Posts by Darin May

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1) Message boards : BOINC Manager : 7.22.2 (win64) Check for new BOINC version reported no new version but 7.24.1 was posted in Notices tab
Message 112659
Posted 9 Sep 2023 by Darin May
Running win 11 pro 22H2
2) Message boards : BOINC Manager : 7.16.11 win10 x64 client doesn't report new version (7.16.20) available from Help/Check for new BOINC version menu item
Message 105813
Posted 20 Oct 2021 by Darin May
Should it be? Ireported this bug a long time ago on another update event. Seems this is not fixed.
3) Message boards : BOINC client : BOINC 7 development discussion thread.
Message 86115
Posted 6 May 2018 by Darin May
Yes. I only run Win x64 clients and I don't do a service install.

I always let the installer overwrite the previous install without adjusting the paths.

This has only happened once before but it was a long time ago and it was between major versions. I suspect it's a similar cause.

As for the registry, I see that there are multiple reg keys with different paths and that may be cruft from the longevity of me testing client releases. It may be a worthy goal of the installer to either clean up or detect older/conflicting reg keys as I don't think it cleans up properly after a full uninstall.
4) Message boards : BOINC client : BOINC 7 development discussion thread.
Message 86108
Posted 5 May 2018 by Darin May
I have BOINC installed in a non-default path of D:\apps\BOINC and the data at D:\apps\BOINC\data

The 7.9.x and 7.10.x installers aren't honoring the existing install paths, they're using the default C:\Program Files... paths.

When I re-install 7.8 it sees my custom paths on D:\apps\... again -- no manual intervention needed.

I suspect the newer installers aren't parsing the registry correctly to find the current install paths.
5) Message boards : BOINC client : BOINC 7 development discussion thread.
Message 86104
Posted 5 May 2018 by Darin May
Re: 7.10.2 Win x64 installer

Both this and the 7.9.x installers don't see active projects when installed over a working 7.8.x install. I'm prompted to add a project to an empty project pane.

Downgrading back to 7.8.3 works fine. All projects enumerated and pick up where they left off.
6) Message boards : BOINC client : Win64 7.8.1 client didn't advise 7.8.2 version available when "Check for new BOINC version" selected
Message 80861
Posted 6 Sep 2017 by Darin May
Any guess why?
7) Message boards : Questions and problems : Win10 Creator's Edition update breaks nVidia driver, manual reinstall fixes it
Message 77399
Posted 16 Apr 2017 by Darin May
Well, in this case GeForce Express indicated the driver was current but I forced a reinstall of the same driver and it then worked.
8) Message boards : Questions and problems : Win10 Creator's Edition update breaks nVidia driver, manual reinstall fixes it
Message 77385
Posted 16 Apr 2017 by Darin May
I updated my Win10x64 to the Creator's edition and BOINC was throwing the GPU unavailable error message.

A manual install of the latest driver fixed the problem. 381.65
9) Message boards : BOINC Manager : Can't rename current state file -- v5.8.3 and v5.8.2 for windows
Message 8434
Posted 26 Feb 2007 by Darin May
I was having the same problem and I added exclusions for the two state .xml files to my config -- running NOD32 on XP-Pro.


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