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Message 19855 - Posted: 10 Dec 2010 | 21:16:38 UTC

I have a gtx 460 with windows 7 x64 in recent days I've had so many errors in wu IBUCH and GIANNI, it only happens to me?

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Message 19856 - Posted: 10 Dec 2010 | 21:51:12 UTC - in response to Message 19855.

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Message 19858 - Posted: 11 Dec 2010 | 8:32:04 UTC

Oh, sorry!
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Message 19861 - Posted: 11 Dec 2010 | 10:19:39 UTC

From looking at some of them other people are also getting errors, and some are working.

You'd probably need to get the 6.12 app somehow instead of using the 6.13 app. That will be a bit hard seeing as the earliest drivers for the GTX460 also support cuda 3.1 which is how GPUgrid decides which app to send.
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Message 19862 - Posted: 11 Dec 2010 | 10:24:37 UTC - in response to Message 19858.
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hedeon, you have a good system with enough RAM. I expect docking does not use a massive amount of RAM, but I have not checked. Your GPUGrid tasks are failing mid-run, (Incorrect function. (0x1) - exit code 1 (0x1)), but some complete. This is sometimes a result of displaying graphics (using the screen saver), so if that is on turn it off.
You should set Boinc Manager to only use 99% of the CPU, to free up one CPU core and use swan_sync=0 (if you have not already done so). As well as improving speed, swan_sync combined with freeing up a CPU thread should improve reliability (prevent time-outs). If you closed Windows without closing Boinc first, this can also cause an error like this.

There are two other obvious things to check.
It is possible that your system is overheating. So use the software that came with the motherboard to check the CPU temperature and use GPUZ to check the temperatures of the GPU. You can use EVGA Precision to increase GPU fan speed, and also measure the temps.
Another possibility is that the tasks error out when you are using the computer (perhaps watching online video or playing a game), or running scans.
Do you know what you or the system was doing when the tasks failed? You could look at the Boinc messages (or the online returns) and your log files for error messages. You can use the Snooze GPU function or set paramiters to not use the GPU if you are using the system or playing games. You will have to stick to the 6.13app, due to the driver/cuda/app relationship, but 6.13 tends to do well for Fermi's (for thos with a pre-Fermi card the 6.12app runs better).

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Message 19863 - Posted: 11 Dec 2010 | 11:02:39 UTC

Average temp of gpu is 49-54, 55-60 for cpu with 4 tasks of docking. I use the pc only for boinc and encode, but in recent days I haven't encoded anything.

Today wu with errors are already three, for now I decided to abort this type of WU for not waste time and electricity...

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Message 19864 - Posted: 11 Dec 2010 | 11:08:50 UTC - in response to Message 19863.

I edited my post, so you might want to read it again.
http://www.gpugrid.net/forum_thread.php?id=2380&nowrap=true#19862

One other thing,
If your system has been on continuously, I would suggest a reboot; sometimes another non crunching operation can interfeer with Boinc or the tasks (often memory related) and cause regular failures, though usually they fail immediately.

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Message 19866 - Posted: 11 Dec 2010 | 12:40:08 UTC
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Which driver should I use for the 6.12 app?

P.S.: thx for help :)

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Message 19869 - Posted: 11 Dec 2010 | 14:28:18 UTC - in response to Message 19866.

You will have to stick to the 6.13app; I don't think that the 197.45 driver supports the GTX460, and that is the most recent (full) driver that could allow somone to run the 6.12app.

Where you using a screen saver, or restarting the system without first closing Boinc?

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Message 19873 - Posted: 11 Dec 2010 | 18:32:43 UTC

@Where you using a screen saver, or restarting the system without first closing Boinc?

No

Today I reset and after remove gpugrid close boinc reinstall driver, restarting the system. Second wu new error: 3428262

I think the problem is my msi gtx 460 talon with wu Gianni and IBUCH...

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Message 19946 - Posted: 16 Dec 2010 | 8:06:34 UTC - in response to Message 19873.

Two tasks errored out last days during uploading 1 image to photobucket.
The screen turned into black for a second and returns with a MS-message that the video doesn't respond.
The running GPU-task has a computation error then.

449-KASHIF_HIVPR_n1_bound_so_ba2-32-100-RND0792_1

p45-IBUCH_2_AcpYEEIPH-0-4-RND2718_1

Grrr .... Almost 1 day crunching for the bucket ;)

In future I should suspend GPUGRID (just after a checkpoint), upload 1 image, close the photobucket website and resume GPUGRID. Not very friendly.
Perhaps it's my own fault, running GPUGRID above normal priority.
And of course it's the fault of photobucket to start a little video during upload.
I don't want to look at a video. I only want to upload 1 small image.

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Message 19952 - Posted: 16 Dec 2010 | 11:30:23 UTC - in response to Message 19946.

It was the video that did the dastardly deed; looks like the online video forced itself into used video memory. Unnecessary junk videos and advertising spam is the scourge of the Internet, but when their aggressive advertising messes up research on your computer, they stoop too low. You can disable media in browsers, but who wants to reconfigure their browser every time they visit a certain site?

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