Message boards : Graphics cards (GPUs) : TONI_KIDln issues
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I have two almost identical PCs. One of them began failing almost every TONI_KIDln wus, while the other not. I tried to update the BOINC manager, and the NVidia drivers, but it didn't help. | |
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The errors are not time specific. The TONI_KIDln tasks are failing any time from immediately through to times over about 4000sec. | |
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I'd make a wild guess, it's your RAM. Why? Kingston HiperX is a RAM I've tried having the most difficulties with. They need such a high RAM Voltage compared with so many others just to get stable, some times so much the mainboard starts freaking out. I can't imaging 8GB (4x2GB) is fun or or easy, I've had problems with 4GB (2x2GB) of that RAM on Asus, MSI, & XFX mainboards. They're "touchy" DDR2 at 1066Mhz, better to lower to 800Mhz or increase RAM Voltage, which "may" also require you to increase the NB Voltage. | |
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I would be inclined to suspend any CPU tasks, close Boinc, restart and just run GPU tasks to see if the failures continue; I'll try this. Per chance did you check how much system memory was being used and are you crunching Lattice CPU tasks? About 1.5Gb used. I run 3 rosetta task simultaneously, they consume about 250~400kb each. But that's true for my other system too. I don't crunch Lattice at all. You might also want to make a RAM testing disk, and boot to it. I have Vista x64 and Win 7 x64 on both systems, so I can run their RAM test, but that'll be the last thing :) You might want to consider swapping the GPU's between systems. That would tell you a lot That's came to my mind too. I was just hoping there will be some other (simple) way to figure it out. PS. There is no point having 8GB RAM in your other system, running XP x86! I know :) I play on the same PC sometimes, on Win 7 x64. This was my default operating system until I started crunching... | |
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I'd make a wild guess, it's your RAM. Why? Kingston HiperX is a RAM I've tried having the most difficulties with. They need such a high RAM Voltage compared with so many others just to get stable, some times so much the mainboard starts freaking out. I can't imaging 8GB (4x2GB) is fun or or easy, I've had problems with 4GB (2x2GB) of that RAM on Asus, MSI, & XFX mainboards. They're "touchy" DDR2 at 1066Mhz, better to lower to 800Mhz or increase RAM Voltage, which "may" also require you to increase the NB Voltage. OK, I lowered it to 800MHz on both system. (these are those "Tall Heatsink" modules, even so I don't like to increase RAM Voltage). BTW I never had any memory related problem before with this modules. But it didn't help. There are two failed WUs since then. I will swap the GPUs... | |
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Perhaps these tasks are stressing your card and finding a weakness with it, or your system. I agree with that, but the KASHIF_HIVPR tasks also a GPU stressing kind, and these doesn't tend to fail. | |
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Let a few tasks run when you swap the cards. Drivers should not need updating, so it's not too much of a task. Report back any findings. | |
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It seems to me now, I've solved the problem without swapping the GPUs. | |
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Well spotted. There has been one or two of these issues before with the Fermi cards. I think the last one was a Gigabyte as well; perhaps they are cutting it a bit too fine. I’m guessing ASUS got the pick of the bunch to work with. My Asus ENGTX470 has a Voltage of 0.975, and crunches away quite happily at 704MHz. I paid a bit over the odds for it, but now I think it was definitely worth it. | |
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