Anyone else having computer problems today? Sunspots?

[VirtualLarry]

Just wondering if the increase in solar activity this year has anything to do with my computer issues as of late.

This rig was rock-solid for several months after I built it.

But then I added a second GTX460 card.

Top GPU gets to 80-81C, bottom is at 61C now.

Running that TThrottle program to keep CPU under 50C, and GPUs under 80C.

Running BOINC.

Anyways, I just had a Neurona@home WU error out (actually crash, brought up the dialog).

I've also had issues, my monitor won't go to sleep (changed settings, rebooted, etc., still no luck).

And when I woke up this morning, my AIM window was all messed up. Best I could describe it is visual polygon artifacts. Moving the mouse around over the window caused things to redraw, and eventually, without clicking anything, it just exited. Crashed, really, but no appcrash dialog box came up.

I restarted AIM, and it seems fine now.

So. Sunspots? Overheating?

 

[brownstone]

I just came into the room with my computer and smelled a very bad burning electrical smell. Long story short, it was my cpu fan that had given up the ghost, thankfully that was it. I was worried it was my mobo, ps or video card. I doubt this fits under sunspot activity, but I'm willing enough to blame it.

 

[ZipSpeed]

Knock on some planks of 2x4, no problems with any of my computers.

 

[petrusbroder]

Knocking on my oak table: No problems with computers yet ...

 

[VirtualLarry]

I just clicked on my "show all tasks" button, and it shows that I have had about 9 WCG WUs that had "computational error". Along with one PrimeGrid CUDA unit. Most have elapsed runtimes of 1:30:xx.

Edit: Oh, before I shut the machine down for 10 minutes to cool down, I exited Precision, and then re-started it, and then it wasn't drawing the graphs correctly. Nothing was showing up on the graphs.

Edit: I restarted it after the cool-down, and suspended GPU processing. The CPU itself never really got above 50C, which should be fine for it.

I am at a loss to explain why the various WCG projects were failing processing, after processing for an hour and a half each (approx).

I was pretty sure I was stable, at least I'm OCCT linpack 64-bit stable with all RAM for an hour.

Is there something about WCG that stresses a CPU more than, say, PrimeGrid?

Or are there a lot of bad WUs from WCG? I can't seem to imagine that either.

Even after I restarted after the cool-down period, my AIM screwed up again. I was typing, and then the window got all polygonal on me. The GPU temps were only 40C (idle). So it's not GPU temps. AIM closed on it's own after a while again. I restarted it, and it was fine again.

Plus, sometimes, my sound card seems to go out, randomly, sounds will be totally garbled.

I uninstalled the RealTek HD drivers, in case they were the ones from my prior mobo that this SSD came out of. MS installed their own, and I can still use my speakers.

I have yet to do a Memtest86+ on this rig, although I probably should soon. I didn't, initially, because the OCCT linpack used like 95% of the RAM during its operation, so I figured the RAM was OK if it survived that.

Edit: Do you need a "Special" version of BOINC for WCG projects? I seem to remember something about that. Perhaps that's my problem?