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Message 2273 - Posted: 31 Aug 2004, 5:10:40 UTC

Hello.

I don\'t know what I\'m doing wrong?
I have been running cp about one month. First when I had 33% done, something went wrong
and in the next morning I had 2% done???
Then when I finally got 100%, there was some error, and I had to uninstall the whole program
to get rid of these errors, obviously I lost all results. Or should I say CP lost them.

No I try to use BOINC version, it had been running only few minutes, when computer crashed???
After that all little progres I had already were lost. So do I loose results always when
I turn off my computer??? Do this program crash often??

I mean that, I have been running SETI many years with no problems. Why it so hard to make this program work?
Little testing before releasing program would help, cause it seems that many of us are having
similar problems.

Maybe its better to continue SETI, so I don\'t have to worry all the time and fix problems that should have been fixed already.

Also is it possible to keep the old statistics and join BOINC version with same user name?
Or do i loose all results I had from CP version? And how this is done if possible?

Works really well!!!
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Message 2295 - Posted: 31 Aug 2004, 8:48:13 UTC

I'm sorry that you have had problems running the Climate Prediction program.

The most common reasons for CPDN repeatedly failing have been these.

1. PCs below the <a href="http://climateapps2.oucs.ox.ac.uk/cpdnboinc/tech_faq_boinc.php">minimum specification</a> are more likely to crash.

2. Overclocked PCs are often too unstable to run CPDN successfully, even though they do not appear to have problems at other times. Climate modelling is a very demanding and challenging task for computers.

The best place to find advice on these things is on the main forum, in the <a href="http://www.climateprediction.net/board/viewforum.php?f=23">hardware section</a>. Look especially at the announcements written by UK_Nick on hardware checks and hardware maintenance.

If you run some of the tests suggested these should tell you whether there is something wrong with your computer.

You don't have to lose credit for CPDN work done under classic. If you go to the 'Your account' menu, you can enter the name you used for your old account. Then work will be credited to your new one.
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