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gpu3 questions
Posted: Mon Apr 09, 2012 6:55 pm
by Humboldt
Got my new GTX 460
Downed gpu3 client.
Changed the target to "C:\Program Files\Folding@home\Folding@home-gpu\
Folding@home.exe" -forcegpu nvidia_fermi
It starts fine but when I go to display it says "core not running now"
Every time I close and re-open the display window it starts over.
The icon goes to "gpu f@h sleeping"
Log shows it downloading the core and throwing an error trying to start it...then it says it's going to sleep for 1 days as there have been 5 consecutive cores executed, none of which completed.
Any help appreciated
Posted: Mon Apr 09, 2012 7:06 pm
by Humboldt
Un-installed, deleted shortcuts and folders, re-installed.
Same problem: core status 63 (99)
Error starting core, back to sleep.
Posted: Mon Apr 09, 2012 7:08 pm
by Mark
http://foldingforum.org/
look here for some help
Posted: Mon Apr 09, 2012 7:18 pm
by Humboldt
Hey Mark
Thanks for the link.
Been looking there for the past 4 hours.
Posted: Mon Apr 09, 2012 8:15 pm
by YARDofSTUF
Are you using the latest non beta nvidia drivers?
Posted: Mon Apr 09, 2012 8:54 pm
by Humboldt
YARDofSTUF wrote:Are you using the latest non beta nvidia drivers?
Tried the latest off their site and 275.27 and 265.58.
Posted: Mon Apr 09, 2012 9:05 pm
by YARDofSTUF
Were you folding with another GPU before this? And if so did you start fresh with a new client/WU with this or try to continue the old WU?
Posted: Mon Apr 09, 2012 9:13 pm
by YARDofSTUF
Also you could try the 280.26 drivers and the v7 client.
Posted: Mon Apr 09, 2012 9:30 pm
by Humboldt
YARDofSTUF wrote:Also you could try the 280.26 drivers and the v7 client.
Have tried 4 different sets of drivers, done all Windows updates, deleted and re-installed gpu3 several times, tried everything here:
http://foldingforum.org/viewtopic.php?f=59&t=15924
Still goes to sleep after downloading cores and failing to start them.
Never folded with a gpu before.
Will look for the v7 client.
Thanks
Posted: Mon Apr 09, 2012 9:38 pm
by YARDofSTUF
The v7 client is the main download for all windows versions on the folding front page. Just select GPU only.
Posted: Mon Apr 09, 2012 9:57 pm
by Humboldt
YARDofSTUF wrote:The v7 client is the main download for all windows versions on the folding front page. Just select GPU only.
Un-installed everything, deleted the f@h directories, installed v7, preferred smp/gpu.
Now what?
No folding icon (used to the graphical version), no folding log in c:\program files\fahclient to see what's going on.
Oh, and FAHcontrol.exe says application has failed to start because application configuration is incorrect.
FAHclient.exe is a command window that says "started FaHCore on PID 2952"
Questions... during installation it asked for preferred clients...this is a dual core AMD w/ a GTX 460 so I chose SMP/gpu, is that correct?
I assume it installed 1 version for the cpu and 1 for the gpu, is that correct?
How tf can I tell if either is running w/out an icon or a log file?
Thanks
*just saw your last post, will try it again w/ gpu only*
christ
Posted: Mon Apr 09, 2012 10:07 pm
by Humboldt
ok, same as what I tried a few minutes ago but installed gpu only.
Seems to be running fine except FAH viewer shows no info:
project 0
core unknown
progress 0%
time left blank
Donor name unknown
Donor team unknown
Hopefully that'll change once it reaches a save point..?
Posted: Mon Apr 09, 2012 10:15 pm
by Humboldt
Well ****, FAHcontrol still won't start.
Downed VC++ redistribute, restarting now to see if it makes any difference.
Posted: Mon Apr 09, 2012 10:27 pm
by YARDofSTUF
At this point I think you need to post on the official forums.
Posted: Mon Apr 09, 2012 11:10 pm
by Humboldt
YARDofSTUF wrote:At this point I think you need to post on the official forums.
I agree. This is ridiculous.
Tried 7 different sets of drivers, rebooted after each.
Looked at the f@h forums and foldingaddict and just about everywhere else.
Tried gpu3, gpu2, v7.
Updated Windows and .Net and SP3 and Visual C++.
Turned off the Windows firewall, spun 3 times and clicked my heels.
Holy sh*t.
Re-installing XP now, again.
If not I'll hit the f@h forums and post there.
Posted: Wed Apr 11, 2012 2:14 am
by Humboldt
This sucks.
Nothing on folding forums has helped, despite good advice.
Benchmarks for the card are fine, tried 3 clients, 10 drivers, .Net 2.0, clear %appdata%, power management settings, re-seated video card and RAM.
Card works fine but is a $150 brick so far.
Posted: Wed Apr 11, 2012 4:16 am
by YARDofSTUF
It does suck.
I hate just throwing random stuff at you to try but thats all I can think of at this point.
http://fahtracker.com/index.html
Theres a good guide for setting it up on there too.
Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2012 1:34 am
by Humboldt
Turned out to be .Net updates.
Didn't show up w/ Windows updates at all, had done manual .Net 2.0 updates which didn't help.
A 3.? update showed up, downed it it and the V7 client installed right off the bat.
Thanks for the suggestions.
Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2012 1:35 am
by Humboldt
And I'm using f@h tracker v2, nice program that compliments the f@h viewer pretty well.