My last genome and a mistake while folding it.

EyesOnlyEyesOnly Sweden New
edited March 2004 in Folding@Home
Well a few hours ago my computer finished folding the last genome it will ever fold. It would have been finished a lot sooner, several days ago if i hadn't messed up real bad though i don't know exactly what happened. I feel like venting a little so here goes.

Well some days ago i read in the news section that a new version of windows messenger was out. I downloaded and installed it but didn't reboot as i had some downloads going that i didn't want to interupt. Well about 3 hours later i rebooted the computer and that is when the problems began. I noticed when windows had loaded that fah had started from the beginning of the gah unit it was workjing on AND IT WAS ON FRAME 23 OF 30 BEFORE THAT. :rant::grumble: :mad2: :mad2: :scratch::scratch::sawed::rant::rant: :bawling: :bawling:

As you can believe i was seriously pissed over this and to make matters worse i had made mistakes with win messenger too (and i'm not talking about using it, i like it). I noticed that messenger was in english not swedish. Boy did i feel stupid to follow a link in an american forum. Of to microsoft .com to download the correct version. And of course i managed to downloag msn messenger. I once again opened ie and now found the correct file though it wasn't easy.

Next it was time to install. That wasn't easy since i couldn't install one version over the other so i tried to uninstall messenger. That didn't work. After a lot of thinking i remembered reset point or whatever it's called. Its the thing in windows the remembers settings and let's you change the settings back to the way they were before. I found that a point had been created before windows messenger 5.0 was installed but after that version 4.7 had been removed. After a restart i was without a messenger and installed the new version.

I don't think that i've ever hated microsoft and their products as much as i did then. But why did fah restart. It hasn't done that other times. It does start over from the beginning of the frame it was working on but not from frame 1. I noticed that it doesn't restart when i shut down my computer using hibernation which is why i use it. It had also greatly reduced the time it takes to start my computer.

So now my computer is folding a 200 frame, 16 point tinker (project 1102).It goes through one frame about every 16 minute so it won't take to long to finish despite all the frames. That same thing happended with my former wu from project 799. It went throught those frames in an surprizingly high speed.

I really needed to get this weight of my chest. :tongue:

EO

Comments

  • mmonninmmonnin Centreville, VA
    edited March 2004
    Hmm I dont know what it restarted. Maybe it didnt like the way it was closed by windows or something. I rarely get that at all anymore. Sorry about your luck.
  • EyesOnlyEyesOnly Sweden New
    edited March 2004
    I have restarted the computer at other times withput this happening. Perhaps it was that reset point thing that caused it. BTW is it called that?
  • csimoncsimon Acadiana Icrontian
    edited March 2004
    system restore?
  • EyesOnlyEyesOnly Sweden New
    edited March 2004
    Thank you csimon that's what i meant. It's not easy to know all terms in more that one language.
  • csimoncsimon Acadiana Icrontian
    edited March 2004
    EyesOnly wrote:
    Thank you csimon that's what i meant. It's not easy to know all terms in more that one language.
    I understand no problem ...I figured it was either system restore or recover.
    Just glad you go that genome going. Adios to genome!
  • profdlpprofdlp The Holy City Of Westlake, Ohio
    edited March 2004
    EyesOnly wrote:
    ...It's not easy to know all terms in more that one language.
    Don't worry - it's not easy knowing them in only one language. :vimp:

    I admire your tenacity. I hope you are able to get that new system soon.

    You deserve it. :thumbup :fold:
  • mmonninmmonnin Centreville, VA
    edited March 2004
    I knew what you meant. It was easy enough to understand.:)

    Good think you still have they enabled. I, has csimon does, have it disabled because its a resource hog.:(
  • EyesOnlyEyesOnly Sweden New
    edited March 2004
    Anything is a resource hog on my computer though i haven't even thought of shutting it down. Let this be a lesson on why it's good to have even though it's not a feature that gets used alot. It can still save your butt when something does go wrong.
  • mmonninmmonnin Centreville, VA
    edited March 2004
    Yeah it saved your butt and it has mine in the past but now I would just reformat/install again if I had to.
  • Straight_ManStraight_Man Geeky, in my own way Naples, FL Icrontian
    edited March 2004
    Possible, just barely possible, that the silly thing hibernated while FAh was trying to write a Check Point file. If that file is corrupt, client starts over from scratch, wipes the CP file, makes a new intial .CP file, and then proceeds to continue-- from the beginning of WU. .CP, as far as what it does is an archive that keeps stored work so next time client starts it knows how much completion progress it has made. Corrupt unitinfo.txt, or corrupt work directory can also do this. Does the log for client show a WU downloaded again???

    Good you got rid of it, though I am also sorry to see you lose the points that the client had finished work on for THAT Genome WU.

    John D.
  • EyesOnlyEyesOnly Sweden New
    edited March 2004
    Does the log for client show a WU downloaded again???

    No it doesn't. I opened the log just before this happended and then after the reboot. Could that have had any impact. It could also be that when i used system restore it corrupted the files somehow. If i only had shutdown fah manually perhaps this wouldn't had happened. :mouldy::hair::grumble: :Pwned:

    Oh well nothing i can do about that now except hope that it doesn't happen again.
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