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Message 27122 - Posted: 22 Oct 2012 | 23:32:48 UTC
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Hello,
I got a message from your project to update to the latest nVidia driver to get all sorts of work. So I did.
A few run good, a few errored out.
Today I started my system agian to crunch for the poject but within a few seconds he systenms seems unresponsive and I got a message that the cuda program has stopped working. So all error out today.
How can I solve this?
Is it a driver problem?
Win vista ultimate x64, i7, 12GB BOINC 6.10.60 (which is running smoot Rosetta, Einstein and LHC)

By the way: Einstein@home is crunching fine with cuda and the newest nVidia drivers at the moment.
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Message 27123 - Posted: 23 Oct 2012 | 0:09:02 UTC - in response to Message 27122.

I haven't had any problems with the latest nVidia drivers, but maybe updating Boinc would help.

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Message 27133 - Posted: 23 Oct 2012 | 19:58:37 UTC

what gpu? what driver version?
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Message 27137 - Posted: 23 Oct 2012 | 20:42:15 UTC - in response to Message 27133.

GPU: GTX285, driver 306.97 CUDA version 5.0
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Message 27138 - Posted: 23 Oct 2012 | 20:45:58 UTC - in response to Message 27123.
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I was busy with updating BOINC to lats but msi file failed so this has taken me several hours of the afternoon and evening. Windows installer cleaner didn't do the job this time. Well after a lot of trial and error and reboots, I have now BOINC 7.0.28 running and one task 2UY5_28_5-PAOLA_2UY5..., seems to work.
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Message 27147 - Posted: 24 Oct 2012 | 18:46:14 UTC

One short run did okay today, the long run had error after 4 hours. I looked at my error list and all wingman had errors too with cuda42.
So there seems to be the problem. Some WU's run with cuda31 at wingman without error. At this time I am not contributing to the project and the important science.
So admins please take a look at cuda42 program.
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Message 27148 - Posted: 24 Oct 2012 | 21:45:43 UTC

Well as I'm not getting any help, I decide to downgrade my nVidia driver to the one from 22 May, version 301.42.
A long run is now running without issues (yet) as before.
Estimated time 33:51 hours. I let you now after tomorrow how it went or sooner if conditions warrant.


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Message 27152 - Posted: 25 Oct 2012 | 4:13:00 UTC

for 200 series cards it is recommended to use driver version 285, that way only cuda31 tasks will be requested.
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