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You should upgrade to Win7 x64 anyway. I greatly prefer it to any other M$ OS.

What do you think of 8.1? My wife's laptop has 8 on it and I think I will try to upgrade it as soon as the final version is available.
 


Well, I like that compared to 8, you can boot strait to desktop and if you do have to enter the Modern UI, the desktop background still shows.

While I dont listen to much music, I think the Xbox Music player built into 8.1 seams to be laid out a little better than it was in 8. Although that could my preference.

Last, it seams to start-up slightly faster. Although, the laptop I'm running this OS on (lenovo 3000 n200) will be 5 years old at the end of the month.... So any PC of today that running windows 8 and is upgraded to 8.1, might not even see that at all. (I use this laptop to test any new software I want to try out or software that looks questionable. This includes beta OS's.)

With the "start button", if you right click on it, you get a pop-up menu that you can select almost anything you need right away such as control menu or shutting down.

*not my image*
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Beyond that, I cant find any differences or differences that I would care about. Cant even say that I hate anything about 8.1 from 8. (If it was 7 vs 8.1, well I think we all know the answers on that)






Well, if you want me to try out anything that you (or your wife) might care about, just let me know and i'll try to let you know what I see (screen shots or video, ect).
 
All she does on it is jump to the desktop and open IE (I installed Chrome but she won't convert) for Pintrest/Netflix or Word to type papers.

Boot to desktop is all she will care about and having a semi-functional start menu when I have to do anything is all I need.
 
Hallo guys.

Have you seen the published papers list recently? or the diseases studied (what we're doing now) section?

It seems that there are very few things are being done in 2013, and only 3 or so papers, all of which have to do with computer science. (none on medical research). This is compared to so much stuff seemingly done in 2012, with some pretty awesome medical papers as well.

Bad signs? I hope not...
 
Well, they did have this announcement recently about a new group joining on: http://folding.stanford.edu/home/introducing-the-chodera-lab/

Research moves at unpredictable paces - I imagine we'll be seeing a lot more as Core 17 work ramps up and the first stages get processed.
 
Having a slight problem with the new 8018 and 7660 work units.
For some reason when starting a new work unit one of my VC will only ramp up to 406mhz instead of the 851mhz both are overclocked to.
The only way to get it to run 851mhz is to restart the computer. So far I have lost 2 work units by doing so.
Upon restart, after properly closing down F@H , I get the error BAD Work Unit ,which gets sent back with no points awarded. The last unit was at 76% done. I restarted and lost all of the work.

Any Ideas or suggestions?
I am stumped at this point as to what the problem could be. And it is really hurting my work output. PPD is way down. 🙁
 
I was getting that for a while on my cards (560 Ti). They don't shift from the low power clocks when the core starts for some reason. I would also have to reboot to get them running correctly but I never lost a WU due to it.

I think when I asked about it someone else said that they started seeing that just before their card quit on them. Fortunately that has not happened to me yet though they are not folding currently due to the season.

Is this your 460? How old is the card? How old are your drivers? Have you changed anything recently? I would start with the basics.
 


Yes one of the 460s. No changes besides windows updates.
Still running 314.22 drivers.
Both cards are about 21months old and have been folding their whole life Minus 3 weeks for vacation. Had a similar problem in XP about a year ago. I started leaving the comp booted to Win7 and it went away. Although it has now returned.

 
A quick search found this thread:

http://foldingforum.org/viewtopic.php?f=59&t=16858

Some suggestions include downclocking the GPU and changing the power management settings in the NVidia control panel. I also saw somewhere that updating the card BIOS may help but that was an older thread and may not apply.

Since you are getting bad WU errors I would start by backing off your clocks. If you are using AfterBurner you can set up multiple OC profiles and use higher clocks for gaming while keeping a conservative profile for F@H.
 


Turned on AERO and set the NV to performance mode. Aero looks like ccrap to be honest.
But if it fixes the problem I can deal with it.
Have been running 851/1700/1800 for well over a year on both cards folding.

If it happens again I will try reducing clock speed and see if that fixes it.
Thanks for your help.

 
Well, i wasn't going to mention it seeing as you passed me back, and how things spiralled out of control last time....but....nah :lol:

Thanks, its nice not being No:13, and its nice we are STILL moving up the chart collectively :)
 
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