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Message 1742138 - Posted: 14 Nov 2015, 21:12:27 UTC

I run to GTX 980s in SLI, and lately all my results remain pending or are marked as inconclusive (, so my computer has been doing a lot of work, but I'm hardly getting any credit.http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/results.php?userid=10114411
Is this a problem on my end? How should I fix it?
FWIW, my computer is also participating in other BOINC projects without this problem.[/url]
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Message 1742143 - Posted: 14 Nov 2015, 21:46:14 UTC

This is not a problem, rather the normal situation - both you, and your "wingman" have to return results for validation to be attempted. Recently there was a server problem which resulted in a very large number of incorrectly formatted tasks being sent out, this has resulted in a very large backlog of results that have to go through validation, fail, and are resent 8 more times - this can take a long time.
There is nothing that can be done at our end of the food chain to speed things up :-(


Here's better link to Jaun's computers: http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/hosts_user.php?userid=10114411
(There is a subtle difference between the URL you, as the owner of a PC, and the rest of us have to use, and it causes no end of confusion)
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Message 1745204 - Posted: 27 Nov 2015, 9:04:49 UTC - in response to Message 1742138.  

Hi Juan,

I've got an nvidia gtx560ti and I found that downloading MSI Afterburner and slightly increasing the core voltage on my graphics card solves the problem. It normally is set to .993 volts, but upping it by about 10% soled my problem. Of course you should check what maximum safe voltages are first
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Message 1745299 - Posted: 27 Nov 2015, 21:03:25 UTC - in response to Message 1742138.  

I run to GTX 980s in SLI, and lately all my results remain pending or are marked as inconclusive (, so my computer has been doing a lot of work, but I'm hardly getting any credit.http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/results.php?userid=10114411
Is this a problem on my end? How should I fix it?
FWIW, my computer is also participating in other BOINC projects without this problem.[/url]



Juan, how much are you overclocking your 980s?

Seti stock applications are already optimized. Overclocking them too much will lead to error here on Seti.

Try setting your GPUs back to stock speeds and see if the invalids and inconclusives resolve.
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Message 1745310 - Posted: 27 Nov 2015, 22:16:26 UTC

The OP's problems have nothing to do with his GTX980s being either under-volted or over-clocked. They are related to the fact that SETI at home takes a lot longer to validate tasks than many other BOINC projects.

The only potential issue with his GTX980s is they are running in SLI mode, which may, and it is only a may, cause some performance issues. That would be shown by a greatly extended run time, which is not in evidence in his results.
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