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Our #1 ranking Folding@home Team member has reached a milestone today;



Congratulations Yano!

excellent Yano !!! I've just passed 10,000 points myself this week. (hmmm, don't have a pat myself on back icon )

MaraM...
Do you have any ATI products on your PC
Do you have the latest Direct X
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details...;displaylang=en
Do you have the latest drivers to your Video card
Were there any error messages on the crash
The FAH Gromacs core is known to be about the most stressful. Perhaps you can see if thats' whats folding.

Congratulations Yanoo, this is wonderful!


Hmmm ... must admit, Boopme, that I have no idea if I have the "latest Direct X" or even the "lastest drivers for Video Card" on this computer - oops!

Must rummage around in our tuturial section until I find some references for these as, who knows, maybe if I find the applicable folders/files they'll tell me what version I have and even auto update if I ask - grin.

But nope, when it crashes, it literally goes nuts. No window warnings at all - first thing it does is (and I know this sounds very strange!), if I roll the wheel on the mouse, my web page changes from what I've just been looking at, to another page. All familiar sites I've been to, but still ever so strange. And then doom starts - whatever I click on on my open page will get huge, huge solid black lines across it - and then suddenly, frozen solid. (Even manually pushing the button on the tower itself doesn't work).

I did read what one's computer is supposed to be able to do (size ram, etc) prior to trying the first Folding download - but shall venture off tomorrow evening to find either the applicable tutorials and/or the programs themselves to check re updates.

Thanks once again! (Good thing my goal i

n life isn't to a computer tech, huh? )

Wow! 10,000 points is Huge news boopme! Congrats!

Those are very strange events indeed MaraM.
Hope the ideas boopme has given you will help to get the program downloaded and installed.

We really want you to join Bleeping Computers F@h Team!

Congrats yano & boopme!!

Still working on my second wu.

This was on the Folding Forum Today.

Planned shutdown, Monday Jan 29, noon pacific time

Posted on Sun 28 Jan, 2007 21:57 by Vijay Pande
We will have a planned shutdown tomorrow at noon pacific time. This is the 2nd half of the shutdown started last week. This will restore our systems back to the new power. More info as the shutdown goes in progress.

Thanks so much for letting us know about this planned shut-down, DSTM!

And I've made a note to myself to not try downloading the simplified text version tomorrow, now - rather, will give it another try on Wednesday.

Thanks again.

Thanks for the update DSTM.

Hope Wednesday is the magic day of F@H for you Mara!

tink536, on Jan 29 2007, 05:51 PM, said:

We all hope Wednesday is the magic day for you, MaraM.

Well Team,according to the F@h Forum Here, and my Logfile,everthing is back up and running again.
Expect another little shutdown on Thursday.

Don't think these are anything for us to be concerned about.
IMHO,They are making Folders aware of these shutdowns so they are not alarmed when noting it in the Logfile.

TMacK, on Jan 30 2007, 05:31 AM, said:

Hi TMack,I think you will find the Thursday Shutdown they refer to was for the 25th of January.
I appreciate any information that lets us know why something all of a sudden doesn't respond the same as normal.Little bits of information from our members sure helps things to run smoother.
I am 2/3 through the first unit, and glad you told me not to give up ,TMack.
I feel I am helping a great cause,and that makes everything worthwhile.

You are right about those dates DSTM.

By the sounds of things,it won't be long and your name be on Bleeping Computers F@h Team Stats!

I had one 20000 frame one last week, but apparently I missed a deadline or something, because the one I'm working on now is 5000 frames. What a bum trip.

Still exciting though!

Hi tink536,

Deadlines are usually 3-5 months after being assigned a new project.
To find out this info,Right click on the Folding Icon/Status/Left click on My Folding.
Then click on the link under "Current/Latest Unit"

But I wonder why your last work unit didn't finish?
Right click on the Folding Icon/Status/Left click on Log File.
Scroll down thru the log and see when then the new WU started .
Perhaps it will give you a clue as to why the other one didn't finish. (Did you shut down your system?)

I was given a 50000 frame first up,and getting through it.
As suggested,I press quit before shutting down and so far
haven't lost any Data.
On startup it starts auto so it's all quite easy so far.
Yes TMack,it will be satisfying to see my name on the member list.