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Message 34284 - Posted: 6 Dec 2009, 2:18:39 UTC

Recently (about 2 December) my two systems running Windows XP (Professional x64) began having all results returned declared invalid. Two systems running Windows Server 2008 and one running Vista (all 64-bit) are having no problems. One of the affected systems is a dual Xeon 5410, the other a dual Xeon 5320. The unaffected systems are two dual Xeon 5520 systems, and one Core i7 (the Vista system).

I updated the drivers on one system (the 5410) from 190.38 to 195.62 -- no change. I then upgraded BOINC on that system from 6.6.36 to 6.10.18 -- still no change. On the other system, I tried resetting Milkyway -- still no luck.

Anybody have any ideas other than upgrading the OS on these systems?
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Message 34286 - Posted: 6 Dec 2009, 2:55:57 UTC - in response to Message 34284.  

See this post...
http://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/forum_thread.php?id=1276&nowrap=true#34272

You are not alone and there seems to be a big bug in the code.
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Message 34302 - Posted: 6 Dec 2009, 8:27:32 UTC - in response to Message 34284.  



Anybody have any ideas other than upgrading the OS on these systems?



sure is not the OS problem

have win xp pro 32 nvidia gtx 295
and win xp 64 bit nvidia gtx 295

have the problems since the restart in November and the long wu's
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Message 34304 - Posted: 6 Dec 2009, 10:20:00 UTC

A bug has appeared with the memory use by the app with the longer wu's. Previously each wu used about ~30mb of video RAM, but the new ones use more than 300MB. If you are running 2 uw's at once then change your settings to only run one and see if that helps.
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Message 34348 - Posted: 7 Dec 2009, 6:40:06 UTC

Having the same problem. Every result I return has been marked as "Completed, marked invalid". Think I'm going to NNW for awhile until this is sorted out.
(Q6600, Windows XP Home, GTX 260 Core 216, all stock settings)
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Message 34358 - Posted: 7 Dec 2009, 14:19:05 UTC

The bug should be fixed right now. To be sure, please reset MW via BOINC manager on your WinXP x86 and x64 machines or detach and reattach to get the new Ver. 0.24 application. That should do the trick. For most of us it did, see this thread over here:

Sudden mass of WU's finishing with Computation Error

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Message 34369 - Posted: 8 Dec 2009, 0:47:55 UTC - in response to Message 34358.  

The bug should be fixed right now. To be sure, please reset MW via BOINC manager on your WinXP x86 and x64 machines or detach and reattach to get the new Ver. 0.24 application. That should do the trick. For most of us it did, see this thread over here:

Sudden mass of WU's finishing with Computation Error


All is well here now.
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