Had my work machine go down last weekend so after fiddling about with it Monday morning without sucess, took one from under a spare desk. Got the broken one home that evening and found the memory was borked. No problem, borrow a stick from my home dual DDR machine, take it back to work the next day and install back under my desk. Crunching loss around 48hrs but could have been worse.
Now the confession:- :amstupid:
Things have been a bit hectic this week (excuse) and I just realised (Sat morning) that the spare machine, also a cruncher, is still sat in my office not plugged in. Crunchin’ loss 1 whole week = 50WUs. :(.
Gonna have to go into the office right now and get it running.
Just as a bynote, the difference in times with my home machine now running single DDR appears negligible.
Lesson 1 - Think more about SETI & less about work.
Lesson 2 - Bangs / buck, dont go for dual matched DDR.
Lesson 3 - Make sure all crunchers have enough local cache to allow for SetiQueue machine downtime. (Did sommat right at least)
Wow 48h!
I just lost about 3-4 when my cpu-fan shut off this night.
That think sure smells like it was going of in flames if it would have run 5 minutes longer:mad: . Good thing that it was an P4 and no AMD. Else I had to get a new Proc as well . So I only need to get a new fan.:rolleyes:
Anyone knows how stupid it looks when an 80x80 Casefan is attached on an HS with 60x60 mounting holes.
Originally posted by The Balrog Things have been a bit hectic this week (excuse) and I just realised (Sat morning) that the spare machine, also a cruncher, is still sat in my office not plugged in. Crunchin’ loss 1 whole week = 50WUs. :(.
tut tut :nono:
Don’t worry, it happens to all of us from time to time
Originally posted by ChristianWeisse Wow 48h!
I just lost about 3-4 when my cpu-fan shut off this night.
That think sure smells like it was going of in flames if it would have run 5 minutes longer:mad: . Good thing that it was an P4 and no AMD. Else I had to get a new Proc as well . So I only need to get a new fan.:rolleyes:
I can recommend Motherboard Monitor m8 It keeps a check on your temps and you can set it to shutdown if temps get too high - it can even monitor fan rpm speeds I think. Anyone leaving their machine on 24/7 or unattended for long periods, should use some kind of protection like that.
Originally posted by dirtydog I can recommend Motherboard Monitor m8 It keeps a check on your temps and you can set it to shutdown if temps get too high - it can even monitor fan rpm speeds I think. Anyone leaving their machine on 24/7 or unattended for long periods, should use some kind of protection like that.
The Abit can nshut down by Bios. My Ga-8IEXP has some warning settings but no shutdown settings.
It somehow has itself shutdown anyway.
Just stupid, the fan has a MTBF of 50000 hours (over 5y years) and not just 4 month:mad:
but could have been worse.
when my cpu-fan shut off this night.
That’s just not cricket m8, maybe you should be banned from the Custard Baths™ till you get yourslef back online 
when my cpu-fan shut off this night.
I can recommend Motherboard Monitor m8 