i think something burned up in my computer

i came home and noticed it was off. when i turned it on, a burning smell came out of it. i took it apart and it smells like the psu. perhaps i should buy a new one.

when i turn it on now, it appears to be fine. should i continue to run the fah client, or should i hold off until i find out what burned up? and how would i find out what burned up?

2/12/2008 6:18:11 PM

so nothing smells like its burning now? if it works fine so far, i'd run F@H and see if it shuts off again.

2/12/2008 8:25:37 PM

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We recommend using the "text-only console” client for most windows computers. If you have a dual/quad/etc core processor, be sure to install and run the SMP client to get you and the team far more points than the standard console client (but sometimes it has problems starting as a service, so you might have to restart the client manually or automatically via startup folder when your computer restarts). In general, its best to stay away from the graphical clients. If you have a Pentium 4 with Hyperthreading, its best to turn off Hyperthreading in the BIOS if you know how. Feel free to post in this thread with any questions.

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2/12/2008 8:26:00 PM

Quote :

"so nothing smells like its burning now? if it works fine so far, i'd run F@H and see if it shuts off again."

yea, all the burning smell blew away. it was definitely coming from the PSU based on my super accurate nose-sniffing test.

Somewhere in the night my computer restarted itself (didn't shut down all the way like yesterday), but I'm thinking it might have been a forced restart by Windows Update. Are there any diagnostic utilities I can run to see what might have gone bad in the computer? I bought all the parts less than a year ago, so if they're going bad (memory, cpu, etc) I can get it replaced under the warranty.

2/13/2008 7:45:15 AM

My vista pc restarted last night too so you're probably right on the windows update thing.
My work pc has an update waiting too and its windows 2000
My xp pc hasn't been turned on yet so it may have one too.

2/13/2008 7:53:16 AM

There were Windows updates yesterday, so if you have them set to install automatically, then it may have restarted in the middle of the night.

2/13/2008 8:35:10 AM

yeah it rebooted some servers here at work and took a number of systems down. thanks microsoft

2/13/2008 8:38:31 AM

This is strange. Maybe it's just this particular WU, but it's taking about 44-50 minutes per step as opposed to the normal ~26 minutes. I wonder if the "burn out" had something to do with this?

2/13/2008 12:42:53 PM

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"yeah it rebooted some servers here at work and took a number of systems down. thanks microsoft"

This is why I ALWAYS turn off Auto-Update for my personal computers ... and especially for servers that happen to be running Windows.

Always.

2/13/2008 7:47:51 PM

well actually if it would have just rebooted the server, nothing would have happened...the services would have came up etc. but our actua; server was still up, but the MSSQL services were down. flipping annoying.

2/13/2008 8:28:27 PM

dp

2/13/2008 8:28:51 PM

damnation...i know i've asked this SAME question before, but i can't find it because it was pages and pages back...anyway, F@H has quit on me again on my e4500 machine

i come back one day and the window's gone...i try to run it and it says something like "credentials for xxx rejected connecting to zzz...error running mpiexec...please check your configuration and run install.bat if necessary"

i've done any combination of install/reinstall but running install.bat asks me for my domain/user (i just hit enter), asks me for my password (i type one in and then retype it for verification) and then gives me something like "aborting: unable to connect"

what do i do, again, to get this back up? i'm below 20 in the ranks and i'd like to stay there or get better

2/13/2008 11:37:33 PM

don't know about anyone else, but ever since I got the "new" smp client, after it finishes a workunit, I have to manually restart the service.


any suggestions?

2/14/2008 3:28:40 AM

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"i've done any combination of install/reinstall but running install.bat asks me for my domain/user (i just hit enter), asks me for my password (i type one in and then retype it for verification) and then gives me something like "aborting: unable to connect""

it sounds like you're typing the wrong password. otherwise, do you have admin rights on the box?
http://foldingforum.org/viewtopic.php?f=8&p=9570

let us know the exact error message you get from the install.bat

Quote :

"don't know about anyone else, but ever since I got the "new" smp client, after it finishes a workunit, I have to manually restart the service."

all my smp clients work fine. what os? did you change the "run as" in the service properties from Local System Account to a user account with admin privlidges?

2/14/2008 7:35:01 AM

there must be a new WU in the mix, one of my machines just posted a 2,539 point WU

[Edited on February 14, 2008 at 10:31 AM. Reason : .]

2/14/2008 10:31:50 AM

holy crap. how long did it take to complete? did you get another one?

2/14/2008 10:42:13 AM

well that's the thing, i don't reallly know which computer submitted it, i'm pretty sure it was the Xeon 5160 box, when i checked on it yesterday it was at 13min. frames instead of the regular 9 minute frames so that kinda makes sense

how's this for awesome, in ~4 months we could have 5 new members join the million point club!

[Edited on February 14, 2008 at 10:55 AM. Reason : ,]

2/14/2008 10:49:47 AM

so it sounds like the PPD was exactly the same then... I was hoping for an increase

2/14/2008 10:56:42 AM

been slacking as of late...gonna start it up today and get my other laptop online....just got road runner lite instead of shitty ass airimba

gonna see if i can get gs7 to hook up my roomies dual core laptop also at some point in the future

[Edited on February 14, 2008 at 11:09 AM. Reason : .]

2/14/2008 11:08:43 AM

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"it sounds like you're typing the wrong password."

slap me silly and call me sally...damnation, that was it...i don't have passwords on any of my boxes (because, really, i'm not worried about it), so i thought i could put in ANY password

back on track, thanks for the suggestion

[Edited on February 14, 2008 at 11:39 AM. Reason : .]

2/14/2008 11:39:38 AM

yeah i'm thinking you have to have a password for the install.bat to work right.

2/14/2008 1:21:48 PM

Quote :

"all my smp clients work fine. what os? did you change the "run as" in the service properties from Local System Account to a user account with admin privlidges?"

winxp, and yes it logs on as me.

2/14/2008 3:52:29 PM

Sweet! I found a new machine to gorilla fold on. The sysadmin for the lab I was folding in discovered that they could prevent me from booting from a CD by requiring an admin password for the usual F12 startup options.

On a related note, anyone know how to bypass a BIOS-level admin password to change BIOS settings on a newer dell desktop?

2/15/2008 8:54:23 PM

try the password - Dell
http://labmice.techtarget.com/articles/BIOS_hack.htm
http://www.uktsupport.co.uk/reference/biosp.htm
http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/CmosPwd

[Edited on February 15, 2008 at 11:55 PM. Reason : .]

2/15/2008 11:51:52 PM

may have to double post

[Edited on February 17, 2008 at 2:21 PM. Reason : testing something...sorry =/]


lol so my pent4-m 1.7ghz 384mb ram dell inspiron 2650 gets like 75.98 points per day...worse than i thought...also my roomate said she'd let me get her laptop and let one of you smart wolfwebbers set up folding on her comp...she has a dual core...pm me if you can help

[Edited on February 17, 2008 at 2:26 PM. Reason : .]

2/17/2008 2:21:27 PM

I think my computer blew a sprocket or something... Am running a Core2Duo that was producing about 1100 ppd and a steady 26 minute frame.

As of lately, my computer had an incident where it shut itself off and started smelling like smoke. Everything *appears* fine and the computer is running normally.

However, I'm only producing about 600 ppd now with a varying frame of 50 to 70 minutes.

Any ideas as to what might have happened? All four SMP processes are running and using up 100% of the CPU.

- Joe

2/17/2008 7:06:41 PM

Check your FAH log. Sometimes if the client is not shut down properly, it will disable advanced methods just incase that was the reason for the shutdown. If you want, you can force it with a flag.

2/17/2008 7:39:08 PM

who is j33pownr? putting up some nice numbers for a new join

2/17/2008 8:04:31 PM

^^^^Jus make sure to set FAH to go to idle when on battery power or your roomate will be pissed. You might also consider throttling back a bit to be sure there are not heat issues. I personally don't recommed the average use to run FAH on laptops due to heat issues.

2/17/2008 8:16:34 PM

^i agree, i'd only run it at 80% or so, any less (depending on the mobile CPU) and you risk not finishing the WU in time...

2/17/2008 8:27:12 PM

i currently run the smp 24X7 100% on two dell laptops (one inspiron and one latitude) and haven't had any problems yet

2/17/2008 8:35:17 PM

^^^^ that would be me. I am putting my computers to good use in their down time while helping the home team. I have a couple of older machines that im trying to get working using the boot from F@H cd i found online. I may be able to ramp up production if i get the go ahead at work to use the 3dsmax server farm. It may be a while before the server farm is up if I get the go ahead.

As of now I have an e6600 at 3.6ghz running smp 24/7, a xeon 5160 running smp almost 24/7, and a amd64 that i was running but it was only putting up 150ppd so ive been messing with it to try to get higher numbers.

2/18/2008 7:27:27 AM

^:drool That's about the only thing that could keep Prospero from taking over my 4th spot.

2/18/2008 8:13:44 AM

^^ badass! welcome to the team, and good luck with that server farm

2/18/2008 10:30:42 AM

The farm is not as awesome as it seems. Unfortunately I dont think any qualify for the smp client because they are just older workstations that were phased out after 3 years.

2/18/2008 1:40:58 PM

I just noticed my parents' computer running SMP back home on my has been down for the last few days. A quick remote desktop connection showed it had a "sock error." I just reinstalled and it's back up and running now. Sucks the deadline had passed for the WU it was working on.

2/18/2008 2:56:08 PM

how long does it take for it to show up sometimes? my 5 year old dell laptop registered its 170 points or whatever today, and my main dual core laptop finished sometime between like 6 and 8am but those points havent been added yet....its at 10 percent for the next WU...http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/user_summary.php?s=&u=91287

2/18/2008 3:41:08 PM

fuck i just passed the 30 minute editing mark...sorry for double posting...i went through a lot of shit lately...anyways, i think i "passed the deadline" for my WU...i went back up to read what happened and it said something about how it was due on the 7th...didnt know the shits expired...

2/18/2008 4:15:09 PM

joined on my comp and my ps3

2/18/2008 9:39:51 PM

Quote :

"Unfortunately I dont think any qualify for the smp client because they are just older workstations that were phased out after 3 years. "

are any of them dual core machines?

^ nice, welcome to the team!

2/18/2008 10:14:28 PM

I think one is...ill check in the morning

2/18/2008 10:34:39 PM

http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/user_summary.php?s=&u=61314

haha check out dakota_man...this is how bad ass he is...his trendline is down and he has no one thats about to overtake him


wtf does this guy have earning points???http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/user_summary.php?s=&u=61248

[Edited on February 19, 2008 at 1:04 AM. Reason : 20k points in one day a few days ago]

2/19/2008 1:02:07 AM

w00t, two 7,000 point days back-to-back, unfortunately the Xeon 5160 is going back in use tomorrow... maybe i'll be able to keep it up on the weekends, we'll see.

A BIG THANK YOU to all our new members, it sounds like a lot of you have really taken hold of this and ran with it, a lot of people experiementing with the folding CD and many people using the SMP client, you are all contributing a LOT for our team, KEEP IT UP!

This is already going to be a record month!

Quote :

"That's about the only thing that could keep Prospero from taking over my 4th spot."

you know how it is... if it's not me it's 30thAnnZ, and I'm just trying to keep my head above water...

[Edited on February 19, 2008 at 1:13 AM. Reason : .]

2/19/2008 1:08:38 AM

Wow, yea, you'd do well to keep that machine in the loop.

2/19/2008 1:12:38 AM

FWIW, we now have 80 active users and 12 over 1,000ppd, with 6 over 2,000ppd

2/19/2008 1:15:46 AM

w00t, spoke too soon, got 8,800 points today

(all these are from 4 machines)

2/19/2008 1:46:24 AM

Prospero what 4 machines are you running to score that much. The 5160 you mentioned earlier should doing 1700ish so what are the other 3? quads?

BTW my e6600 gets 2200ppd and my 5160 gets 1630ppd (while working on it at work)

2/19/2008 9:13:16 AM

i would join with my laptop too but it broke yesterday so I'm currently DoDing it before i send it back to Toshiba for a new hard drive

2/19/2008 10:05:21 AM

^^
Xeon 5160 @ 3.0Ghz - 9:50 frame - 2577 ppd - 32-bit xp
C2D E8400 @ 3.0Ghz - 13:50 frame - 1832 ppd - 32-bit xp
C2D E6850 @ 3.0Ghz - 16:06 frame - 1574 ppd - 64-bit vista
C2D T2310 @ 1.46Ghz - 36:08 frame - 701 ppd - 32-bit xp

~6684ppd or so, i'll start averaging 4107 or so after today though.

that's why most of my days the last week were 5280, with a couple 7040 days b/c the laptop posts a WU every other day or so

the 8800 came from (5) WU's, 2 from the Xeon, and 1 from each other computer

[Edited on February 19, 2008 at 10:56 AM. Reason : .]

2/19/2008 10:50:51 AM

i tried to get the smp stuff working on my new quad core machine, but it wouldn't get past the first step. i have the regular client running right now. i may try a little harder on the smp end later. but i just haven't had time to fiddle with it recently.

2/19/2008 11:03:29 AM