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Message 70217 - Posted: 15 Jun 2016, 17:36:07 UTC

Can someone point me in the right direction, say a url or some commands?

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lspci:

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GT218 [GeForce 210] (rev a2)

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15-Jun-2016 08:00:18 [---] No usable GPUs found
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Message 70223 - Posted: 15 Jun 2016, 19:36:58 UTC - in response to Message 70217.  
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Don hi, this a pretty old GPU. Not sure how many projects will support it.

This link should mention about posting some lines from the event log. I presume you have some recent version of the nVidia drivers, if not then you need to get them and also provide the output of nvidia-smi.

See also thread

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Message 70225 - Posted: 15 Jun 2016, 20:08:25 UTC - in response to Message 70223.  

I've read the links you posted and hunted around a bit and it would seem it's not worth the effort to try to get this GPU running tasks. Thanks for saving me a lot of effort trying to figure it out.

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Message 70279 - Posted: 17 Jun 2016, 14:22:45 UTC

I just upgraded from BOINC 7.6.22 to 7.6.33 last week, and yesterday updated my NVidia driver to 368.39 and now Bionic says that their are no usable GPU's found.

I will back grade the client as my next test to 7.6.22 and if that doesn't help I will back grade NVidia.
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Message 70284 - Posted: 18 Jun 2016, 2:15:13 UTC - in response to Message 70279.  

Regressing both BOINC to 7.6.22 and NVidia to 368.22 has enabled the GPU functionality again.
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Message 71001 - Posted: 24 Jul 2016, 18:48:36 UTC - in response to Message 70284.  

Update: I updated Nvidia drivers 2 times and am now in 368.81 and 7.6.22 was doing GPU work fine.

I then updated BOINC to 7.6.33 dev version and still have GPU's working.

I still see a lot of errors on MilkyWay and Seti Beta, but it is consistant with what was going on before.
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Message 71705 - Posted: 19 Aug 2016, 15:20:58 UTC

Always something>>>

Now after updating Win 10 to the Anniversary edition, and rebooting I now see this:
8/19/2016 8:04:18 AM | | CUDA: NVIDIA GPU 0: GeForce GTX 750 Ti (driver version 368.81, CUDA version 8.0, compute capability 5.0, 2048MB, 1689MB available, 1606 GFLOPS peak)
8/19/2016 8:04:18 AM | | App version needs OpenCL but GPU doesn't support it
8/19/2016 8:04:18 AM | Milkyway@Home | Application uses missing NVIDIA GPU
8/19/2016 8:04:18 AM | | App version needs OpenCL but GPU doesn't support it

But I have a currently running GPU task for Seti@home that is active on a GPU process, and other processes that are saying GPU missing with time already used. But for some new tasks I See "Ready to start" and GPU info and some that show GPU missing & ready to start.

7.6.33 and latest Nvidia Firmeware.
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Message 71708 - Posted: 19 Aug 2016, 21:23:22 UTC - in response to Message 71705.  
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7.6.33 and latest Nvidia Firmware.

Firmware is something different from drivers. Firmware is what runs in the hardware of the GPU, drivers is what makes the GPU compatible with the operating system.

Seeing how CUDA works, just OpenCL not it may be a driver problem. It may also be that Windows 10 broke OpenCL. There's plenty in the latest update of Win10 that broke stuff out there.

It would appear that the anniversary update does indeed break OpenCL on Nvidia GPUs, just as it did with the November 2015 update. It deletes certain library files from the Windows\System32 directory. You may want to reinstall - clean install - your drivers to fix that.

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Message 71768 - Posted: 22 Aug 2016, 6:47:15 UTC - in response to Message 71708.  

Yes it did. And Nvidia just relased some new drivers as well. ANd the Nvidia app did not notice this.

8/21/2016 11:40:41 PM | | CUDA: NVIDIA GPU 0: GeForce GTX 750 Ti (driver version 372.54, CUDA version 8.0, compute capability 5.0, 2048MB, 1689MB available, 1606 GFLOPS peak)
8/21/2016 11:40:41 PM | | CUDA: NVIDIA GPU 1: GeForce GTX 550 Ti (driver version 372.54, CUDA version 8.0, compute capability 2.1, 1024MB, 816MB available, 691 GFLOPS peak)
8/21/2016 11:40:41 PM | | OpenCL: NVIDIA GPU 0: GeForce GTX 750 Ti (driver version 372.54, device version OpenCL 1.2 CUDA, 2048MB, 1689MB available, 1606 GFLOPS peak)
8/21/2016 11:40:41 PM | | OpenCL: NVIDIA GPU 1: GeForce GTX 550 Ti (driver version 372.54, device version OpenCL 1.1 CUDA, 1024MB, 816MB available, 691 GFLOPS peak)


I'm fixed.
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