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Posts by Manxie

1) Questions and Answers : Getting started : Cannot attach to climateprediction (Message 46397)
Posted 10 Jun 2013 by Manxie
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Hi Les

I've just had a new SSD hard drive fitted and copy & saved my BOINC file over from the old HD but now I do not get automatic start up when the PC is 1st started - can you help/advise on this please?

Thanks

Phil
2) Message boards : climateprediction.net Science : Misconfiguration e-mail (Message 41092)
Posted 19 Nov 2010 by Manxie
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Milo - apologies for contacting you through a different thread but unsure how they work?

Briefly I just wanted to know if it is worth my transferring my home PC to your new regional experiment instead of the CP.net I've had running for a long time now.

http://climateprediction.net/content/regional-model

Trouble is I don't leave the PC running when not using it so the benefits of a new download might not be worht it?

Regards

Phil
3) Message boards : climateprediction.net Science : Should I upgrade to BOINC 6.4.5? (Message 36185)
Posted 20 Feb 2009 by Manxie
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I don\'t seem to make much progress on my model so is it worth changing it?
4) Questions and Answers : Windows : Constant failures of WU\'s (Message 23374)
Posted 24 Jun 2006 by Manxie
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Thank you Pooh, I\'ve seen those programmes mentioned in the forum, I\'ll give them a look.

I don\'t run a screensaver or check the graphics re CP so I\'m getting very disappointed at what seems the constant failures of the WU\'s.

I\'m very close to pulling out of the experiment if this continues.

Kind regards

Phil.
5) Questions and Answers : Windows : Constant failures of WU\'s (Message 23141)
Posted 13 Jun 2006 by Manxie
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AMD Duron 1.30Ghz (overclocked, not done by me), 480MB RAM, Win XP Pro SPII, Version 5.2.13 BOINC.

I have tried to find an answer to my problem in the FAQ\'s but don\'t always understand them.

I just want to stop the WU\'s from failing after the CPU has done 15-20hrs of work on them.

I do not leave the PC on all the time and don\'t like wasting CPU time or electricity on something that doesn\'t seem to be achieving anything.

My total user statistics have now flat lined as nothing has completed for a long time.

On a previous question re failures I was advised to update to the newer version of BOINC which has been done for some time but the success rate since then has plummeted?

I would welcome more advice please and ask again if with my system it is worth carrying on?

Kind regards

Phil.

6) Questions and Answers : Windows : Am I wasting mine & CPDN\'s time? (Message 21747)
Posted 30 Mar 2006 by Manxie
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One of your models failed with: exit code 1073807364

While we\'ve never been able to pin this down to an exact cause, it\'s something to do with graphics, possible a Windows conflict.
Some people have fixed it by updating the driver for their graphics card from the card maker\'s web site.
One person recently reported that he was using Excel at the time of the failure.

In your previous post you said that your computer was overclocked. The climate program is huge, complex, and touchy, on computers that are not 100% stable.
Overclocking is NOT recommended.

And BOINC version 4.43 is a bit old, and should be upgraded to the latest 5.2.13 version.



Thanks Collin - I rarely use the graphics but could try updating my card?
The overclocking wasn\'t my choice the PC arrived that way via a friend?
How do I upgrade to 5.2.13 & is this wise whilst a WU is in progress?
...and nobody answered my question ie is it worth my PC taking part?
I liked the comment about solar arrays, if only :-)
Here on the IoM you don\'t get any choice of where your power comes from either ie renewables and it\'s about the dearest in Europe!
Many thanks to all that replied.
I\'d have to look again, but iirc, I am o/c\'d at 5 or 10% on my P4D...and I simply quit using the graphics. After that, to date, I have experienced no more WU crashes. I do remember you telling me a couple crashed because they were \"bad\" WU\'s.....

7) Questions and Answers : Windows : Am I wasting mine & CPDN\'s time? (Message 21614)
Posted 26 Mar 2006 by Manxie
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....not to mention increasing my CO2 output for what seems in \'my account\' to be a long list of \'errors\'.

Does anybody have any advice what is going wrong with my experiments please?
8) Questions and Answers : Windows : Lost % of \'Progress\' - ? why (Message 21610)
Posted 26 Mar 2006 by Manxie
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In the last day my BOINC version 4.43 has lost 1% off my \'progress\' in the \'work\' tab - any ideas why please as on my PC this represents about 10hrs CPU time?

OS Win XP Pro, AMD Duron \'overclocked\'1.30Ghz, 480MB RAM, hadsm 3 4.13 application.

Thanks.

Phil.
9) Questions and Answers : Windows : Installed BOINC but will not start-up. (Message 12759)
Posted 21 May 2005 by Manxie
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Installed in the last week but icon is not in the 'tray'& when clicked on in 'Start' it appears brifly in tray then disappears?

PC OS is Win XP Pro with 2000Ghz overclocked AMD chip & 480 RAM with 2/3's free space on the hard drive.

Tried uninstalling & repeating without success.

Previously had Classic version of CPDN which stalled after a year, so I removed it.

Any help to get started would be appreciated but please note that I am not a computer techy so keep it simple if possible.

Phil.




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