Don't be an idiot like me...

[artemm]

So I come home today to find BOINC idle. I check the queue and it's full of completed WUs and all of them refuse to upload.

The client keeps giving a message that went something like "internet connection is OK. BOINC server may be down." The internet was indeed fine. Pinging BOINC server worked.

So I start trying everything... including detaching from the project, uninstalling/reinstalling BOINC. Nothing works.

Just as I was about to really start troubleshooting, I look at the system date
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January 1st, 2002. :shakes:

Don't be stupid like me and lose days of crunching work. Check your system time ESPECIALLY if you recently cleared CMOS. :rofl:

[Sadasius]

Doh....That sucks!

[MikeB12]

LOL! I've done that before plenty of times after a bios reset.. not with boinc, but with a ton of other programs that wouldn't work... a couple I even dinked around for a half hour looking for solutions and googling.. before realizing the date was in the past. :D

[123bob]

I think we've all done that at least once....Just try not to do it over and over...:rofl:

Bob

[Angmaar]

Thanks for the tip! I've never done that (yet).

[Sparky]

Been there done that for sure. Drove me nuts until I forget why but I checked the time on the computer, but then saw the date.... :doh:

I'm sure most of us have done it at least once. Some of us don't learn the first time though :rofl:

[Serra]

ntp ftw!

[Martijn]

Been there done that for sure. Drove me nuts until I forget why but I checked the time on the computer, but then saw the date.... :doh:

I'm sure most of us have done it at least once. Some of us don't learn the first time though :rofl:

I must've had that at least dozen times, although I never lost a lot of work with it :stick:

[[XC] Hicks121]

Done it! DOnt feel bad, it happens to us all.:p:

[[XC] serlv]

yep. me too.


i confess. guilty.

just means you're human and not alone.

i like what Bob said, just try to learn from it and not repeat it.

[Asylum1]

Oh...man that sucks.

[WVUEcoCarTech]

LOLOL. Sucks. No matter what i do my clock is always off by 5 hours. I think i caught a cold. No matter what i do or how often i change it, once i reboot its 5 hours off again. No as bad as 7 years though i guess lol

[fallwind]

^^ Sounds like you don't have your time zone set correctly.

[CyberDruid]

I've done that before. Same thing happens when F@H too...

[Sadasius]

Yeah did that automatically a couple times folding. Sometimes I would tinker with something and accidentally hit the 'clear CMOS' button on the back of the mobo and voila. If I did not notice it would boot and all the folding would error out and then would grab new WU's to work on. C'est la vie! :yepp:

[artemm]

Yeah did that automatically a couple times folding. Sometimes I would tinker with something and accidentally hit the 'clear CMOS' button on the back of the mobo and voila. If I did not notice it would boot and all the folding would error out and then would grab new WU's to work on. C'est la vie! :yepp:

WCG gives you a chance, though. It finishes up the queue and patiently waits for you to pull your head out of your a... :rofl:

Awesome-looking rig, btw. Makes me look at my tangle of disorganized cables in disdain :(

[Aerou]

HA ! I never ruined WU's because of bad time :p: , BUT a ruined twice a 6 days' queue of a 3.6GHz Q6600 due to powering the rig down, me leaving home and forgetting about it :shakes:

[Kristall-99]

I think we've all done that at least once....Just try not to do it over and over...:rofl:

Bob

unfortunately. I've done it more than a few times :mad::mad: