Wth????

[hooziewhatsit]

ok, I just restarted my computer while I had the graphical client running. Once it rebooted, I opened the client up and found that it had trashed the wu it was working on, and had gotten a new one. I've lost about 3 wu's like this in the last day.

anyone know how to fix it?

thanks

fold on!

[Kendan]

It is a known problem it doesn't happen everytime. It happened to me about 3-6 times before I noticed.

[Lews]

I am not sure why it is doing this and i have had this problem on several machines. a couple of things have seemed to fix it at least temporarily. 1 delete everything in the work directory. But one thing i have found to work better is running the client as a service. I am not sure why this would be but on those clients that i have this they have not had any duplication of work since i switched them.

[hooziewhatsit]

ok, so how would I set it up as a service?

[lennytiger]

Same problem, even worse on win2k!!

I am waiting for a more stable client, this one is very beta!

[Lews]

Originally posted by hooziewhatsit
ok, so how would I set it up as a service?

This is from our FAQ.

Running Folding@Home as a service - Windows 98/ME.
The instructions were written using the Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP Graphical client. This is because Windows will shut the GUI client down when you turn off the computer. It will cause a warning when you shut down the comp if you use the Text Only version.


These instructions are for installing the 2.x Folding@Home client as a hidden service for Windows 9x/ME. They involve making changes to the Windows registry. If you are uncomfortable doing this or you have no idea what regedit is then you may wish to reconsider. You should also make a backup of the registry before continuing.


Install the client as you normally would, then run it and input your user information.


Once your username and team name have been entered and the client downloads a user ID the close the client.


Check your startup folder for a shortcut to the client. If one exists then delete it.


Now that the folding client has been installed and configured you can begin to make the necessary changes to the registry so that it starts automatically when Windows boots.


Open Regedit and go to the following key
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\RunServices


You will need to create a new string here. The string can be called whatever you wish to call it, but I recommend "winFAH" so that it can be easily identified.


If you let the installer install the client in its default location then the value for the string would be as follows:
C:\Program Files\Folding@Home\winFAH.exe -service


Once this string has been entered you can close regedit and restart your computer. Once it restarts you should not see the Folding@Home tray icon in the system tray. If it is there then you need to go back to the startup folder and delete the winFAH shortcut and restart.


If there is no icon then you should check to make sure the client is running. If you have any programs that will monitor your currently running applications then you should check there, or use the CTRL-Alt-Delete command to bring up a list of all currently running apps. If you see winFAH and core_65 in that list then congratulations. You are done.


Hopefully this will help!!!