Posts by seppo

1) Message boards : Questions and problems : Win7 Enterprise SP1 64-bit - latest BOINC causing screen freezes (Message 82562) Posted 3 Nov 2017 by seppo Post: Just to let you know, I haven't had a single freeze in the two weeks after downdating BOINC to the old version. That seems to have solved it for me, thanks.
2) Message boards : Questions and problems : Win7 Enterprise SP1 64-bit - latest BOINC causing screen freezes (Message 82081) Posted 18 Oct 2017 by seppo Post: Thanks! I'll downdate and see if that works.
3) Message boards : Questions and problems : Win7 Enterprise SP1 64-bit - latest BOINC causing screen freezes (Message 82076) Posted 18 Oct 2017 by seppo Post: Great, thanks - I found one event from July when there were no problems yet - no idea what the event means, but guessing from the description I was running 7.4.36 (released 1 January 2015): 169176022 22 RADAR_PRE_LEAK_64 Not available 94690894087 boincscr.exe 7.4.36.0 6.1.7601.2.1.0
4) Message boards : Questions and problems : Win7 Enterprise SP1 64-bit - latest BOINC causing screen freezes (Message 82073) Posted 18 Oct 2017 by seppo Post: The oldest file I could find in the Program Files\BOINC directory is stderrgfx.txt dated 12 December 2014. I don't remember updating BOINC before this autumn, so I guess the mid-March 2014 version is the one that worked fine for me.
5) Message boards : Questions and problems : Win7 Enterprise SP1 64-bit - latest BOINC causing screen freezes (Message 82072) Posted 18 Oct 2017 by seppo Post: No, sorry... but I hadn't updated in a long time, it might have been my first installation on the present machine (the version that was current in mid-March 2014).
6) Message boards : Questions and problems : Win7 Enterprise SP1 64-bit - latest BOINC causing screen freezes (Message 82013) Posted 16 Oct 2017 by seppo Post: It happened again... once more it's taking hours of working at snail speed while my RAID1 array checks and corrects itself... Now I have switched to the basic Windows 3D text screensaver, we'll see if that ends the screen freezes.
7) Message boards : Questions and problems : Win7 Enterprise SP1 64-bit - latest BOINC causing screen freezes (Message 81818) Posted 5 Oct 2017 by seppo Post: No, it's not an overheating issue... the fans are whirring away like they always did, there's no dust buildup inside to speak of, and this is an office computer with nothing exotic like a dedicated GPU - just a plain on-board display adapter with the latest Intel Q45/Q43 Express chipset drivers (dated 4 Oct 2012) that worked fine with BOINC/SETI@home until I updated BOINC.
8) Message boards : Questions and problems : Win7 Enterprise SP1 64-bit - latest BOINC causing screen freezes (Message 81789) Posted 4 Oct 2017 by seppo Post: I might add that there haven't been any driver updates for the on-board display adapter in years, the latest was way before this problem began.
9) Message boards : Questions and problems : Win7 Enterprise SP1 64-bit - latest BOINC causing screen freezes (Message 81787) Posted 4 Oct 2017 by seppo Post: The problem is intermittent. Most of the time BOINC suspends fine when I touch the mouse, sometimes I find the screen frozen when I turn the display on.
10) Message boards : Questions and problems : Win7 Enterprise SP1 64-bit - latest BOINC causing screen freezes (Message 81779) Posted 4 Oct 2017 by seppo Post: Hello all, the details of my system and BOINC installation are below. I'm using Sophos Endpoint Security and I have automatic updates enabled for Windows. The Intel onboard display adapter drivers are up to date. In a nutshell: BOINC used to run SETI@home for months on end without ever causing any problems (I never had to boot because of BOINC), but after I went and updated BOINC in August my screen started to freeze completely every few days. When I'd come back to the office in the morning, I might find the screen frozen. The latest BOINC update in September (7.8.2) made it happen less often, but it still happens every now and then. The basic thing that changed on my computer was the BOINC version, not any other resident software or my computer-using habits. To be more specific, the whole computer isn't frozen, it's just the screen. The computer is still responsive via network, e.g. it answers when I log on remotely using TeamViewer 12 and asks me for my TeamViewer password - but then all I get on my remote screen is the frozen SETI screensaver. Sending ESC or CTRL-ALT-DEL doesn't do anything (sent locally or remotely), and the mouse cursor isn't shown either - it seems like both the keyboard and the mouse are not being polled. But behind this impenetrable wall of not taking orders, the computer is chugging along. This is extremely annoying because hard booting with power off/on, the only thing that seems to do the trick, causes my RAID1 array to check and repair itself for hours afterwards, making my computer slow as a snail to use for anything I actually need to do. Any remedies, please? I wouldn't want to get rid of BOINC and SETI@home after about ten years of no problems... S. 10/4/2017 12:20:37 PM \| \| cc_config.xml not found - using defaults 10/4/2017 12:20:43 PM \| \| Starting BOINC client version 7.8.2 for windows_x86_64 10/4/2017 12:20:43 PM \| \| log flags: file_xfer, sched_ops, task 10/4/2017 12:20:43 PM \| \| Libraries: libcurl/7.47.1 OpenSSL/1.0.2g zlib/1.2.8 10/4/2017 12:20:43 PM \| \| Data directory: C:\ProgramData\BOINC 10/4/2017 12:20:43 PM \| \| Running under account ---- 10/4/2017 12:20:51 PM \| \| No usable GPUs found 10/4/2017 12:20:51 PM \| \| Host name: ---- 10/4/2017 12:20:51 PM \| \| Processor: 4 GenuineIntel Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q9650 @ 3.00GHz [Family 6 Model 23 Stepping 10] 10/4/2017 12:20:51 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 syscall nx lm vmx smx tm2 pbe 10/4/2017 12:20:51 PM \| \| OS: Microsoft Windows 7: Enterprise x64 Edition, Service Pack 1, (06.01.7601.00) 10/4/2017 12:20:51 PM \| \| Memory: 7.65 GB physical, 15.30 GB virtual 10/4/2017 12:20:51 PM \| \| Disk: 465.66 GB total, 13.00 GB free 10/4/2017 12:20:51 PM \| \| Local time is UTC +3 hours 10/4/2017 12:20:51 PM \| SETI@home \| URL http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/; Computer ID 7244341; resource share 100 10/4/2017 12:20:52 PM \| SETI@home \| General prefs: from SETI@home (last modified 30-Nov-2005 16:41:25) 10/4/2017 12:20:52 PM \| SETI@home \| Computer location: work 10/4/2017 12:20:52 PM \| SETI@home \| General prefs: no separate prefs for work; using your defaults 10/4/2017 12:20:52 PM \| \| Reading preferences override file 10/4/2017 12:20:52 PM \| \| Preferences: 10/4/2017 12:20:52 PM \| \| max memory usage when active: 3918.10 MB 10/4/2017 12:20:52 PM \| \| max memory usage when idle: 7052.58 MB 10/4/2017 12:20:54 PM \| \| max disk usage: 12.96 GB 10/4/2017 12:20:54 PM \| \| don't compute while active 10/4/2017 12:20:54 PM \| \| don't use GPU while active 10/4/2017 12:20:54 PM \| \| suspend work if non-BOINC CPU load exceeds 25% 10/4/2017 12:20:54 PM \| \| (to change preferences, visit a project web site or select Preferences in the Manager) 10/4/2017 12:21:06 PM \| \| Suspending computation - computer is in use 10/4/2017 12:21:06 PM \| \| Suspending network activity - computer is in use 10/4/2017 3:51:01 PM \| \| Resuming network activity 10/4/2017 4:17:11 PM \| \| Suspending network activity - computer is in use

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