PC dies, HD full of work, how to force spare PC to run them ?
27 Feb 2011 12:38:20 UTC
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My new PC has died, pins burnt out on MoBo power connector, and PSU can't power 2 GTX 460's... spent all day Saturday checking each component, and it's only the ASUS that's failed.
I have a HDD with a load of WUs ready to go, how do I force the spare PC to recognise these files ?
Or is it reset project only ?
dunx
PC dies, HD full of work, how to force spare PC to run them ?
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No, usually you just install the hard drive into the other PC and install BOINC on it. Depends heavily on what else is on the hard drive, really. A Windows installation that won't boot, which will need a repair installation to run on the other PC? Possible, especially when the IDE/SATA manufacturers on both motherboards are different from each other.
RE: I have a HDD with a
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I imagine you are intending to fix your new PC by replacing the motherboard and getting a more appropriately rated PSU (if that was part of the problem)? If so, why bother with a spare PC that presumably is a lot slower and doesn't have a suitable GPU to handle the CUDA tasks anyway? Why not replace the motherboard (and PSU if necessary) and then fire up a repair installation of Windows so that the Windows setup will fix the problems with the hardware differences if it's not an identical motherboard?
I've done this quite a few times with Widows XP with quite different hardware (AMD mobo -> intel mobo and vice versa) and never had a problem. Once the repair is finished, BOINC just fires up and continues on from the last saved checkpoints from just before the 'blow up" :-). I can't recall ever having to reinstall BOINC (or other software for that matter) so I imagine the content of the registry is preserved across the repair. You will need to reinstall mobo drivers after repairing Windows if the hardware has changed.
Cheers,
Gary.
RE: My new PC has died,
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The solutions already given are the best ones to use, but if you will not be able to get the pc back up and running before the workunits hit their deadline you can do this:
You CANNOT merge the old units with any new units on the spare machine! If you want to transfer the tasks to a machine that already runs Boinc, Stop Boinc ("Shut down connected client") and rename the existing Boinc data directory. Then copy the data directory from the defunct pc to the same path and restart Boinc. Just set it to no new tasks before hand and then after these have run out AND reported you can change everything back. This was posted a while back by someone and I saved it.
Budget was blown building i7
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Budget was blown building i7 PC No.2.
Q6600 brought out of retirement, the BOINC data was on drive D: which is now the C: drive...
My 850W PSU seems to have dropped a 12V output, as it's running an i7-870 @ 4 GHz + GTX 460 fine, but can't boot with a 2nd GTX 460 added...
The Asus MoBo has a pin scorched, so I soldered two wires direct to the rear of the MoBo power socket, but even with a different PSU, no joy.
Haven't tried the i7-870 cpu in my media server yet, a bit fed-up TBH.
PC booted fine, and MW was off and running... but E@H is dormant, showing no sign of acknowledging that the files actually exist.
Will try the BOINC directory re-name as suggested. Thanks to all for your valuable input.
dunx
RE: RE: I have a HDD with
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Zalman 850 Watt PSU, so not under any strain, IMHO.
Retired PC is a Q6600 + GTX 460 from dead PC.
BOINC was on Drive D: using an SSD for a boot drive, which is unwilling to boot, but AHCI and W7 aren't my strongest suit...
Budget blown. So make-do and mend.
dunx