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Boinc often starts up before the NVidia drivers load, especially just after you install or upgrade. When this happens Boinc does not see the GPU, and reports Missing GPU against any GPU tasks. You can prevent this by delaying the automatic start-up of Boinc.

This works when Boinc is installed from the repository as a service (daemon).

From a Terminal type,

sudo update-rc.d -f boinc-client remove
sudo update-rc.d boinc-client defaults 99

poppageek@ghostN ~ $ sudo service boinc-client stop
* Stopping BOINC core client: boinc ... waiting .. [ OK ]
poppageek@ghostN ~ $ sudo update-rc.d -f boinc-client remove
Removing any system startup links for /etc/init.d/boinc-client ...
/etc/rc0.d/K20boinc-client
/etc/rc1.d/K20boinc-client
/etc/rc2.d/S20boinc-client
/etc/rc3.d/S20boinc-client
/etc/rc4.d/S20boinc-client
/etc/rc5.d/S20boinc-client
/etc/rc6.d/K20boinc-client
poppageek@ghostN ~ $ sudo update-rc.d boinc-client defaults 99
Adding system startup for /etc/init.d/boinc-client ...
/etc/rc0.d/K99boinc-client -> ../init.d/boinc-client
/etc/rc1.d/K99boinc-client -> ../init.d/boinc-client
/etc/rc6.d/K99boinc-client -> ../init.d/boinc-client
/etc/rc2.d/S99boinc-client -> ../init.d/boinc-client
/etc/rc3.d/S99boinc-client -> ../init.d/boinc-client
/etc/rc4.d/S99boinc-client -> ../init.d/boinc-client
/etc/rc5.d/S99boinc-client -> ../init.d/boinc-client
poppageek@ghostN ~ $ sudo service boinc-client start

Boinc was #20 in line to be started at boot and now is at #99, the last.

If that does not work then try this method.