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[screwballl]

Using FahMon.... go to the toolbar and click FahMon then "Download New Projects"

[robodude666]

Originally Posted by screwballl

Using FahMon.... go to the toolbar and click FahMon then "Download New Projects"

Hmm, I see. It seems to have loaded 2609 by itself. Odd... 16hr left though, woot.

Hey... I am having this odd problem when I try to start my CMP Client... I get this msg in the command prompt when I run fah.exe:

Folding@Home: This beta expired on July 1, 2007

What does this mean? Why did it expire? :S Did I download a free trial and you need to pay for SMP?

Weird.. I downloaded it again and it works fine now =/ I need to reconfigure it and I lost my 30% progress from before >_< crap!

[screwballl]

yes i got the same message today when i restarted it... i had to download the latest installer and then run the install.bat before mine would run again.... also mine was at 99%.... but luckily it just started up where it left off so it finished it quickly and moved on to the next one... i am not always this lucky, this only happens every 1 out of 5 restarts

[robodude666]

Originally Posted by screwballl

yes i got the same message today when i restarted it... i had to download the latest installer and then run the install.bat before mine would run again.... also mine was at 99%.... but luckily it just started up where it left off so it finished it quickly and moved on to the next one... i am not always this lucky, this only happens every 1 out of 5 restarts

Man you were lucky! Mine restarted from 30% and its at 5% now :( It went down from 700PPD to 480PPD!!!!

[robodude666]

Uhhh oh....

[02:52:58] Folding@Home Gromacs SMP Core
[02:52:58] Version 1.74 (March 10, 2007)
[02:52:58]
[02:52:58] Preparing to commence simulation
[02:52:58] - Ensuring status. Please wait.
[02:53:15] - Looking at optimizations...
[02:53:15] - Working with standard loops on this execution.
[02:53:15] - Previous termination of core was improper.
[02:53:15] - Going to use standard loops.
[02:53:15] - Files status OK
[02:53:15] put
[02:53:15] OK
[02:55:15] @home Core Shutdown: MISSING_WORK_FILES
[02:55:15] Finalizing output
[02:55:15] output
[02:55:18] CoreStatus = 1 (1)
[02:55:18] Client-core communications error: ERROR 0x1
[02:55:18] Deleting current work unit & continuing...
[02:57:38] - Preparing to get new work unit...
[02:57:38] + Attempting to get work packet
[02:57:38] - Connecting to assignment server
[02:57:39] - Successful: assigned to (171.64.65.64).
[02:57:39] + News From Folding@Home: Welcome to Folding@Home
[02:57:39] Loaded queue successfully.
[02:57:39] + Could not connect to Work Server
[02:57:39] - Error: Attempt #1 to get work failed, and no other work to do.
Waiting before retry.

There seems to have been some sort of problem with my work files and I got a new assignment when my work unit was at 90% T_T Why?! Is there any way to restore it?

[screwballl]

that means either an overclock is unstable or your hard drive is having issues so it error'd out that WU and trying to get a new one but the server it gets it from may be down so it may take a few hours to get the next one.

0x1 usually means that something was using the work files when the client tried to write or use them... sometimes AV scan, sometimes spyware or windows itself was archiving the files....

[robodude666]

Hmmm, weird. My OC is 100% stable. It passed memtest, all 3dmarks, like 48 hour stress prime, OCCT and a bunch of other programs. M HDDs are pretty old and gay so I wouldn't be surprised if it got screwd up from that.... Oh well. The new one is at 42% and should be done tomorrow...

[tiredoldman]

Originally Posted by garetjax

You guys may or may not have seen this, but it's kind of cool, and is somewhat relevant to the work that is being done by F@H.

Here's the LINK and the news video of it is HERE.

As a person who has osteosaroma and metastaic tumors also in my brain.
I thank you for joining the fight and The folding@home program.
Even I continue to fold@home, even though it will not stop MY death.
I hope and pray that in some way it can stop many others from the same fate.
I thank from the bottom of my heart !! God bless all the folders !

By the way, I happen to enjoy playing the RE-Mission video game.It's corny compared to many vid games,but,they did a great job putting this game together for those with cancer.

[robodude666]

No problem tiredoldman! I hope you get better :)

I noticed that .6GHz makes a large difference... I set my cpu back to 2GHz (default for X2 3800+) because I was installing windows XP. I forgot to set it back to 2.6GHz :( It was folding at about 500PPD (2610). I set it back to 2.6GHz and its back to the normal 650PPD! Wow! No wonder its taking me 3.27 days so far >_<

[Adak]

Originally Posted by robodude666

Hmmm, weird. My OC is 100% stable. It passed memtest, all 3dmarks, like 48 hour stress prime, OCCT and a bunch of other programs. M HDDs are pretty old and gay so I wouldn't be surprised if it got screwd up from that.... Oh well. The new one is at 42% and should be done tomorrow...

Your O/C is fine, no worries. I got the same error on a VERY stable folder (both before and after that error).

Problem is, the client didn't shut down right (Control-C is always the right way to close it), but it's a beta, and sometimes when you shut it down the right way, it doesn't shut down right.

In my case, I lost my internet connection at 99%, and despite using Control-C to stop it, and restarting it only several minutes later, I got this same exact error.

No, you can't recover at this point, afaik. Normally, there is a utility called Qfix that will assist in cases like this, but I wouldn't EVEN try it on a WinSMP client - just too much untested waters here to risk goofing up a good install.

Your log showed a problem though:

[02:52:58] Folding@Home Gromacs SMP Core
[02:52:58] Version 1.74 (March 10, 2007)
[02:52:58]
[02:52:58] Preparing to commence simulation
[02:52:58] - Ensuring status. Please wait.
[02:53:15] - Looking at optimizations...

[02:53:15] - Working with standard loops on this execution.

[02:53:15] - Previous termination of core was improper.
[02:53:15] - Going to use standard loops.
[02:53:15] - Files status OK
[02:53:15] put
[02:53:15] OK
[02:55:15] @home Core Shutdown: MISSING_WORK_FILES
[02:55:15] Finalizing output
[02:55:15] output
[02:55:18] CoreStatus = 1 (1)
[02:55:18] Client-core communications error: ERROR 0x1
[02:55:18] Deleting current work unit & continuing...

Which I've highlighted in red, above. You are running "standard loops". The client has detected that it was shut down "incorrectly" (whether it is true or not is another matter), and so it's trying to fold using non SSE optimized parts of the program.

And they're << twice >> as slow, as SSE type of loops.

So, stop your client with the Control-C ASAP, and let it really stop all the core threads, (give it at least 3 whole minutes). Then restart it, and your folding speed will be doubled that of using "standard loops".

Best tip you'll ever get for folding, imho!

Fold On!