Help! BOINC keeps failing. This has been happening for some months now, and happening so frequently that I have stopped BOINC from running (great shame!). Here is the latest entry from the system event log:

Faulting application name: boinc.exe, version: 7.0.28.0, time stamp: 0x4fb2b417
Faulting module name: vrfcore.dll, version: 4.1.1078.0, time stamp: 0x4b702994
Exception code: 0x80000003
Fault offset: 0x00003c38
Faulting process id: 0x2900
Faulting application start time: 0x01ce24aed089c14d
Faulting application path: G:\BOINC\boinc.exe
Faulting module path: C:\Windows\SYSTEM32\vrfcore.dll
Report Id: c45916a4-90a2-11e2-b0ae-002683131593

This is a desktop computer running Windows 7 Ultimate 32 bit with SP1 and 8GB RAM (I also have Ubuntu 64 bit installed); the CPU is an Intel quad core i5-2500K @ 3.30GHz; graphics card is a GeForce GTX 560 Ti. Computing is allowed whilst the computer is in use, same for the GPU. Uses at most 75% of processors and 100% CPU time. Application switch is every 15 minutes.

BOINC projects are:

ABC@home
rosetta@home
climateprediction.net
Einstein@Home
orbit@home
QMC@HOME
SETI@home
Enigma@Home
GPUGRID

but I can't say which were executing at the moment of failure.

Any suggestions would be very welcome.

We're busy getting a new recommended client out, although it's still in testing. You can try the latest alpha though, hot off the press, boinc_7.0.58_windows_intelx86.exe.

It has some fixes towards crashing of the client.
But I do wonder if it isn't to do with your Windows 32bit running with 8GB of RAM. Weird things happen when you do that. The vrfcore.dll mentioned in your crash log is part of the Windows Application Verifier program. Did you ever download and install this? You may want to uninstall it first.

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No, I assumed vrfcore.dll was just part of the standard BOINC installation.

No, it isn't. BOINC its parts are only written to the BOINC Programs directory, bar boinc.scr which is written to C:\Windows\

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3 of 3 programs (Bionic, Einstein, ABC)keeps telling me I need 32mb more disk space? I have 400+Gb free disk space? What's going on?

Thank you,

William Shoulders

3 of 3 programs (Bionic, Einstein, ABC)keeps telling me I need 32mb more disk space? I have 400+Gb free disk space? What's going on?

Thank you,

William Shoulders

You're got one of the Disk and memory usage settings set too low, and your projects have filled the allowed space,
without log entries from the Event Log, we'd be just guessing which one is causing it, please restart Boinc and post the first 30 lines or so, and post the following three settings from your computing preferences:

Disk: use at most 10 GB

Disk: leave free at least 0.1 GB
Values smaller than 0.001 are ignored

Disk: use at most 50% of total

Claggy