What is a \"disk fan\"??

http://www.hardwaresecrets.com/article/13 for the explanation.
http://www.xoxide.com/hardrivcool1.html for some examples.

It\'s not the Power Supply Unit that I would worry about, it\'s the heat produced by the adapter. During frequent and rapid disk accesses by a program such as Power Disk 2008 or Norton Antivirus, heat buildup threatens the hard drive, but there doesn\'t seem to be much that I can do about it.

Never heard of fans? Disk fans, Case fans, Table fans, Floor fans, build the motherboard inside the A/C unit? ;-)

(You don\'t want to know the routine that they put me through for running Firefox when I went to their website -- ooops!)

It\'s quite easy to circumvent that, by downloading the full multilingual redistribution version. I always keep a link to it in this FAQ (last link).

Windows XP with SP2 and SP3.

So which one is it? SP2 or SP3?

I\'ve read that SP3 adds the \'dislike\' to the OS that programs no longer can write actively to the \\program files\\ directory. Like Vista doesn\'t like this.

This could account for your sudden DLL initialization error messaging. Although this error does (in a way) replace the old message, it\'s not the only one to do so. I\'ve tried to diagnose it here, but it\'s still an ongoing investigation. One omission in there is that it also happens when the drive powers down and on laptops running on batteries.

.... Only if you can find [a graphics card] that still has an AGP connector. We hunted one down lately and it\'s mainly PCIe that\'s out there. But the mainboard has an AGP 3.0 slot, so any of the latest ones should work. If your PSU can take it...

At least putting in an AGP card could free up the speed of your memory, depending on what speed you actually have in there. If it\'s DDR400 you have in there, it\'s running at max DDR333 due to you using the integrated video.

Jorden (Ageless) who\'s a moderator on the boinc_dev forum read this thread yesterday and said to the CPDN mods:

He says he updated his chipset drivers, but he doesn\'t say if he also updated his video card drivers. He mentions nothing about his video card, but for that it has \"some powerful graphics display capabilities\", which could mean anything.

A lot of the embedded video chips have problems with OpenGL graphics, as the on-board GPU uses the CPU and main memory. Asking him if he has a separate video card or that he uses on-board video is a pre. As is asking if he ever updated his video card drivers and DirectX version.

The default Windows drivers for a lot of video cards and embedded chips do not support full OpenGL compatibility. Some do partially, some don\'t at all, while the card or chip is capable of doing it.

If you want to test whether your computer can display the graphics of another project whose tasks have them, you could try crunching a small number of Seti tasks. Seti has some short tasks. ....

You have a problematic model here. But your graph looks fine. So far the model has recovered from its loops and progressed. But if it crashes after failing to progress after looping 6 times, just let it go and don\'t restore it. In fact if I were you I\'d stop spending time on making backups of this model.

Stardance said

Since I began running version 5.10.45, there has been only one run of about eight hours in which that error did not occur at all.

... (the DLL initialization error) This is the replacement (BOINC) message for: Result ...... exited with zero status but no \'finished\' file.
I forget at what BOINC version this message changed, but there\'s some notes about the \'original\' here.

In your situation, I would do what you\'re doing - let it run for a bit. If it keeps reverting (judged, as Mo says, by the percentage or by a date if you can get one), then restore a backup. Things should be clear in a day or so. Not long to wait after all the processing that has been done so far ...

In this case your abnormal graphics may be related not to a problem with the model\'s processing, but to you deleting this file from the Windows subdirectory.

Are you sure you deleted a file from Windows itself? Or was it a file in the BOINC folder?

Let the model continue to crunch while we try to work out why your model graphics don\'t display properly. Your model graph certainly looks perfectly normal for the years crunched so far, so if the graphics have been abnormal since crunching day 1, the graphics problem can\'t be related to a model processing problem.

The abnormal graphics have nothing to do with your graphics card and they\'re not the fault of the CPDN graphics program. Abnormal graphics (except in the case of HADSM models after a phase change) are in my experience always an indication that the processing of the model has gone wrong in some way. Usually the abnormal graphics are accompanied by much slower or much faster processing (sec/timestep).

The first trickle was submitted at 06:10 local time, which is 10:10 UTC - and there is a trickle logged at 10:09:35 UTC on the results page. So it looks as if that first trickle was accepted correctly, but the others may be spurious repeats. ....

What is happening in the graphics? Is the model time reverting to the beginning of December?

Keep plugging away at it. As far as I know, the result files are always accepted even if the Web site is complaining that the model is overdue or errored in some other way.

On this project the credits will always be allocated if the trickles are submitted - there\'s no quorum or deadline.

....
Last week my hard drive failed. Early signs are that the drive has suffered a mechanical failure and efforts to retrieve any data from it have, so far, been unsuccessful. ....