[/quote]Well, boinc.exe, boincmgr.exe and boinctray.exe shouldn't use any CPU cycles, but it is weird that your science apps aren't running, unless you set preferences for them to start only when the computer is idle (did you?).

If not, there's something locking your BOINC. What that is, I don't know, I am rapidly running out of ideas. I'll ask the developer for Windows to make a pass-by, maybe that he has any ideas. [quote]

No, the preferences are not set to start only when the computer is idle. However, after checking, other preferences have been changed and I cannot get preferences to change to what they should be. Even trying to clear all the preferences isn't working. When I re-installed 7.0.64(x64) this morning, I did not first uninstall 7.0.28(x64) thinking 7.0.64 would do that anyway (correct?).
Since this morning's re-installation,
changed under Processor Usage:
Computing allowed While processor usage is less than 25 percent (should be 0%)

Other Options:
On multiprocessor systems, use at most 0.00% of the processors. (should be 100%)

Under Disk and Memory Usage:
Use at most 1000.00 Gigabytes disk space (should be 5 GB (only have 250GB HDD))
Use at most 90.00% of total disk space (should be 10%)

Network Usage and Network Applications have no changes.

I cannot make changes to these to what I need nor can I clear preferences.

Rich

Can you post the Boinc startup log for Boinc 7.0.28 and for 7.0.64, you'll find the log in the following directory (assuming you installed it in the default location):

C:\ProgramData\BOINC

the directory is a hidden directory, so you'll need to unhide it or paste the directory straight into explorer, the file you need is stdoutdae.txt (older entries are in stdoutdae.old), the first 30 lines will do.

Claggy,
I can post the startup log for BOINC 7.0.28, but 7.0.64 doesn't even get to line number 1 so there's nothing to post. Sorry.

Rich

01-May-2013 13:47:37 [---] Starting BOINC client version 7.0.28 for windows_x86_64
01-May-2013 13:47:37 [---] log flags: file_xfer, sched_ops, task
01-May-2013 13:47:37 [---] Libraries: libcurl/7.25.0 OpenSSL/1.0.1 zlib/1.2.6
01-May-2013 13:47:37 [---] Data directory: E:\BOINC\ProgramData
01-May-2013 13:47:37 [---] Running under account Rich
01-May-2013 13:47:37 [---] Processor: 12 GenuineIntel Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU X 990 @ 3.47GHz [Family 6 Model 44 Stepping 2]
01-May-2013 13:47:37 [---] Processor: 256.00 KB cache
01-May-2013 13:47:37 [---] Processor features: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss htt tm pni ssse3 cx16 sse4_1 sse4_2 syscall nx lm vmx tm2 popcnt aes pbe
01-May-2013 13:47:37 [---] OS: Microsoft Windows 7: Ultimate x64 Edition, Service Pack 1, (06.01.7601.00)
01-May-2013 13:47:37 [---] Memory: 23.99 GB physical, 47.98 GB virtual
01-May-2013 13:47:37 [---] Disk: 54.96 GB total, 50.72 GB free
01-May-2013 13:47:37 [---] Local time is UTC -5 hours
01-May-2013 13:47:37 [---] NVIDIA GPU 0: GeForce GTX 680 (driver version 314.7, CUDA version 5.0, compute capability 3.0, 4096MB, 8384395MB available, 3332 GFLOPS peak)
01-May-2013 13:47:37 [---] NVIDIA GPU 1: GeForce GTX 680 (driver version 314.7, CUDA version 5.0, compute capability 3.0, 4096MB, 3992MB available, 3332 GFLOPS peak)
01-May-2013 13:47:37 [---] OpenCL: NVIDIA GPU 0: GeForce GTX 680 (driver version 314.07, device version OpenCL 1.1 CUDA, 4096MB, 8384395MB available)
01-May-2013 13:47:37 [---] OpenCL: NVIDIA GPU 1: GeForce GTX 680 (driver version 314.07, device version OpenCL 1.1 CUDA, 4096MB, 3992MB available)
01-May-2013 13:47:37 [---] Config: simulate 12 CPUs
01-May-2013 13:47:37 [---] Config: use all coprocessors
01-May-2013 13:47:37 [SETI@home] URL http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/; Computer ID 6563089; resource share 100
01-May-2013 13:47:37 [SETI@home] General prefs: from SETI@home (last modified 30-Dec-2012 10:15:33)
01-May-2013 13:47:37 [SETI@home] Computer location: home
01-May-2013 13:47:37 [SETI@home] General prefs: no separate prefs for home; using your defaults
01-May-2013 13:47:37 [---] Reading preferences override file
01-May-2013 13:47:37 [---] Preferences:
01-May-2013 13:47:37 [---] max memory usage when active: 12283.56MB
01-May-2013 13:47:37 [---] max memory usage when idle: 22110.40MB
01-May-2013 13:47:37 [---] max disk usage: 5.00GB
01-May-2013 13:47:37 [---] (to change preferences, visit the web site of an attached project, or select Preferences in the Manager)
01-May-2013 13:47:37 [---] Not using a proxy
Initialization completed

I can post the startup log for BOINC 7.0.28, but 7.0.64 doesn't even get to line number 1 so there's nothing to post. Sorry.

That seems to suggest that the 7.0.64 Boinc client is hanging on startup.

01-May-2013 13:47:37 [---] Config: simulate 12 CPUs
01-May-2013 13:47:37 [---] Config: use all coprocessors

Can you try removing your cc_config.xml and see if there is any difference, Boinc 7.0.64 has a fix for the Incorrect Nvidia GPU Memory Bug, because both of your GPUs are the same, the <use_all_gpus> entry shouldn't be needed any longer,
and since your CPU has 12 cores there should be no need to simulate 12 cores eithier.

Claggy

Read up on the use of the boinccmd tool and checkup in the gui_auth_rpc.cfg file what the password is. Don't ask me why, but on Ubuntu, anything but a blank, zero length password and I find it impossible to have BOINC Manager connect to the core client [boinc.exe]. With the tool you can do many things, attach projects, list status etc. Manual http://boinc.berkeley.edu/wiki/Boinccmd

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Coelum Non Animum Mutant, Qui Trans Mare Currunt

No, the preferences are not set to start only when the computer is idle. However, after checking, other preferences have been changed and I cannot get preferences to change to what they should be. Even trying to clear all the preferences isn't working. When I re-installed 7.0.64(x64) this morning, I did not first uninstall 7.0.28(x64) thinking 7.0.64 would do that anyway (correct?).

Yes, installing a new client over an older uninstalls the previous BOINC before the installer installs the new one.
But not being able to make changes to the preferences, I assume you're trying to do so through BOINC Manager's advanced view preferences?
If you cannot make changes through that, you either have a permissions problem (on the data directory), or both the client and the manager didn't start up correctly.

First follow Claggy's advice, please.

P.S:

On multiprocessor systems, use at most 0.00% of the processors. (should be 100%)

The lowest possible value one can set here is 0.01% which will use 1 CPU, but never zero as that's counter-intuitive to the usage of BOINC. Setting it to zero will invoke the minimum amount of CPU cores set through "On multiprocessors, use at most N processors" to be used.

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Can you try removing your cc_config.xml and see if there is any difference, Boinc 7.0.64 has a fix for the Incorrect Nvidia GPU Memory Bug, because both of your GPUs are the same, the <use_all_gpus> entry shouldn't be needed any longer,
and since your CPU has 12 cores there should be no need to simulate 12 cores eithier.

Removed cc_config.xml, re-booted and restarted BOINC Manager 7.0.64. No joy.

Rich

Can you double, triple, quadriple check for me that the BOINC program files have installed to the correct directory? That they went into C:\Program Files\BOINC\

What is that one line that the 7.0.64 version prints in stdoutdae.txt?

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But not being able to make changes to the preferences, I assume you're trying to do so through BOINC Manager's advanced view preferences?
If you cannot make changes through that, you either have a permissions problem (on the data directory), or both the client and the manager didn't start up correctly.

Yes, I was trying to make changes through BOINC Manager's advanced view preferences. I'll check the permissions on the data directory.

Rich

Can you double, triple, quadriple check for me that the BOINC program files have installed to the correct directory? That they went into C:\Program Files\BOINC\

What is that one line that the 7.0.64 version prints in stdoutdae.txt?

I've been installing the program directory into E:\BOINC\ and the date directory into E:\BOINC\ProgramData\ for many version updates now but I'll re-install into the C:\Program Files\BOINC\ directory to give it a try.

Update: I uninstalled 7.0.64(x64), rebooted and re-installed 7.0.64(x64) into C:\Program Files\BOINC\ . "Connecting to localhost" is still in the lower right of the BOINC Manager window. The Preferences are still locked tight with the same settings described earlier, but, at least this time, there is entries in the stdoutdae file:

02-May-2013 17:19:56 [---] No config file found - using defaults
02-May-2013 17:19:56 [---] Starting BOINC client version 7.0.64 for windows_x86_64
02-May-2013 17:19:56 [---] log flags: file_xfer, sched_ops, task
02-May-2013 17:19:56 [---] Libraries: libcurl/7.25.0 OpenSSL/1.0.1 zlib/1.2.6
02-May-2013 17:19:56 [---] Data directory: C:\Program Files\BOINC\ProgramData
02-May-2013 17:19:56 [---] Running under account Rich
02-May-2013 17:19:56 [---] Processor: 12 GenuineIntel Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU X 990 @ 3.47GHz [Family 6 Model 44 Stepping 2]
02-May-2013 17:19:56 [---] Processor features: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss htt tm pni ssse3 cx16 sse4_1 sse4_2 popcnt aes syscall nx lm vmx tm2 pbe
02-May-2013 17:19:56 [---] OS: Microsoft Windows 7: Ultimate x64 Edition, Service Pack 1, (06.01.7601.00)
02-May-2013 17:19:56 [---] Memory: 23.99 GB physical, 47.98 GB virtual
02-May-2013 17:19:56 [---] Disk: 82.87 GB total, 11.01 GB free
02-May-2013 17:19:56 [---] Local time is UTC -5 hours
02-May-2013 17:19:56 [---] CUDA: NVIDIA GPU 0: GeForce GTX 680 (driver version 314.07, CUDA version 5.0, compute capability 3.0, 4096MB, 3979MB available, 3332 GFLOPS peak)
02-May-2013 17:19:56 [---] CUDA: NVIDIA GPU 1: GeForce GTX 680 (driver version 314.07, CUDA version 5.0, compute capability 3.0, 4096MB, 3992MB available, 3332 GFLOPS peak)
02-May-2013 17:19:56 [---] OpenCL: NVIDIA GPU 0: GeForce GTX 680 (driver version 314.07, device version OpenCL 1.1 CUDA, 4096MB, 3979MB available, 3332 GFLOPS peak)
02-May-2013 17:19:56 [---] OpenCL: NVIDIA GPU 1: GeForce GTX 680 (driver version 314.07, device version OpenCL 1.1 CUDA, 4096MB, 3992MB available, 3332 GFLOPS peak)
02-May-2013 17:19:56 [---] No general preferences found - using defaults
02-May-2013 17:19:56 [---] Preferences:
02-May-2013 17:19:56 [---] max memory usage when active: 12283.56MB
02-May-2013 17:19:56 [---] max memory usage when idle: 22110.40MB
02-May-2013 17:19:56 [---] max disk usage: 10.91GB
02-May-2013 17:19:56 [---] don't use GPU while active
02-May-2013 17:19:56 [---] suspend work if non-BOINC CPU load exceeds 25 %
02-May-2013 17:19:56 [---] (to change preferences, visit a project web site or select Preferences in the Manager)
02-May-2013 17:19:56 [---] Not using a proxy
02-May-2013 17:19:56 [---] This computer is not attached to any projects
02-May-2013 17:19:56 [---] Visit http://boinc.berkeley.edu for instructions
Initialization completed
02-May-2013 17:19:56 [---] Suspending GPU computation - computer is in use


The weird thing is that I can still re-install 7.0.28(x64) into the original directory and it works without a problem.

Rich

02-May-2013 17:19:56 [---] Data directory: C:\Program Files\BOINC\ProgramData

No, don't use that directory for the Data directory. Put that back in E:\BOINC\Programdata\ or in the default C:\Programdata\BOINC, but do not use the C:\Program Files\ directory as Windows does not allow that programs write to any sub-directory of this directory. BOINC writes a LOT to the data directory.

So uninstall and reinstall (again), but this time change the path of the data directory only.

Besides, by moving your data directory path as well, you've now alienated the projects and tasks you had. So just change the path to the data dir back to the original one.

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[quote]So uninstall and reinstall (again), but this time change the path of the data directory only. [\quote]

Done.
Still connecting to localhost. Still cannot change preferences.
Is there any reason for the preference changes being made by 7.0.64 as I described earlier? The changes made in BOINC Manager are different from those set on the SETI@home website where they were identical prior to installing 7.0.64. Re-installing 7.0.28 puts the preferences right back to matching those on the website.

Here is from the stdoutdae file:

02-May-2013 17:59:05 [---] No config file found - using defaults
02-May-2013 17:59:05 [---] Starting BOINC client version 7.0.64 for windows_x86_64
02-May-2013 17:59:05 [---] log flags: file_xfer, sched_ops, task
02-May-2013 17:59:05 [---] Libraries: libcurl/7.25.0 OpenSSL/1.0.1 zlib/1.2.6
02-May-2013 17:59:05 [---] Data directory: E:\BOINC\ProgramData
02-May-2013 17:59:05 [---] Running under account Rich
02-May-2013 17:59:05 [---] Processor: 12 GenuineIntel Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU X 990 @ 3.47GHz [Family 6 Model 44 Stepping 2]
02-May-2013 17:59:05 [---] Processor features: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss htt tm pni ssse3 cx16 sse4_1 sse4_2 popcnt aes syscall nx lm vmx tm2 pbe
02-May-2013 17:59:05 [---] OS: Microsoft Windows 7: Ultimate x64 Edition, Service Pack 1, (06.01.7601.00)
02-May-2013 17:59:05 [---] Memory: 23.99 GB physical, 47.98 GB virtual
02-May-2013 17:59:05 [---] Disk: 54.96 GB total, 50.79 GB free
02-May-2013 17:59:05 [---] Local time is UTC -5 hours
02-May-2013 17:59:05 [---] CUDA: NVIDIA GPU 0: GeForce GTX 680 (driver version 314.07, CUDA version 5.0, compute capability 3.0, 4096MB, 3980MB available, 3332 GFLOPS peak)
02-May-2013 17:59:05 [---] CUDA: NVIDIA GPU 1: GeForce GTX 680 (driver version 314.07, CUDA version 5.0, compute capability 3.0, 4096MB, 3992MB available, 3332 GFLOPS peak)
02-May-2013 17:59:05 [---] OpenCL: NVIDIA GPU 0: GeForce GTX 680 (driver version 314.07, device version OpenCL 1.1 CUDA, 4096MB, 3980MB available, 3332 GFLOPS peak)
02-May-2013 17:59:05 [---] OpenCL: NVIDIA GPU 1: GeForce GTX 680 (driver version 314.07, device version OpenCL 1.1 CUDA, 4096MB, 3992MB available, 3332 GFLOPS peak)
02-May-2013 17:59:05 [SETI@home] URL http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/; Computer ID 6563089; resource share 100
02-May-2013 17:59:05 [SETI@home] General prefs: from SETI@home (last modified 30-Dec-2012 10:15:33)
02-May-2013 17:59:05 [SETI@home] Computer location: home
02-May-2013 17:59:05 [SETI@home] General prefs: no separate prefs for home; using your defaults
02-May-2013 17:59:05 [---] Reading preferences override file
02-May-2013 17:59:05 [---] Preferences:
02-May-2013 17:59:05 [---] max memory usage when active: 12283.56MB
02-May-2013 17:59:05 [---] max memory usage when idle: 22110.40MB
02-May-2013 17:59:05 [---] max disk usage: 5.00GB
02-May-2013 17:59:05 [---] (to change preferences, visit a project web site or select Preferences in the Manager)
02-May-2013 17:59:05 [---] Not using a proxy
Initialization completed
02-May-2013 17:59:05 [---] Suspending network activity - user request

I cannot even restore network activity.

Rich

Can you post the contents of the global_prefs.xml file and of the global_prefs.override.xml file found in the BOINC Data directory?
Also check the properties of these files, more precisely their attributes. The global_prefs_override.xml file isn't read-only, is it?

You can open these files with Notepad, no need for a fancy XML editor.

And no, I can't think of any reason why those changes are made. I was checking the source code earlier to see what the default values are, as a 1000 GB disk size value seems a bit OTT to me. (Rom, you reading along? ;-))

Oh, late edit, you sure it says "connecting to localhost", not "connected to localhost"?

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Can you post the contents of the global_prefs.xml file and of the global_prefs.override.xml file found in the BOINC Data directory?
Also check the properties of these files, more precisely their attributes. The global_prefs_override.xml file isn't read-only, is it?

You can open these files with Notepad, no need for a fancy XML editor.

And no, I can't think of any reason why those changes are made. I was checking the source code earlier to see what the default values are, as a 1000 GB disk size value seems a bit OTT to me. (Rom, you reading along? ;-))

Oh, late edit, you sure it says "connecting to localhost", not "connected to localhost"?

Here is the directory file list:

Directory of C:\Program Files\BOINC\ProgramData

05/02/2013 09:30 PM <DIR> .
05/02/2013 09:30 PM <DIR> ..
03/29/2013 12:03 PM 47,974 all_projects_list.xml
05/02/2013 05:30 PM 0 all_projects_list_temp.xml
05/02/2013 05:30 PM 4,924 client_state.xml
05/02/2013 05:30 PM 4,924 client_state_prev.xml
05/02/2013 05:19 PM 32 gui_rpc_auth.cfg
05/02/2013 05:19 PM <DIR> notices
03/25/2013 11:43 AM 101 placeholder.txt
05/02/2013 05:19 PM <DIR> projects
05/02/2013 05:19 PM <DIR> slots
05/02/2013 05:19 PM 0 stderrdae.txt
05/02/2013 05:19 PM 0 stderrgui.txt
05/02/2013 05:19 PM 0 stderrtray.txt
05/02/2013 05:30 PM 5,276 stdoutdae.txt
05/02/2013 05:40 PM 393,289 stdoutgui.txt
05/02/2013 05:19 PM 0 stdouttray.txt
05/02/2013 05:30 PM 122 time_stats_log
13 File(s) 456,642 bytes
5 Dir(s) 11,513,024,512 bytes free

As you can see, the global_prefs.xml file and the global_prefs.override.xml file were not created during the last install of 7.0.64(x64). Strange. The bottom right of the BOINC Manager windows definitely says "connecting to localhost".

This is what the stdoutdae file contains:

02-May-2013 17:19:56 [---] No config file found - using defaults
02-May-2013 17:19:56 [---] Starting BOINC client version 7.0.64 for windows_x86_64
02-May-2013 17:19:56 [---] log flags: file_xfer, sched_ops, task
02-May-2013 17:19:56 [---] Libraries: libcurl/7.25.0 OpenSSL/1.0.1 zlib/1.2.6
02-May-2013 17:19:56 [---] Data directory: C:\Program Files\BOINC\ProgramData
02-May-2013 17:19:56 [---] Running under account Rich
02-May-2013 17:19:56 [---] Processor: 12 GenuineIntel Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU X 990 @ 3.47GHz [Family 6 Model 44 Stepping 2]
02-May-2013 17:19:56 [---] Processor features: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss htt tm pni ssse3 cx16 sse4_1 sse4_2 popcnt aes syscall nx lm vmx tm2 pbe
02-May-2013 17:19:56 [---] OS: Microsoft Windows 7: Ultimate x64 Edition, Service Pack 1, (06.01.7601.00)
02-May-2013 17:19:56 [---] Memory: 23.99 GB physical, 47.98 GB virtual
02-May-2013 17:19:56 [---] Disk: 82.87 GB total, 11.01 GB free
02-May-2013 17:19:56 [---] Local time is UTC -5 hours
02-May-2013 17:19:56 [---] CUDA: NVIDIA GPU 0: GeForce GTX 680 (driver version 314.07, CUDA version 5.0, compute capability 3.0, 4096MB, 3979MB available, 3332 GFLOPS peak)
02-May-2013 17:19:56 [---] CUDA: NVIDIA GPU 1: GeForce GTX 680 (driver version 314.07, CUDA version 5.0, compute capability 3.0, 4096MB, 3992MB available, 3332 GFLOPS peak)
02-May-2013 17:19:56 [---] OpenCL: NVIDIA GPU 0: GeForce GTX 680 (driver version 314.07, device version OpenCL 1.1 CUDA, 4096MB, 3979MB available, 3332 GFLOPS peak)
02-May-2013 17:19:56 [---] OpenCL: NVIDIA GPU 1: GeForce GTX 680 (driver version 314.07, device version OpenCL 1.1 CUDA, 4096MB, 3992MB available, 3332 GFLOPS peak)
02-May-2013 17:19:56 [---] No general preferences found - using defaults
02-May-2013 17:19:56 [---] Preferences:
02-May-2013 17:19:56 [---] max memory usage when active: 12283.56MB
02-May-2013 17:19:56 [---] max memory usage when idle: 22110.40MB
02-May-2013 17:19:56 [---] max disk usage: 10.91GB
02-May-2013 17:19:56 [---] don't use GPU while active
02-May-2013 17:19:56 [---] suspend work if non-BOINC CPU load exceeds 25 %
02-May-2013 17:19:56 [---] (to change preferences, visit a project web site or select Preferences in the Manager)
02-May-2013 17:19:56 [---] Not using a proxy
02-May-2013 17:19:56 [---] This computer is not attached to any projects
02-May-2013 17:19:56 [---] Visit http://boinc.berkeley.edu for instructions
Initialization completed
02-May-2013 17:19:56 [---] Suspending GPU computation - computer is in use

Rich

02-May-2013 17:19:56 [---] No config file found - using defaults
02-May-2013 17:19:56 [---] Starting BOINC client version 7.0.64 for windows_x86_64
02-May-2013 17:19:56 [---] log flags: file_xfer, sched_ops, task
02-May-2013 17:19:56 [---] Libraries: libcurl/7.25.0 OpenSSL/1.0.1 zlib/1.2.6
02-May-2013 17:19:56 [---] Data directory: C:\Program Files\BOINC\ProgramData
02-May-2013 17:19:56 [---] Running under account Rich

As you're already been told, you can't have the Data directory in the Program files directory, the default location is C:\ProgramData\BOINC

Claggy

Here is the directory file list:

Directory of C:\Program Files\BOINC\ProgramData

You have just reinstalled BOINC so its data directory resides back at E:\BOINC\ProgramData, remember? So you'll have to get these files from there, as it's this directory you have the problems with.

You can delete the C:\Program Files\BOINC\ProgramData directory tree, as you don't use it anymore.

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You have just reinstalled BOINC so its data directory resides back at E:\BOINC\ProgramData, remember? So you'll have to get these files from there, as it's this directory you have the problems with.

You can delete the C:\Program Files\BOINC\ProgramData directory tree, as you don't use it anymore.

Sorry about that.

Can you post the contents of the global_prefs.xml file and of the global_prefs.override.xml file found in the BOINC Data directory?
Also check the properties of these files, more precisely their attributes. The global_prefs_override.xml file isn't read-only, is it?

No, global_prefs.xml and global_prefs_override.xml are not read-only.


global_prefs.xml file:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
-<global_preferences>
<source_project>http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/</source_project>
<source_scheduler>http://setiboinc.ssl.berkeley.edu/sah_cgi/cgi</source_scheduler>
<mod_time>1356884133</mod_time>
<run_on_batteries>1</run_on_batteries>
<run_if_user_active>1</run_if_user_active>
<run_gpu_if_user_active>1</run_gpu_if_user_active>
<idle_time_to_run>3</idle_time_to_run>
<suspend_if_no_recent_input>0</suspend_if_no_recent_input>
<suspend_cpu_usage>0</suspend_cpu_usage>
<leave_apps_in_memory>0</leave_apps_in_memory>
<cpu_scheduling_period_minutes>60</cpu_scheduling_period_minutes>
<max_cpus>15</max_cpus>
<max_ncpus_pct>100</max_ncpus_pct>
<cpu_usage_limit>100</cpu_usage_limit>
<disk_max_used_gb>5</disk_max_used_gb>
<disk_min_free_gb>0.1</disk_min_free_gb>
<disk_max_used_pct>20</disk_max_used_pct>
<disk_interval>60</disk_interval>
<vm_max_used_pct>75</vm_max_used_pct>
<ram_max_used_busy_pct>50</ram_max_used_busy_pct>
<ram_max_used_idle_pct>90</ram_max_used_idle_pct>
<work_buf_min_days>3</work_buf_min_days>
<work_buf_additional_days>0.1</work_buf_additional_days>
<confirm_before_connecting>1</confirm_before_connecting>
<hangup_if_dialed>1</hangup_if_dialed>
<max_bytes_sec_down>0</max_bytes_sec_down>
<max_bytes_sec_up>0</max_bytes_sec_up>
<daily_xfer_limit_mb>0</daily_xfer_limit_mb>
<daily_xfer_period_days>0</daily_xfer_period_days>
<dont_verify_images>0</dont_verify_images>
</global_preferences>


global_prefs_override.xml:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
-<global_preferences>
<run_on_batteries>1</run_on_batteries>
<run_if_user_active>1</run_if_user_active>
<run_gpu_if_user_active>1</run_gpu_if_user_active>
<suspend_cpu_usage>0.000000</suspend_cpu_usage>
<start_hour>0.000000</start_hour>
<end_hour>0.000000</end_hour>
<net_start_hour>0.000000</net_start_hour>
<net_end_hour>0.000000</net_end_hour>
<leave_apps_in_memory>0</leave_apps_in_memory>
<confirm_before_connecting>0</confirm_before_connecting>
<hangup_if_dialed>0</hangup_if_dialed>
<dont_verify_images>0</dont_verify_images>
<work_buf_min_days>0.050000</work_buf_min_days>
<work_buf_additional_days>0.050000</work_buf_additional_days>
<max_ncpus_pct>100.000000</max_ncpus_pct>
<cpu_scheduling_period_minutes>60.000000</cpu_scheduling_period_minutes>
<disk_interval>60.000000</disk_interval>
<disk_max_used_gb>5.000000</disk_max_used_gb>
<disk_max_used_pct>20.000000</disk_max_used_pct>
<disk_min_free_gb>0.100000</disk_min_free_gb>
<vm_max_used_pct>75.000000</vm_max_used_pct>
<ram_max_used_busy_pct>50.000000</ram_max_used_busy_pct>
<ram_max_used_idle_pct>90.000000</ram_max_used_idle_pct>
<max_bytes_sec_up>0.000000</max_bytes_sec_up>
<max_bytes_sec_down>0.000000</max_bytes_sec_down>
<cpu_usage_limit>100.000000</cpu_usage_limit>
<daily_xfer_limit_mb>0.000000</daily_xfer_limit_mb>
<daily_xfer_period_days>0</daily_xfer_period_days>
</global_preferences>

Well, I don't know when exactly it happened, but 7.0.64(x64) actually and finally connected to localhost! I had shut the system down for a time this morning, booted, started BOINC Manager again at 17:05 UTC and left it alone still seeing connecting to localhost after monitoring it for 30 minutes. Somewhere in the past 10.5 hours, it finally connected to localhost. The strange preference settings I had reported are now as they should be. I can now even change Preference settings and have the changes I make remain what I change them to. I've copied/pasted the entries from the event log here as well.

Since this has been a real perplexing problem, should I just leave it as is in case someone wants/needs to see what is in any file(s) or start downloading/crunching SETI WUs?

From the Event Log:

5/3/2013 12:06:35 PM | | No config file found - using defaults
5/3/2013 12:06:35 PM | | Starting BOINC client version 7.0.64 for windows_x86_64
5/3/2013 12:06:35 PM | | log flags: file_xfer, sched_ops, task
5/3/2013 12:06:35 PM | | Libraries: libcurl/7.25.0 OpenSSL/1.0.1 zlib/1.2.6
5/3/2013 12:06:35 PM | | Data directory: E:\BOINC\ProgramData
5/3/2013 12:06:35 PM | | Running under account Rich
5/3/2013 12:06:35 PM | | Processor: 12 GenuineIntel Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU X 990 @ 3.47GHz [Family 6 Model 44 Stepping 2]
5/3/2013 12:06:35 PM | | Processor features: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss htt tm pni ssse3 cx16 sse4_1 sse4_2 popcnt aes syscall nx lm vmx tm2 pbe
5/3/2013 12:06:35 PM | | OS: Microsoft Windows 7: Ultimate x64 Edition, Service Pack 1, (06.01.7601.00)
5/3/2013 12:06:35 PM | | Memory: 23.99 GB physical, 47.98 GB virtual
5/3/2013 12:06:35 PM | | Disk: 54.96 GB total, 50.60 GB free
5/3/2013 12:06:35 PM | | Local time is UTC -5 hours
5/3/2013 12:06:35 PM | | CUDA: NVIDIA GPU 0: GeForce GTX 680 (driver version 314.07, CUDA version 5.0, compute capability 3.0, 4096MB, 3980MB available, 3332 GFLOPS peak)
5/3/2013 12:06:35 PM | | CUDA: NVIDIA GPU 1: GeForce GTX 680 (driver version 314.07, CUDA version 5.0, compute capability 3.0, 4096MB, 3992MB available, 3332 GFLOPS peak)
5/3/2013 12:06:35 PM | | OpenCL: NVIDIA GPU 0: GeForce GTX 680 (driver version 314.07, device version OpenCL 1.1 CUDA, 4096MB, 3980MB available, 3332 GFLOPS peak)
5/3/2013 12:06:35 PM | | OpenCL: NVIDIA GPU 1: GeForce GTX 680 (driver version 314.07, device version OpenCL 1.1 CUDA, 4096MB, 3992MB available, 3332 GFLOPS peak)
5/3/2013 12:06:35 PM | | Version change (7.0.28 -> 7.0.64)
5/3/2013 12:06:35 PM | SETI@home | URL http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/; Computer ID 6563089; resource share 100
5/3/2013 12:06:35 PM | SETI@home | General prefs: from SETI@home (last modified 30-Dec-2012 10:15:33)
5/3/2013 12:06:35 PM | SETI@home | Computer location: home
5/3/2013 12:06:35 PM | SETI@home | General prefs: no separate prefs for home; using your defaults
5/3/2013 12:06:35 PM | | Reading preferences override file
5/3/2013 12:06:35 PM | | Preferences:
5/3/2013 12:06:35 PM | | max memory usage when active: 12283.56MB
5/3/2013 12:06:35 PM | | max memory usage when idle: 22110.40MB
5/3/2013 12:06:35 PM | | max disk usage: 5.00GB
5/3/2013 12:06:35 PM | | (to change preferences, visit a project web site or select Preferences in the Manager)
5/3/2013 12:06:35 PM | | Not using a proxy
5/3/2013 12:06:36 PM | | Running CPU benchmarks
5/3/2013 12:06:36 PM | | Suspending computation - CPU benchmarks in progress
5/3/2013 12:06:36 PM | | Suspending network activity - user request
5/3/2013 12:07:07 PM | | Benchmark results:
5/3/2013 12:07:07 PM | | Number of CPUs: 12
5/3/2013 12:07:07 PM | | 3230 floating point MIPS (Whetstone) per CPU
5/3/2013 12:07:07 PM | | 10281 integer MIPS (Dhrystone) per CPU
5/3/2013 10:46:12 PM | SETI@home | General prefs: from SETI@home (last modified 30-Dec-2012 10:15:33)
5/3/2013 10:46:12 PM | SETI@home | Computer location: home
5/3/2013 10:46:12 PM | SETI@home | General prefs: no separate prefs for home; using your defaults
5/3/2013 10:46:12 PM | | Reading preferences override file
5/3/2013 10:46:12 PM | | Preferences:
5/3/2013 10:46:12 PM | | max memory usage when active: 12283.56MB
5/3/2013 10:46:12 PM | | max memory usage when idle: 22110.40MB
5/3/2013 10:46:12 PM | | max disk usage: 5.00GB
5/3/2013 10:46:12 PM | | (to change preferences, visit a project web site or select Preferences in the Manager)
5/3/2013 10:46:22 PM | SETI@home | General prefs: from SETI@home (last modified 30-Dec-2012 10:15:33)
5/3/2013 10:46:22 PM | SETI@home | Computer location: home
5/3/2013 10:46:22 PM | SETI@home | General prefs: no separate prefs for home; using your defaults
5/3/2013 10:46:22 PM | | Reading preferences override file
5/3/2013 10:46:22 PM | | Preferences:
5/3/2013 10:46:22 PM | | max memory usage when active: 12283.56MB
5/3/2013 10:46:22 PM | | max memory usage when idle: 22110.40MB
5/3/2013 10:46:22 PM | | max disk usage: 5.00GB
5/3/2013 10:46:22 PM | | (to change preferences, visit a project web site or select Preferences in the Manager)

Rich

Since 7.0.64 finally connected to localhost, I thought I'd see what happens if WUs were downloaded. Now I cannot connect to the server. No proxy is being used. I'll try re-installing 7.0.28 or 6.10.58 and see what happens.

Rich

Hold on, does it say that it cannot connect to the (Seti) server, or does the server tell you that it's out of work? As the latter is correct.

5/5/2013 5:23:43 PM | SETI@home | [sched_op] Starting scheduler request
5/5/2013 5:23:43 PM | SETI@home | Sending scheduler request: Requested by user.
5/5/2013 5:23:43 PM | SETI@home | Requesting new tasks for CPU
5/5/2013 5:23:43 PM | SETI@home | [sched_op] CPU work request: 5061.32 seconds; 0.00 devices
5/5/2013 5:23:43 PM | SETI@home | [sched_op] ATI work request: 0.00 seconds; 0.00 devices
5/5/2013 5:23:46 PM | SETI@home | Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks
5/5/2013 5:23:46 PM | SETI@home | [sched_op] Server version 701
5/5/2013 5:23:46 PM | SETI@home | Project has no tasks available
5/5/2013 5:23:46 PM | SETI@home | Project requested delay of 303 seconds


And http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/sah_status.html shows that at the time of me writing this post, there is no work available:

Results ready to send	0

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Since 7.0.64 finally connected to localhost, I thought I'd see what happens if WUs were downloaded. Now I cannot connect to the server. No proxy is being used. I'll try re-installing 7.0.28 or 6.10.58 and see what happens.

Rich

Three minutes after you posted that, at 15:13:05 UTC you got work:

All tasks for computer 6563089

It also says strangely that you're running Boinc 7.0.28, perhaps because you're hidden your host it doesn't get updated so often:

Computer 6563089

Claggy