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ProfileSteve Waring

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Message 11864 - Posted: 29 Jul 2007, 13:26:58 UTC

I have a brand new duel core laptop running Windows Vista Home Premium and Boinc 5.8.16.

When I log off, or shut down my laptop, my work units fail with Computational Error.

My only option seems to be to always hibernate my laptop.

Is this a know bug? Is there an increase in the number of failed work units?
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Message 11866 - Posted: 29 Jul 2007, 14:02:09 UTC

It's the too fast shut down. I've only been bitten by it once when a program wanted to reboot and the window to say ok stole focus from what I was typing. Hit the space bar... poof! A reboot.

One way around is the registry hack. The other way is to always completely shut down BOINC before shut down/reboot (file - exit for single/shared install, stop the service for a service install).
Kathryn :o)
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Message 11869 - Posted: 29 Jul 2007, 17:11:49 UTC - in response to Message 11865.  

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Sofar collected 9 reasons why one way or the other BOINC fails on Vista
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Sounds useful, have you got a link to the relevant page, and do you think it'd be OK if we (CPDN mods) stole the list to put into our documentation?
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Message 12092 - Posted: 15 Aug 2007, 16:27:34 UTC - in response to Message 12091.  
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Done, also in the German version. And thanks.
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