Folding@Home has run into a serious error...

[Locutus]

RESOLVED: See last post!

 

 

 

 

I switched out my ATI card for this nifty new 8800GS. The GS is working flawlessly except for folding. Every time I open F@H this is the error I get (about 10 seconds in)

 

I tried uninstalling and re-installing with no luck. I have a feeling I have to clear some sort of cache or registry thing for it to work right?

 

Help is appreciated.

Edited May 7, 2010 by Locutus

[IIxNullxII]

I thought you needed a different client for Nvidia?

[Locutus]

I thought you needed a different client for Nvidia?

I uninstalled the old client and installed the nVidia client, and the error keeps happening.

 

Also, I think that the GPU client is relatively universal, because before I uninstalled the old one it had a different GUI when I opened the "viewer" or whatever it's called.

 

Either way, I still need to fix this error. D:<

[RJR]

Well, I've never had your exact error but about 6 months ago I was getting an error I couldn't figure out. I deleted the cache, cores, etc. and it would run one WU and then error out. I uninstalled FH and reinstalled and it did the same thing again. I uninstalled and ran a registry cleaner, then reinstalled and same problem. The only way I stopped the error was to wipe the HDD and reinstall the OS and then everything was fine from there on. If you are familiar and comfortable with messing with the register you can manually try to delete all the FH entries and reinstall and see if it works. Sorry I couldn't offer an easy fix. Good luck.

[Locutus]

I am familiar with clearing registry entries. Couldn't find the right one though.

 

I removed the program, ran C-Cleaner, used c-cleaner to find any registry errors. I then proceeded to regedit and clear anything with "pande" and anything with "folding" that looked remotely close. After this, I restarted, did it again, and then installed the GPU client. Same problem.

 

I noticed that it loaded my name, team number and my passkey though, so I think I'm missing a file or two. I dunno where to look though.

[wevsspot]

what os are you running?

[Locutus]

what os are you running?

Windows 7 Professional, 32bit

 

BTW it's legit, got it through my school.

Edited May 7, 2010 by Locutus

[wevsspot]

Check your "Documents" folder.

 

Also look in;

 

C:\\Users|YourUserName\Appdata\

 

There are three subfolders in there; check each of the subfolders (i'm on a xp machine right now so I can't double check the names of all three folders) but they are like;

 

Local

Local Low

Roaming

 

or something similar

[Locutus]

Check your "Documents" folder.

 

Also look in;

 

C:\\Users|YourUserName\Appdata\

 

There are three subfolders in there; check each of the subfolders (i'm on a xp machine right now so I can't double check the names of all three folders) but they are like;

 

Local

Local Low

Roaming

 

or something similar

OH! There it is under roaming (I recall deleting a registry file for roaming but didn't think there were actual files in a folder called roaming! LOL!)

 

Gonna search around some more on my hard-drive for other files, see if anything turns up. Thanks for the tip!

 

EDIT: Yep, deleting the "Roaming" folding@home files fixed my problem. I'm now back to folding, and stronger than ever!

Edited May 7, 2010 by Locutus

[wevsspot]

yw. glad you got it sorted.

 

regards,

 

wev

[RJR]

EDIT: Yep, deleting the "Roaming" folding@home files fixed my problem. I'm now back to folding, and stronger than ever!

Did you forget to configure F@H (name/team), it doesn't show any points since 6am yesterday for you?

[The Smith]

Oh god I can't understand why people are so stubborn and always pick the goddamn tray client. The console one works sooooo much better. It does not have all these *ing files spread everywhere in your computer. Everything is at the same place.

 

You unzip, you launch the .exe. It's as simple as that.