BOINC problems

br83taylor

br83taylor

br83taylor

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Hi, i hope someone can help me, i'm have an issue with my latest machine set up with BOINC/SETI. THe problem is that every so often its seems to loose its localhost and stop crunching :confused: . So nothing is running when i check taskmanager, and when i look at BOINC manager, instead of it having (localhost) at the top it just has ()? Anyone had problems like this before.

One thought occured to me that it might be cause its installed as a single user, rather than a service. problem is that i couldn't get it to install as a service as it kept wanting a PC username&password and as this computer is a home one, it doesn't have one. any idea how i can get it to install as a service?

thanks in advance
 
When you upgrade to a newer version it should give the choice of single user, all users or service again.

Doesn't exactly answer the question, but best I can do. Sorry.
 
Not sure if this'll work or not - not tried it myself :o

Assuming you only have the one profile(?), temporarily create a password for it, then install BOINC as a service, giving the username and password when prompted to. It should install no problems. Then go into the services list (Control Panel > Performance and Maintenance > Administrative Tools > Services, if you didn't know already), find the BOINC service and, within Properties, click the Log On tab and change the Log on as option to Local system account. Click Ok - if the service is already running, it'll need to be restarted for the changes to take effect.

Then remove the temporary password you made for the profile.

Hopefully that might help :)
 
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