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aristide1 · Post by **aristide1** » Thu May 29, 2003 6:18 pm

Come on people, Ni is gaining on us!

Last time I looked they were 14K+ points behind us, now it's 12K+

And we have a lot of commited people here. If I don't fold 24/7 I barely maintain my rank in the group. Of course I don't know if we're commited or should be commited.

But I had a question before and a follow up question now. I had set my defaults to stop and ask when a WU is done. What I want the settings to do is upload automatically. How do I change them? And if it uploads automatically will it connect and disconnect automatically as well.

MORE questions, I want an UPS before I commit to 24/7. Friday we had a power outage and I had to do 4-6 reboots before W2K stopped acting funny. BUT I noted UPS have noise ratings. Do UPS fans run 24/7? I don't think I could handle that. I still want quiet, ya know?

aristide1 · Post by **aristide1** » Thu Jun 05, 2003 5:04 pm

So much for my questions.

Anyway another one of "those", 17 minutes per acknowledgement, or 1% completion. 30+ hours worth. Probably a lousy 37 pointer again too.

Well MikeC, at least we made it past June 5th. That was your estimate, right? I've been folding quite a bit and my position within the group is falling. That's actually very good.

Now how do we jump start TheMuffinMan?

Post by **NeilBlanchard** » Thu Jun 05, 2003 6:57 pm

Hello:

Now's the time to join up -- or get crankin' again if you have joined and let it slide...TKWSN have slipped from a 7-day production of 42K down to 39K and SPRC is around 32K, so with a bit more help, we can hold them off -- forever!!

We can stay ahead with a mere ~300 more points a day!!! C'mon -- that's just 3-4 fast & silent machines! I know that you're out there...

Edit: the servers must have been in a lull -- TKWSN, have now pulled ahead by over 1200 points/day -- so we need another 12-15 machines rather than 3-4, but there are over 30 dormant members on the team who could start contributing again... NOW IS THE TIME!!!

rpc180 · Post by **rpc180** » Thu Jun 05, 2003 9:17 pm

Not that I'm trying to hijack spots, but I'm putting the 1700 online tonight to fold to try and fend off the Knights. There's 1 silent machine for you!

LushMD · Post by **LushMD** » Thu Jun 05, 2003 9:29 pm

And I'll add another machine soon (Barton 2500) and another one in a month or so (XP 1700; although it may not be folding full-time...depends on how quiet I can make the mATX case). Take care.

Wrah · Post by **Wrah** » Fri Jun 06, 2003 5:51 am

Hopefully next week I'll receive my new mobo + barton 2800+, which I intend to overclock seriously (yet silent). I'm hoping on 100+ points a day. I'll go make it fold asap and install it decently later when we've left the knights safely behind us.

It's gonna be exciting wether or not kwsn are actually gonna overtake us. I've been a stats junkie the past weeks over this. Our production keeps increasing while theirs keeps hovering around 6000 a day. We're gaining 4-5 members a week, they only about 2. By the end of last week they were gaining on us with about 1450 a day, a few days ago this had dropped to around 1300 and now it's only about 1200. The slower they gain on us, the more time we have to reach the 6000 points a day.
I'm sure that even if they are gonna overtake us, we'll overtake them again within a few weeks.

aristide1 · Post by **aristide1** » Fri Jun 06, 2003 5:53 am

We have enough members already, we just need them to start doing stuff again. I've passed several that have simply stopped.

But why?

Post by **Rusty075** » Fri Jun 06, 2003 6:28 am

Maybe we should send PM's or emails to all of our members who have stopped producing. Sounds like tedious work, but may be useful. I'd volunteer, but I'm going to be spending the next 2 days driving halfway across the country.

On a good note, I've successfully borg'd my parents PC. Add an 800 Duron to our folding empire.

Fingle · Post by **Fingle** » Sat Jun 07, 2003 12:35 pm

I finally joined up to this effort. A worthwhile use of CPU time too. That's a 2500 Barton processor working on it, hopefully it will help out the team.

I just have one problem, if I try to display using the client, or use the screen saver I get this error :-

Can't create A GL Rendering Context.

No idea what it means and didn't see it refered to in the FAQ's, anyone here seen it?

Happy folding,
Fingle

DryFire · Post by **DryFire** » Sat Jun 07, 2003 12:54 pm

Do you loose all your work if your computer crashes while folding?

i was 20% with WU and my comp crahsed and it's starting on a new one.

Post by **NeilBlanchard** » Sat Jun 07, 2003 1:21 pm

Hello:

Rusty075 wrote:Maybe we should send PM's or emails to all of our members who have stopped producing.

I sent a PM to all the members who have stopped contributing -- that is, I sent a note to all the folks that I could get a name for. Some have either left the SPRC Forums or they used a different name for their folding membership. So, I probably got to about half, or little more than half of the "gray" folks...

Two have responded in the positive, and they promise to start folding again ASAP. I hope that all the others will just start folding!

Do you loose all your work if your computer crashes while folding?

i was 20% with WU and my comp crahsed and it's starting on a new one.

Not usually -- most of the time it just continues at the last completed level, so 19% in your case. But it sounds like things got corrupted in this instance, so it had to start over.

dukla2000 · Post by **dukla2000** » Sat Jun 07, 2003 3:00 pm

DryFire wrote:Do you loose all your work if your computer crashes while folding?

i was 20% with WU and my comp crahsed and it's starting on a new one.

I find it is about 50/50 - sometimes it restarts OK, sometimes it restarts at 0%. And occasionally (when I was over-overclocking and undercooling) it goes back to Stanford and gets a new WU.

DryFire · Post by **DryFire** » Sat Jun 07, 2003 8:27 pm

no it's overclocked. been stable for like amonth now but i guess 3 of 4 hours of pure 100% cpu usage it final bit the dust. It's not my os. I've never had problems with 2000 pro.

riffst3r · Post by **riffst3r** » Sat Jun 07, 2003 9:19 pm

i was one of lost ones who got a PM from NeilBlanchard

i've been through hell... probably worse, but i'm back now. so if only some one would help me out (check my thread) i'd be back in full swing.

DryFire · Post by **DryFire** » Sun Jun 08, 2003 6:44 am

i know i;m running back at stock. my temps were getting to high in teh summer and my room was starting to feel like an oven.

DryFire · Post by **DryFire** » Sun Jun 08, 2003 8:13 am

I'm working on it. I had my computer oc'ed to it's Deminishing return or at least what it was with my cooling. Stock is not putting off too much heat for me. i will try undervoling soon but i want to finish one WU before i do.

aristide1 · Post by **aristide1** » Sun Jun 08, 2003 6:47 pm

Do you loose all your work if your computer crashes while folding?

I didn't. Lost power here 1 day. W2K did several reboots before settling down, but folding just started right up.

I should have another machine folding in about a week.

DryFire · Post by **DryFire** » Sun Jun 08, 2003 7:00 pm

yeah i put folding on my uncles new labtop which he'll be getting soon.

rpc180 · Post by **rpc180** » Sun Jun 08, 2003 8:06 pm

well, it'll make up for my shut down of the XP1700. I can't stand the noise the HD makes! Damn old Maxtor 1.2Gb drives!

DryFire · Post by **DryFire** » Sun Jun 08, 2003 8:27 pm

YES! just submitted my first WU.

sneaker · Post by **sneaker** » Mon Jun 09, 2003 5:47 am

Alright, as of yesterday my Eden ESP 6000-equipped EPIA-M has been folding like mad, and has completed 5% of a WU. It should be complete in just over two weeks, and I'm certain it will give the team a big boost!

SometimesWarrior · Post by **SometimesWarrior** » Mon Jun 09, 2003 2:03 pm

Okay, my dual-XP1600 machine is back on task. It's no longer overheating!

Question: my first two WU's took over 24 hours to complete, but only got me 15 points each. Does that seem a bit low to you? It was discouraging enough for me to put folding on hold for a while.

aristide1 · Post by **aristide1** » Mon Jun 09, 2003 3:45 pm

Points are not consistant. Do several before you feel cheated.

DryFire · Post by **DryFire** » Tue Jun 10, 2003 4:41 pm

i gotta get my computer back at 2400+ speeds it's rediculously slow at 1800+ speeds.

riffst3r · Post by **riffst3r** » Tue Jun 10, 2003 10:04 pm

SometimesWarrior wrote:Question: my first two WU's took over 24 hours to complete, but only got me 15 points each. Does that seem a bit low to you? It was discouraging enough for me to put folding on hold for a while.

mine's a bit stingy on the points and slow too (24mins a frame), but i keep to folding since every little helps

Wrah · Post by **Wrah** » Tue Jun 10, 2003 11:56 pm

Will35, number 11 in our team with 1100 points a week, has crossed over to the dark side. He joined KWSN.

Post by **MikeC** » Wed Jun 11, 2003 12:09 am

Omygod! A defection to the... KWSN! nononono! So what's our policy on defectors?

On the other hand, maybe he's playing double agent?

BTW, to set the record straight, I waded into the main KWSN thread late one night and saw post after dumb repetitive post from the horde, and I got so fed up with the mess, I banned a half dozen or more of their IPs and deleted a bunch of their posts. Next night I felt sheepishly dumb myself

and unbanned them. As others have said, it's all in the name of a common goal for "the good of all" so... If the goading and taunting increases production, who am I to argue.

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