I bought and installed a GPU, but I don't get tasks for the GPU
9 Sep 2021 15:46:29 UTC
Topic 225986
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Hello.
Today I bought and installed a GPU in one of my devices, but I don't get tasks for the GPU. Why? What do I need to do to start receiving tasks for the GPU? The necessary projects are marked in the profile.
And on the device page on the Einstein website, it is not visible that a coprocessor has been added.
Thank you.
which system are you
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which system are you referring to?
you have 1 system in your list that shows a 1050Ti GPU. It has several GPU tasks in-progress, but this system hasn't contacted the project in almost a week.
https://einsteinathome.org/host/12804960/tasks/0/0?sort=desc&order=Sent
If you're talking about one of your other systems that you added a GPU to, can you point out which one? none of your other hosts show a GPU, which likely means that you either don't have drivers installed at all or they are not properly installed.
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New GPU has been installed in
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New GPU has been installed in this device:
https://einsteinathome.org/ru/host/12805028
No GPU is listed. which means
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No GPU is listed. which means BOINC doesn't detect it's presence. Which likely means drivers are not installed properly. Did you install the drivers? What kind of GPU is it?
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It is NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050
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It is NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti
And of course, immediately after installing the GPU, I downloaded and installed the latest drivers from the NVIDIA website.
NVIDIA Control Panel shows no
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NVIDIA Control Panel shows no problem...
This may be a stupid/obvious,
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This may be a stupid/obvious question, but it needs to be asked to be absolutely clear.
Have you rebooted the system since installing the drivers? or at the very least restarted BOINC (actuallly shut down the client, not just closing BOINC manager). GPU/device detection only happens at BOINC startup. On windows this happens automatically after login. If for some reason you haven't rebooted the system after installing the drivers, the BOINC device detection wouldn't have happened again to detect the new device.
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Yes, of course, I rebooted
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Yes, of course, I rebooted the computer after installing the drivers. And then I even installed a fresh version of BOINC and restarted the computer again. Maybe we should somehow tell the project that the device configuration has changed?..
And Device Manager shows,
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And Device Manager shows, thah device working properly:
https://yadi.sk/i/qZdpAlDG1l_3ZQ
are you running any special
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are you running any special client configuration files? like a cc_config.xml. Is it possible you have some exclusions in there that are telling BOINC to exclude your GPU?
do you have any messages in your startup log that indicate that a GPU is present.
given that your host details do not show a GPU as present indicates to me that the problem is on your side, not the project side. something wrong with your host or with the BOINC install/configuration. the project only knows what you have based on what BOINC tells it, and this updates every time you restart BOINC.
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Here's what I just did: 1.
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Here's what I just did:
1. Uninstalled BOINC.
2. Deleted the folders C:\Program Files\BOINC and C:\ProgramData\BOINC.
3. Installed BOINC again.
All my personal settings, if there were any, should have been deleted. But the result is the same : - (
Thank you for help anyway!