a CPU client, but you might want to look into that and see if this might help in anyway.

 

[TheLaughingMan]

I don't know if that has already been covered, but I just installed and tried out the new 2.3 Beta client for the CPU console. Install works find, built more like the standard system, but now the computer does not use 100% of the CPU. It detects all 4 cores, and is using all 4 cores, but it hovers around 68% usage.

Config: CPU for 100% use, set a Low Priority, Normal mode, and has the "-smp" tag on the shortcut.

Did I overlook something during the install or should I just not be using the new 2.3 Beta client?

 

[msgclb]

I don't know if that has already been covered, but I just installed and tried out the new 2.3 Beta client for the CPU console. Install works find, built more like the standard system, but now the computer does not use 100% of the CPU. It detects all 4 cores, and is using all 4 cores, but it hovers around 68% usage.

Config: CPU for 100% use, set a Low Priority, Normal mode, and has the "-smp" tag on the shortcut.

Did I overlook something during the install or should I just not be using the new 2.3 Beta client?

I'm guessing that your referring to the Windows SMP client installation (v6.30) and the v6.30 SMP client referenced.

I believe you should use...
Config: CPU for 100% use, set a Idle Priority, Big mode, and has the "-smp" tag on the shortcut.

I downloaded this client and I'm testing it on an Intel 920. It's running 8 cores @ 100%. The only changes that I made are...

User Name [Anonymous]? Me!!!

Team Number [0]? 50711

Passkey []? My Passkey

Acceptable size of work assignment and work result packets (bigger units
may have large memory demands) -- 'small' is <5MB, 'normal' is <10MB, and
'big' is >10MB (small/normal/big) [normal]? big

Change advanced options (yes/no) [no]? yes

Core Priority (idle/low) [idle]? idle

For the short-cut I used: -smp -verbosity 9

The one thing I did notice is that it loaded v2.22 so I don't know if there would be a difference with v2.3.

 

[TheLaughingMan]

I'm guessing that your referring to the Windows SMP client installation (v6.30) and the v6.30 SMP client referenced.

I believe you should use...
Config: CPU for 100% use, set a Idle Priority, Big mode, and has the "-smp" tag on the shortcut.

I downloaded this client and I'm testing it on an Intel 920. It's running 8 cores @ 100%. The only changes that I made are...

User Name [Anonymous]? Me!!!

Team Number [0]? 50711

Passkey []? My Passkey

Acceptable size of work assignment and work result packets (bigger units
may have large memory demands) -- 'small' is <5MB, 'normal' is <10MB, and
'big' is >10MB (small/normal/big) [normal]? big

Change advanced options (yes/no) [no]? yes

Core Priority (idle/low) [idle]? idle

For the short-cut I used: -smp -verbosity 9

The one thing I did notice is that it loaded v2.22 so I don't know if there would be a difference with v2.3.

I tried Core Priority @ idle, no difference. I do see your have "-verbosity 9" as an extra thing I don't. Is that i7 or more than 4 core only? I am going to try changing the priority back to idle and add the verbosity option.

Update: Tried, did not change. I have checked the FAH home and it said the client should be running a multithreaded program called blahblah "a3". Mine is running "a0", which I am now assuming is not right.

Update: Reinstalled from scratch, copy/pasted my config file. It reinstalled itself with "a3" this time, and now everything is gravy. Thanks for the help.

 

[popswala]

I find it odd That both of my rigs stopped working. everything I tried didn't work. reinstalled everything. What did work is deleting and re-adding my clients on FAHmon. I don't know what caused this.

I still can't get my 2nd gpu running on desktop though. I have them connected via sli bridge now. I did the adding monitors and expanding desktop but that just locks up my rig and I have to restart. I tried the dummy vga. That did nothing. I'm out of ideas. Any suggestions?