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Alright, not sure if this has been discussed about yet or not. Right now I have Folding@Home 3.24. I have Folding@Home checked off in the msconfig (under the startup tab) and it does start up when the comptuer is started up or rebooted, but the thing is I don't get that red flower in my task tray. I know its running cause under my task manager it shows my cpu usage at 100% and it shows folding running under the processes tab. So did I not configure something correctly? Any suggestions to get this program running and running well would be great.

Thanks.

DO you got the console version? I physically placed the shortcut of the red icon in my startup folder and I got the GUI

I downloaded the first one on the list under the downloads page so I'm guessing thats the GUI version. I have an AMD Duron machine running it right now just incase you needed to know. I have tried placing the folding short cut in my startup folder and it still doesn't show the red flower in the task tray.

Click the icon and bring up your display

When I go and double click the icon after a reboot a window pops up and says you already have folding@home running, closing current one. I mean the program boots up on startups/reboots but I just don't get the red flower in my task tray and I can't bring up the GUI Interface and was wondering how I fix it.

You have the GUI--that's the first in the list of downloads.

Which OS are you running?

In XP the GUI automatically installs a startup file shortcut (which you need to configure or replace), and a system tray icon.

Well, I thought I had found my problem, I guess not. It had run two WU`s in a row with no problems at all then it will for no reason at all do a hard lockup and when I restart, like this morning it showed in the unit info I had completed 51% of the work, but in the file log it only showed having completed 38% of the work and I got a "checksum`s don`t match(work/wudata_03.xtc)error and stated it was starting from original work package. It was doing this overclocked, but I went back to stock and it started doing it again. I have checked the temps, voltages and even run memtest85 and super pi for 32mb`s and no errors at all. Did a dianostics on hard drive it passed. Does anyone know what would cause something like this to happen randomly. BTW, I`m running Win98se on this computer and I don`t know if it matters but I have a 40GB hard drive on it, with just one particion(sp).

Maybe it was a simulation instability, which apparently happens occationally (I've had one out of 45 WUs):

What is simulation instability?

The simulation of molecular motion involves a great deal of computation. Each run consists of a number of time steps (each very small). At each time step, the position of the various atoms is calculated and updated, based on a number of factors. Sometimes, the simulation enters into a state that is not legal (i.e. atoms are too close, bonds are in impossible angles, etc.). At times like this, the Core exits, and information is uploaded to the server. The client will then get another assignment. If your computer is stable, then you haven't done anything wrong. On unstable computers, it is possible that the simulation instability was brought on by a fault of the system rather than something intrinsic to the work unit. Because of this, a work unit may be sent out again at some time if it is returned as having run into instability. In a given project, we expect a small percentage of units to encounter legitimate instability.

Edited: Thanks for the help, looks like I`m going to have to get a new power supply.:(

All right, now I have 4 WU's in my queue. I can still download them, but it won't send. I think it's a firewall/proxy thing - does anybody know how I can take these home to transfer them?

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Originally posted by Daywalker
All right, now I have 4 WU's in my queue. I can still download them, but it won't send. I think it's a firewall/proxy thing - does anybody know how I can take these home to transfer them?

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i wonder if you can copy the entire F@H directory, bring it home to your computer, and then copy it over and start it up...you'd obviously have to have your other client stopped before you started the one you brought home, but i don't think it would mess anything up...worth a shot.

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Originally posted by thebove
i wonder if you can copy the entire F@H directory, bring it home to your computer, and then copy it over and start it up...you'd obviously have to have your other client stopped before you started the one you brought home, but i don't think it would mess anything up...worth a shot.

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I'm thinking about doing that, except in a new folder on my laptop. Then I could stop my laptop from folding, start the copied version, then stop it after it sent the WU's and start the regular folding again. Simple, huh?

do any of you guys know how to disable 3DNow extenstions? i've heard they slow performance over no optimizations, and i just checked the logs of the 2 older systems that i have folding for me part time (800mhz slot A athlon, and 1.2 T-bird, neither are SSE capable), both are using 3DNow instructions....do i just uncheck the "disable highly optimized assembly code" in the configuration settings?

*edit* nm, figured it out....now to see if actually speeds up or slows down....

i have a question not related to the actual f@h software...while EOC is down, i've been spending some time at the statsman page
<http://statsman.ww-testsites.co.uk/f...tml/34149.html>
problem is, every time i try to use the java version, the page reloads with all the graphics replaced by those little red "broken link" x icons.

any ideas?

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Originally posted by thebove
i wonder if you can copy the entire F@H directory, bring it home to your computer, and then copy it over and start it up...you'd obviously have to have your other client stopped before you started the one you brought home, but i don't think it would mess anything up...worth a shot.

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I tried that today with no luck, but it was from an AMD to an Intel. :mad: I just kept getting an error that shutdown F@H without explanation. Please share if anyone can make this work.