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I started this thread so people, that are having problems with folding@home can post and maybe get them worked out here. Mod if this is not the approprate place for it, please move it to correct place. Edit to add: Also, if you have already had problems and fixed them please list the problem and the care here.
This was probably created because of me, so here goes my little problems...
First, make sure you download Folding@Home, not SETI. This will save you a lot of time wondering what the hell is going on.
Second, put in Sharky's team number (34149) and run F@H. You're done. It will update the site automatically.
Second, point and laugh at me because I had the biggest newb moment of my life about 2 hours ago, lol:)
No, it was created for everybody, so that if they have a problem. They can look here and see if someone else already had it and posted a fix for it or if they have a new problem no one has had, they can get help solving their problem here. Edit to add: you left out one thing they need to use the same user name they use here for it also.Quote:
Originally posted by XP18004life
This was probably created because of me, so here goes my little problems...
First, make sure you download Folding@Home, not SETI. This will save you a lot of time wondering what the hell is going on.
Second, put in Sharky's team number (34149) and run F@H. You're done. It will update the site automatically.
Second, point and laugh at me because I had the biggest newb moment of my life about 2 hours ago, lol:)
small question: how do you get it NOT to auto-start when windows loads?
Well, I think there are two ways one you can run msconfig if you have XP don`t know about Win2K and uncheck it, or you can take it out of the startup folder.Quote:
Originally posted by Delphi00
small question: how do you get it NOT to auto-start when windows loads?
Exactly. However, any true 24/7 folder will want it in the startup.Quote:
Originally posted by lonewolfroger
Well, I think there are two ways one you can run msconfig if you have XP don`t know about Win2K and uncheck it, or you can take it out of the startup folder.
Anyone else get blacked out text in the taskbar when viewing your Folding progress or when trying to look at the date etc.? It doesn't seem to do any harm, but I was just curious to see if anyone else has this problem.
Yes, I believe quit a few people have that, including me, and like you said I have not had any problems with it either.Quote:
Originally posted by imayoda
Anyone else get blacked out text in the taskbar when viewing your Folding progress or when trying to look at the date etc.? It doesn't seem to do any harm, but I was just curious to see if anyone else has this problem.
I have it in my startup, I guess it would come in handy if my computer for some reason rebooted during the night, while I`m asleep.Quote:
Originally posted by sapasion
Exactly. However, any true 24/7 folder will want it in the startup.
for it to start receiving work...all i have to do is start the prog right? no specific settings to configure, it's all automatic right?
bah cant afford the battery drain on my lappyQuote:
Originally posted by sapasion
Exactly. However, any true 24/7 folder will want it in the startup.
Yup just click the red icon and then if its in startup with the proper flags you should never need to start it again.Quote:
Originally posted by Delphi00
for it to start receiving work...all i have to do is start the prog right? no specific settings to configure, it's all automatic right?
My problem is that I cannot fold with the GUI Client with SMP or a HT enabled processor :D
My problem is that on the systems I use for work, logging on with different credentials kills the existing work unit. During the course of the day, I need to log in with different credentials to complete different tasks. Security requires that these privileges be distributed to different admins, problem is that as positions were cut or left vacant I am required to wear more than one hat and have several different accounts. I run the client off of a secondary partition on one system and out of the root on another. Both systems loose the existing unit if I log off and back on with different credentials. Anyone seen anything on this?
Somewhere on the F@H site I saw something about needing to disable HT’ing. It was probably in the FAC’s but I don’t remember. With F@H using the spare CPU ticks, HT would have a hard time I would think. HT’ing relies on the existence of idle CPU time.Quote:
Originally posted by Colossus
My problem is that I cannot fold with the GUI Client with SMP or a HT enabled processor :D
That is odd, since SETI runs just fine with HT.. It processes two WU's at a time with HT...Quote:
Originally posted by Thermo
Somewhere on the F@H site I saw something about needing to disable HT’ing. It was probably in the FAC’s but I don’t remember. With F@H using the spare CPU ticks, HT would have a hard time I would think. HT’ing relies on the existence of idle CPU time.
My Task Manager shows both CPUs at 50% usually when folding, but when I do something else 1 of the CPU rates goes up.
Is this normal?
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Originally posted by Daywalker
My Task Manager shows both CPUs at 50% usually when folding, but when I do something else 1 of the CPU rates goes up.
Is this normal?
Mine does the same and my rig runs fine. So I guess it's normal. :D
are any of you guys getting stuck with the "3DNow boost" function in windows? it seems to slow down times by quite a lot.
the folding on my linux machine seemed to be going slower than usual, so i just checked and i noticed that my usual 8-9 min per step was up to about 13 minutes. i looked to see if i had drawn a gromacs or a tinker dog -- it was a gromacs, but then i noticed it said "Extra 3DNow Boost" at the beginning instead of SSE. i killed the client, restarted, and this time SSE got enabled for the same work unit with times back to 8-9 min. per step.
i used the -forceasm and -advmethods command line, and what's more, SSE was enabled on the one that finished while i was sleeping, but not the one that was automatically downloaded and started next. so i don't know yet why sometimes one boost gets enabled and sometimes the other, or how to ensure it'll always be SSE and NOT 3DNow. the log on my windows rig says SSE for all of them, but it might be something to check in your log files. if you are doing one and it says 3DNow, kill it and restart the folding program until you get the SSE optimization.
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bad: :eek: :( :mad:
[09:50:21] Writing local files
[09:50:21] Extra 3DNow boost OK.
[09:50:22] Writing local files
[09:50:24] Completed 0 out of 2500000 steps (0%)
[10:03:23] Writing local files
[10:03:25] Completed 25000 out of 2500000 steps (1%)
[10:16:21] Writing local files
[10:16:23] Completed 50000 out of 2500000 steps (2%)
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good: :) :cool: :D
[19:56:33] Writing local files
[19:56:33] Completed 1125000 out of 2500000 steps (45%)
[19:56:33] Extra SSE boost OK.
[20:05:07] Writing local files
[20:05:09] Completed 1150000 out of 2500000 steps (46%)
[20:13:32] Writing local files
[20:13:34] Completed 1175000 out of 2500000 steps (47%)
I had that problem, when I was running the 3.24 client with advmethods and forceasm, instead of the 3.25 beta, but other then that I don`t know what would cause it.
serotone9 try deleting any FaH-Core's which might be in your Folding@Home Folder as well if you still have this problem
d@mn it happened twice in a row, even with deleting the core. i'm going back to the 4.0 beta. it kept crashing the last time i tried it, but it also has a -forceSSE option that i wasn't using. maybe that + a new core will work.
Well, to get up to speed here on what happened to me, I paused my WU and I installed the new Omega 3.9`s, when it restarted and started to work again, it started working at 0/2500, whereas I was at 1650/2500 when I paused it. So I desided to do a fresh format of my hard drive and I did, and went to bed and woke to find out my computer had froze while I was sleeping, so I restared it and lost what work I had done also on another work unit(210/500). Don`t know what caused my computer to freeze last night but I`m going to lower my overclock on it and try again. :(
Yeah drop the OC or raise the vcore
:mad: :mad: :mad:
[16:12:41] Completed 2350000 out of 2500000 steps (94%)
[16:16:57] CoreStatus = 0 (0)
[16:16:57] Client-core communications error: ERROR 0x0
[16:16:57] Deleting current work unit & continuing...
wondered why my stats weren't updating. going to raise my vcore, too. the cold night kicked the heat on, and that put my CPU over the top. argh@!