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if you want to get the psu to turn on without a motherboard, then you've got to short the green with a black (ground) in order for it to turn on, however, i can't remember if you have to keep it shorted in order for it to stay on or if it's just a touch.
then after it's on just measure the +12v (yellow) against the GND (black) or whatever other voltage you may want to measure.

the ps3 folding idea is great, i personally am a playstation fanboy, but i honestly think sony has failed me this time... i mean their having all these delays, high price, low yields, and small launch armada. i think sony's like some other companies *cough* apple *cough* which have been having problems, however, i personally don't like apple but they have been lacking in quality in the last year or so. however, once juggernaut companies like sony and apple start losing money they will wake up and get their act together.

Ara

hmm... seems CNN has an article on this:

Article
 
you can also measure from a free molex which is good for testing under load (only works for 12v and 5v though)

the yellow wire is 12v and the black wire next to it is 12v ground while the red wire is 5v and the black wire next to it is 5v ground. when testing be sure to use the appropriate ground (ie don't test 12v using 5v ground)
 
Thanks both of you. I am at work now but will go and test that as soon as I can. I can't check it under load because right now my MB is out for Warranty replacement (they have had it for weeks now).
 
@Cunning

Is your sig image @ liquidnijas.com can I use it as well. I have one of the otherones that were created and put up for grabs in this thread but now it is only getting linked to because it is too big. It is 570 x 75.
 
the sig is from dcsig.com - it's just one of the rules (the only one?), that somewhere on that sig there has to be the "liquidninjas.com" wording, or else they delete it. you can sign up there yourself, edit cunnings (ie crop it) or choose some other's which is already in the right size (ie mine!) 😉
btw: CONGRATS TEAM TO RANK NO. 70! - keep folding everyone!



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and what about posting proposals for the article in this thread? anyone? :roll:
 
As far as proposals for the article go perhaps we could give a breif description of F@H a timeline of the teams milestones, and some credit to the really large contributors. Maybey the article could cover some of the interesting projects that have been spawned by this effort (I.E. Cunning's farm). Hopefully it would also tell people how to join, and breifly explain things like how to set up and monitor a client (or more than one on a machine that has multiple cores).

If anyone else has any ideas toss them out, Please!
 
Is your sig image @ liquidnijas.com can I use it as well. I have one of the otherones that were created and put up for grabs in this thread but now it is only getting linked to because it is too big. It is 570 x 75.
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Sure. Everyone cn use it and edit it unitll their hearts are content.

It's called: THG9, if my memory serves me corectly.

Post or PM me if you can"t find it @ www.liguidninigas.com.
 
Another idea I had would be to run some benchmarks of common programs with folding running in the background and when it's not. See if there is much of a difference to show people that it doesn't interfere. Well and of course we'd have to put up some team stats.
 
Here's my $.02 on an article.

Goals:

1) Explain folding (or link it) for the sake of...
2) Enticing new users to contribute (to THG of course) because
3) We want to donate to a charitable cause, and/or score points

Highlight achievements:

1) What Stanford has accomplished & why it's important (i.e. post-genome research). Protein folding is the logical extension of chromosome mapping.
2) Why THG is THE team to fold for. Which leads us to:

Marketing:

How many n00bs post and/or read these forums for the sake of knowledge?
I lurked about for almost 3 years before I registered. When I decided it was time to give back to the community that supported me, I began folding.
It was the least I could funking do in my mind.

Give a little back to the team that supports you.
You owe it to us!

for reference, [H]ardOCP typically has a folding link on their front page. Forum gurus offer congrats for all milestones. They push it, and $hit gets done...

Other thoughts:

We need to link to several FAQ's. we have a decent toolbox on one of the forumZ spaces.

We all need to make a concerted effort to help B00bs, preferably in a separate area. Everyone & anyone feel free to PM me with Q's 4 A's.

Ideally one of us should mod the DC sections.

I nominate EntityAnomly... It would be a relatively large time commitment.

Folding has been the most fun that I've had since they 86st the Rogue Market & Acrophobia, which is BTW back @ http://www.megat.co.uk/acro.php

Anyways, I'd love to contribute. Let me know how I can help.

Fold on Protein crunchers. It’s your right, duty, and entertainment.

Isn't that right guys????
 
Ideally one of us should mod the DC sections.

I nominate EntityAnomly... It would be a relatively large time commitment.
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Why thank you Cunning, and as your king I would...... oh wait wrong speech. LOL jk

Yea that thread that I started which was in regards to FAQ, I think was a good start for what you are talking about. I guess the question is, and I don't know who we'd field a question like this, but would THG promote something bigger and better for the team?

I think what it comes down to (again) is that we need our own forums space or webspace, if THG would be so gracious. There is a distributed computing section in the forums, but it's so burried that I doubt it would ever attract new folding team members.

First things first I think we need to push for the story idea to get more recognition.
 
cunning - those were good 2 cents!
here's my small change:
like EA said, we allready have our small DC-section, problem is, only those who really look for it are ever going to find it.
with this thread on the other hand, we've got this opportunity to flash up in the scroll-screen on the main-page, it's easy to find, but it's all mixed up and a horror to read through the whole thread.
I'm not sure as to what the fact that one of us, err I mean EA, mods the DC-section, will change in regards to the obscurity of the whole section -- in other words still no one will find it, no matter who is the mod.
Methods to lure people to this section include the article of course - I'd like to thank Aragorn again for this input - and we could mention it in posts in other forumz-sections - but that's not going to work very well, if I look at the total number of posts of the last 3 people in this thread -- let's face it: we're not the typical full-time posters (at least I'm not), so we need different means to promote our team.
that brings me back to the article: cunning's post has a good story-board, if I may put it this way, I'd only like to complement it with this small input: we're a typically hard-ware-freak overclocking site, so why not point out that there's nearly no better way to find out about a newly overclocked systems stability than to let it fold for a few days? - cheers!
 
Am just in the process of building a new terminal services server at work and its not actually to be commissioned until next week so I decided I would take advantage of its idle time and see what the little piece of work can do on Folding@Home.

Basic specs are:-
2 X Woodcrest 5160 3GHZ Dual Core Xeons
8GB Kingston 667MHZ ECC Ram
Intel S5000PAL Server Board
Intel SR1500 1RU Server Chasis
2 X Western Digital 320gb SATAII 7200rpm HD raid 1.

I actually lost a few computers I was folding this week and I was down to just my home PC but this little baby should keep a few WU's rolling in with 4 cores folding at once!
 
I finally got a multimeter today (they're on sale for $2.99 at Harbor Freight if anyone else needs one) and I can give my PSU a clean bill of health, I'm fairly sure my previous problems were from software conflicts and I *think* I've resolved them (crossing fingers)

thanks for all the help everyone :)
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turns out all the trouble I was having was a harware issue after all, my crappy generic ram decided it doesn't like 1T command rate any more, it errored out of P95 in 5 minutes or less so I ran memtest and it started showing errors in 3 minutes (was running 1T stabilly for the past ~8months) dropped it to 2T and it went through 2hrs of memtest with no errors :roll: I was planning on getting a quality 2x1Gb kit soon, but with teh price jump I'll just make this crap last till I go AM2/3 (I was looking at a patriot 2-3-2-5 2Gb kit for ~$150-$175 now the same kit is ~$250 :evil: )
 
Wow Poncho, that should crunch some numbers fast, or at least a bunch of WUs all at the same time.

Makes my Dual Xeon(single cores) server sound like an old pile of junk!
 
kind of makes me want and x1900... not that i didn't want one anyway... i'm stuck with my x700 till after next summer. i don't see why they can't release this for all graphics cards (say dx9 graphics cards or something) because that way they would expand their use base by a dumpload, and GPU's are still several times more powerful then CPU's and more people have mid-range GPUs...

Ara
 
good news! I'm referring to that article!
and Sparky updated our teampage!
btw, we've got a lot of new members, welcome to the team! at the moment there are (currently!) 17 new in the last 7 days, which brings us to a total of 377 - plus we've got an average greater than 30K per day, which gives us a new colour in team rankings like this or this!
great! 😀
 
Thanks endyen, I appreciate the congrats. Looks like you should be able to catch Sparky, that should be exciting as well. :)

Stefan is right welcome new members! Thanks for joining. If we keep this up we can aim at top 50!
 
Speaking of congrats, holy cow Computer Dude good job I see you as #2 on the top 20 producers. You're ahead of apesoccer and sjonnie.

Also gotta throw out a good job to BIGGER and ijm2403 with the big 1000+ daily averages. Great Job!
 
Yeah quite a beast and it was busting out some pretty good numbers over the weekend. Had a daily average of 500+ with just it and my old athlon xp2500+ folding. Sadly as it is now going into use it will fold no longer! :cry:
 
damn, all 3 of my folding computers get assigned to the busiest server, i've been trying for a week to submit work from all 3, soon enough i'm gonna have 6 WU's waiting to be submitted (and one of my computers has begun to idle 8O )

checking the server status page i can see that the particular server was serving 76 connections when it's recommended amount (written at the bottom) is 30-40 whilst the other servers are close to idle. anyone else having troubles submitting?

Ara
 
the folding forum is not working.................i get a blank page

just started dual-core folding and the cores always crash at 40 or 60%. It says "Gromac cannot continue any further". I'm at STOCK speed and installed all patches!!!!!!! help?
 
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