You need patience, and you need to stop rebooting. Every time you interrupt the work unit, it goes back to the last checkpoint. This particular chunk of the work unit is very difficult to crunch, and is taking a long time. Leave your computer running constantly for a few days, and it should get past the sticky bit.

The new project (HPF2) checkpoints less frequently than previous projects, and from what we are seeing so far, when it does have trouble finding a solution it appears to freeze for quite some time. I'm afraid that's just how the science works, and there's not a lot that can be done about it.

If you post your device ID here, the grid techs will be able to take a closer look and advise you further if required.

Sean aka flametech21,

My 2 cents...... if after 1 week running and amongst a frame of 48 hours of uninterrupted crunching, no boots as i understand from your writing and stuck at 57.1% in the 'i' screen of the UD GUI, on a machine normally ripping thru WU's, including HPF2's......kill 'UD_7324001.exe' or something like that in taskmanager. It will send an error back to WCG and fetch you a new version of HPF2 for UD, just out per post of Viktors. That is, if you only do HPF2 as chance could send you first a FAAH.

Post your Device number here which you can find in the 'V' screen. The techs can see if others had also problem(s) with your particular WU from the logs @ WCG.

If by miracle, suddenly you saw progression to 57.2% at the 11th hour....ignore this post.

PS, if you have a grid shredder, might you have a 2 / 4 core machine? If so, there's a post on how to convert to BOINC. Can do 2 / 4 WU's simultaneously

PPS, Lawrence just posted before me while i was finishing this writing, but wanted to share anyway....we're seeing more of these conflicting advises on this 'stuck' progress matter with HPF2...seen even advises of killing after a few minutes of stuck in the 'i'. Well a few hours is warrented.

cheers

This problem with the graphics not advancing.... is it happening on all operating systems? Or is it confined to Win98/ME/SE? Core graphics routines on those were 16 bit not 32 bit like Bill the Bandit claimed. Perhaps the graphics are attempting to address more pels and/or colors than 16 bits allows?

My error..I was at 70% and 83 hrs. overnight went to 70% and 90 hrs. reboot took it to 2 1/2 hrs 70%. now at 5 hrs 70%. version is 3.0 (2844)

A slow machine downloaded 3 HPF2 units last week. The last one has been stuck on 33% for a day and would probably not be complete by tomorrow's reporting deadline. I threw it out and will just run FAAH on that one for awhile.

20 hours gone.