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Bill G Send message Joined: 1 Jun 01 Posts: 1282 Credit: 187,688,550 RAC: 182 |
Well I recently installed Windows 10 as an upgrade from Win 7. All went well with the exception that it installed Windows graphic drivers and SETI stopped working on the GPU. I just changed the drivers and the GPU is working again. By the way, this is much better than Win 8.1 for my desktop (which I really did not like at all-I went back to Win 7 on all of them). It shows as Win 8.1 in my account for now. This is a tech preview and not fully functional but what I see I am really liking. By the way, all I did before doing the upgrade was to exit BOINC, it started up again on its own after to upgrade finished. SETI@home classic workunits 4,019 SETI@home classic CPU time 34,348 hours |
qbit Send message Joined: 19 Sep 04 Posts: 630 Credit: 6,868,528 RAC: 0 |
My lappy was running out of work today, so I thought it's time to clean it and install the latest windows updates. The update process took forever and after it finally finished nothing worked anymore as it should. I couldn't start any programms, I couldn't read/write from USB, I couldn't even shut down the computer. The update completly broke the OS. Damn, I really hate 8.1. Windows 7 runs on my desktop since more then three years with hundreds of updates and it still works. 8.1 is completly f****d after a few month and just 3 (or so) updates. So I took the chance to install the Windows 10 technical preview on my lappy. Everything went well so far and it looks and feels much better then 8.1. Two programs I usually use are not working though. The first one is Avast, but I guess I can live without an AV when just crunching on the lappy. The second one is HWMonitor. Have to check if there is a beta which maybe runs on W10, or I have to look for alternatives. Well, the only thing I still miss now is WORK FROM SETI to get my lappy crunching again! |
rob smith Send message Joined: 7 Mar 03 Posts: 22191 Credit: 416,307,556 RAC: 380 |
NX-01 under-scores my feelings about 8.x - a PoP. With 10 running (albeit a pre-release version) why not have a look at Beta, I'm sure they would welcome input for their current crop to see what needs to be sorted for that base. Bob Smith Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society) Somewhere in the (un)known Universe? |
David S Send message Joined: 4 Oct 99 Posts: 18352 Credit: 27,761,924 RAC: 12 |
There is a program I use in another hobby that turned out to get completely screwed up by one of the security updates last week. I think I heard there *might* be other programs that are also screwed up by it, so maybe MS will issue a revised update. Meanwhile, we (those of us who use that program) can all simply not use IE. David Sitting on my butt while others boldly go, Waiting for a message from a small furry creature from Alpha Centauri. |
spitfire_mk_2 Send message Joined: 14 Apr 00 Posts: 563 Credit: 27,306,885 RAC: 0 |
So... What did they change from Win95? |
woohoo Send message Joined: 30 Oct 13 Posts: 972 Credit: 165,671,404 RAC: 5 |
subtracted 85 j/k |
tullio Send message Joined: 9 Apr 04 Posts: 8797 Credit: 2,930,782 RAC: 1 |
On my Windows 8.1 PC I downloaded two upgrades today. One was a security upgrade and was installed without any problem. The second was an optional upgrade of more than 900 MB and I downloaded it. No problem so far on my Virtual Box programs running on it, ATLAS@home and vLHC@home. BOINC is 7.4.27. Tullio |
qbit Send message Joined: 19 Sep 04 Posts: 630 Credit: 6,868,528 RAC: 0 |
NX-01 under-scores my feelings about 8.x - a PoP. I just did that, Rob. Couldn't get a single Seti-WU all day and vLHC is just running two cores, so I thought I could as well do some Beta work until problems are sorted out on main. BTW: The W10 technical preview has automatic updates activated by default and usually won't let you change these settings. Ofc automatic updates are not a good idea when crunching, so I had to look for a way to set it to manual. If anybody wanna try out W10 and wants to know how to change updates to manual, just drop me a pm. |
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