Nvidia OpenCL problem for 364.* drivers

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Message 1779813 - Posted: 17 Apr 2016, 2:00:43 UTC

The OpenCL section of the Nvidia 364.72 driver, and earlier 364.* drivers, has a problem which can cause an entire computer to lock up, or cause a few dozen OpenCL tasks (often not all from the same BOINC project) to give a quick Compute Error. Problem not seen in the 362.00 driver.

Tasks from POEM@home seem the most likely to trigger this problem.

Threads on the problem:

https://www.primegrid.com/forum_thread.php?id=6769#94223

http://boinc.fzk.de/poem/forum_thread.php?id=1205#10896

I have not yet seem this problem for any SETI@HOME tasks, but you might want to watch for it.
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Message 1780063 - Posted: 18 Apr 2016, 9:18:24 UTC
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I encountered the same problem, and set in mainboard bios the pcie bus fixed to ver. 2.0 , then no problems anymore.
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Message 1780098 - Posted: 18 Apr 2016, 14:47:27 UTC - in response to Message 1780063.  

I encountered the same problem, and set in mainboard bios the pcie bus fixed to ver. 2.0 , then no problems anymore.


Different mainboards have different BIOS settings. Mine doesn't have that setting, so I can't try that.
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Message 1784385 - Posted: 3 May 2016, 1:58:35 UTC

The 365.10 driver is now available, and does not fix that problem.
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