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Nice detective work GAM, good to have few 600's headin your way :D I've been littered with 153 pointers recently, certainly better than the 44's.
@garnin, also have look over at the fah GPU forum here: http://forum.folding-community.org/viewforum.php?f=54 8 mins isn't too bad tho', my GT does one in about 12mins last time I checked :)
Great to see so much orange & green on the dailies tho' eh sc00p :DQuote:
Originally Posted by sc00p
Yep, all sorted now, processing a 'variety' of different projects ;)... ah. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by jimwah
Port 8080 must have been blocked and stopping access.
:wtf: jimwah, 1.2k+ !!!
Damn! :mad:
I went away for the weekend and Main crashed (recent overclock changes not stable unfortunately). One core was up to 97% for 600pts and 'checksum failed', restarting from first... :(
To top it off, my wife shutdown both Server and Main. Double damn! They've been off for 36hrs :sob:
@Rmc, I don't think I'll be catching you now :shakes:
You'll catch back up at some point... I have some video encoding that needs to get done soon. I won't be buying my new system anytime soon, and to top it off I am moving at the end of November, so I will likely be down for at least 3 days if not more.
Just give it some time and you'll be back in it. ;)
not really much of an achievement..but...look who just made top 20!
http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e299/cagiali/t20.jpg
hehe..sorry I was just happy to see my name on the 1st page... :woot:
oh...and let me be the first one to congralutate everyone on becoming team number 104!! :wtf: guys!
@Hoax, :wtf: User rank in the top 100 too. :clap:
@Rmc, :) Ranked 50 now too :clap: (I've got a pile of DVD backups I've been putting off that have to be done soon too ;))
Well I have my new toy to hook up :D Pretty soon I'll have 5 systems in my dorm + 2 at home folding :D
Maybe I'll get this other system working once I test out this CPU and mobo I picked up.. hmm....
I got a crazy idea though, when I move out of this dorm room for winter break I kind of want to take all my folders with me so my production doesn't slack off. But carrying 5-6 systems could be a pain. Hmm, what if I got a big box and stuffed 5 of the systems in it.... :rolleyes: Just PSUs, mobo/CPU/RAM, and HDs. Just might work....
@Sparky, you've raised an interesting question for me, with your 'winter break' coming soon, are we going to see a lot of the US folding contingent dropping off production? This would hurt our team progress, no doubt. We're due to ranked 100 in the next 3 weeks or so.
No sure i follow you on the 'big box' idea. Do you mean simply for transport? And, btw, what's this new system you're putting together?
Fold4 is now crunching :D 1GHz P3, 256MB RAM. Sure not the fastest around but hey I can't really afford much. Still can crunch tho!
If I do my "big Box" idea you'll just have to wait for pics, it is kind of hard to explain. But it wouldn't just be for transport, that would be their actual case.
I just noticed, these 77x WU's I keep getting right now have preferred deadlines of August 9th or something like that.. wth? :confused:
For example, my latest folding system has this:
Core: Gromacs
Project: 772
Credit: 149 points
Downloaded: October 17, 01:22
Preferred Deadline: August 13, 01:22
:confused:
@Sparky, the 77x's I was getting before (touch wood), had NO deadline.
@Rmc, I don't know whether you're concerned with the lead I have taken over the last day or so, but I wanted to assure that you needn't worry :hehe:
I had several 600 pointers just waiting to finish after the issues I had, which finally came through and bolstered me to the lead. Nothing but 150's at the moment and I don't expect anything more than 460pts in the next 24hrs ;)
@All, FYI, 2125 and 1862 suck, particularly on Server (P4 3.0). PPDs are 67 for 392pts (6 days!) and 83 for 535pts (8 days!!!), respectively. :shakes: P4's suck compared to the D's and C2D's!!! I really empathise with all you guys with these older CPU's. The difference in performance, in the folding arena at least, is astounding :eek:
Well there is no final deadline, just a preferred one. No matter I guess.Quote:
Originally Posted by GAM
Sorry my misunderstanding.
More bad news :( I will have to quit folding on my Opteron setup (in signature) as it has caused some problems and will not shut down. I will end it in Task Manager, and 1 minute later it will return, and I really can't devote that much CPU power to it (100%) where as it's dominating everything I do! Good news is, I will continue to fold on my other desktop and my laptop while it's plugged in. And my 3rd desktop is being fixed ATM and will run F@H 24/7 also when it is reformatted.
-Satan
LordofDoom, if you have the priority when you config it to idle it shouldn't dominate anything. Check your task manager, go to the core process and see what priority it is at. It should be at low, if it isn't that is why it seems to dominate. Honestly with my system I have not experienced any slowdown so I don't see why you would on yours. Heck I really don't notice much when I'm working with my 750MHz folding system. Something isn't set right.
I THINK I FIXED IT!! :D
Fold3 was crashing alot again. Got very annoying having to pull the plug and turn it back on a few times each day. One day it was crashing every hour, sometimes within 15 minutes.
Totally tore it down again, rebuilt it, and put a different HD in it. After some bumps (strange windows setup stall, VGA drivers not wanting to install) I got it back up and running, and guess what! It has been running CRASH FREE for over 60 hours! :woot:
Problem is when I reloaded the WU it had been working on got messed up - the checksum was bad or something. O well.
nice SparkyJJO! good job for not giving up and getting it fixed! :D :thumbsup:Quote:
Originally Posted by SparkyJJO
:party: :cheer: :bounces: :party2: :YIPPIE: :cheer2: :rocker:
cheers
hoax
NNOOOOOOOOOO.......!
it just crashed AGAIN! :(:(:(
Hmm... the only thing different between when it was running fine and it crashed was I used remote desktop and installed everest. Could everest be the problem I wonder... Sounds strange but it is possible I guess. It is the only thing different.
I removed everest, we'll see what happens I guess......
Hmmm... :rolleyes: Funny you should mention all this. 'Server' has been crashing a lot lately until finally I lost a HD yesterday. Pretty pissed about it, but these things happen. Nothing too important but lots of effort on the contents.Quote:
Originally Posted by SparkyJJO
Anyway, 'Main' is also rebooting randomly every day or so recently which I put down to recent OC, but I wasn't too sure about this and have noticed some connection with Everest, particularly on Server, however, Server also had three F@H Services running again which I thought I had rectified already :confused:
I'll be interested to hear your experiences now with Everest out of the equation.
Yeah it is odd if that does end up being the reason. fold1, fold2, fold4, my main system, and I'm pretty sure my parent's PC have everest installed and they have no trouble.
It'll be interesting to see what happens. It would be nice if that was the problem, it would finally be an end to this problem.
Ahh I'm tired I gotta get to bed, my fingers aren't responding to what I want them to type properly, I'm making alot of spelling mistakes and having to hit that backspace key alot :D
F@H shouldn't come back on if you "kill" in Task Manager only the Console... wait for a few seconds and the fah core will disappear also.Quote:
Originally Posted by LordofDoom
Haven't you tried to adjust how much utilization f@h takes from your system. It can be anything from 5% up to 100% which wasn't cool in your case.
Oh well... great that you didn't totally left our team :)
Best way to shut it down is to NOT use task manager because than essentially crashes it. Right click on my computer, go to manage, then services and applications > services and find the FAH entry. Double-click it and there will be start, stop, and pause buttons, and a dropdown box to select whether it is disabled or set to manual or automatic start when the system is turned on. Using this method shuts it down cleanly :)
I would suggest trying to keep it running at, say, 75% CPU usage (set up in the console) and have core priority as idle if you have trouble (don't use task manager to set this). Mine is - well, was until I started GPU - at idle with 100% usage and I saw no slowdowns. Some systems are different though.
Oh.... crap. Heat issues. I felt heat radiating from the front, side, and rear of fold4. Opened it up and it felt like an oven in there. It didn't have enough intake/exhaust fans for 24/7 load, and now the caps around the CPU are bulging :( They weren't that way when I got the system last weekend. They aren't totally bad yet but I probably should replace them soon, but in the meantime I thought OK I'll put a fan over them. Only spare fan I have in the dorm room has a 3-pin plug which is too short to reach to the open fan header.
So I opened fold2 to swap the 3-pin fan with a 4-pin fan in there. Fold2 had a bad hot spot which I put a fan in to cool off, which worked, but apparently I got to the hot spot too late. The PSU sits over top of that spot so I couldn't see that corner earlier. Well when I removed the PSU I saw that one of the caps there is leaking :(
Both systems are perfectly stable still, but I have some work to do to fix them before something bad happens. Figures too, I do have spare caps from a dead board, but they are 1500uF and the ones going bad in fold4 are 1200uF.... argh.
*!EDIT!*
Fold2 has its bad cap replaced and is back online! :woot:
Fold4 has 4 of the bulging caps replaced and is bad online! :woot:
Fold2's bad cap was a 1500uF which I had here in the room. Amazing too, since all the other caps in that location were 2200uF or 1800uF. Fold4 has mostly 1200uF that are bulging but the 4 I replaced were 1500uF so I could replace those. Still has the bulging 1200uF left but I think I may have some back home. In the meantime I got a fan positioned over them to keep them cooled off. Hopefully they'll last until I can replace them.
I think I'm gonna build a case for these systems to hopefully eliminate the cooling problems. Neither of those two systems have the greatest designed cases for heavy cooling needs.
Note to self, check for bulging and/or leaking capacitors on motherboards regularly... ;)
I'm impressed that you noticed and more impressed that you fixed them :D. Way to go Sparky, keep those engines running mate!