Posts by Steveplanetary

1) Message boards : GPUs : Protected application execution (Message 46471)
Posted 26 Nov 2012 by Steveplanetary
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I recently had to reinstall BOINC for Windows 7 X64, and on the third step of the install I clicked on Advanced, then checked Protected application execution. As a result the BOINC startup messages always said that no useable GPU had been found. I suggest that the wording of the message during installation is misleading. Here is what it says:

"Run project applications under an unprivileged account. This provides increased protection from faulty applications, but it may cause graphics to not work with older applications, and on Windows Vista, it will prevent the use of applications that use graphics chips (GPUs) (A reboot may be required.)"

Since I wasn't concerned with graphics working, and I use Windows 7, there was no obvious problem. Perhaps a rewording is in order?
2) Message boards : Questions and problems : Unable to reinstall BOINC (Message 43288)
Posted 6 Apr 2012 by Steveplanetary
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Well, Gundolf, I gave it my best shot, going through steps 1-6, but without success. I can not find any trace of BOINC anywhere. I'm a little confused about running Find in regedit for *.msi, and not getting any returns at all. First I tried BOINC.msi, and got nothing before I tried *.msi. Every other program I've installed has an installer file, but where does the registry put them? It seems nobody knows. ["...Windows 7 Home does not have the Local Security Policy. It may be possible that you can remove the entries the installer made from the registry, but it's at this point unknown where it puts these entries in the registry. (The developers haven't come back to me about this, so I really don't know what the installer does with those entries. Perhaps it silently drops them)."]

In Step 3 I clicked on these steps, since they apply to BOINC 6.x.x, and I followed all five sub-Steps, before returning to Step 4 of the main menu. I'm confused by Step 7, also. I downloaded boinc_5.10.45_windows_intelx86.exe to c:\BOINC_temp. If I start to execute boinc_5.10.45_windows_intelx86.exe /a, the installer states, 'The InstallShield Wizard will create a server version of BOINC at a specified network location. To continue, click Next.' However, if I execute boinc_5.10.45_windows_intelx86.exe, without the /a, the installer states, 'The InstallShield Wizard will install BOINC on your computer.' And this it did. So now I have v.5.10.34 installed to c:\Program Files (x86). Why would I want a server version of BOINC? And although I have a 4-port router, I only have one computer currently, so there really isn't a network.

Additionally, the 2nd line from the end of Step 7 states, "The Program Files directory (under the c:\BOINC_temp directory) contains a sub-directory called BOINC. Copy this complete folder (or the contents of it) to your own BOINC directory. Click Yes to overwrite, or Overwrite all." I wasn't able to carry this out, since I didn't have a BOINC directory under c:\Program Files (x86). I've done everything I could to remove all traces of BOINC. So I recreated a new BOINC folder under c:\Program Files (x86), and was able to install v.5.10.45 to it. Am I now stuck using an old 32-bit program with no GPU? I still want to end up with v.6.12.34 64-bit, which would be installed into c:\Program Files, but I don't know how I would get from Point A to Point B. Any suggestions?

Cheers,
Steve
3) Message boards : Questions and problems : Unable to reinstall BOINC (Message 43267)
Posted 4 Apr 2012 by Steveplanetary
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Thanks very much for the link. I will look at it this afternoon (time being a problem this morning).

Cheers,
Steve

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4) Message boards : Questions and problems : Unable to reinstall BOINC (Message 43260)
Posted 4 Apr 2012 by Steveplanetary
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I had been running boinc_6.12.34_windows_x86_64.exe without any trouble since I bought a new computer. But recently something happened (I wish I could remember what) that caused me to decide to uninstall then reinstall BOINC. But it wouldn't uninstall, so I made the bold decision to delete the BOINC Program Files and Program Data, and delete all references to BOINC in regedit. I was hoping that a utility called Reimage Repair (it really is a unique and wonderous utility that scans for viruses and malware, eliminates them, then replaces missing and corrupt system files with new ones from their repository) would save me, as it has done a couple of times in the past.

Apparently it did not. My computer seems to be running fine, but:
boinc_6.12.34_windows_x86_64.exe: As boinc.msi was being decompressed, it abrupty stopped and an ERROR baloon appeared which stated, "The configuration data for this product is corrupt. Contact your support personnel."

boinc_6.10.60_windows_x86_64.exe and boinc_6.12.34_windows_intelx86.exe: When I tried to install these the install almost finished before a window labeled BOINC Installer Information yielded the following text: "Error 1714; The older version of BOINC cannot be removed. Contact your technical support group."

So, I am asking computer programers, software developers, and especially any and all BOINC experts for their suggestions and recommendations. You have my really big TIA.



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