Sandybridge CPU's wont finish F@H

[Markfw]

OK, so I just rma'd my Asrock Extreme 4 and got a new ASUS P8P67 Deluxe motherboard. Same damn error, could not create arcfile. WTF !!!Y^#^$^%# After 2 days folding

So I will be down points til further notice.

NOTE: I HAVE WIN XP 32 BIT, NEVER TRIED WIN7.

 

[theAnimal]

Does it do the same thing at stock speed?

 

[Markfw]

Does it do the same thing at stock speed?

YES

 

[biodoc]

On the positive side, I guess you can rule out the MB as the problem. Must be something else.

 

[Markfw]

Oh, and a second set of brand new memory is in there.....

 

[GLeeM]

Is that with the V7 client?

 

[Markfw]

Is that with the V7 client?

No. And I was told that the actual "clients" are not changed, just the interface.

 

[theAnimal]

Which version of .Net framework do you have installed? There is a poster at foldingforum with XP32 that claims his error 77 went away after installing version 3.5.

 

[Markfw]

Which version of .Net framework do you have installed? There is a poster at foldingforum with XP32 that claims his error 77 went away after installing version 3.5.

aCCORDING TO ADD/REMOVE PROGRAMS, i HaVE 3.5 sp1

caps lock

 

[biodoc]

If I remember correctly, you tried different hard drives and interfaces too (sata and ide)?

Also, regular smp works ok and the problem is only with bigadv WUs?

Is this the GUI client or the console version?

I'm completely stumped.

 

[Markfw]

never tried regular smp, not worth it. All console clients

 

[GLeeM]

And I was told that the actual "clients" are not changed, just the interface.

It is the "cores", what does the crunching, that are the same, so time per frame won't be any better.

The client is what starts and stops the core.
I looked in my folding folders and didn't find any ".arc" files. I wonder if the client writes an archive file when it shuts the core down? And then deletes it after it starts up successfully?