As for people turning PCs off - some of them you can make 'turn on' in the BIOS at certain times when it's off. For example turn on at 11pm or something.

Be carefull though that it's not going to cost ya your job

Got my laptop and the "other" pc upstairs folding like mad 24/7

When my build my new one that'll be folding as well

hmmm.... Andy has managed to complete a WU despite being on holiday in a tent ....

This weeks highest climber - up 13 places!

I must go camping more often. Good to see my PC was working hard while I was sat outside the tent drinking beer and enjoying the Lake District sunshine.

This weeks highest climber - up 13 places!

I must go camping more often. Good to see my PC was working hard while I was sat outside the tent drinking beer and enjoying the Lake District sunshine.

I just came away from a weekend "away" too - Left at 9am on Saturday, spent frustrating day with car, evening meal & drinks, stayed over, out on speedboat, etc today, just got back home. Another 250 WU finished and my score jumped up about 700 points.

hmmm, well going away for the weekend didn't help my score at all .... pc crashed!! Let's hope it doesn't do it again this week

my weekend saw me move into the top 20 - its bloody hard moving up places the higher you go though.......not long now devon your in sight!!! lol

my weekend saw me move into the top 20 - its bloody hard moving up places the higher you go though.......not long now devon your in sight!!! lol

BRING IT ON! :grumpy:

:P

(although it won't be that long now will it )

Both my PCs were down for a few days last week, for a bit of maintenance - but they finished a WU each today; another 960 points

my weekend saw me move into the top 20 - its bloody hard moving up places the higher you go though.......

yeah but it must be a lot easier when you've got a few pcs going you're clocking up one heeluva score!!

I'm HOPING to get a network set up next weekend.... or at least, the beginnings of one.... won't have the 2nd pc available for a few weeks tho, need to rebuild it first.....

yeah but it must be a lot easier when you've got a few pcs going you're clocking up one heeluva score!!

I'm HOPING to get a network set up next weekend.... or at least' date=' the beginnings of one.... won't have the 2nd pc available for a few weeks tho, need to rebuild it first.....[/quote']

*takes a bow lol

Yeah i guess it is, but these are only pc's i've put the client on at work, am yet to start at home (could be a poss 4 more)

As for networking stuff you want to keep an eye on ebay, ive just seen an 8port 10/100 switch go for

all you'd need then are a couple of network cards and cabling (i could always make some cabling up for ya -we have hundreds of metres of the stuff at work)

OT I know, but indirectly linked to the folding question what kinda cable will I need? and is there a way of 'extending' the one I've got? cable from NTL set-top box comes up thru the ceiling/floor and goes into usb/ethernet adaptor that then plugs in to my pc (got no network card in my pc at the mo, but I HAVE got one lying about somewhere....) .... thing is I wanna move the pc to the front of the house so I either need a very long cable or I'll need to go wireless... wanna get away from having to leave summat plugged in in here (current 'study', gonna become spare room) if I can..... :confused:

Oh - and after today (well, about 45 mins time!) I won't be around til the end of the week so don't be surprised if I don't answer

Some of my pc's are still folding away despite me being more than 1000 miles away, although down a couple of cpus because I am not at work meaning the gap between me and colin is increasing.

Extending the cable can be done by using a back-to-back coupler and a straight-through lead.

Whats the highest points score you can get per WU - anybody?

I've just scored two 600 point units over last two days with a further to be complete hopefully today - might see e take 19th (finally)

Lee

I've just scored two 600 point units over last two days with a further to be complete hopefully today - might see e take 19th (finally)

Based on your past results, this suggests you'll make 19th place in 3 days!

Chris

Based on your past results' date=' this suggests you'll make 19th place in 3 days!

Chris

Yeah but the thing is my score isnt 9933 anymore its 10533, unfortunately that site is always a little behind the Stanford run one

well that's disappointing... over a week to complete a WU and I only got 241 points for it!! Grrr.... mind u, it didn't help that my pc crashed twice in that week and I wasn't around to sort it out!

Maybe I'm gonna have to do a bit of a rebuild when i move my pc this weekend..... anyone had probs with F@H saying it's encountered a problem and needs to close, and if so, got any ideas what was wrong? I asked it to show me the error report but it wouldn't!

Most of the time (not always sorry) - reasons for issues are:

* Overheating CPU - standard HSF may not be up for the job at 100% load 100% of time.

* PSU not quite up to standard - PSU may not be as stable as you need when you trash your CPU hard. Some unbranded (and lower-quality branded) just cannot handle a constant load. This tends to be the case for PCs built by 'el-cheapo' places. What tends to happen is that a standard 'set' of components gets used, and over time HDD capacity, CD/DVD drive gets uprated to say a burner or faster version, and ditto for CPU/memory. Unfortunately these things tend to require more power, but the PSU + case stay the same. Works fine mostly but when you drive a PC hard you need that stable power.

* memory not 100% perfect. As FAH does a LOT of memory-intensive stuff, any errors in this can cause it to drop out.

The error report - windows will just report where the FAH core blew up, not why. So generally it's pretty much useless unfortunately.

Good to see no one in my office has turned of my dual CPU folding monster. Looks like its been folding away for one week solid while I was on holiday

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http://www.briskoda.net/cms/BRISKODA_Community/Site_-_Community/BRISKODA_Folding/

For newbies - Just bumping all the folding threads to see if anyone else can join or existing people on the leaderboard fancy kicking off again. We're at 33 active members with 61 people ranked on the Briskoda team.

Mines folding now, I've just started.

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For newbies - Just bumping all the folding threads to see if anyone else can join or existing people on the leaderboard fancy kicking off again. We're at 33 active members with 61 people ranked on the Briskoda team.

Hi Jason

Now on broadband, it might be a possibility...

I have read some queries previously. Forgive me, time being of the essence, can you give a short synopsis?

In my case, I don't leave (or want to leave) my computer switched on 24/7, so net connection will be as and when. I don't want to increase my electricity bill. I don't want some folding activity to reduce my capability of using my computer for it's primary need. I only have one computer that I could attach.

IOW A basic bottom line first please, before getting into the "How to" side of things.

Ta

Mo

as someone who isn't really a techie..... all I'd say is that I don't notice a difference with how quick other things are, whether Folding is going on or not. It just uses any 'spare' memory that you're not using to do other things! Then when you need more for other things, it just releases the memory back to them.

Not having the pc switched on 24/7 doesn't really matter - it just means that your pc will only be folding when it IS switched on... so Work Units will take longer to complete.

HTH

If you're not running CPU/memory intensive applications, running the folding software shouldn't impact you and every time it detects your CPU isn't doing anything, the Folding client steps in and does some calculations.

PC doesn't need to be on 24/7 and only requires a net connection to download work units/upload results

Chris

latests stats.... come on we can crack the top 200 if we push....

http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/team_summary.php?s=&t=42567