Bionic crahing laptop and not running?
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lazyconquistador Send message Joined: 6 Mar 13 Posts: 1 Credit: 34,295 RAC: 0 
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I'm running windows 7 and bionic 7.4.42 Over the past two weeks when my screen saver kicks-on it has either crashed my laptop or just gives the "usage to high" message. I've combed the boards, but people with similar problems have been directed here. So, is this a known problem and what can be done to fix it? Thanks. ID: 1697196 ·  |
Darth Beaver     Send message Joined: 20 Aug 99 Posts: 6728 Credit: 21,443,075 RAC: 3 
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lazyconquistador hello . There a few things . Turn off the screen saver and set it to blank screen in either your power setting , as in turn off the screen or in the windows desktop personlise , screen saver section to blank screen and in the Bionic client to off There may be other things causing it to , What programs have you got running in the background ? Others may comment on weather you have the right drivers for your card , i use Nvida so can't help there . you don't have a lot of memory so you need to shutdown any programs you have running in the background your not using . 
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KLiK Send message Joined: 31 Mar 14 Posts: 1304 Credit: 22,994,597 RAC: 60 
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also use TThrottle, so u don't overheat the laptop! ;)   non-profit org. Play4Life in Zagreb, Croatia, EU ID: 1697645 · |
 SongBird Send message Joined: 23 Oct 01 Posts: 104 Credit: 164,826,157 RAC: 297 
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You shouldn't be running SETI@Home on a laptop. Period! 
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Raistmer  Send message Joined: 16 Jun 01 Posts: 6325 Credit: 106,370,077 RAC: 121 
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You shouldn't be running SETI@Home on a laptop. Period! It's utterly wrong. SETI@home GPU apps developed on netbook, just FYI. Any computational device can be used provided user of device have some will to solve issues that may appear on some. ID: 1697657 · |
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Darth Beaver Send message Joined: 20 Aug 99 Posts: 6728 Credit: 21,443,075 RAC: 3
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You shouldn't be running SETI@Home on a laptop. Period! +100 maybe not 24/7 but fine otherwise 16/7
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KLiK Send message Joined: 31 Mar 14 Posts: 1304 Credit: 22,994,597 RAC: 60
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maybe not 24/7 but fine otherwise 16/7 I run #WCG on several laptops...no problems, when u use tthrottling technology...so the CPU or GPU doesn't go over 80% of their Tjunc! btw, it's about 30°C these days in Croatia... ;) non-profit org. Play4Life in Zagreb, Croatia, EU ID: 1697689 · |
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SongBird Send message Joined: 23 Oct 01 Posts: 104 Credit: 164,826,157 RAC: 297
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You shouldn't be running SETI@Home on a laptop. Period! I'm not saying you can't (develop or compute). Just that you shouldn't.
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HAL9000  Send message Joined: 11 Sep 99 Posts: 6534 Credit: 196,805,888 RAC: 57
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You shouldn't be running SETI@Home on a laptop. Period! OK well just don't tell mt 2 notebooks that run 24/7 that. SETI@home classic workunits: 93,865 CPU time: 863,447 hours  Join the [url=http://tinyurl.com/8y46zvu]BP6/VP6 User Group[
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tullio Send message Joined: 9 Apr 04 Posts: 8797 Credit: 2,930,782 RAC: 1 
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I have a HP laptop running SETI@home, Einstein@hom and vLHC@home 24/7. The only thing I did was to upgrade its RAM to 8 GB and to change its hard disk to a 120 GB SSD from OCZ. Tullio ID: 1697753 · |
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Raistmer Send message Joined: 16 Jun 01 Posts: 6325 Credit: 106,370,077 RAC: 121
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You shouldn't be running SETI@Home on a laptop. Period! And that's exactly I object against. Nothing prevents use to use computational device called notebook. It could be just more challenging in case of poor cooling from manufacturer. But poor cooling can be on any low-grade device. Why not to say "you should not crunch on anything but enterprise-grade hardware" ??... ID: 1697852 · |
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Herb Smith Send message Joined: 28 Jan 07 Posts: 76 Credit: 31,615,205 RAC: 0
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One of my 4 machines is a laptop. The laptop run 24x7 displaying a random slide show of pictures, which takes almost no CPU time. So it crunches MB's all the time. No over heating issues. Herb ID: 1697858 · |
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HAL9000 Send message Joined: 11 Sep 99 Posts: 6534 Credit: 196,805,888 RAC: 57
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I'm running windows 7 and bionic 7.4.42 The "usage to high" is likely a result of the Suspend when non-BOINC CPU usage is above setting in your BOINC computing preferences. IIRC the default setting is 25%. If you have something that runs in the background & uses a lot of CPU usage it could prevent BOINC from running much of the time. You could raise that value to 50-75%, or even disable the setting if you wanted BOINC to runs apps all of the time. As far as crashing more information would be required. Is it BOINC, Windows, or just the application that is crashing? Then is it the CPU or the GPU crashing. SETI@home classic workunits: 93,865 CPU time: 863,447 hours Join the [url=http://tinyurl.com/8y46zvu]BP6/VP6 User Group[
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j mercer  Send message Joined: 3 Jun 99 Posts: 2422 Credit: 12,323,733 RAC: 1
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I've had notebooks/laptops running 24/7 for years. One of my Alienware notebooks was ranked #62 in 2006.  ... 
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Darth Beaver Send message Joined: 20 Aug 99 Posts: 6728 Credit: 21,443,075 RAC: 3
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I've had notebooks/laptops running 24/7 for years. One of my Alienware notebooks was ranked #62 in 2006. I don't think anybody , well at least i'm not saying that laptops shouldn't be used . But there are some things people should be aware of . They can and do overheat and can burn out the gpu quicker because of the over heating and the 3.5 h/d in them wear out way quicker than a normal 5.1 normal desktop H/D however this should not be a problem with SSD h/d's So long as people are aware of it then there is no reason not to use your lappy . J.Mercer i too have used Lappy's for seti .
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