I'm trying to setup boinc to run with the seti@home project. This is the first time I've setup boinc using this computer. And it's been 3 or 4 years since I've used boinc at all.

When I use the "Add Project" screens to add seti@home, I get this error: "Failed to attach to project"

Here is the message it tells me to look at:

5/26/2009 3:28:50 PM||Starting BOINC client version 6.6.28 for windows_intelx86
5/26/2009 3:28:50 PM||log flags: task, file_xfer, sched_ops
5/26/2009 3:28:50 PM||Libraries: libcurl/7.19.4 OpenSSL/0.9.8j zlib/1.2.3
5/26/2009 3:28:50 PM||Data directory: C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\BOINC
5/26/2009 3:28:50 PM||Running under account XXXX XXXX
5/26/2009 3:28:50 PM||Processor: 2 GenuineIntel Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU N270 @ 1.60GHz [x86 Family 6 Model 28 Stepping 2]
5/26/2009 3:28:50 PM||Processor features: fpu tsc pae nx sse sse2 mmx
5/26/2009 3:28:50 PM||OS: Microsoft Windows XP: Home x86 Edition, Service Pack 3, (05.01.2600.00)
5/26/2009 3:28:50 PM||Memory: 1.99 GB physical, 3.33 GB virtual
5/26/2009 3:28:50 PM||Disk: 79.99 GB total, 30.95 GB free
5/26/2009 3:28:50 PM||Local time is UTC -5 hours
5/26/2009 3:28:51 PM||No CUDA devices found
5/26/2009 3:28:51 PM||No coprocessors
5/26/2009 3:28:51 PM||Not using a proxy
5/26/2009 3:28:51 PM||No general preferences found - using BOINC defaults
5/26/2009 3:28:51 PM||Preferences limit memory usage when active to 1019.58MB
5/26/2009 3:28:51 PM||Preferences limit memory usage when idle to 1835.25MB
5/26/2009 3:28:51 PM||Preferences limit disk usage to 10.00GB
5/26/2009 3:28:52 PM||This computer is not attached to any projects
5/26/2009 3:28:52 PM||Visit http://boinc.berkeley.edu for instructions
5/26/2009 3:30:43 PM||Fetching configuration file from http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/get_project_config.php
5/26/2009 3:31:25 PM||Fetching configuration file from http://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/get_project_config.php
5/26/2009 3:33:55 PM||Fetching configuration file from http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/get_project_config.php
5/26/2009 3:34:12 PM||Fetching configuration file from http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/get_project_config.php
5/26/2009 4:30:11 PM||Fetching configuration file from http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/get_project_config.php
5/26/2009 4:35:16 PM||Fetching configuration file from http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/get_project_config.php

This is the BOINC help desk, not the SETI site.

On the SETI@ home site, it says on the front page:

Weekly Outage
Every Tuesday morning (Pacific time) we have a 3-4 hour outage for database maintenance. The upload/download servers and some web pages are offline during this time.

And today is Tuesday there, so perhaps that part of the site is/was done when you tried to attach.

Thank you. I didn't realize there was a difference. I understand now and seti is working.

Thanks.