When my screen saver should run my screen is gray and Einstein at Home stops running.
9 Feb 2008 3:06:18 UTC
Topic 193503
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When my computer goes to screen saver the screen goes gray/black and Einstein at Home stops it's computations. This just happened after my last completion and transfer.
I have 1 error message--[error] Einstein_S5R3 not responding to screen saver, requesting exit---- and another 30 sec later---[error] Einstein_S5R3 not responding to screen saver, Killing it--
The message has only showed up once but I have had screensaver failure 6 or 7 times.
My computer is running Hierarchical all sky pulsar search 4.26
Any help please?
When my screen saver should run my screen is gray and Einstein a
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Mind telling what kind of graphics card you use, which drivers and DirectX version and if your computer is a laptop or a desktop?
I think, looking at your computer, that you're using an on-board graphics chip with shared memory? Set to 2MB only?
If you've only got it set to 2MB, try increasing the shared memory for the graphics chip. 2MB is a not nearly enough for the OpenGL screen saver that BOINC uses. As far as I know, 32MB is minimum.