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Message 5310 - Posted: 8 Jul 2004, 17:57:36 UTC

My AMD crashed on me after it over heated and restarted. Once it was done booting, all workunits and the seti program (d/l via BOINC) was all erased!! completely!! Is this some sort of major bug? Cause i had download a few workunits to last me some days as the cable company was redoing the lines and changing a few routers, and now its all gone!
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Message 5317 - Posted: 8 Jul 2004, 18:25:27 UTC

Probably has to do with the computer crash. Try error-checking the HD. NT class windows does not always write to the HD until system shutdown, pulling the plug can do do damage to the contents of the HD.

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Message 6422 - Posted: 11 Jul 2004, 8:27:02 UTC - in response to Message 5317.  

> Probably has to do with the computer crash. Try error-checking the HD. NT
> class windows does not always write to the HD until system shutdown, pulling
> the plug can do do damage to the contents of the HD.

Umm... if your processor is overheating you are focusing on the wrong thing here. Address your cooling problem first! =P

You are wrecking your system this way and screwing up the science results in the progress too. Fortunately, BOINC triple-checks the first results returned.

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Message 6471 - Posted: 11 Jul 2004, 11:28:58 UTC - in response to Message 6422.  


> and screwing up the science results in
> the progress too.

how is that possible? My computer crashed on me...period. its not gonna wreck ur damn results coz there wasnt any left to return! did u read the question properly?
as for the cooling, im alreeady on it..apparantly the fan slowed down and the system reached critical temp before it restarted. im gonna have the hsf replaced this week.
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Message 6539 - Posted: 11 Jul 2004, 15:12:53 UTC - in response to Message 6471.  

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> > and screwing up the science results in
> > the progress too.
>
> how is that possible? My computer crashed on me...period. its not gonna wreck
> ur damn results coz there wasnt any left to return! did u read the question
> properly?
> as for the cooling, im alreeady on it..apparantly the fan slowed down and the
> system reached critical temp before it restarted. im gonna have the hsf
> replaced this week.
> ----------------------------

The CPU will start throwing errors before it actually crashes, that is why he was worried about screwing up the results.

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