seti@home occasionally (but regularly) crashes my entire desktop, that is all running apps but not the O/S. It's as though every application is immediately killed.

This happens on both a Win7 64-bit laptop and Windows 8.1 64-bit on a tower box with the latest BOINC x64. The environments are entirely different but both show this all-kill bug.

It happens after seti@home has been running and the mouse is moved or keyboard touched. The screensaver is not used, only computing in the background during inactivity.

This is a serious problem because it crashes everything, even running VMware VMs. Obviously it is completely unacceptable as I have repeatedly lost work and time.

After 15 years of computer for SETI and being in the top 1% daily I'm find myself seriously considering removing it entirely.

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What about other heavy loads:

LinX (Linpack) for CPU
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?201670-LinX-A-simple-Linpack-interface

FurMark / GPU Caps Viewer 'Demos' for GPU
http://www.ozone3d.net/benchmarks/fur/
http://www.ozone3d.net/gpu_caps_viewer/


Do they also "kill everything"?

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- ALF - "Find out what you don't do well ..... then don't do it!" :)
 

Hi Tod,
Had a few strange glitches, GPU driver seems to 'blink' or something followed by a non transparent task bar, then a few minutes later the taskbar goes transparent again.
This is sometimes followed by a system freeze:-/ Requires a hard reset to get anything going again.

Been tearing my hair out checking Mobo temps, GPU loading etc.

Finally decided to have a look at my mobo bios settings, reset them to manufactures optimum/default and all of a sudden my CPU temps are down even under full load as are GPU temps.

Still don't know exactly what bios setting was out of whack but it seems cured now [ touch wood]

Just got to wait and see if any more lockups occur, but they have been several hours apart, and until the last one, a couple of days, so I may have a long wait to see if I have managed to cure the problem with that bios reset.

Maybe a look at your bios setting may be of use? Paticularly if win8.x has altered the UEFI setup as it tends to on install.

Regards,

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Cliff,
Been there, Done that, Still no damm T shirt!