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Seems like that card has seen better days. Well, that gts250 must still be under warranty.
They have not been out a year yet so that is a given. It is one of three non BFG cards without the lifetime warranty. I am having trouble finding the receipt. Now that could be an issue.
More trouble. One of the remaining few SMP/Dual GPU machines started having 'unexpected shutdowns'. After several days of exchanging hardware, running diagnostics and wondering what is going on, I suspect it is a software problem. Ran the -oneunit switch to finish the SMP client and uninstalled it. Running 4 classic clients and two GPU's to see if they cure the issue.
One of the notfreds usb stick machines quite working altogether. It was problematic for a while but would recover when rebooted. I need to connect it to a monitor to trouble shoot bios issues as it will not boot to the usb device any longer.
On the dim side of the bright side, by setting the SMPCPUS value to 2 instead of 4 (on a quad core) will run two SMP clients from one usb stick(Edit the syslinux.cfg file). A single usb notfreds would produce 4K+ PPD. It will take a few days to see what two clients will manufacturer. 'Dim' would be me for knowing people were doing this and not figuring it out.
Bad news on the hardware front. I have had two GTS250 clients go down.
One is quite obvious. Looks like leaking capacitors....
The second card on a different machine keeps causing bad shutdowns of windows. I am going to run some memory diagnostics on the suspect card as soon as I get the tooth fixed that broke last night.
When it rains, it pours... Wettest October in history here in Memphis.
Oh man...
Must have been pushing them really hard.
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On the dim side of the bright side, by setting the SMPCPUS value to 2 instead of 4 (on a quad core) will run two SMP clients from one usb stick(Edit the syslinux.cfg file). A single usb notfreds would produce 4K+ PPD. It will take a few days to see what two clients will manufacturer
The performance should be about the same. I hope you don't have too much trouble fixing your computer problems.
XFX RMA process went smoothly. Board is on its way to them.
One of the BFG 260's went belly up also. That RMA is established and I am packing the box to ship.
I have a 9800GTX+ folding in the GTX260's place as of this afternoon. I may get another one working in the GTS250's place soon.
The notfreds folding 2 clients on a Quad core is not producing as much as one client using all 4 cores. Still, they almost double a standard SMP clients ppd.
The notfreds folding 2 clients on a Quad core is not producing as much as one client using all 4 cores
Yep, I just seen that. I uninstalled vmware server yesterday and installed vmware player 3 which has support for quad cores and I get a 15% increase in ppd running 1 notfred on a quad instead of 2 dual core instances. My ppds will be a lot lower today, seems like a lot of the gpu units couldn't be sent.
BTW, we are down to 10 folders only. I hope that the people who have quit folding for us are only gone for a short break.
I just have been out of electricity for 6 hours. We are on our 3rd transformer on the street since last March. I sure hope Hydro-Quebec can fix the problem for good.
I just have been out of electricity for 6 hours. We are on our 3rd transformer on the street since last March. I sure hope Hydro-Quebec can fix the problem for good.
Don't let 'em know you're folding, but you gotta stop smokin' those transformers!!!
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Congrats on breaking 1K posts in this thread.
I sure hope your electric company can fix the cause instead of replacing transformers. The power company here just finished trimming the trees along every streets right of way. Fallen limbs in storms are a major cause of power outages in the city.
Well, it seems that I still have issues with my gaming machine. I need to run more diagnostics.
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