Howdy all,

I am new to R@H. I have noticed that I seem to be having consistant problems with error's, especially with one particular machine. [FULL-FORCE1] But have noticed errors on both. I am running the stock Boinc and stock R@H application, is there some diagnostics I can run to determine what the issues are? :(

sirslacker

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Look in the Number Crunching area of the main message board and most your answers will be in there.


Joining Ralph@Home will help debugging since that is the test project for Rosetta@home and includes a lot more debugging information if anything goes wrong.

Which computer is FULL-FORCE1, we cannot see the names of the computers.

Also a littel more about how you run boinc (screensaver, no screen saver).
And if you do use the screensaver or you look at the graphics, then your graphics card informaion would help..

Though both the PentiumD and AthlonXP have errored tasks.

Both similar, it could just be the current problems they are trying to fix (again part of what we do at Rosetta@home ;-)

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Thank you and I will look in to Raph@Home. Full-Force1 is my Athlon 2700 with 1 Gig of Ram, ATI Radeon 256Meg Video Board running on win2k sp4, and the machine that receives the most errors. Also consistently claims more credit than awarded. Following advice from team members I ran Memtest-86 on the box for the better part of the day and received no errors. Also verified that CPU, Motherboard, and HDD temps were not an issue.

The Pentium D Dual core box (Force1 I did not realize others did not see the names) has 2 Gig of Ram and NVIDIA Quadro FX540 Video board running on win xp x64 sp1. It had errors as well but not nearly as much or as consistently. Also consistently claims less credit than awarded. Both machine have the screen saver and graphics, and are left at the defaults of 10% CPU time and 10 Frames per second. Both machines are also on Liebert UPS's and the log files have not shown any power issues.

What really concerned me was that if the problems are caused by my machine, I did not want to be sending in repeatedly bad results.

sirslacker

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Thank you and I will look in to Raph@Home. Full-Force1 is my Athlon 2700 with 1 Gig of Ram, ATI Radeon 256Meg Video Board running on win2k sp4, and the machine that receives the most errors. Also consistently claims more credit than awarded. Following advice from team members I ran Memtest-86 on the box for the better part of the day and received no errors. Also verified that CPU, Motherboard, and HDD temps were not an issue.

The Pentium D Dual core box (Force1 I did not realize others did not see the names) has 2 Gig of Ram and NVIDIA Quadro FX540 Video board running on win xp x64 sp1. It had errors as well but not nearly as much or as consistently. Also consistently claims less credit than awarded. Both machine have the screen saver and graphics, and are left at the defaults of 10% CPU time and 10 Frames per second. Both machines are also on Liebert UPS's and the log files have not shown any power issues.

What really concerned me was that if the problems are caused by my machine, I did not want to be sending in repeatedly bad results.

sirslacker

don't worry about the claimed/granted credit since Rosett@home uses a differnt credit system to the boinc one (though it is based around it).
You are awarded credit for work done (slightly more complicated but you'd need to read the number crunching forum for that)
It just means your AMD actually crunches slighty slower then the benchmark guesses at. And the Intel faster than it guesses at. BOINC benchmark is just a general indicator based on how seti performs at it's task (and they don''t even use that benchmark anymore.)
If it was way off (and not a Mac-PPC computer) then there maybe something wrong.

There is testing going on trying to remove some of the recently introduced bugs (see the main message board area or the Ralph forums). There always seems to have been a problem with certain people and ATI cards and the Screensaver.

But since your looking into Ralph we may see you over there :-)

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Thank you FluffyChicken for your help and patience. I did join up with Ralph@home, and even have some work done.

I don't have an explanation for the errors I was receiving, but it would seem that in the process of testing my machines, the problem was resolved. Both machines have been crunching well with out bad results. Hope this continues to hold true.

sirslacker

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