As I've spoken in email and forum.folding-community...
Thank you for attacking the Domain Deployment issue and putting all the effort into this new endeavor. The project and this team REALLY appreciates everything you put towards F@H. Welcome to Team #93!!!
Dan,
Welcome to Short-Media and Team 93.
Wow! That's some project you took on to set up all the labs!
Thank You very much for the contribution to folding and to Team 93.
Hope you enjoy our worldwide community family here.
I've just started folding this past week, and hope to make a good contribution. we'll see how it goes! :-)
Oh, and I'm also senior editor / admin over at geeklimit.com.
See ya around!
Welcome to the team tech ...I'll have to finish that thread when I get home but it looks very interesting. Sounds like you have a nice size lab to play with. Good luck and don't pass me too soon!
I've got the proggie folding in the background and I've put 93 in the team number so that means this team right?
It was team 0 before but I realised that everyone here has #93 somewhere in their sigs or avvies ... so I put 93 in mine.
What's the fraction that appears when you sit your pointer on the little wheel in the system tray? Mine says F@H: working (99/500)..will I have accomplished something when it hits 500? It's been on 99 all morning ..
Yesterday I left my puter for a few hours and when I came back I could hardly move my pointer... I looked in task manager and it stated that F@H was using 98% of my cpu! ... I rebooted and it wouldn't load the programme properly so I rebooted again and no probs.
Is it because I've got a slow clunker? Did F@H think "oh she's going out so we can hog the cpu while she isn't doing anything"..? :smokin:
...What's the fraction that appears when you sit your pointer on the little wheel in the system tray? Mine says F@H: working (99/500)..will I have accomplished something when it hits 500? It's been on 99 all morning...
Work Units (WU's) are divided into frames. The number of frames varies from WU to WU. In this case, once you finish the 500th frame you will have completed the WU, at which point the finished work will be returned to Stanford U. and you will be awarded the points that it is worth. Then a new one will be automatically downloaded and you'll begin the process all over again. If you look in the Folding signature many of have you might see the number of WU's listed along with the total number of points we have accumulated.
Yesterday I left my puter for a few hours and when I came back I could hardly move my pointer... I looked in task manager and it stated that F@H was using 98% of my cpu! ... I rebooted and it wouldn't load the programme properly so I rebooted again and no probs.
Is it because I've got a slow clunker? Did F@H think "oh she's going out so we can hog the cpu while she isn't doing anything"..? :smokin:
Folding uses whatever resources are not in use by other programs at the time, so yes, it did decide to hog the whole CPU.
It will also automatically back off as you do other things with the computer. Tasks like surfing the Internet and reading email actually require very little in the way of processing power, so 98% is not an unreasonable mark. If you have a more CPU-intensive program open it will be much lower. While playing a demanding game or doing something like video rendering (both highly CPU-intensive tasks), FAH will drop off to practically nothing. Once you close the programs it ramps back up into high gear.
What does your CPU temperature look like? Running at near 100% it is going to get kind of toasty, which could explain the freezing. (Sounds odd when put that way, doesn't it?)
If you haven't cleaned the CPU fan and heatsink in a while that would be a good place to start.
just turn the machine off, take the heatsink off. usually can be done with your fingers or sometimes you need a flathead screwdriver. use some rubbing alcohol or i like mineral spirits myself to clear off any old thermal compound or grease. then i would just take the fan off and run the heatsink under the water in the sink. get a can of co2 or just wipe the fins off on the fan. let it dry off, put some new thermal grease on the cpu and put the heatsink back on. not too hard. usually something good to do once a month or so, maybe more often if you have pets. just google cleaning heatsink and youll get some more involved guides to cleaning out your computer with pics and stuff. good luck
[v][AGIC']just turn the machine off, take the heatsink off. usually can be done with your fingers or sometimes you need a flathead screwdriver. use some rubbing alcohol or i like mineral spirits myself to clear off any old thermal compound or grease. then i would just take the fan off and run the heatsink under the water in the sink. get a can of co2 or just wipe the fins off on the fan. let it dry off, put some new thermal grease on the cpu and put the heatsink back on. not too hard. usually something good to do once a month or so, maybe more often if you have pets. just google cleaning heatsink and youll get some more involved guides to cleaning out your computer with pics and stuff. good luck
if you're not familiar with computer repair, try buying a can of compressed air, taking the outside panels off and blowing it out in the garage!
if you're not familiar with computer repair, try buying a can of compressed air, taking the outside panels off and blowing it out in the garage!
This doesnt really fall under the computer repair categorie. This is more of a basic pc maintenance issue that should be done regularly to avoid other problems. Sadly some people are a little scared of the confuser and dont clean their computer regularly and pay out the back side to replace parts that fail due to overheating.
I'd definitely say that properly removing thermal paste and re-applying arctic silver 5 or something (properly) is something that is beyond basic maintenance.
Aussie, if you're not familiar with machine repair, please don't do this. a simple can of air is all you need to clean the inside of the machine. If the fan on the processor's heatsink isn't turning or makes noise, it's a cheap replacement, go for it.
If you honestly don't need the machine, you can have your friend show you how to apply new thermal paste, but it would be an educational exercise only, it is not neccessary as part of regular maintenance. I've personally managed over a thousand machines over the last three years, and have never once needed to mess with the thermal paste to solve an overheating issue.
If you take the heat sink off youll need to put thermal paste on, and ive worked on a few pcs where a off set heat sink or badly applied thermal paste was causing an overheating issue.
and excuse me, i just realized this debate is going on in the wrong thread.
Annette, it's dust. You don't need to remove any components, just blow the fins out with a can of compressed air so air can get through where the dust clogs used to be.
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Great to see you saying hello and putting your comp to work for such a wonderful and worthwhile cause.
Welcome to Short-Media Annette and anyone else i may have missed saying hello to as well.
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I'm a net admin and just figured out how to push out FAH via active directory. You can read about it here:
http://forum.folding-community.org/viewtopic.php?p=145078#145078
I've just started folding this past week, and hope to make a good contribution. we'll see how it goes! :-)
Oh, and I'm also senior editor / admin over at geeklimit.com.
See ya around!
Thank you for attacking the Domain Deployment issue and putting all the effort into this new endeavor. The project and this team REALLY appreciates everything you put towards F@H. Welcome to Team #93!!!
Welcome to Short-Media and Team 93.
Wow! That's some project you took on to set up all the labs!
Thank You very much for the contribution to folding and to Team 93.
Hope you enjoy our worldwide community family here.
Oh man I do a lot of AD pushes, and we have about 40,000 clients nation wide, how cool would it be if they let me package and push it to all of them?
Too bad they would fire me for it, but it's almost worth it.
I'm a friend of his, too - can you tell?
Hey I downloaded the proggie and it's now folding in the background. Maybe it can fold my washing.
I know, bad joke lol
Welcome to the other new members. I see that my clunker is handling this programme rather nicely..
Trust me when i say the thought crossed my mind as well. :bigggrin:
Ah well, wishfull thinking is free.:)
Later Annette
I was drinking a full glass of pineapple juice. Now i gotta clean up da mess.
Later
At least Prof can boast at having a killer body
Can I do that? I need a bod like that one...
(Yeah, I know - I started it...
I've got the proggie folding in the background and I've put 93 in the team number so that means this team right?
It was team 0 before but I realised that everyone here has #93 somewhere in their sigs or avvies ... so I put 93 in mine.
What's the fraction that appears when you sit your pointer on the little wheel in the system tray? Mine says F@H: working (99/500)..will I have accomplished something when it hits 500? It's been on 99 all morning ..
Yesterday I left my puter for a few hours and when I came back I could hardly move my pointer... I looked in task manager and it stated that F@H was using 98% of my cpu! ... I rebooted and it wouldn't load the programme properly so I rebooted again and no probs.
Is it because I've got a slow clunker? Did F@H think "oh she's going out so we can hog the cpu while she isn't doing anything"..? :smokin:
Folding uses whatever resources are not in use by other programs at the time, so yes, it did decide to hog the whole CPU.
It will also automatically back off as you do other things with the computer. Tasks like surfing the Internet and reading email actually require very little in the way of processing power, so 98% is not an unreasonable mark. If you have a more CPU-intensive program open it will be much lower. While playing a demanding game or doing something like video rendering (both highly CPU-intensive tasks), FAH will drop off to practically nothing. Once you close the programs it ramps back up into high gear.
I've booted up the puter today and the mouse was frozen on the screen... dang.. had to reboot a bootup.
If you haven't cleaned the CPU fan and heatsink in a while that would be a good place to start.
I wouldn't even know HOW to clean the fan and heatsink.
Jon came over the other day and looked at my other not working comp...
It's given me the inspiration to finally get it fixed! (seeing as it has a legit xp on it and it hasn't been updated in three weeks)
if you're not familiar with computer repair, try buying a can of compressed air, taking the outside panels off and blowing it out in the garage!
This doesnt really fall under the computer repair categorie. This is more of a basic pc maintenance issue that should be done regularly to avoid other problems. Sadly some people are a little scared of the confuser and dont clean their computer regularly and pay out the back side to replace parts that fail due to overheating.
Aussie, if you're not familiar with machine repair, please don't do this. a simple can of air is all you need to clean the inside of the machine. If the fan on the processor's heatsink isn't turning or makes noise, it's a cheap replacement, go for it.
If you honestly don't need the machine, you can have your friend show you how to apply new thermal paste, but it would be an educational exercise only, it is not neccessary as part of regular maintenance. I've personally managed over a thousand machines over the last three years, and have never once needed to mess with the thermal paste to solve an overheating issue.
and excuse me, i just realized this debate is going on in the wrong thread.
Welcome, and hope to see you up soon!