SETI@home News Vol. 116 (19/09/2010)

loudbob · 1 Oct 2010 at 22:16

Marine Iguana said:
Hmm didn't think you need to extend desktop dunno why it's not working

I didn't either (not with latest drivers) but I too can't see any reason for it not to be working.

Berserker · 1 Oct 2010 at 23:20

Well, I've sort of quit SETI for a while. Just fixing the unacceptable position I was in over at climateprediction.net. Ranked 120th - I don't think so!

edgedemon · 1 Oct 2010 at 23:29

Im still uploading, just can't report...

Marine Iguana · 2 Oct 2010 at 02:40

Just leave this here

Edit: Damn rig has died again ffs

Area 51 · 2 Oct 2010 at 06:34

Mornin' Mr Toxic - did that bonus of yours stick?

Meridian · 2 Oct 2010 at 06:56

The servers seem to have been pretty much back to normal (?) since yesterday afternoon. My total for the next news won;t be great because the constant server failures mean I'd been running only CUDA units on all three machines for over two weeks, and one of them ran out of even those a week ago.

M

ToxicTBag · 2 Oct 2010 at 08:04

Area 51 said:
Mornin' Mr Toxic - did that bonus of yours stick?

Morning Mr Area51 it's still showing in my computers as 21 million so i guess will wait n see when the stats update wether it has stuck

Marine Iguana · 2 Oct 2010 at 09:39

Have been unable to revive my rig not good won't even POST now just cycles the power

ToxicTBag · 2 Oct 2010 at 10:41

Oh 'eck Mr M best of luck with it, have you got a spare setup so you can test the parts whot not?

Marine Iguana · 2 Oct 2010 at 10:57

nope no spare rig, just gonna start on it later need some kip and a clear head then i can set about destroying it if i need to

Harlequin · 2 Oct 2010 at 11:09

good morning - is there anyway to put a flag to unload aero when i start seti? im thinkingthats whats taking up the vram , as both my gtx 460 is showing 738 (instead of 768) and the wifes card is 240 instead of 256

ToxicTBag · 2 Oct 2010 at 11:13

Marine Iguana said:
nope no spare rig, just gonna start on it later need some kip and a clear head then i can set about destroying it if i need to

Yup good idea it worked for me, course there might be an rma involved but fingers crossed you get it going real soon Mr M

Harlequin said:
good morning - is there anyway to put a flag to unload aero when i start seti? im thinkingthats whats taking up the vram , as both my gtx 460 is showing 738 (instead of 768) and the wifes card is 240 instead of 256

Someone else might be able to answer your question better than me but could you dissable aero before you start seti somehow?

ToxicTBag · 2 Oct 2010 at 11:23

Nice new feature can search for astropulse etc a lot quicker with the new buttons

That huge astropulse task i had from a few weeks ago is still pending, no suprise there but will be interesting to see what i get for the massive amount of processing time

edgedemon · 2 Oct 2010 at 11:48

Harlequin said:
good morning - is there anyway to put a flag to unload aero when i start seti? im thinkingthats whats taking up the vram , as both my gtx 460 is showing 738 (instead of 768) and the wifes card is 240 instead of 256

You can disable aero from the control panel, but how to disable it when seti starts is another matter.
Try disabling it completely and then try seti and see if it will use both cards..

k3v · 2 Oct 2010 at 12:17

thanks for the help last night guys..

well ive pugged in a spare monitor extend desktop was on by default and boinc will still not use the 280. ive tripple checked everything else and i cant see any problems.
at least the 460 has given me a nice boost.

Area 51 · 2 Oct 2010 at 12:56

Harlequin said:
good morning - is there anyway to put a flag to unload aero when i start seti? im thinkingthats whats taking up the vram , as both my gtx 460 is showing 738 (instead of 768) and the wifes card is 240 instead of 256

Why not just crunch SETI under a separate account; one that's stripped bare?

Harlequin · 2 Oct 2010 at 13:06

it works on my pc , its just cuda on the wifes machine with her 8600GT ; likely i`ll just get her something like an old 9600GT 512mb if i can find one cheap enough

Berserker · 2 Oct 2010 at 22:35

You could configure Windows to disable Aero when you start BOINC Manager.

To do this: Find BOINC Manager on the Start menu, right click and select properties, then compatibility, then check 'disable desktop composition', then OK. Job done.

Marine Iguana · 3 Oct 2010 at 01:56

Well something has died and don't know what using a mobile and ipod for a replacement pc is hard work

Will try psu and gpus in my mates rig if they work then it's down to board, memory or cpu

either way i am very bored lol.

k3v · 3 Oct 2010 at 10:08

that's bad luck pal. I woke this morning to another water leak, water had dripped out from one of the CPU connections that has been fine for about a year, all over my new gpu. luckily everything is still working, I've got some new fittings coming, time to redo the tubing I think.