Ultimate Guide To Folding@home

Originally posted by Livy@25 February 2004 - 14:48
try updaating your graphics driver,

has it always done this? or just recently?
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Nothing wrong with my driver.
I happened this morning after my modem resets himself.

If i leave the Icon alone it's ok. Right-clicking is allowed, left is not.
As long as it's running it fine by me.
Hoovering over the icon gives all the info i need anyway.


Thanks for your help Ivy. ;)
 
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Yeah, I believe so. I can see it go up to 65% (when the task manager first opens) but FAH only uses 50% of it.

Either way, even if it is only 50% it is still a lot faster then my old one:)

TD
 
Ever since today Soulseek hangs when i use the Folding thing!
Tried it without the extra commands, but it still screws up my Soulseek.
When i close the folding thing.. soulseek come's back on....

Help? I want to use them both!


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Originally posted by 4th gen@16 March 2004 - 17:22
Twice now since I've been using F@H, it's crashed taking hours of CPU time with it. The first time I lost about 71% of a work unit, due to a communications error with the server:

"[06:21:45] Completed 355000 out of 500000 steps (71)
[06:33:02] CoreStatus = 1 (1)
[06:33:02] Client-core communications error: ERROR 0x1
[06:33:02] Deleting current work unit & continuing...
[06:33:22] - Preparing to get new work unit...
[06:33:24] + Attempting to get work packet
[06:33:24] - Connecting to assignment server
[06:33:27] + Could not connect to Assignment Server
[06:33:27] + Could not connect to Assignment Server 2
[06:33:27] + Couldn't get work instructions.
[06:33:27] - Error: Attempt #1 to get work failed, and no other work to do.
Waiting before retry."

Which prompted me to stop using it. I retried it the other day, got one WU completed. My PC crashed again today, and no surprise, F@H lost its WU again:

"[16:33:30] Completed 480000 out of 500000 steps (96)"

:(
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The first bit (up to [06:33:02]) indicates some sort of file system error, not a communication error. Basically it could not write the results to the disk, presumably because it thought the file was corrupt. Rather than send bad results back to the source it deleted them.

The next part (up to [06:33:27]) is an attempt to get another WU. First of all it has to connect to an assignment server. This then routes the request to a Work Unit server, but as the error messages suggest it could not even connect to the assignment server.

Both of these events occuring together suggest you have some inherent instability in your system, which is causing the crash. I'm guessing that you are using FAT32 file system. When your system crashes with FAT32, the last part of the file will be lost (just like with Kazaa). So F@H thinks your results are corrupt and discards them (again, like Kazaa downloads).

Suggestions:
Convert to NTFS if you are using FAT32. It won't cure the crash but it may stop you from losing your work.
Sort out your system instability - I've found from experience that raising Vcore slightly (0.025V is usually enough) can cure this problem, even though the system is theoretically running at the correct settings. Watch your temps though.
 
Originally posted by nigel123@3 April 2004 - 07:29
Lamsey....look out, Linx will soon be overtaking you... :) You will have to add another processor I am afraid :lol:
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He he, I've already got another processor waiting to go into service as soon as I've got my water cooling sorted out (and a little more space). :lol:
 
Those were the days....

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Ive joined and now working under the name TRshady :)

Proud to be able to help ... though I really dont see how this works ...

Have a 1.5ghz comp running ..... 24/7 :D
 
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