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BOINC is closing himself on Win7?

Hi guys.

So im running HCC GPU since it released, and i set up my first Win7 Machine (64Bit, BOINC 7.0.28, Cat 12.8) for it to use the new HD7950. Buuuut. After elimination some other problems, there is only one left (the badest :/). It seems BOINC Manager is closing sometimes @ 23:00 plus 1 or 2 hours on WCGs Timezone. Thats around midnight here. I have all automatic thing like updates deactivated. Thats strange, it cant be a rebooted machine because when i reboot it manual, boinc manager opens normally. Because it happens to a strange time with no event in the eventviewer for it, on a unattended, most of the time unmanageable machine (it runs in a room for my "Cluster" with most of my other BOINC Machines too on a 3G Connection with a incoming firewallrestriction on providerside), i struggle how to find the error now. As first aid i create a Windows shedulertask (dont know if it is the correct word in english) that starts everyday @ 2:30 my timezone the boincmgr.exe. Its not the best solution (and i hope it works) because 1.) it could produce still a idletime of 2 hours because it cant set the starttime to early and 2.) because of the lower quad cpu, i used to start the 4 concurrent tasks in a asyncron way..second task after 20 second, thrid task after 40 second, and fourth after 60 seconds the first tasks start...roundabout.. So GPU run fast as possible with this cpu and minimazing idletime on gpu. When it starts with the sheduler now, all 4 tasks start at the same time, witch adds up to an extra minute of computing time for all 4 tasks. I dont know if it runs after some hours asyncron from alone...because boinc manager is closing.. ;) Its a first, but definite not the final solution ;) Even when i should take the machine at home to look 2,3,4 hours on the screen every day, i dont know how to detect the fault exactly.

Dos anybody has or had the same problem perhaps?

Thx :)

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Re: BOINC is closing himself on Win7?

Did you check the BOINC client log ? Maybe you'll find your answer there.
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Re: BOINC is closing himself on Win7?

In principle, BOINC [boinc.exe] does not require BOINC Manager [boincmgr.exe]. If you at some point closed the BM and ticked to box to also close the core client, then also ticked the box to remember the decision, next time you close the BM or is somehow involuntarily closed, the core client also stops.

Let's verify a few things:

1) In the BM Tools menu click on Options. Is the "Enable Manager Exit Dialog" ticked? If not, do so.

2) In the BM hit File, Exit or Quit. A second dialog should open asking if "Stop running tasks...". Untick the box. There's also the "Remember this decision and do not show this dialog again". Untick that too.

Now if you quite the BM you get the dialog and can exit/quit without stopping crunching. If the BM crashes or is closed by a scheduler the core client [boinc.exe], continues to run, it should. I've never got the BM loaded unless I want to check up on operations. The BM does use little CPU time [it's just a GUI interface to give commands to the core client], else it does nothing, occasionally has the habit to lose connection and than starts eating CPU time trying to reconnect [a point where things start crashing].
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Re: BOINC is closing himself on Win7?

Sekerob: Thats a very good thing i can try. Didnt see it from this side when boinc manager maybe closing itself or strange crashing that i perhaps can prevent boinc from stoping too. I will try wednesday and report soon then ^^

Ericgagne:I look too if there is a logfile on the harddisk. I only knew about the messagebox in manager itself, witch is empty with every new start.

Thx :)
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Re: BOINC is closing himself on Win7?

I don't know if this will help at all, but very recently I had a similar problem with one of my I7's (win7 pro 64bit), it started to shut down and restart (most of the time), within 10 minuets each side of 1pm.

I tried everything to solve the problem and nothing worked, in frustration, took it to a local repair shop, found out it was the PSU playing up (a 2 year old Dell, been running 24/7 for 2 years), replaced the power supply and no more problem biggrin

If nothing else works, it may be worth looking at the PSU?
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