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[|_053|2]

Originally posted by thebove

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

be sure to let us know if it helps or not!

[thebove]

Originally posted by |_053|2
be sure to let us know if it helps or not!

it's odd...i'm going to have to do some more investigating, but on the faster system, the 1.2 t-bird, it increased by a marginal amount, about 20 seconds per %, but on the slower 800Mhz machine, the folding time for a percentage increased dramatically, taking almost twice as long....so i'm not entirely decided yet...

[Hypo_Luxa]

Question for you all....When installing FAH on a new system for the first time, is it okay to download only the beta 4.00 and run it, or must you install the 3.24 (3.25?) first and then the beta? I ask only because sapasion indicates this in his folding how to thread. Also because I am getting tons of file io errors and failure to decompress new workunits and wonder if this might be a reason why. My FAH will download a new WU, then the log will show an error trying to open it. It will then delete the WU and download a new one. Sometimes this will happen several times in immediate succession, then it will get one it "likes" and begin folding from start to finish with no problem. At first I thought instability might the problem, but all three of my rigs are doing it from time to time and thats even lowering them to stock settings. My main system in particular I can loop prime95 and run toast for days with no prob, and that's at OC. These errors always seem to happen right after downloading a new WU and before actual crunching begins. I've never had an error during or at the end of a WU. I am running only the 4.00 beta at startup with the -advmethods and -forceSSE extensions on all three.

[lonewolfroger]

The way I did it was download the 3.24 and the 4.01 beta and then I installed the 3.24 and moved the 4.01 beta into the 3.24 folder in program files, made a sortcut to the desktop of the the 4.01 beta and then put in -advmethods and -forceSSE. I then put a copy of the 4.01 shortcut into the startup folder, after deleting the 3.4 that was put in there.

[schultz]

Originally posted by Hypo_Luxa
Question for you all....When installing FAH on a new system for the first time, is it okay to download only the beta 4.00 and run it, or must you install the 3.24 (3.25?) first and then the beta? I ask only because sapasion indicates this in his folding how to thread. Also because I am getting tons of file io errors and failure to decompress new workunits and wonder if this might be a reason why. My FAH will download a new WU, then the log will show an error trying to open it. It will then delete the WU and download a new one. Sometimes this will happen several times in immediate succession, then it will get one it "likes" and begin folding from start to finish with no problem. At first I thought instability might the problem, but all three of my rigs are doing it from time to time and thats even lowering them to stock settings. My main system in particular I can loop prime95 and run toast for days with no prob, and that's at OC. These errors always seem to happen right after downloading a new WU and before actual crunching begins. I've never had an error during or at the end of a WU. I am running only the 4.00 beta at startup with the -advmethods and -forceSSE extensions on all three.

i think you need the 3.24 installed. i'm not 100% positive, though. that is my best guess as to why you are having problems, but again, i could be wrong.

[lonewolfroger]

Well, I`m happy right now, got my 1600+ back to 1.8ghz with load temps in the high 30`s, 1.75v`s vcore and the rails are looking good also 3.3v=3.3v, +5v=+4.78v and the +12v=+12.35v. So both are doning great right now.

[schultz]

Originally posted by lonewolfroger
Well, I`m happy right now, got my 1600+ back to 1.8ghz with load temps in the high 30`s, 1.75v`s vcore and the rails are looking good also 3.3v=3.3v, +5v=+4.78v and the +12v=+12.35v. So both are doning great right now.

excellent! glad you got that one back up and running. if only i had the resources/cash to get myself more than one computer...

[speedyaxon]

Originally posted by schultz
excellent! glad you got that one back up and running. if only i had the resources/cash to get myself more than one computer...

agreed.

[schultz]

Originally posted by speedyaxon
agreed.

yeah...it's kind of looking like you are going to need it! you've been slipping a bit...what's up with that? (not that i'm complaining at all...)

[speedyaxon]

i've been playing game a lot for one, and nhl 2002(my newest addiction) doesn't like folding either....also, thxgiving just hit me hard, so i dropped down a lot, as well as multi-cpu folders passing me finally....but i'll be here till the 17th.

I'm still up on you schultz by ~130, which is what i usually am, give or take, i think.

[schultz]

Originally posted by speedyaxon
i've been playing game a lot for one, and nhl 2002(my newest addiction) doesn't like folding either....also, thxgiving just hit me hard, so i dropped down a lot, as well as multi-cpu folders passing me finally....but i'll be here till the 17th.

I'm still up on you schultz by ~130, which is what i usually am, give or take, i think.

for a while you were up over me by 200+ points. now we are less than 100 points apart. must be the gaming!

[thebove]

as i started over in the main folding thread, i'm having some issues getting FAHStats up and running for my systems...

here's a link (second post on page 117) - http://www.sharkyforums.com/showthre...pagenumber=117

any ideas?

*edit* - nevermind, it's workin' now

[Hypo_Luxa]

Okay, this is really starting to annoy me... I have clocked back all three of my systems to stock settings and am still getting errors when trying to open new workunits. Case in point:

Folding@home Gromacs Core
[11:49:49] Version 1.53 (October 2, 2003)
[11:49:49]
[11:49:49] Preparing to commence simulation
[11:49:49] - Assembly optimizations manually forced on.
[11:49:49] - Not checking prior termination.
[11:49:50] Couldn't v3Decompress
[11:49:50] - Fatal: Could not decompress work unit data.
[11:49:50] Error: Could not open work file
[11:49:50]
[11:49:50] Folding@home Core Shutdown: FILE_IO_ERROR
[11:49:54] CoreStatus = 75 (117)
[11:49:54] Error opening or reading from a file.
[11:49:54] Deleting current work unit & continuing...
[11:49:58] - Preparing to get new work unit...
[11:49:58] + Attempting to get work packet
[11:49:58] - Connecting to assignment server
[11:49:58] - Successful: assigned to (171.64.122.111).
[11:49:58] + News From Folding@Home: Welcome to Folding@Home
[11:49:58] Loaded queue successfully.
[11:50:01] + Closed connections
[11:50:06]
[11:50:06] + Processing work unit
[11:50:06] Core required: FahCore_78.exe
[11:50:06] Core found.
[11:50:06] Working on Unit 08 [December 10 11:50:06]
[11:50:06] + Working ...


It will do this repeatedly, until for some inexplicable reason, suddenly gets a WU it likes and starts chugging away. As I posted above this is only happening when opening new work units, no problems once they start folding. Has anyone else seen this type of error or have any ideas? BTW I have since reinstalled FAH on one machine with the 3.24 first then Beta and am still getting this.

[schultz]

what tags do you have in the shortcut? (forceSSE, advmethods, etc.)

[serotone9]

Originally posted by Hypo_Luxa
BTW I have since reinstalled FAH on one machine with the 3.24 first then Beta and am still getting this.

try 3.25
http://www.stanford.edu/group/pandeg...ease/beta/325/

first chance you get after any WUs you're working on, delete everything and start from scratch.