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

[theonedub]

Ion, I'd agree with Mike on this one. 55A is enough, even with your estimate on consumption.

 

[Soylent Joe]

What kind of motherboard?

It's the "second puter" in my sys. specs. I have no idea what brand or model it is. I pulled it out of a Acer Aspire AX3200-U3600A. I've looked all around Acer's website and journeyed through the far reaches of the interwebs trying to find the model, but no luck. It's no where on the board either. I do know that it's a weird MicroATX-MiniITX hybrid form factor and is socket AM2+.

 

[Soylent Joe]

Seems to be working... fluctuating a lot, spazzing

Performance & time left go away... The progress indicator down at the bottom is always stuck at 80/8000

Notice the difference in iter/sec. It constantly jumps up and down.

Performance & time left go away again

Then after you close the display, and open it back up again, you find that it has logged you out or something, says the core isn't running, but in about 5 sec. it resumes the madness that you see in the previous pics.

Here's the control panel.

It's showing both the 9600 and a 9200 in devmgmt. HWMonitor is giving me no info. about either.

They're both showing up in GPU-z.

Oh, and keep in mind that the 9200 does not exist. It's an integrated 8200 with 256MB VRAM.

Mah computer has the devils in it.

 

[hertz9753]

Don't open up the viewer, that will really slow down your folding. Also set your core priority to slightly higher.

 

[theonedub]

Use the console client, the Viewer cuts down your production and is a mess to run! Not to mention watching Folding run is about as entertaining as watching paint dry after 15-30mins tops

 

[Soylent Joe]

OK, I installed it and got it running. Am I going to have to go through the little questionnaire every time I run it, and does it make anyone else's computer besides mine basically unusable? I feel like I'm trying to run Vista on a computer from 1993. Also, the thing has been stuck on "Starting GUI Server" ever since it got to that part like 10 minutes ago.

Ah, says it has completed 1%. Dandy.

 

[theonedub]

My comps are pretty stable running it and WCG at the same time- just cant watch videos, but I don't do that much anyway.

WUs can take time esp the 472 and 1888 that cycle between full load and idle to control temps.

The questions should only pop up on the initial run.

Fold Hard

 

[Soylent Joe]

yeah, so it's taking about 3min/percent. That's 300min (5 hours) a WU. That's 5 WU's a day and say 30 a week since I most likely won't have it on ALL the time. I'm guessing my computer is being really slow while it's on just because the CPU is pretty much crap. Oh well, it works. I better not say who I'm folding for >.>

 

[hertz9753]

yeah, so it's taking about 3min/percent. That's 300min (5 hours) a WU. That's 5 WU's a day and say 30 a week since I most likely won't have it on ALL the time. I'm guessing my computer is being really slow while it's on just because the CPU is pretty much crap. Oh well, it works. I better not say who I'm folding for >.>

This team?

 

[Soylent Joe]

This team?

EVGA

They give you coupons and stuff

 

[theonedub]

Well folding is folding. Regardless of what team you are on you are contributing to the effort.


Join our team!

 

[BUCK NASTY]

EVGA

They give your coupons and stuff

Not that you ppd is going to sway anything, but I am curious of how many posts you have @ EVGA Forums. I bet its not 541 posts. So apparently TPU provides a valuable service to you. While TPU cannot offer coupons and such to compete with EVGA, we do offer fellowship, comradery, and honest advice. The real question is, what would you pay for what you get here at TPU? I wonder if we get our priorities mixed-up sometimes. Just a little food for thought.

 

[Soylent Joe]

Not that you ppd is going to sway anything, but I am curious of how many posts you have @ EVGA Forums. I bet its not 541 posts. So apparently TPU provides a valuable service to you. While TPU cannot offer coupons and such to compete with EVGA, we do offer fellowship and comradery and honest advice. The real question is, what would you pay for what you get here at TPU? I wonder if we get our priorities mixed-up sometimes. Just a little food for thought.

Yeah, I'll fold you TPU. I don't have any posts on the EVGA forums. Then again I'm a below-novice folder and have no idea what I'm doing 1/3 of the time. With how it bogs down my system, I doubt I'll be doing much folding for anyone. I guess that's on of the many reasons why people have dedicated systems for it.

 

[El Fiendo]

So the 9800GX2s were pending and are still pending today. The PSU seller is still waiting on my interest, so I've got a new question.

55A Single rail, will it make go:

i7 920 D0
Gigabyte EX-58 Extreme
3x GTX260s
HDD
6GB DDR3
Aftermarket cooling
Medium-overclocking

Sorry, but my approach to PSUs has been kill the issue by smothering things with copious amounts of wattage. I think the PSU would probably work, the only thing that's really different is the CPU and what it pulls. The graphics cards would work out to be around the same, and all the rest is the same. Mainly I just want to be able to blame it on you guys when things burst into flames. Having said that, any thoughts?

 

[bogmali]

We do offer fellowship, comradery, and honest advice.

:shadedshu I've yet to receive one of those.....

 

[theonedub]

Quick question for multi GPU folders:

Soon I will be running a 780i mb with a GTX 275 and GTX 260. On occasion I will need to encode video files using Mediacoder's CUDA enabled software, but I would like to have the 275 continue to Fold while the 260 encodes. For that to work is there a certain way I should install/arrange the cards? Like have the 260 as GPU0 and the 275 GPU1 since I don't think I can tell Mediacoder that card to use to encode?

Its kind of difficult to explain, but hopefully someone understands, lol.

 

[Crazybc]

Someone else must be getting this over 5 hours trying to get work this is ridiculous and has been going on for more then a wee Now Standfords servers cannt be that messed up...

11:47:06] - Attempt #14 to get work failed, and no other work to do.
Waiting before retry.
[12:28:04] Opening http://fah-web.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=userpage&username=Crazybc...



anyone ..

 

[BUCK NASTY]

Someone else must be getting this over 5 hours trying to get work this is ridiculous and has been going on for more then a wee Now Standfords servers cannt be that messed up...

11:47:06] - Attempt #14 to get work failed, and no other work to do.
Waiting before retry.
[12:28:04] Opening http://fah-web.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=userpage&username=Crazybc...



anyone ..

Close and re-start the client.

 

[Crazybc]

Done that and usually after the 5th or 6th time it will get some work but I guess theirs nothing I can do when I goto work except come home to this everyday I think maybe I,ll stop the cpu folding and stick with the gpu .. It seems to be way more reliable.

 

[msgclb]

I had problems with my MSI K9A2 Platinum. At first it wouldn't boot. When I finally got it to boot I got to the initial boot screen and a warning in RED that reads...

Warning !!! The previous performance of overclocking is failed, and the system is restored to the defaults setting.
Press any key except "DEL" to enter

Dummy me miss read that last line but I finally hit the "any key" and now I'm back into Windows.

This is the first time that I've seen a warning that said hit "any key". On the other boards that I've owned I believe this was the F1 key. Well, it actually was on this board after the "any key".

For a time I was coming to the conclusion that my K9A2 was down for the count.

The reason I got in this fix is because I put my K9A2 in a case and replaced the stock cooler with a Dark Knight. My cpu temps dropped about 12c from around 60-62 to 47-48 under load.

When I get back in about 3 hours I'll reinstall my cards and get this rig folding again.

 

[bogmali]

I had problems with my MSI K9A2 Platinum. At first it wouldn't boot. When I finally got it to boot I got to the initial boot screen and a warning in RED that reads...

Warning !!! The previous performance of overclocking is failed, and the system is restored to the defaults setting.
Press any key except "DEL" to enter

Dummy me miss read that last line but I finally hit the "any key" and now I'm back into Windows.

This is the first time that I've seen a warning that said hit "any key". On the other boards that I've owned I believe this was the F1 key. Well, it actually was on this board after the "any key".

For a time I was coming to the conclusion that my K9A2 was down for the count.

The reason I got in this fix is because I put my K9A2 in a case and replaced the stock cooler with a Dark Knight. My cpu temps dropped about 12c from around 60-62 to 47-48 under load.

When I get back in about 3 hours I'll reinstall my cards and get this rig folding again.

Mine did the same exact thing; remove the CMOS battery, unplug the A/C connector, and let it sit for 30 or so minutes and reboot.

 

[JayliN]

I got a gts 250 to replace my 4670s for higher ppd but I can't get the gpu console client to run.

Removed ati card, removed ati drivers, uninstalled old gpu console. Installed new card, installed new drivers, install latest nvidia gpu console.

After starting the console, the following error pops up after ~18seconds

"Folding@home has run into a serious error running the core and will shutdown"

I don't think its a problem with the card. Passes OCCT stability test.

Any ideas?

FIXED: manually deleted the old folders and downloaded a different client (first link on the official download page). Great to be folding more efficiently!

EDIT: WOW, 6630ppd out of the box (bfg gts 250 oc, 353pt wu)with BOINC running simultaneously at 100%/100%. I hope my computer doesn't explode.

 

[[Ion]]

Have you tried this client? It's what I've used on all of my GPUs

 

[EnergyFX]

:shadedshu I've yet to receive one of those.....

Never pet a burning dog.

There, I killed your argument.

 

[El Fiendo]

Second piece of honest advice. Don't leave El Fiendo alone with a dog or you'll soon have a burning dog you can't pet.