SETI@home Help Thread!

[Sukhoi]

Yeah, that's a bit long. Try rebooting the computer, sometimes it helps.

 

[Frglss]

And now for something completely different, I'm weaning my 1800+ from SETI for a while. Seems to be suffering a slow death @ 1640, default voltage. It's suffering from numerous lockups in the last week with the frequency increasing. Temps ~42/30C as usual, DDR checks out as good, voltage bumps aren't helping.
PSU appears fine: +5~4.9, +3.3~3.4, +12~11.9 @ 100% load. It's slightly more stable @ 1628, but not much until I take it closer to 133 FSB and this is not good. I was using no power saving except monitor sleep. This setup had been totally stable @ 1640 until the last seven days or so. My system FWIW:
Addtronics 7890 with 7x80 and 1x60 fans
Enermax EG451P-VE
Abit KR7A-R
AXP 1800+
Alpha 8045 w/ 80 fan using ASII
3x 256 Crucial DDR (CT3264Z265)
Elsa 920 GF3
Adaptec 29160
X15 Cheetah 18 GB 15K
18 GB WD 7200K ATA 66
80 GB WD 7200K ATA 100
SB LV
Intel Pro 100+
Kenwood 52X
Plextor 121032A
FDD
XP Pro

<edit> All RAM timings maxed at all speeds.

 

[micron]

Frglss, does it run stable @ default?

 

[Frglss]

Yes it does. It has been at default for a couple of hrs since I have owned it though.

 

[micron]

I had the same problem w/ my tbird, I had to up the voltage. But, since that doesn't work for you, I would just lower the OC until it's stable .

 

[Civic2oo1x]

I'm trying to connect to Seti, but it keeps on coming up with an error saying 'Can't connect to server, will try again later'. I know my school's pretty anal lately with the firewall and stuff, but could that be the reason or is the site just down?

 

[micron]

Berkeley has a new internet policy, so SETI is usually offline during the day. If you switch your clients to Orange Kid's proxy you can get WUs. To use OK's:

<< To use Orange Kid's proxy, open SetiDriver.exe. Select "Proxy Server". Under "Host", enter orangekid.teamanandtech.com. Under "Port", enter 5001. Then click "Save Config" and re-minimize the program! If you are not using the SETI Driver, simply add this line to the end of the shortcut you use to run the CLI: -proxy orangekid.teamanandtech.com:5001 >>



Taken from teriba's guide @
http://www.teriba.com/seti.html

 

[Civic2oo1x]

When will it be online so I can create an account?

 

[micron]

SETI might not be online till late tonight or early tomorrow .

 

[GroundedSailor]

<<Yeah, that's a bit long. Try rebooting the computer, sometimes it helps. >>

I did that a couple of times before I posted - no change. Client priority is 'normal' and everything appears to be OK.


On last check it was still on track for 35 hours? Anyone knows what's happening? 35 hours to crunch a WU!!!!

 

[Civic2oo1x]

It is normal for it to be down that long? I'm on EST by the way if it helps.

 

[ProviaFan]

If you have Windows 98 (like your system rig profile says), I have a feeling you got a one of those very low angle range (iirc) work units. These apparently cause Windows 9x/ME systems to take a very long time, but other OSes can handle them better. I'm running Win2000 Pro on my main rig and Redhat Linux 7.2 on my secondary system, so I never have problems with VLAR WUs

 

[ICXRa]

<< It is normal for it to be down that long? I'm on EST by the way if it helps. >>



No it's not normal Civic2oo1x but Berkeley is having bandwidth issues and so seti@home is getting the leftovers. So it is easier to do it early in the A.M. EST since they are slow at this time on the west coast. Be sure and use a proxy server such as Orangekid's so you can cache work units in advance and in turn upload your results to Orangekid's server so they upload while your sleeping if the seti@home site is busy!

 

[GroundedSailor]

<<If you have Windows 98 (like your system rig profile says), I have a feeling you got a one of those very low angle range (iirc) work units. These apparently cause Windows 9x/ME systems to take a very long time, but other OSes can handle them better. I'm running Win2000 Pro on my main rig and Redhat Linux 7.2 on my secondary system, so I never have problems with VLAR WUs >>


Thanks for the input. That WU was on my office machine which is like a scaled down version of my home computer (Athlon 1.0). The WU's on the home system (listed in my rig profile) are doing fine. I guess it's time to upgrade both to Win 2000 Pro. Maybe next week.

Thanks again jliechty.

 

[Civic2oo1x]

If I don't setup on Proxy, will the WU's be lost or when the site is back up will it credit me with say 2 or 3 WU's?

 

[Poof]

Civic - you'll get credit once you're finally able to connect. The problem is that while you're trying to connect, your machine sits idle!!! :Q That's not a good thing for the TeAm!!!!

This is why there's alot of posts about using caching programs to at least have some additional source of WUs while the Berkeley network is busy... If you point your machines to upload to a Team queue right now, your machine will get work to do and the Team queue will upload the result later (usually during a quiet network time).

 

[GroundedSailor]

I DON'T ****ING BELIEVE THIS!!! :Q

Walked into my office and checked the status of WU's on my computer and it now needs 65, yes 65 hours total!!! And this computer has been on all night with the client priority set to high!!

(Specs: Atlon 1.0GHz, 256 MB ram, Win 98SE, 30GB 7200 RPM HDD, no extras like NIC or CDRW)

I think I'll uninstall the seti driver (& lose the WU) and reinstall. This way I'll probably get some decent WU's to work on.

Could something else be wrong? Appreciate any help.

Thanks.

 

[Poof]

You could have gotten a very low angle range WU (VLAR WU), ie., one ~0.2 or less. There's also some bad WUs floating around out there too that have been dished out by SETI. You might be able to just delete the info in the folder that it was working in and start it up again. It should hopefully go on to the next folder and WU while it refills the one you emptied.

 

[Marrkks]

bumpity for lots of links a noob like me needs.

17 monster WUs for the TeAm so far

 

[Sukhoi]

Bump!

 

[Civic2oo1x]

My SETi driver has two WU's ready to transmit. When will it transmit? When the next WU is done? Or what?

 

[DDad]

Bump to the Top- this is too handy -especially for the NewBees!

 

[ICXRa]

Up

 

[paf077]

UP, Up and to the TOP!!!!

 

[ICXRa]

TTT for new members