Weird problem involving parameter -qt

[[DPC]Mobster]

I used to run the client on my Athlon 1400 using (among others) the -qt parameter.

Last week I swapped the Athlon 1400 for a XP2000+
I played a few games, played some mp3's and surfed the net for a while. Then I started the client and within half an hour my system halted. I restarted the client and then I got a BSOD also within the hour. Checking my error.log revealed that the client noted these problems as normal 'shutdowns'.

To verify if the client halted when i.e. reaching a certain number of structures, I removed the -qt parameter. I again restarted the client and checked back an hour later. It was still running. I went to the pub and came back in the middle of the night to see that it was still running. I put the -qt back and went to bed.
Next morning my PC had generated another failure.

Anybody else have this problem before? At the moment I put the 1400 back :mad:

[bwkaz]

Which client, and which OS?

The Linux icc client runs fine on my XP 1800 with -qt...

[tpdooley]

Do you have the latest bios for your motherboard flashed? Do you have access to any of the motherboard monitoring software? (Asus and MSI include versions on their install CDs, but I don't know about other brands). There's also a program called "motherboard monitor" that I've seen mention. These will show the voltage the cpu is being fed, as well as the temperature of the cpu and case.

what voltage is the xp2000+ getting? and how hot is the cpu at start, 30 min, 45 min, 50 min, 55 min after starting foldit?

[runestar]

Isn't this a case of going to the doctor and telling him it hurts when you do this... I'll play the doc... "Don't do that then." ;)


Seriously, Why not just not use the -qt switch if it runs fine that way? All things taken and considered, I haven't noticed any difference between it being on and off. It does seem to waste less CPU cycles from the system running it full-screen as opposed to a window though.

I thought maybe it was the cooler too, but if was that, it shouldn't really make a difference either way since the CPU is equally getting stressed both ways. Also if you're gaming with 3D games, that would actually probably be more intense then just a distributed computing client since you are doing a lot more different calculations at one time as well as hitting the graphics system.

TTFN,

RuneStar½

[bwkaz]

Uh oh... I just realized I didn't realize what you were talking about (does that make sense?).

I meant to say "the client runs fine here with the -rt switch", the "double the speed by using more RAM" one, not the "quiet down" one. Which is really irrelevant to what you were saying.

:o

[runestar]

Duh! LOL...

In that case, did you check to make sure the temp directories aren't filled with junk (preferably when nothing, including DF, is running).

Some other things that have been noted:

* make sure you have enough RAM
* test your memory (although if you can run it fine one way, seems it should be okay anyways)

That's all I can think of off-hand...

RS½