i have bought a 9400 gt pci, 64 bit, 512 mb to add to my fleet of nvid gpu bring the total to 3....

i let my 260 crunch aqua, seti, and gpugrid....


if i add the 9400 pci to my xps 420 rig with gtx 260, will boinc give a gpugrid wu to a 32 core card even though it's way too much for it?
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It should, since the card supports cuda. But with 16 SP's, it is kinda sloow.

That has been sort of a problem from the start of this project...GPU's with less than 50 SP's can do the work...But not in the time allowed by the project....
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well, i have options with the card....

i can put it in my mothers work computer which already has a pci-e slot filled by another 9400 gt, or i could put it in my other computer which still uses on-board graphics with no pci-e slot avail.

i wish their was a way to let aqua and seti run on it, and let gpugrid run on the gtx 260.....

idk, when i get it, and put it in, i'll just have to play with it.

simply put, i wish boinc was more custom user settings where i could choose.
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i inserted the card,

and boinc gives me this....


6/25/2009 2:11:16 PM CUDA device: GeForce 9400 GT (driver version 18618, compute capability 1.1, 512MB, est. 15GFLOPS)
6/25/2009 2:11:16 PM CUDA device (not used): GeForce 9400 GT (driver version 18618, compute capability 1.1, 512MB, est. 15GFLOPS)


it now thinks that the 260 is not their.....
i'll install the driver for the 9400 maybe this will help....

my grpahics precision software is detecting to cards....
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i could use some help on this....

it's now using both cards after i put in the cc_config file, use all cuda devices....

but it shows up with the ladder of the 2 in the messages.

6/25/2009 3:01:08 PM CUDA device: GeForce 9400 GT (driver version 18618, compute capability 1.1, 512MB, est. 15GFLOPS)
6/25/2009 3:01:08 PM CUDA device: GeForce 9400 GT (driver version 18618, compute capability 1.1, 512MB, est. 15GFLOPS)


if any one knows how to fix this or can help please post...

yea, i could.... also, changing the settings in the nvidia control panel on physx settings make these messages change... and allows the cards to be used or not used.....

running 6.6.31

6/25/2009 3:19:12 PM Starting BOINC client version 6.6.31 for windows_intelx86
6/25/2009 3:19:12 PM Configured to use all coprocessors
6/25/2009 3:19:12 PM log flags: task, file_xfer, sched_ops
6/25/2009 3:19:12 PM Libraries: libcurl/7.19.4 OpenSSL/0.9.8j zlib/1.2.3
6/25/2009 3:19:12 PM Data directory: C:\ProgramData\BOINC
6/25/2009 3:19:12 PM Running under account Tim
6/25/2009 3:19:12 PM Processor: 4 GenuineIntel Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q6600 @ 2.40GHz [x86 Family 6 Model 15 Stepping 11]
6/25/2009 3:19:12 PM Processor features: fpu tsc pae nx sse sse2 pni mmx
6/25/2009 3:19:12 PM OS: Microsoft Windows Vista: Ultimate x86 Edition, Service Pack 2, (06.00.6002.00)
6/25/2009 3:19:12 PM Memory: 2.50 GB physical, 10.09 GB virtual
6/25/2009 3:19:12 PM Disk: 450.71 GB total, 267.46 GB free
6/25/2009 3:19:12 PM Local time is UTC -4 hours
6/25/2009 3:19:13 PM CUDA device: GeForce 9400 GT (driver version 18618, compute capability 1.1, 512MB, est. 15GFLOPS)
6/25/2009 3:19:13 PM CUDA device: GeForce 9400 GT (driver version 18618, compute capability 1.1, 512MB, est. 15GFLOPS)
6/25/2009 3:19:13 PM Not using a proxy


also, for some reason, boinc is report 2.5 gb instead of 3..... b/c i have 4 gb in total on the mobo.

cards: GTX 260 896 FOC to 630 mhz.
9400 GT PCI 512 MB
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i just reset boinc b/c seti ask it's crunchers too, and only the gtx 260 is showing up now....

i've just updated to 6.6.36, no change.

that card did try to run the gpugrid task i had, and it errored out, and i believe the boinc does know the difference....

<core_client_version>6.6.31</core_client_version>
<![CDATA[
<message>
- exit code 98 (0x62)
</message>
<stderr_txt>
ERROR: mdsim.cu, line 572: Invalid device selected
called boinc_finish

</stderr_txt>
]]>
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i have 4 gb.... and now my computer is throwing bluescreen b/c the grpahics drivers are failing......

for now, i have taken the 9400 gt, and put it in the oldest computer in the house and let it crunch seti....

i think the drivers were acting crazy and the cards were fighting each other..... and boinc wasn't going to figure it out.... so, until i see a change in the drivers or boinc.... i'll stick to single gpu boinc pcs until i buy a new one.

oh yeah, after taking the card brought my ram value back to 3.00 as it should be with 32-bit....

oh, et, i know that 32bit only allows 3 gb of ram.... why in the hell do you think i want to when the lottery so i can buy 64 bit systems.... and build a green boinc farm....
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my vista only shows 3 gb or ram, even though 4 is on-board...... it's just the limits of 32-bit...

maybe early 1st quarter next year.....
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I've removed the 9400 Gt but boinc still wants to use it, and gives this which is causing comp errors....


<core_client_version>6.6.28</core_client_version>
<![CDATA[
<message>
One or more arguments are invalid (0x80000003) - exit code -2147483645 (0x80000003)
</message>
<stderr_txt>
# Using CUDA device 1
# Device 0: "GeForce GTX 260"
# Clock rate: 1350000 kilohertz
# Total amount of global memory: 939524096 bytes
# Number of multiprocessors: 27
# Number of cores: 216
# Device 1: "GeForce 9400 GT"
# Clock rate: 1350000 kilohertz
# Total amount of global memory: 536870912 bytes
# Number of multiprocessors: 4
# Number of cores: 32
ERROR: Invalid parameter detected in function (null). File: (null) Line: 0
ERROR: Expression: (null)



Should i just detach and reattach....? and maybe the read out of my computer will change back to just 1 gpu, the 260.
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http://www.gpugrid.net/result.php?resultid=895564


all task that i get error out, could some take a look at this wu and tell me what is going on with my gpu/pc.

I see you have driver version 186.18, which I believe was reported to cause trouble. Try rolling back to 185.85 or 182.50.

Kind regards

Alain

it didn't cause trouble before i put the new card in... i'll try....

i don't know what is causing these errors.........seti cuda and aqua cuda run fine, it's something to do with the gpugrid side........ on my computer i think......

last try,,,, http://www.gpugrid.net/result.php?resultid=898863

yes, i'm using 186.18.... i did a reinstall just to make sure.

seti runs fine, and so does aqua....

reverted back to 185.86 and it's working now....
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same here i have a 9800gtx and a 8500gt oc(testing) and i was running gpugrid and seti cuda. and i was doing lot of crunching. till wu ran out . but on both sites it only shows the 9800gtx and in boinc it does the same

since gpu(cuda is still somewhat new to boinc...I think boinc still has fully integrated cuda/gpu's..... of different makes and models....
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their is still a bug with boinc and mix cards . it still not fixed period