I think WCG hates me, that's all there is to it. Or maybe it's my motherboard. I don't know.
When I first got my dual-proc setup I immediately tried running WCG with a blank XP Pro image and I got failtastic results back, results I would expect with a single processor. I never did find out why. Then I loaded on Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit and again got failtastic results, but was able to troubleshoot those down to a software issue in 7 that required a small tweak and a problem with a cooler not being mounted properly (for convenience I currently have two different non-stock coolers on it, so one chip stays ~47 degrees loaded, the other ~64 degrees loaded... the 64 degree one was mismounted and causing issues).
But about 4 weeks ago now I moved from my apartment into my first house, and that's when things went to again. Before I moved I told the box to stop accepting new WU's, let it finish what it had, then suspended the project and shut down. About 5 days later I started it back up, resumed the project, and... I've been averaging ~20k ppd instead of ~35-40k since. And I have NO IDEA WHY. The system is rock stable, but over the last 3 weeks it's output has halved!
Given it worked before I shut it down and I made no software or hardware changes I am quite confused. I have tried restarting it without any luck. I have been watching temperatures and although there is about a 20 degree difference between sockets (largely due to different coolers on each) the results are well within normal operating parameters with 65 degrees C being the highest one has seen so far.
Does anyone have any ideas? I am this close to selling off my rig at this point because there's no point in paying for electricity and parts for a dual system when I'm getting the same results as a stock single-chip system.
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