I had an external enclosure that behaved like that (but the disk never got working). The problem turned out to be a weak power supply, which the company replaced for me.

I just got a reply from Antec.: "I apologize for the delay. We have tested your MX-1 on several motherboards and have found nothing wrong with it. Both eSata brackets worked fine without any problems. I will have our RMA Department send you a replacement MX-1 enclosure anyway. We will hang on to the...

Cancer. He's working for understanding and for a cure -- to kill the cancer.

Acronis TrueImage is an alternative to Norton Ghost. They have a time-limited but (I think) full-function trial version available from www.acronis.com. In addition to various kinds of backups, this software can clone a hard disk, resizing partitions to fit a larger or smaller destination disk. And t...

>How the hell did I do that? Probably one started at boot (you said that you "installed it as a service") and you started a second one in a terminal window. >Will this one complete OK? Decent chance if it is still making progress. >I restarted Terminal now I can't see what its doing, can only tell f...

If your computer doesn't provide an eSata port, the Antec MX-1 comes with a Sata-to-eSata adapter: you plug it into a motherboard Sata port and it makes an eSata connector on the back panel. Unfortunately, it appears that this Sata to eSata conversion is not guaranteed to work. According to rumor, t...

Hi, Aristide1. Glad you got it working. I agree with ryboto that there should only be 4 cores, not 8. I hope your process monitor only shows one instance of fah5 -- if two, the fah work files will likely get overwritten by the two competing instances making a mess. The old-fashioned way to see what ...

Hi, Aristide1. I haven't been following your entire story, but did you remember to install the 32-bit compatibility libraries after you installed ubuntu? They are needed for the fah5 console front-end program, and if they are missing it could possibly cause the "I can't find any executable program n...

Try to get some air blowing on that hot disk. Any quiet fan at very slow speed should be plenty to bring that disk temp down.

Don't be discouraged by the previous remark. It is entirely feasible to make a very quiet quad core machine: this site has lots of good information about how to manage your system heat quietly without necessarily going to extremes.

Anandtech has tests that show basically identical performance between the regular and extreme ultra-120's at low and moderate CPU dissipations. The extreme version is a few degrees better only under conditions of extreme overclocking (for example, C2D X6800 pushed to 3.73GHz), where the extra therma...

I agree that is way too high for idle temps. With a properly installed XP-120 (including properly-applied thermal compound) and reasonable case and heatsink airflow, I would expect a CPU idle temperature no more than the room temperature plus 10c -- somewhere around 30c, for instance.

Another possibility is the Zalman FanMate 2. It's cheap, and hides inside your case: you dial in the exact speed you want, then leave it set there, safely hidden away from little child fingers.

Re-do your arctic silver. Probably your CPU isn't going to burn up immediately, but you should be able to get to 55c or lower with your setup. There is a rumor that 60c is reasonably safe -- some people turn down their fan to the slowest speed (for quiet) that keeps the temperature no higher than 60...

>I just read about how as5 is supposed to be applied. 1 1/2 sizes of a piece of uncooked rice. It depends on the chip type. The Arctic Silver web site has detailed instructions for several kinds of chips, and the instructions differ depending on the chip type. For an old AMD X2 it was the "grain of ...

I'm partial to the Thermalright XP-120. It's an older 4 heatpipe design that blows down onto the motherboard components (good for cooling motherboard components, and it lowers the cantilever forces by comparison with a vertical heatsink). It weighs 370g + fan weight, so it is within the 500g recomme...

>I think part of the problem might be that I configured the install for deadlineless" WUs, Please search the documents/forums at stanford folding to look for the last word on those. I vaguely recall that the WUs with no deadlines were for a project named Tinker that preceded Gromacs --- it ended yea...

floffe was ensuring that the user who runs fah has permissions to write into the directory where the fah runs, so that the client program can write the new fah cores into that directory. You didn't accomplish that by only changing the owner and mode of theFAH502-Linux.exe program. You may also need ...

The E model with a Zalman Fanmate or other speed control will give you flexibility and it is quiet if you turn down the speed. If you don't intend to put a speed control on it, you may prefer the 21D which is reasonably quiet even at 12V and likely moves enough air. (The quoted 20dB and 9dB figures ...

Thermalright does sell the fittings to use an XP-120 with C2D. I use it.
Their "LGA775 RM" is the LGA775 retention bracket -- basically a backplate, screws, and 2 mounting brackets. I got one in the USA from www.jab-tech.com (SKU=SKU_2570 price $4.99) and newegg listed it but was out of stock.

Don't know, but you could try running the client with -verbosity 9 to see if the extra logging detail gives any more specific indication of what went wrong.

>Neil, swear my display already showed the 6PM time as zero.

It first sets everyone to zero at the start of a time batch, then updates the counts as it finds points awarded in that time period.

One possibility: keep your raptor and put it in a Smart Drive 2002. It won't be silent, but it will be quiet.

Two days ago I built a P150/Asus P5B-E system and so far it's working just fine. So with fresh stock (Newegg) the combination can work. This is not to deny the problems that other folks have experienced previously. I'm just saying that with recently manufactured hardware it is not necessarily a horr...

I run a raptor 150 in a smart drive 2002. That keeps it quiet.

For home PC workloads, a raptor 150 may give better performance than a stripe pair of raptor 36's.

Hi, Avi. I took retirement recently. At work I had a lowest-priority batch queue that had been occupying servers with folding when the cpus otherwise would have been idle. The queue suspended the folding jobs whenever real work came along, but we still were able to donate lots of spare cpu.... Now t...

Hi Neil. I have two console versions running for me ok on an x2. There are two separate directories, with a copy of the executable in each directory. They are not set up as services. I put a shortcut to each executable into my programs->startup with shortcut named Fold1: target: G:\Fold1\FAH504-Cons...

I have an xp120, but different case and motherboard so I can't comment directly. However, you could always consider the xp-90. It fits almost any system, cools quite well, and with a good fan will be just as quiet.

Agreed, the main benefit of a raptor is improved boot time and program launch time, especially if you have a fast antivirus checker (e.g., NOD32, not McAfee). I have a raptor 150 in a smartdrive 2002, and my old ears can't hear it anymore. Before installing it in the smartdrive, the seek chatter was...

There is a discussion of points in the Folding@Home ATI GPU FAQ http://folding.stanford.edu/FAQ-ATI.html The description of points is a bit confusing, but it seems that for their standard benchmark CPU they give 110 PPD, for folding on the ATI they give 440PPD, and during the beta they actually are ...