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

[mx500torid]

ok may have fixed it had to install new drivers and after they crashed my system lol guess you gotta turn off folding when installing drivers anyway after reboot 1 is showing normal with a 9401@ 103k and the other is stuck with a 7624@40k. I just got to thinking what would BBB do. . Now what mx would do .

 

[mx500torid]

guess Im gonna have to run the cards in different computers. I started cruching and everything went crazy only at 50% on cpu but ppd went to 60k on both cards total. Sucks I cant run them in 1 comp.

 

[thebluebumblebee]

Avast!

Tried to make exceptions for both the ip-adress and the program, but still no go.

There's no mention of Avast being a problem at foldingforum.org. I would look at Windows' firewall.

@mx500torid:

FAH doesn't care whether SLI is disabled or not. It's simply not used. If it helps you with your games (or whatever), then leave it enabled.

Secondly, those P762x WU's do weird things. If I try to run them on my son's i5-650 with 2 GTX 560 Ti's, it makes the system unusable. Literally can take 5-10 minutes for a mouse click to register.
What is the system like that you have those on?
BTW, I called Pande and got my morning briefing. They will be getting back to me about your problem.

 

[mx500torid]

Give Pande my regards. They were on a 2600k@ 4.0 ghz with a Corsair 850, 8GB 1600 Ripjaws, Gigabyte g68-UD3 motherboard. Ill just stick in the other 2600k. I just wanted to do some gaming with sli but I forgot that all I do is buy games I dont play them. BTW Agent I use Avast and have no problems.

 

[agent00skid]

It's definitely Avast! doing it. Because the problems stops when I stop the real-time shields. Thinking of stopping 1 at a time to see which one is the culprit.

 

[thebluebumblebee]

It's definitely Avast! doing it. Because the problems stops when I stop the real-time shields. Thinking of stopping 1 at a time to see which one is the culprit.

Good to know.

 

[mx500torid]

wondering if if you build a new comp if it has to do the 10 wu before bonus points kick in. 680 is still doing 52k. Looks like everything is pretty close between the 2 machines but one is double the points. Only difference is one on new driver and 1 on 327. hmmm maybe Ill try an older driver.

 

[thebluebumblebee]

did you just answer your own question?

It's the drivers. Every 331, 332, and 334 driver has a serious bug that kills folding performance on anything other than GK110 (780, 780 Ti, Titan). They still haven't fixed it.

 

[mx500torid]

Crap that was the problem. 327.23 driver loaded and its at 94k. 660 has 306 driver and its ok too. The new drivers halve the ppd.

 

[stinger608]

Okay guys, I have a quick question here.

I have a couple of extra video cards and can put one in my wife's system to fold. Which would be better; a HD5850 or a GTX560 (Non Ti version)?

What could I expect out of each for average PPD?

Thanks in advance

 

[hertz9753]

Okay guys, I have a quick question here.

I have a couple of extra video cards and can put one in my wife's system to fold. Which would be better; a HD5850 or a GTX560 (Non Ti version)?

What could I expect out of each for average PPD?

Thanks in advance

GTX 560 with 327.23 nVidia drivers. Stanford 7.4.4 folding client and advanced flag. 9101 core 17's vary to much to give ppd. 20k+ depending on oc and wu's.

 

[stinger608]

Why the 327.23 drivers? They are fairly old drivers. Do they produce better PPD or something?

LOL, sorry for all the questions.

 

[mx500torid]

Yes the 327.23 drivers are better for all Nvidia cards below a GTX 770.

Hi Hertz we miss ya man!!!

 

[hertz9753]

Why the 327.23 drivers? They are fairly old drivers. Do they produce better PPD or something?

LOL, sorry for all the questions.

To run the the newer drivers you have run the beta flag and the kind of new beta core. I used to run beta flag, things got crazy last month. If your not on the beta team at Stanford and ask questions about beta wu's you will get deleted or your thread will be closed.

 

[hertz9753]

Yes the 327.23 drivers are better for all Nvidia cards below a GTX 770.

Hi Hertz we miss ya man!!!

I pop in from time to time to read the posts. It has been a while since my last post though. I'm the Captain of a tiny team.

http://tc.folding.net/index.php?p=div&div=1#leaderboard.php

If you click categories and roll your mouse over a username you will see what they are folding with. Click on that user and you see will points for each day.

My team is in 5th place. Ignore 1st in GPU-E he is running 2 Titans. That data base is a good if you want to see what hardware can do.

Why would I post if I didn't miss you guy's.

 

[thebluebumblebee]

Does the 327.23 driver restriction apply to Fermi GPU's? I don't think it does.

Nvidia Driver 331 Series may result in PPD loss on GK104 GPUs so 327.23 is recommended instead.

 

[hertz9753]

Does the 327.23 driver restriction apply to Fermi GPU's? I don't think it does.

http://www.overclock.net/t/1482827/...fixes-gk104-slowdown-issue/0_20#post_22120676
I think it would also work for Fermi's. I quit running the beta flag but my GTX 660 folder didn't. He also has a GTX 580 getting pretty close to him.

 

[stinger608]

Damn, I have a work unit that has been stuck on "99.99%" for almost 2 days! How do I upload it or what ever I have to do?

Thanks in advance guys./

 

[thebluebumblebee]

Does something like GPU-z show any load on the GPU? Have you tried pausing it and then starting it again? Right click on the slot, select pause wait until there's no load on the GPU and then tight click-fold. There have been some issues with WU's getting stuck at 99.99% and it might have to be deleted. What's the WU? (I'm working on a 9406 (220,1,6))

 

[stinger608]

0 load on the GPU? The work unit is one of the 13000 projects.
Hmm, I paused it and with it paused it shows 85%?

Don't know what the heck is going on.

Once I start it back up though it goes back to 99.99%.

How do you delete the work unit?

 

[thebluebumblebee]

https://foldingforum.org/viewtopic.php?f=96&t=26248

 

[thebluebumblebee]

How do you delete the work unit?

Let's make sure it's broken before deleting a WU that's 85% complete. Yes, sometimes it has to be deleted.
Since restarting it, is there a load on the GPU? Is there any progress shown in the log? (remember how long it takes per frame with these huge work units) Are you using a screen saver? (don't)

 

[stinger608]

So maybe it was actually at 85%? Just showing up as 99.99%. Don't know.

 

[stinger608]

Let's make sure it's broken before deleting a WU that's 85% complete. Yes, sometimes it has to be deleted.
Since restarting it, is there a load on the GPU? Is there any progress shown in the log? (remember how long it takes per frame with these huge work units) Are you using a screen saver? (don't)

Nope, still no load on the GPU. I don't run screen savers and don't put my system in hibernation or to sleep.

 

[thebluebumblebee]

Delete the WU by deleting the work folder (I'm off to find where that is. I haven't had to delete a WU in forever)