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Former Member
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Hi all,
I have started using WCG and am delighted to be able to contribute to such worthy causes. However, when the screensaver comes up and BOINC runs, my system speaker beeps like crazy. Just to clarify, that's the beeping speaker on the motherboard, not my actual desk speakers. Is it running in a way that my motherboard/CPU don't like? Is it a BIOS setting I can change? Any suggestions welcome as I'm sad I have to shut down BOINC because the beeping is too irritating to everybody in my house. Thanks guys :) |
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Former Member
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Hi,
----------------------------------------Can't remember BOINC ever causing this... maybe something faulty in the [on mobo display section?] Others have written about bloated capacitors causing a whining noise. Did find on web search that poor seating of VGA or memory could cause this and or trouble accessing RAM, proposing to run e.g. memtest86. You can run BOINC without the screensaver and that saves several percentage points in CPU time, so try to switch to e.g. the blank screen-saver to see if it is a temperature issue. If you open the BOINC Manager, in Advanced view > Tasks tab, select a running job and hit the "show graphics" button on left. Expand it to maximum to see if same happens. Let us know and thanks for joining WCG. --//-- edit: added some search findings. [Edit 1 times, last edit by Former Member at May 7, 2011 10:53:00 AM] |
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nanoprobe
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Hi all, I have started using WCG and am delighted to be able to contribute to such worthy causes. However, when the screensaver comes up and BOINC runs, my system speaker beeps like crazy. Just to clarify, that's the beeping speaker on the motherboard, not my actual desk speakers. Is it running in a way that my motherboard/CPU don't like? Is it a BIOS setting I can change? Any suggestions welcome as I'm sad I have to shut down BOINC because the beeping is too irritating to everybody in my house. Thanks guys :) If you're mobo uses on board video I would suggest not using a screen saver. It will save you some memory usage. if you have a dedicated graphics card then it won't affect memory. You can set your monitor to shut off after x minutes (I use 5) and skip the screensaver. Hopefully that will stop the beeping. Good luck.
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Coleslaw
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It sounds like the onboard feature warning of overheating. I had a board once that let me know when approaching critical levels before shutting down. I would recommend download and running an app. to monitor the heat and see what is happening. Also, you didn't clarify if BOINC ran at all times or just when the screen saver was active. This helps to know when trouble shooting. If it runs at all times, then we know something is screwy with your screen saver...if it only runs when the screen saver is on, then we know it has something to do with BOINC in general.
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Former Member
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Hi again all,
Thanks for all the help. I looked into it a lot and it turned out to be too much CPU usage. I actually found this out indirectly because I was running Handbrake (video conversion software) and as soon as it got started I heard the beeping again. I checked in Windows task manager and it was running all four CPU cores at 100% load. My motherboard must have been set to go crazy when CPU usage was too high. I've looked at the CPU in SpeedFan too and the core temperature when running like this is about 58 degrees C even with the fan at highest speed, which is way too much for a CPU. Anyway, I solved it for Handbrake by going to the process under Task Manager > Processes > Right click process > Set Affinity > Untick one or two cores. This prohibits the process from using all the cores available. I have done the same thing in BOINC by going to preferences under advanced and, under processor usage, setting the box labelled "On multiprocessor systems, use at most x % of the processors" to 75%. I hope this helps anybody else who comes across this problem. Thanks for all the help anyway, guys. |
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petehardy
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I'd say that 58C is about right for a quad running at 100%.
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Former Member
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Hi,
Glad you located some culprits, though 58C is nothing exceptional... my quad is 59C on the CPU, 45C on the mobo and 53C on the GPU. Suggest you visit the Dust Bunnies thread and do some spring cleaning in the computer. cheers --//-- |
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This is a really simple Bios setting issue, and nothing else.
You have your Bios set to beep when the CPU temperature, or system temperature rises over a certain temperature. Go into the Bios and change it. |
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z2000
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...and unblock the cores, right?
----------------------------------------To reduce CPU usage, the Boinc can be set for 60 or 80 percent, under Boinc: Advanced> Preferences ...and question If the computer task manager blocks half of the CPUs, and Boinc blocks half, does that mean you end up with only one core?  |
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Former Member
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If you enable the system, not the application, to only use half of 4 possible, then set BOINC to use half of the active cores, yes, you might end up with just 1 of 4 being used. E.g. deactivate the hyperthreading in a system, then at 50% BOINC would use half of the physical cores.
Generally, for a windows system and a temperature issue I'd be using TThrottle [for BOINC], which would smoothly slow down BOINC rather than the on/off way the BOINC throttle works, then still use the maximum possible of the CPU at the temp ceiling set. --//-- |
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