Grall
10-Jun-2009, 13:56
i7 920 6GB ASUS Rampage II Gene
Sapphire Radeon HD 4890 x2
Vista 64
Cats 9.4 and 9.5
I only run one folding client since the other GPU apparantly is "invisible" unless you disable CF and jump through some hoops with vista (thanks, microsoft. you're so great), but ever since I bought myself dual ATI boards I get early aborts on every damn work unit.
Usually it's non-zero force sum, but I've seen some other error message as well in my log file, not that it really matters. It all boils down to UNSTABLE_MACHINE, and it downloads another WU which also fails, until it takes a break for 24 hours.
I now turned off CF manually just to test-fold for a bit, and i'ts now done over 50% of a WU with no errors so far, when it usually fails within the first 10% with CF turned on. This very same GPU folded great until I slotted in the 2nd board, then this whole nonsense started...
I've seen some forum noise hinting there's known issues folding with ATI boards under vista64, but not been able to find any substantial information on if it's true or not.
Considering ATI goes through the trouble of putting folding shortcuts on my desktop every time I install their drivers I'm surprised this problem even exists in the first place, if it's an ATI problem that is... Sure doesn't seem to be a board/hardware problem tho.
Sapphire Radeon HD 4890 x2
Vista 64
Cats 9.4 and 9.5
I only run one folding client since the other GPU apparantly is "invisible" unless you disable CF and jump through some hoops with vista (thanks, microsoft. you're so great), but ever since I bought myself dual ATI boards I get early aborts on every damn work unit.
Usually it's non-zero force sum, but I've seen some other error message as well in my log file, not that it really matters. It all boils down to UNSTABLE_MACHINE, and it downloads another WU which also fails, until it takes a break for 24 hours.
I now turned off CF manually just to test-fold for a bit, and i'ts now done over 50% of a WU with no errors so far, when it usually fails within the first 10% with CF turned on. This very same GPU folded great until I slotted in the 2nd board, then this whole nonsense started...
I've seen some forum noise hinting there's known issues folding with ATI boards under vista64, but not been able to find any substantial information on if it's true or not.
Considering ATI goes through the trouble of putting folding shortcuts on my desktop every time I install their drivers I'm surprised this problem even exists in the first place, if it's an ATI problem that is... Sure doesn't seem to be a board/hardware problem tho.