Hello,
Checking on my computer periodically I find that it has gone into a very low energy state that forces me to turn it off. It seems to only occur while running Bionic or Rosetta (unsure of which one's the problem). This is annoying since it wastes hours of potential computation time and ruins my hard won average .

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...a very low energy state

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Perhaps you could explain how one knows if their PC is currently in a "low energy state" we could help you resolve it.

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...a very low energy state

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Perhaps you could explain how one knows if their PC is currently in a "low energy state" we could help you resolve it.

By very low NRG state I mean it is as though it is hibernating but nothing I do will wake it up. The fans are running but it doesn't sound like it is using any CPU. I then have to turn it off then on. I experimented with it on with and without running BIONIC/Rosetta and it only seems to occur while running BIONIC/Rosetta.

And: Athlon 2100, 1GB RAM, 15GB free harddrive, Windows XP Home SP2.

Thankyou

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...a very low energy state

????

Perhaps you could explain how one knows if their PC is currently in a "low energy state" we could help you resolve it.

By very low NRG state I mean it is as though it is hibernating but nothing I do will wake it up. The fans are running but it doesn't sound like it is using any CPU. I then have to turn it off then on. I experimented with it on with and without running BIONIC/Rosetta and it only seems to occur while running BIONIC/Rosetta.

And: Athlon 2100, 1GB RAM, 15GB free harddrive, Windows XP Home SP2.

Thankyou

Hmmmm, not sure, but have you checked for overheating ?

http://www.dirfile.com/freeware/temperature.htm

Also, if you have not done so in awhile, it might be good to use compressed air to clean out the inside of the computer. My computer suffers weird things like you describe when the dust gets too deep inside.

cheers,

Jonathan

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Can you give some additional symptoms? Does it only happen if you leave Rosetta running for an extended period of time?

When you say it doesn't SOUND like it is using CPU, do you mean that you recognize the sound of the fax speed? And so the sound you are hearing is the sound it makes when it is idle?

I see cases where BOINC loses contact with the crunching WUs and once the WU completes, I'm not crunching anymore. I have to restart BOINC... but not the computer.

Is this a laptop? Or otherwise, yes overheating may be occuring. Have you tried a tool like ThreadMaster to limit the CPU% used? It lets you set the % of CPU to use, and often by throttling it back to 70% or so is enough to prevent the overheating.

Are you using Rosetta as screen saver? It seems they've been having some problems with that, and people are finding that setting the screen saver back to NONE allows Rosetta to run successfully.

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Hi, your Credit returned for a wrokunit doesn't indicate throttling (if it was throttling it would generally over claim credit)



Also an AMD AthlonXP 2100+ normally wouldn't overheat unless your fan is on the way out or you have a very badly vented case.
They also do not support powersave/cooling throttle states (but they do have a %throttle back if the motherbaord does it enabled on overheat) but then we are talking very hot.

It looks like something is up with your computer though, check for virii etc. and that somthing is not damaged.

Also could you run the benchmark again after a reboot (you will find it in the menu under advanced option) since the returned values say something is very, very wrong.

Measured floating point speed 84.55 million ops/sec
Measured integer speed 2569.01 million ops/sec
Notice the very very low floating point speed... (should be ~10x that)


Try a reinstall of BOINC if it doesn't get better (current BOINC version is 5.4.9)

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