Hello !
Using Rosetta@home v. 5.07, windows XP ant ATI Mobility Radeon Graphics card ; each time I open the rosetta screensaver to look at the graphics, it stops after a couple of minutes, my screen becomes black then it reopens again and I've got to close quickly the window of the screensaver or it continues all the time.
Conclusion : I cannot see the graphics without my screen crashing down.

(sorry for my poor English)
Duanra

You might want to try upgrading your BOINC client software to version 5.4.9. See here. Also Rosetta Version 5.13 could help.

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Well... the problem is, this isn't a "cruncher" computer; it's a "home" computer, and as such, is typically turned on for less than 6 hours a day, in two or three time blocks. Hence, "leave apps in memory" doesn't help that much as the computer's memory is getting blanked twice or three times daily.

The good news is that I have since had a unit (a JUMP_ALLBARCODES_ANTIPARALLEL unit, 16268260) complete successfully under 5.07, and 5.12 and 5.13 have since released. I've had another JUMP_ALLBARCODES unit complete successfully under 5.12... have to see if 5.13 can get along with the all-too-frequent closings.

I think Moderator9's comments are right on, but I think what's triggering the error is that Rosetta has been preempted 5 times -- and we have a "feature" that kills WUs that have started/stopped several times. I like the idea to increase the time to 120 (or even 240 minutes, which is what I run on my Mac!). Its a bit puzzling though because you have "leave apps in memory" set -- it shouldn't matter if its preempted. So please double check your Rosetta@home setting are "leave apps in memory" let us know if you continue to get errors.

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Well, all I know is that Rosetta worked perfectly from 29 Nov 2005 to early April 2006 with only 384 ram, so I don't know why it used to work so well below basic requirements. Was it 512 ram back in Nov of 2005 ? Should I not have been allowed to attach to Rosetta with 384 ram ? Should I try Ralph with 384 ram ?

Please advise.
Jonathan

Do try joining Ralf.
There are computers there with less than 512 in memory.
Anders n

Hi Anders,

Thank you for the note. I joined Ralph and it worked one day and then stopped. I think it stopped because in another thread, it suggested for people to change their settings for RALPH, but leave their other settings for other projects. But Rosetta is running perfectly again. Yay, the 7 day dead in the water was worrying, but now it is back on track with nothing done on my part. I am starting to suspect that my ISP runs late night things on its servers to disrupt BOINC and other P2P programs. I get error messages late at night only from 3am to 5am or I see them in the morning also. I am thinking that I have to shut down BOINC at night and restart it in the morning. A long term solution is maybe I should go to a better ISP and see if things improve. I am glad my 4 projects run fine with 384RAM. Anyway, thanks for the time to read this far. (^:

Jonathan

I get error messages late at night only from 3am to 5am or I see them in the morning also. I am thinking that I have to shut down BOINC at night and restart it in the morning.

You might also set up BOINC to not use the network during those hours of the day. This is in the General Preferences. You can set the "Use network only between the hours of" to something like 0600 - 0200. Then in your BOINC Manager, commands menu (called "activity" menu in the lastest BOINC version) select the option for "network activity based on preferences". It will just wait until the allowed time of day and do uploads and downloads during those hours.

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Add this signature to your EMail:
Running Microsoft's "System Idle Process" will never help cure cancer, AIDS nor Alzheimer's. But running Rosetta@home just might!
https://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/

You might also set up BOINC to not use the network during those hours of the day. This is in the General Preferences. You can set the "Use network only between the hours of" to something like 0600 - 0200.

Thank you ! I will try it. (^:

Jonathan