i can understand it is possible that boinc crashes my computer. every other program can, so why not boinc.

i can however not understand why all the wu's on this system are gone after this crash.

if
case=crash
then
send everything to digital heaven

seems to be a bizar option.

this system gets new wu's, it's crunching. but this still is a waste of resources.

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How do you know that it's BOINC causing the crash?
Isn't it more likely to be the science app rather than BOINC?
Wouldn't it perhaps help if you actually told us what project(s) you were running?
Have you actually considered that you may have a hardware problem which is showing up because of the stress imposed by a "full-on" science app?
What OS are you running and how regularly do crashes occur?

It's not normal for "every other program" to crash your computer. There's something wrong with your hardware, most likely. Throwing a hissy fit whilst giving absolutely zero useful information isn't going to fix it.

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Cheers,
Gary.

If Windows crashes while the science application in BOINC is writing to disc, then yes, you will most probably corrupt your client_state.xml file.

So the enxt time you start up Boinc it will read the corrupted SC.xml file and find half of it information missing. So you lose all WUs it cannot find.

Read this thread for a heated discussion we had on that situation. No outcome yet.

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i can understand it is possible that boinc crashes my computer. every other program can, so why not boinc.

Bas – Please provide us the following information, which will assist us in rendering you some help with your crashing problem.

Your computer’s Operating System (example, (example, Microsoft XP)

The Project you were running when the Crash Occurred (example, SETI@Home)

The Version number of the Project’s software (example 4.18)

Thanks,
Tom

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Theory of Gravitational Waves & LIGO
Paul's BOINC WIKI of Technical Info
JPL-Caltech

Tom, the info you asked:

the system is an intel prescott 3.2 running win xp pro sp1.
at that moment it was crunching lhc@home, sixtrack 4.67
the prescott is seen by boinc as 2 cpu's, i was running 2 lhc wu's. (in another thread i am told this is very well possible.) and this is the first time i had this problem.
boinc version 4.45

i have this system give or take one year without any problems.

i have some more systems running windows or linux and boinc, but i never have seen this problem before.

on this system nothing was running (after a fresh start) but windows, boinc and of course a virusscanner and a firewall, both mcafee.

@gary, you seem to have the only crashfree computer on this planet, count your blessings.

friendly greetings,
bas

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