I like the idea of putting my computer to use for useful projects throughout the world, through the forum I use, I read about your project and so downloaded the prog and installed it, I must admit I didn't spend too much time trying to configure it, my system is simple, no proxies ect, so I felt that there wouldn't be a need of fiddling around, I have a Packard Bell computer with a cpu intel dual core, 1 giga ram, and a partition of 50 giga where I wanted to use the project, the computer is in a home wifi net system with 4 other computers.

Everything installed great, the client immediately began to do it's work, so, I went off to watch a film on my other computer, film which was on the Packard Bell, I downloaded it to my living-room computer and left the other to do it's thing.

I wanted later to look in to see how the Bell was doing, but unfortunitely, I couldn't enter my system, the grid page was on, not as a screensaver, but fixed, the system seemed to have crashed. I had to shut it off, and when I turned my sytem back on, the computer didn't recognize my hard disk! I'l not go into all I did to check to see what was wrong, suffice it to say, I was able to get the computer to run again with the HDD.

I have now disinstalled the BOINC program, and would like to know, if through this forum it is possible to help me reset up the program, I'm afraid that though I like computers and can get them working most of the time, I'm by no means a hacker and when the things get tough, I choose the easiest way out.

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If you think you're too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito...as paraphrased from the Dalai Lama

Did you install the correct version of the BOINC client?? I have never had the issue you have described. You could try installing one of the older versions of BOINC, such as 6.4.7 if you tried to use a 6.6.x client, this might help. What operating system are you using on the computer? Could also be an issue with the hard drive itself, I would run some checks on it to make sure it is ok.

And check temperature and memory too!

Thanks for your quick replys. My os is windows xp with s.p.3, the Boinc installation is 6.2.28 windows-intel86. Purhaps the link I have here in Italy is old, could this cause a problem?
I checked the heat situation immediately as I thought that may be an issue, but all seems to be ok, fans are clean, and I hava a liquid cooling system over the cpu. Of course it was hot yeasterday anyway. The ram, now how to I chek that? One strip has been on the computer since I bought it (November 2007), the other is ralatively new (November last year.)

I'll run some checks on the HD anyway, if for no other reason going "icognito" as it did doesn't make me feel any too sicure about it.

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If you think you're too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito...as paraphrased from the Dalai Lama

Before all, try to update to 6.6.36

You aren't running CUDA, as far as you know? That's a new way of crunching data on your Nvidia videocard's GPU, and can be done on Seti and GPUGrid.

Which projects are you attached to?

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To check your RAM, MemTest86+. Also can be found on many Linux Live CDs.

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Kathryn :o)

Oh dear, I don't think there is a CUDA on my computer, my video is ATI and there dosen't seem to be anything Nvidia in my setup. I don't remember which projects they were, (not completely sure what you mean, there were 8 projects, if we're talking aboute the same thing, in all, maybe too many?), I think World Community Grid, if that is the global project is our project. I've disinstalled for the mo until I can be sure I won't blow my computer, but at the time the Cancer research and more nutricious rice projects were running.

By the way I have direct-x 9.0c on my computer if that helps to know.

I'll check out the ram issue and read your links asap. Get back to you later.

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If you think you're too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito...as paraphrased from the Dalai Lama