1. Check the version of your video driver.
GeForce Release 182.08 WHQL

2. Verify your GPU temperature
without GPU work:
GPU1: Grafikprozessor (GPU) 53 °C (127 °F)
GPU1: GPU Speicher 45 °C (113 °F)
GPU1: GPU Umgebung 48 °C (118 °F)
GPU1: GPU VRM 50 °C (122 °F)
GPU2: Grafikprozessor (GPU) 56 °C (133 °F)
GPU2: GPU Umgebung 50 °C (122 °F)
GPU2: GPU VRM 51 °C (124 °F)

with GPU work:
GPU1: Grafikprozessor (GPU) 78 °C (172 °F)
GPU1: GPU Umgebung 65 °C (149 °F)
GPU1: GPU VRM 61 °C (142 °F)
GPU2: Grafikprozessor (GPU) 76 °C (169 °F)
GPU2: GPU Speicher 68 °C (154 °F)
GPU2: GPU Umgebung 67 °C (153 °F)
GPU2: GPU VRM 60 °C (140 °F)

3. Did you overclock your videocard?
No, its original
GPU Takt (Geometric Domain) 576 MHz (Original: 576 MHz)
GPU Takt (Shader Domain) 1242 MHz (Original: 1242 MHz)
Busbreite 448 Bit
Tatsächlicher Takt 999 MHz (DDR) (Original: 999 MHz)
Effektiver Takt 1998 MHz
Bandbreite 109.3 GB/s

4. Also, did you try a simple restart?
Yes, but it had no positve effekt

5. Do you have GPU tasks ticked in your Seti options on your account @ Seti?
No, its disable. Because I use the CUDA only for GPUGrid. Its works with all other machines...

Kind regards

Joe

Ohoh. If all that does not work, maybe your GPU is broken?

Check it out
1. with e.g. GPU-Z
2. in another machine if possible

OK, have to drive back home to Belgium now.
Hope to find some positive news on this after the WE

Take care

Kind regards

Alain

There an no problems with Everest or GPU-Z.
I testes this card in a XP machine - the same problem with GPUGrid. Then in a Vista PC - all ok. Put in in the next XP PC - and the card wont word... A problem with XP???

Kind regards

Joe

Hi Joe,

that looks really strange! It's not the GPU-Grid wouldn't run under XP in general. I installed 182.08 myself yesterday and it's running just fine. Since it works under Vista your hardware is fine, so you seem to have a wierd software problem. Did you customize your install via nlite? Or is there some rather uncommon software present on all your machines?
Edit: do you use remote desktop to access the machines?

MrS

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Hi MrS,

yes, the hardware is ok. I believe that XP is the problem... Its an 2day old XP with all MS, Nvidia and board updates. And on my other (older) XP PC I have the same problems... I try GPUGrid with the GTX295 in an naked XP - only with problems...
No, there is no remote desktop, only a normal network. There is only XP, Office an Photoshop CS3 installed.
I tested another GTX 295 in both XP PC - its already the same problem - in Vista a is all ok!!!
I tried the Seti Cuda work with the XP machines and it work very well, no problems.
Perhaps the next Nvidia driver will work better with my XP...

Kind regards

Joe

PS If you have any idea or solution for me, please write me!!!!!

PS I can't change to Vista, because I have problems to work with Photoshop CS on Vista, when the network print server works on XP. Photoshop works VERY slow in some functions...

Are the XP PCs updated to SP3 and the latest .NET ?

Regards
Zy

Yes, SP3 incl. updates and .Net3.5 Sp1...
There are no more updates for my XP...

Kind regards

Joe

Also got a corrupted WU, first one for me, could anyone please tell whats wrong!

QW11771-SH2_US_8-4-10-SH2_US_8880000_0
Workunit 305555
Created 13 Mar 2009 17:28:14 UTC
Sent 13 Mar 2009 19:04:44 UTC
Received 14 Mar 2009 19:36:59 UTC
Server state Over
Outcome Client error
Client state Compute error
Exit status 1 (0x1)
Computer ID 21408
Report deadline 17 Mar 2009 19:04:44 UTC
CPU time 6095.469
stderr out <core_client_version>6.6.15</core_client_version>
<![CDATA[
<message>
Felaktig funktion. (0x1) - exit code 1 (0x1)
</message>
<stderr_txt>

</stderr_txt>
]]>


Validate state Invalid
Claimed credit 4214.27546296296
Granted credit 0
application version 6.62

Also got a corrupted WU, first one for me, could anyone please tell whats wrong!

Sorry, no. There's no useful information in the task output and if it there are no further errors I'd just forget about it. You could keep an eye on the failed WU, though, and see if others are successful.

MrS

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http://www.gpugrid.net/result.php?resultid=401624

<core_client_version>6.4.5</core_client_version>
<![CDATA[
<message>
Incorrect function. (0x1) - exit code 1 (0x1)
</message>
<stderr_txt>
# Using CUDA device 0
# Device 0: "GeForce GTS 250"
# Clock rate: 1890000 kilohertz
# Total amount of global memory: 1073414144 bytes
# Number of multiprocessors: 16
# Number of cores: 128
MDIO ERROR: cannot open file "restart.coor"
Failed to set low-cpu sync mode
# Using CUDA device 0
Cuda error in file 'deviceQuery.cu' in line 59 : initialization error.

</stderr_txt>
]]>

My first WU worked perfectly, but the second one failed on my Windows XP Home SP3 when I changed profile, whilst the other was logged in.

Regards,

Rob

One of my computers that has been crunching gpugrid quit happily suddenly started giving errors. Suggestions? Here is a typical error:

http://www.gpugrid.net/result.php?resultid=410378

<core_client_version>6.4.5</core_client_version>
<![CDATA[
<message>
The system cannot find the path specified. (0x3) - exit code 3 (0x3)
</message>
<stderr_txt>
# Using CUDA device 0
# Device 0: "GeForce 9600 GSO"
# Clock rate: 1350000 kilohertz
# Total amount of global memory: 402325504 bytes
# Number of multiprocessors: 12
# Number of cores: 96
Cuda error in file '..\cuda/cutil.h' in line 305 : out of memory.
Memory usage: host: bytes device: bytes
Assertion failed: 0, file ..\cuda/cutil.h, line 305

This application has requested the Runtime to terminate it in an unusual way.
Please contact the application's support team for more information.

Yesterday all started over again all Gpugrid error out
Its not the vc since s@h runs fine the only thing which is active is the other project CPDN on 3 cores
But i have also a problem now getting new units its somehow not accepting new downloads or something not sure what is going on.
The sad thing is the unit seems to run fine for a while and then suddenly crashes.

After doing a good bit of work to re-ensure the stability and reliability of my machine, I set it working last night. My first GPUgrid task finished with an error, all other projects are completing without issue. Seems as though there might be something up with the WUs from the project atm, but I have no way to confirm that.

Most of the errors are usually due to overclocking either by the factory or by the user.
In your case the GTX 260-216 should be clocked 1242 Mhz, so you might be too high.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeForce_200_Series

Try to reduce it to standard clock rates and see if it works.

gdf

David,

Cuda error in file '..\cuda/cutil.h' in line 305 : out of memory.

This is a typical error, which is resolved by a reboot. Either caused by a memory leak in elder drivers under XP64 or after an app / game reserved lots of memory and GPU-Grid was running in the background.

webbie wrote:

Its not the vc since s@h runs fine

That's definitely wrong, take a look at what Paul and me wrote here. You are ~175 MHz above stock speed. It's naive to assume that this could not possibly cause your errors.

MrS

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I tested with lower speeds i set the card to lowest settings possible even lower then reported for nvidia 9600 gt on nivdia site.

The EVGA defaults for this card settings are indeed much higher then nvidia reports to be default but nevertheless i lowered them all.

But as i was checking i also stopped the CPDN units and saw something what i did not see before, after stopping the CPDN units the drive leds stopped flashing.
So i checked what happens when i turned on the units again, and it started flashing again without stopping.
The anwer on this came from the site of cpdn these units use 1,5 Gb memory a piece so running 3 or 4 of them seem to be too much.
Even if i had booted into my win7 X64 mode it would have had not enough memory to run them all since 8GB isnt enough to run 4 of them.
Hence the continous use of the swap space.
After i turned of cpdn units and let the other projects flow as usual on 3 cores seems to run fine again.
So i guess its a good idea to check which other projects run together with gpugrid.
I start to wonder if it is safe to run s@h or cpdn together with gpugrid
Ill test the settings of cpdn to use only low amount memory ones after this ones are done.

I think I may have fixed this issue:
If you have Windows XP Home and you want to switch profiles whilst using Boinc, follow the steps below found here:
http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=50929

Windows XP Home, huh? Then you don't have the User Account control panel, only that stupid (sorry ;-)) simple file sharing.

What you could try is the following:
- Restart computer into Windows Safe Mode (Keep hammering F8 after you cleared the BIOS and before you see the Windows Logo, when upon the menu choose Safe Mode).
- Select Start > Run
- Type %allusersprofile% in the Open text box. Then click OK.
- Right-click the Shared Documents folder, and select Properties.
- Click the Security tab.
- Select Everyone in Group Or User Names, and then select Allow next to Full Control in the Permissions. (if possible, check that the admin account you're using is a member of the boinc_admins, boinc_projects and boinc_users groups. Normal accounts should only be members of the latter two groups)
- Click Advanced, and select Replace Permission Entries On All Child Objects With Entries Shown Here That Apply To Child Objects.
- Click OK, click Yes, and then click OK to close the Shared Documents Properties dialog box.
- Select Start > Run.
- Type msconfig in the Open text box. Then click OK. The System Configuration Utility will open.
- In the System Configuration Utility, select the General tab.
- Select Normal Startup - Load All Device Drivers And Services. Then click OK.
- Restart the computer.
- Reinstall BOINC.

I didn't even know you could get to the NTFS permissions on XP Home.

Regards,

Rob

Speeds set by evga precision tool
525 Mhz core speed, shaders linked on core showing 1302 mhz
memory set at 900 mhz
nvidia stock speeds core 650 Mhz shaders not mentioned.
memory 900 Mhz
But i guess i can set them higher again since all works fine when s@h or cpdn aren't jumping in as running projects

There are issues when running s@h and GPU-Grid together. I don't know everythig, but it seems that if seti errors out the PC will need a reboot to use CUDA again (GPU-Grid also erros). But there may be more.

Stock shaders for 9600GT are 1.625 GHz. I'd put the clocks at NV stock for one WU or 2 and switch to the old values afterwards [if successful ;) ].

MrS

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