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hintsala
Advanced Cruncher Joined: Aug 2, 2006 Post Count: 129 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Can someone idiot proof installation of this on windows 8? im not super tech savvy. Confused after googling and seemed like most support was for seti anyways. I see the sticky but am interested in simple directions if possible. Thanks for any help.
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Former Member
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BOINC Installation is already quite idiot proof, certainly for Windows. All you need to do is log into a local account, *not* a MS (online) Account, start the installer [right click in the file browser and select to run as administrator] and when executed, select at least the Advanced installer screen, All all users. Choosing Service in same screen will ensure BOINC runs before logging in, but you wonrt be able to do GPGPU project participation. Missed it? Uninstall and Install again until you got it right. The Start Here FAQs have a screenshot guided install series for different releases including v7.0.xx of BOINC
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hintsala
Advanced Cruncher Joined: Aug 2, 2006 Post Count: 129 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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thank. what happens if i do not choose service install?
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katoda
Senior Cruncher Poland Joined: Apr 28, 2007 Post Count: 172 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Then you will crunch only while being logged in. Do not worry, this setting is sufficient for most of the home PCs, I doubt if you normally turn on your PC and leave it as not logged?
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hintsala
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ok installed. how do i log in? WCG.org is not listed in the window?
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Former Member
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Log-in aka Sign-In on your computer to your computer account, for instance 'Hintsala', and to emphasize, it has to be a local account, not one Microsoft knows about through their live.com system! The BOINC client logs into WCG whenever it needs to fetch/report work. That is the WCG user account/password, a different level, preferred to not be named the same as your computer account... or you give away a piece of the access information to the public [another reason why installing as service is more secure... then BOINC shows registered to the generic limited rights boinc_account]
P.S. When I wrote "All all users", that was a typo... the option in the installer is "Allow all users". |
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Former Member
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... or did you mean how to log BOINC into WCG? You don't... as always, you one time attach WCG [http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org] to a client and then enter member userid/password. After that, BOINC knows till you detach.
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hintsala
Advanced Cruncher Joined: Aug 2, 2006 Post Count: 129 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Thanks. Got it running. HPF P2 had a computational error whatever that is but FA@H is working. weird.
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Coleslaw
Veteran Cruncher USA Joined: Mar 29, 2007 Post Count: 1343 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Not all systems like HPFP2 and there are known issues with it. Go to that forum and read through the various posts. You can also post your error in there if you can't find the help you need and people will trouble shoot the issue with you.
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