Message boards : Graphics cards (GPUs) : What's up with Linux & 8800GT???
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I got my new PSU yesterday after my last one got fried. (My Bad! I knew that 250W wasn't enough to run an 8800GT even with a nano-BTX mobo & E2180). I reinstalled Linux, because the old one got messed up when the HDD wasn't getting the power it needed before the PSU half-died. Now with my Thermaltake 450W PSU, I reinstalled this time a KDE Mint Linux64. I thought it was just me, despite getting that same Linux to run on annother PC, that I couldn't get tasks running on BOINC, despite everything looking OK. They got downloaded, but only go as far as saying waiting to run. I waited & waited, no luck. I then reinstalled Gnome Mint Linux64, same problem, it was que'ed & I even waited a day, no run. | |
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Have you checked to see that the GPU options in BOINC Manager are set correctly? There are new options in the newer versions. | |
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Felt as if I tried everything. Still a no go. I had no troubles with Win7, but would like to go back before 30 days, wouldn't want to pay for something I use as a crunchbox. | |
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It sounds like a driver issue or Boinc version issue for Linux; unless your drive has errors (Under Windows Right click on the C: drive, select Properties, Tools, Error-Checking, Check now, tick both boxes, select OK and restart the system). | |
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Huh? My 8800GT averages 12k a day? | |
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You have a good card then, but such results are becomming less common for that card. Lots of people get failure after failure with the CC1.1 cards, especially the older ones, and lots have stopped crunching because of that. The last set of improvements actually resulted in my GT240s getting over 13K per day. Its hard to keep track of the cards performances now with the techs doing so much good work. For those with good working 8800GT's, you have probably seen two recent jumps in performance of about 50% and then 30-40% and I think there is more to come. | |
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You have a good card then, but such results are becomming less common for that card. Lots of people get failure after failure with the CC1.1 cards, especially the older ones, and lots have stopped crunching because of that. While not quite as fast as the one above, my 8800GT never fails WUs. | |
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I see you are getting good results with your 8800 GT as well (8.5K/day), and your 9600 GSO is bringing home almost 7K/day too. Weather it is 8K or 12K is not important, just that they work; the amount depends on what else you use the system for and the CPU that backs it up (the same card attached to the same system with a Celeron won’t do anywhere near as well as one attached to an i7 overclocked to 4GHz). | |
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Nothing wrong with my cards, it's just the Linux I'm trying to get the thing working with. Windows ain't free. Running crunchboxes as a hobby, is like any hobby, there's a budget. Many people have many different agenda's & things to considder. If I can get a card cheaper then it usually costs, & my electricty bill is not a concern, well, I'll take that 8800GT over a 240GT ANY DAY! If I have something, I'll try to use it. Just because an i7 & a GTX295 is going to do the job better then an e2180 & a 8800GT, DOESN'T MEAN that I'm going to scrap my things, overspend (or maybe take a loan), so that I can have that i7 & x3 GTX295... | |
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Did you check the disk drive for errors and test the RAM? | |
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I tried Mint KDE64 (which was new to that system), tried Mint Gnome64 (which was the original one running before the PSU half died), then installed Windows7 64, just to check if something got fried. Everything is fine, it works on Windows7 64. But it doesn't want to work with Mint anymore. I think it's the updated BOINC Client. I have Mint KDE64 running on annother PC. But something happens when I reinstall, so I hope I won't have to reinstall anytime soon on the PC that works. | |
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Be careful when using a dodgy PSU, it could end up costing you a system. The Motherboard is often the first to go, which often leaves you with an old CPU. | |
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Actually, I don't think it's half dead, bad wording from my side. I just think that it suffered a faster than normal capacitor aging due to running an 8800GT 24/7 when it's only a 250W PSU (nice one too)... | |
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I see two of your systems are running the same kernel, 2.6.31-20 that I use in Ubuntu 9.1 Both of the systems I built would not recognized either a 9800gtx or a gts-250 about 1/2 the time. I could boot maybe 2-3 times in a row before I could see the message "NVIDIA GPU 0: GeForce 9800 GTX/9800 GTX+ (driver version unknown, CUDA version 2030, compute capability 1.1, 511MB" in the boincmgr message dialog box. About 1/2 the time I would see "No GPU found" or something like that. | |
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I took that system offline. It's not going to be used again anytime soon. I'm building an HTPC & will canibalize on that system. It's goin to run Windows7 64bit. But I am running Mint Linux KDE64 on a PC using a GTX260. No problems there appart from the GPU apearing/disapearing like yours. My solution is reinstalling Boinc Client after every restart, it doesn't bother me, because it's a crunchbox. But the problem with the PC running an 8800GT was that Boinc does recognise the 8800GT, but it doesn't start, it just remains in "Ready to run" & doesn't go anywhere from there, even after 24 hours. Other tasks are running, but even on Mint Linux Gnome64 it also has the same problem, but not on Windows7 64bit. | |
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I took that system offline. It's not going to be used again anytime soon. I'm building an HTPC & will canibalize on that system. It's goin to run Windows7 64bit. But I am running Mint Linux KDE64 on a PC using a GTX260. No problems there appart from the GPU apearing/disapearing like yours. My solution is reinstalling Boinc Client after every restart, it doesn't bother me, because it's a crunchbox. But the problem with the PC running an 8800GT was that Boinc does recognise the 8800GT, but it doesn't start, it just remains in "Ready to run" & doesn't go anywhere from there, even after 24 hours. Other tasks are running, but even on Mint Linux Gnome64 it also has the same problem, but not on Windows7 64bit. I also replaced linux with windows 7, or rather I tried. Unfortuntely, I failed to notice that win 7 home only works with one processor and I had activated it before I discovered I could get only one of my dual opterons to work. I gave that win 7 home premium to one of my kids who was building an i7 for himself. It took two phone calls to microsoft before they allowed him to re-activate it. If you have time, can you bring up boincmgr on one of you 2.6.31-20 systems and see if there are any dates in the meessage tab that are out of order? I have two 9.1 systems that have totally screwed up message dialog boxes. One is running 6.10.17, the other 6.10.43. thanks | |
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I didn't fully understand your question. Was this what you asked for? | |
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I didn't fully understand your question. Was this what you asked for? Sorry, I should have explained it better. I have 4 ubuntu systems, two of them have gpu's the others do not. The ones that have gpu's there is something amiss in the way the messages are being displayed. I bring up the messages on the two machines with gpu's and wait about 5 seconds. Then I scroll slowly down to the bottom of the buffer while watching the dates. About midway thru, the dates start over because the contents of the message have somehow been duplicated. If I wait longer then there are move duplicates. After about 10 minutes of leaving the message box active, there are so many duplicate messages that boincmgr no longer responds and I have to kill it or reboot. This seems to be only cosmetic and does not affect any crunching. There is no lockup if the message dialog box is not being displayed by boincmgr. There is a discussion here but no one else seems to have reported this problem. The problem seems to be related to 9.1 ubuntu with a gpu card as my other 9.1 system (and an 8.04) with same mombos are working fine but they do not have a gpu. | |
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I understand now. As I said before, that PC had been on since Sunday, it's Tuesday now, & there has been no looping. I don't recall any on my PC's ever having looped either. I might be wrong, but as I said, I don't recall this even having happened on any of my PC's. | |
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Message boards : Graphics cards (GPUs) : What's up with Linux & 8800GT???