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

[mstenholm]

you need to edit the links properties where it says C:\*\HFM\HFM.exe and ad the /r to that

There several entries so I removed the program again with Windows 7 and found some old stuff . Dowlnoaded the now newest version unzipped to a folder under downloads and voila it runs. I only have to add a client. My 4101 old units was still in history. It knew who I were so clearly this program needs an own remove function that actually removes all.

 

[phill]

Hi guys

Is there any reason why a SLI setup would use the first card 100% but then only boost to factory stock settings on the second? Screen grab for below -

GPU 1

GPU 2

It doesn't seem to matter if the two cards are linked together or not, I've only one SLI ribbon on the two cards, could this be causing a possible issue? Tried it with two and had loads of weird screen issues...
Any help would be gratefully appreciated Here's a screen grab of the FAH Control...

And the log as well.. I hope that's of some help...

 

[NastyHabits]

Hello @phill, Other members please correct me if I'm wrong, but IIF SLI doesn't work/isn't necessary for FAH.

 

[phill]

Hello @phill, Other members please correct me if I'm wrong, but IIF SLI doesn't work/isn't necessary for FAH.

I'll give it a test and see if it's working in 3D Mark etc, just then can be sure.. It's weird I think.. It seems to think the second card is the master and I was wondering if that might have been due to me putting the second card in a few slots down from the top card.. Wasn't sure...??

 

[mstenholm]

Hi guys

Is there any reason why a SLI setup would use the first card 100% but then only boost to factory stock settings on the second? Screen grab for below -

GPU 1
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GPU 2
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It doesn't seem to matter if the two cards are linked together or not, I've only one SLI ribbon on the two cards, could this be causing a possible issue? Tried it with two and had loads of weird screen issues...
Any help would be gratefully appreciated

And the log as well.. I hope that's of some help...

Scroll back to my last post on the last page. The down-clock (stock, no boost) solution for me was to make sure that only one GPU-Z instance was running at the time. I don't have SLI enabled so it might not help you.

Edit: Try and log for a few minutes and open it. PerfCap 16 means idle. When I had my problem of having two GPU-Z open at once in a single GPU system it didn't show idle on the Sensor page. I have problems reproducing the problem, well even to open two instances of GPU-Z in a two GPU rig. As @NastyHabits said ditch the SLI thing.

You said the second GPU was installed "a bit down". You use PCI_E4 right? 2 and 3 will limit you to to 3.0x8 on both GPUs. 1 and 4 will give you the full 16.0x3 on both GPUs.

 

[phill]

Thanks guys, if I can give it a go tomorrow, I'll try it... Something magical happened today and in a completely good way

Well I'm unsure what is going on at the moment, but .... Seems like a restart sorted it out... Turn off and on again fixes most things

They are both working now

Think they are both working fairly well being only the SC models, I would have preferred the FTW3 cards but at £100 extra for each card, they were definitely not worth the few extra MHz in performance.. Where these cards will end up, will not be being taxed this much lol

 

[NastyHabits]

@phill In my former career as a techie, our go-to solution was know as the Three R's - Restart, Reboot, Rebuild. Glad you only had to go to the second step.

 

[phill]

@NastyHabits - If only that worked for the temp issues I get Sometimes for whatever reason the second card is running hotter than the first card.. Just no idea.. I'm a techie too, but only been in it about 18 months so far but been playing with hardware since 1998 or so I never stop learning!!

 

[thebluebumblebee]

Some work units run hotter than others.

 

[phill]

Would it really have been nearly 15c different tho @thebluebumblebee ??

 

[thebluebumblebee]

We've seen big swings in power consumption between different WU's on the same GPU.

 

[phill]

I'll keep that in mind mate, I was well, surprised to say the least!

 

[mstenholm]

We've seen big swings in power consumption between different WU's on the same GPU.

The new 14163-1465 Wus are running cool with low GPU core usage and low energy consumption and low points. Have a look at this. My normal is 55 C, 88 %, 900-950K and 145 W.

 

[AmioriK]

Hi

I am having trouble getting my GT 1030 to be recognised by the client on Ubuntu 18.04 LSE.

I have installed the Nvidia drivers using:

sudo ubuntu-drivers autoinstall

I'm sorry if it's something simple that I've missed.

Thanks

 

[mstenholm]

Try terminal nvidia-smi. That shows driver version and, fan speed, power uptake and temperature.
In FAHControl go to Slots, Configure, edit (existing GPU), openCl-index 1 and cuda-index -1. That setting works for me but not for the new Core 22. I will update when I figure out which values to put in for the future. I hope that it helps.

 

[thebluebumblebee]

I have installed the Folding at Home client on my Ubuntu 18.04 LSE machine with a Ryzen 3 1200 and GT 1030. Every little helps.

my username is "amioriK." same as it is on WCG.


I have installed the three FAH programs, the client, the viewer and the Control application. I have removed my CPU slot, and tried to add a GPU slot, but it says there is no GPU available. Any help will be hugely appreciated.

Getting F@H to work on Linux takes a bit of work. I have my own short/lazy way of making it work, but I've never written it down. There's a link in this post that's very helpful. https://www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/tpus-f-h-team.13038/post-3982678

I still have not followed one of these guides completely, but I've gotten to the point where I understand what they're trying to do and do it my way.

 

[mstenholm]

Getting F@H to work on Linux takes a bit of work. I have my own short/lazy way of making it work, but I've never written it down. There's a link in this post that's very helpful. https://www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/tpus-f-h-team.13038/post-3982678

I still have not followed one of these guides completely, but I've gotten to the point where I understand what they're trying to do and do it my way.

I wonder why I never read that one. Tons of good info in the link. I better try Opencl-index 1 and Cuda-index 1 so I can run Core 22.

 

[AmioriK]

I've followed the guide and entered all the code into the terminal and it did a lot of things, then I restarted but it is still saying there is no recognised GPU. Perhaps I switch my 1200 PC back to Windows 10, for F@H, at least for now?

 

[thebluebumblebee]

What Nvidia version is installed? Look in Device Manager - graphics (or something like that)

 

[AmioriK]

Driver version is 390.116 according to the nvidia-smi command.

Anyway I'm a bit stressed with getting it to work so I've decided to throw an install of Windows 10 Pro on this machine and use the windows client for F@H and WCG for now.

 

[phill]

Daft question at this point but would a GTX 1030 be able to fold at all or would it work with the basic of basic GPU's such as iGPU's? Might it not be worth the hassle?

 

[NastyHabits]

Daft question at this point but would a GTX 1030 be able to fold at all or would it work with the basic of basic GPU's such as iGPU's? Might it not be worth the hassle?

@phill I don't know the answer, but my guess it would fold, but very slowly.

 

[phill]

I was just wondering if there was a base model of GPU that it would as a minimum requirement for it to work? If there is such a thing? I've honestly no idea

 

[AmioriK]

I was just wondering if there was a base model of GPU that it would as a minimum requirement for it to work? If there is such a thing? I've honestly no idea

It's folding at about 45-50K PPD Which isn't too bad I think considering it is so tiny, but it does take like 24 hours to complete a single WU.

Edit; nearly finished the WU and at near 55K PPD.

Spoiler

 

[phill]

How long has that taken to do that work unit??