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Message 43787 - Posted: 13 Feb 2012, 15:57:42 UTC

dear community,

i am running boinc and especially CPDN in general. i am using this windows 7 pc at work daily. i keep him running also or especially at the weekend.

for a couple of weeks i got the problem that this machine crashes at minimum once a day, with out any sign. it starts that i can�t switch or use any other program. then every opened program crashes. windows is not able to react on "ctrl-alt-del" either.

i am not using any special programs on this machine. AutoCAD, an ERP Program, Safari, Outlook and that's it.

I'm hoping for some good ideas to handle this topic. otherwise i have to quit computing for boinc an CPDN also.

sunny regards from austria
philipp
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Message 43788 - Posted: 13 Feb 2012, 16:21:45 UTC
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There are many reasons why a PC might crash ranging from running out of disk space through failing components (RAM, hard disk) to a virus infection. It's best to follow the PC manufacturer's diagnostic advice.

However, that PC does have a good record of completing CPDN HADAM3P regional models. It does not have a good success rate with the longer HADCM3N models.

If you want to improve the success rate with CPDN models then it would be a good idea to restrict the model types being run to just HADAM3P. To do this, select 'Your account' in the menu on the left-hand side of the browser window and follow the link 'climateprediction.net preferences'.

If you think that running CPDN models might be causing the PC crashes, then you could try restricting the number of models to just one at a time. Follow the 'Computing preferences' link in 'Your account' and change the 'On multiprocessors, use at most' setting to 50% or even 25%: that will change the setting for all your computers. If you want to change the setting for only that PC then there is an equivalent setting in BOINC Manager, accessed via 'Tools | Computing preferences | processor usage' (in the English version).
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Message 43795 - Posted: 14 Feb 2012, 12:51:25 UTC - in response to Message 43788.  

Dear Iain,

I don�t think that it is an "direct" PC problem. At the moment i�ve got 207 GB of 454 GB free. I am behind a firewall an we also use a "trend micro client/server security agent" real time. if it is a pc problem i�d have issues running ACAD (which needs power...) and all the other software. any way i agree that it could be a different problem too, and i�ll try to limit the causes...

i changed know from 100% to 50% as you recommended. if this helped i�ll give a short response within next week.

thanks for good and very fast advice

sunny regards from Austria

Philipp
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