Folding@home Team 56895 and Life with PlayStation

[Banjo]

Originally Posted by pmac

Save me some time what is Blu-ray.com's team number, I am installing it on my home PC now.

Just look at the first post on the first page of this thread. To save you 2.3 seconds...

The team number would be 56895

[pmac]

OK One more.
I have dual boot to XP 32bit, and XP 64 bit, does the Folding @ home take advantage of 64bit will it help my new team mates if i use 64bit. I generally run everything off my 32bit though. But I can adapt.
Are there settings you can recommend to make the most of my machine. There werent many, I checked the box for the 5MB thing. I guess that is all there is really, the slider in the top section was all the way to the right.the save feature was about 10 minute interval.

[pmac]

Originally Posted by Banjo

Just look at the first post on the first page of this thread. To save you 2.3 seconds...

The team number would be 56895

I am rushing a little got to go. Thanks.

[reider]

Originally Posted by pmac

OK One more.
I have dual boot to XP 32bit, and to a 64 bit, does the Folding @ home take advantage of 64bit will it help my new team mates if i use 64bit. I generally run everything off my 32bit though. But I can adapt.

There shouldn't be any significant difference between 32bit vs. 64bit. So use 32bit since you run everything on it anyway. For your quad, install two "Windows XP/2003/Vista/2008 SMP client console version 5.91 beta6" clients from http://folding.stanford.edu/English/Download

Here are the detailed installation instructions:
http://folding.stanford.edu/English/FAQ-SMP#ntoc8

[pmac]

So I am currently working on this item...It is 0/400 frames. the first frame is estimated to take 29 minutes. Looks like it is saying q 9 day estimate to finnish. Is that for a single protien. Sorry for so many questions but I dont have a clue about any of this and just want to understand it all since it is on the computer.
Thanks guys when you get a chance to answer some or all of my silly questions.

Regards,
Paul

[reider]

Originally Posted by pmac

So I am currently working on this item...It is 0/400 frames. the first frame is estimated to take 29 minutes. Looks like it is saying q 9 day estimate to finnish. Is that for a single protien. Sorry for so many questions but I dont have a clue about any of this and just want to understand it all since it is on the computer.
Thanks guys when you get a chance to answer some or all of my silly questions.

Regards,
Paul

If that is on your quad, then you installed the wrong client (see my previous post).
In any case disregard the 29min/9days stuff. F@H client assumes 30minutes a frame for the first frame by default. It will adjust to show true productivity/completion time as it progresses.

[dtrush]

Originally Posted by pmac

Sorry for so many questions but I dont have a clue about any of this and just want to understand it all since it is on the computer.
Thanks guys when you get a chance to answer some or all of my silly questions.

Regards,
Paul

Don't worry about it. I feel the same way when setting it up on a PC. I've been working on that for the last couple of days. I think I may finally got it figured out. I was confused about where to install the stuff at first. Finally learned that you had to put the client in a different directory & then run the app, set parameters & fold. Really not too hard. Server is running on both cores, Will mess with laptop tonight.

I'm just glad the PS3 is pretty brainless to run

[pmac]

Well I am confused. Because it is giving me an error.
Work unit has an invalid address.

Any help would be appreciated.

This is running in a DOS window.
______________________________
Attempting to get work packet
Connecting to assignment server
Successful: Assigned to (0.0.0.0)
Work unit has invalid address

[reider]

Originally Posted by pmac

Well I am confused. Because it is giving me an error.
Work unit has an invalid address.

Any help would be appreciated.

This is running in a DOS window.
______________________________
Attempting to get work packet
Connecting to assignment server
Successful: Assigned to (0.0.0.0)
Work unit has invalid address

0.0.0.0 could be if Stanford have no work units to distribute (unlikely); bad installation; or network problems. Let's backtrack your installation... could you describe it to me step by step?

[pmac]

I got to this step
If you see this twice, MPI is working
If you see this twice, MPI is working
then I started fah.exe
starts up no problem.

Attempt to get work failed and no other work to do
Waiting before retry.

PS3 is working swell though

Whos idea was it to run the DOS version.
Why don't I run the gui that was working before i tried the 5.91?
Too much of a pain. I will install a gui version

[reider]

Originally Posted by pmac

I got to this step
If you see this twice, MPI is working
If you see this twice, MPI is working
then I started fah.exe
starts up no problem.

Attempt to get work failed and no other work to do
Waiting before retry.

PS3 is working swell though

Whos idea was it to run the DOS version.
Why don't I run the gui that was working before i tried the 5.91?
Too much of a pain. I will install a gui version

It's not a DOS version - it just does not have GUI. The GUI client will give VERY little points compared to this one. Have patience... we'll figure it out
Could you please post the text inside your client.cfg file from the folding folder? Are you behind a firewall?

[reider]

Originally Posted by pmac

I got to this step
If you see this twice, MPI is working
If you see this twice, MPI is working
then I started fah.exe
starts up no problem.

Attempt to get work failed and no other work to do
Waiting before retry.

run fah.exe -configonly

User name [yournamehere]?
Team Number [56895]?
Launch automatically at machine startup, installing this as a
service (yes/no) [no]? Press Enter
Ask before fetching/sending work (no/yes) [yes]? no, then Enter
Use Internet Explorer Settings (no/yes) [no]? no, then Enter
Use proxy (yes/no) [no]? Enter
Allow receipt of work assignments greater than 5MB in size (no/yes) [yes]? Enter
Change advanced options (yes/no) [no]? Yes, then Enter

When it asks you " set -advmethods flag always,....." - answer "yes".

I hope that will fix your problem.

[phlydude]

don't run the graphical client, it is a processor hog and won't net you squat

Stick with the command window client and we'll help you with any problems...sometimes the server is not responding to work packet requests...usually during the time when it is upgrading the results. Just let it look for a while and see if it gets a unit

[Slckevin]

got a question on the asus p5k-e motherboard. Im a newbie at buliding my own computer i got it to post, in the bios screen setting up the time etc. One it currently doesnt detect any HD or cd drive. Also after about 2 min since start up it just shuts down. Any ideas? thanks (i know it isnt folding related but.. this will be a good folding comp when completed.)

[dtrush]

Originally Posted by Slckevin

got a question on the asus p5k-e motherboard. Im a newbie at buliding my own computer i got it to post, in the bios screen setting up the time etc. One it currently doesnt detect any HD or cd drive. Also after about 2 min since start up it just shuts down. Any ideas? thanks (i know it isnt folding related but.. this will be a good folding comp when completed.)

Most likely the OS CD you're using doesn't have SATA drivers to recognize the drive. Make sure to download the latest BIOS firmware for your board to make sure it recognizes your hardware. Had this happen to a server in which it wouldn't see the Adaptec RAID card I had on the PCI bus and the BIOS update did the trick.
The drivers for the SATA hardware for the laptop I'm typing on right now weren't included on the WINXP SP2 CD which caused the HD not to recognize and subsequently I couldn't install. Had to burn a custom OS CD with the drivers included and everything went as normal after that.

Good luck.

[reider]

Originally Posted by Slckevin

got a question on the asus p5k-e motherboard. Im a newbie at buliding my own computer i got it to post, in the bios screen setting up the time etc. One it currently doesnt detect any HD or cd drive. Also after about 2 min since start up it just shuts down. Any ideas? thanks (i know it isnt folding related but.. this will be a good folding comp when completed.)

Do you mean it shuts down while you in the bios screen, or on an attempt to boot??
What kind of HDD & CD drives do you have (used/new? sata/pata? external/internal?)

[pmac]

Originally Posted by reider

run fah.exe -configonly

User name [yournamehere]?
Team Number [56895]?
Launch automatically at machine startup, installing this as a
service (yes/no) [no]? Press Enter
Ask before fetching/sending work (no/yes) [yes]? no, then Enter
Use Internet Explorer Settings (no/yes) [no]? no, then Enter
Use proxy (yes/no) [no]? Enter
Allow receipt of work assignments greater than 5MB in size (no/yes) [yes]? Enter
Change advanced options (yes/no) [no]? Yes, then Enter

When it asks you " set -advmethods flag always,....." - answer "yes".

I hope that will fix your problem.

Whatever this did, it worked just now started downloading stuff
Thank you.

[Slckevin]

Originally Posted by reider

Do you mean it shuts down while you in the bios screen, or on an attempt to boot??
What kind of HDD & CD drives do you have (used/new? sata/pata? external/internal?)

Correct I am in the BIOS screen adjusting the date/time and the computer powers down after about 2min of being turned on. I have all fans installed and just the factory heatsink for now, will get a better one soon. I have a Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 750gb internal SATA and a Samsung 20x dvd +/- r pata. Everything is brand spanking new. Reading says I dont need to adjust the jumper settings on either of the products. It doesnt seem like i am getting power to either. Both are plugged in to the psu. IDK if it is a heat issue as its a stock heatsink and as a setting the computer shuts off at a certian temp. The house team is about 67F, was doing this at night so no sun in a well ventalated room.

[reider]

Originally Posted by Slckevin

Correct I am in the BIOS screen adjusting the date/time and the computer powers down after about 2min of being turned on. I have all fans installed and just the factory heatsink for now, will get a better one soon. I have a Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 750gb internal SATA and a Samsung 20x dvd +/- r pata. Everything is brand spanking new. Reading says I dont need to adjust the jumper settings on either of the products. It doesnt seem like i am getting power to either. Both are plugged in to the psu. IDK if it is a heat issue as its a stock heatsink and as a setting the computer shuts off at a certian temp. The house team is about 67F, was doing this at night so no sun in a well ventalated room.

All components you listed should be easily recognized by p5k-e mobo. Thermal shutdown is highly unlikely, but you can check it - in the BIOS there have to be a screen with real-time CPU and system temps (on gigabyte mobo's it's called PC Health Monitor), so just by looking at it you'll see thermal run-up if there is any.
You said that it doesn't seam like HDD & CDD are getting power (no LED activity?)... this would be a very logical explanation. Faulty PSU could also be the reason behind the 2-minutes shutdowns...

[Slckevin]

Originally Posted by reider

All components you listed should be easily recognized by p5k-e mobo. Thermal shutdown is highly unlikely, but you can check it - in the BIOS there have to be a screen with real-time CPU and system temps (on gigabyte mobo's it's called PC Health Monitor), so just by looking at it you'll see thermal run-up if there is any.
You said that it doesn't seam like HDD & CDD are getting power (no LED activity?)... this would be a very logical explanation. Faulty PSU could also be the reason behind the 2-minutes shutdowns...

thank you for your help.. ill try a few more things when I get home from work.