Thread 'No usable GPUs found after installing 7.2.28'

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m76 Send message Joined: 19 Nov 13 Posts: 7	Message 51363 - Posted: 19 Nov 2013, 20:17:59 UTC Why? I don't know, it worked until now. ID: 51363 ·

Claggy Send message Joined: 23 Apr 07 Posts: 1112	Message 51364 - Posted: 19 Nov 2013, 20:35:22 UTC - in response to Message 51363. Why? I don't know, it worked until now. Please post the Boinc startup from the Event Log, the first 20 to 30 lines will do, it'll give us a glimpse of what OS it is on, and how you installed it: http://boinc.berkeley.edu/dev/forum_thread.php?id=8600#50407 Claggy ID: 51364 ·

m76 Send message Joined: 19 Nov 13 Posts: 7	Message 51365 - Posted: 19 Nov 2013, 21:05:06 UTC 19/11/2013 21:19:56 \| \| Starting BOINC client version 7.2.28 for windows_x86_64 19/11/2013 21:19:56 \| \| log flags: file_xfer, sched_ops, task 19/11/2013 21:19:56 \| \| Libraries: libcurl/7.25.0 OpenSSL/1.0.1 zlib/1.2.6 19/11/2013 21:19:56 \| \| Data directory: C:\ProgramData\BOINC 19/11/2013 21:19:56 \| \| Running under account Gabor 19/11/2013 21:19:56 \| \| No usable GPUs found 19/11/2013 21:19:56 \| \| Host name: TAKACSGA 19/11/2013 21:19:56 \| \| Processor: 8 GenuineIntel Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3820 CPU @ 3.60GHz [Family 6 Model 45 Stepping 7] 19/11/2013 21:19:56 \| \| Processor features: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss htt tm pni ssse3 cx16 sse4_1 sse4_2 popcnt aes syscall nx lm vmx tm2 dca pbe 19/11/2013 21:19:56 \| \| OS: Microsoft Windows 7: Enterprise x64 Edition, Service Pack 1, (06.01.7601.00) 19/11/2013 21:19:56 \| \| Memory: 15.95 GB physical, 31.90 GB virtual 19/11/2013 21:19:56 \| \| Disk: 111.69 GB total, 48.13 GB free 19/11/2013 21:19:56 \| \| Local time is UTC +1 hours 19/11/2013 21:19:56 \| \| Config: use all coprocessors 19/11/2013 21:19:56 \| \| Config: don't compute while BeamNG.drive.x86.exe is running 19/11/2013 21:19:56 \| \| Config: don't compute while RailWorks.exe is running 19/11/2013 21:19:56 \| \| Version change (7.0.28 -> 7.2.28) 19/11/2013 21:19:56 \| Einstein@Home \| URL http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/; Computer ID 6851222; resource share 100 19/11/2013 21:19:56 \| Milkyway@Home \| URL http://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/; Computer ID 507212; resource share 100 19/11/2013 21:19:56 \| \| General prefs: from http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/ (last modified 20-Feb-2007 09:57:49) 19/11/2013 21:19:56 \| \| Host location: none 19/11/2013 21:19:56 \| \| General prefs: using your defaults 19/11/2013 21:19:56 \| \| Reading preferences override file 19/11/2013 21:19:56 \| \| Preferences: 19/11/2013 21:19:56 \| \| max memory usage when active: 3267.18MB 19/11/2013 21:19:56 \| \| max memory usage when idle: 14702.30MB 19/11/2013 21:19:56 \| \| max disk usage: 10.00GB 19/11/2013 21:19:56 \| \| suspend work if non-BOINC CPU load exceeds 10% 19/11/2013 21:19:56 \| \| (to change preferences, visit a project web site or select Preferences in the Manager) 19/11/2013 21:19:56 \| \| Not using a proxy 19/11/2013 21:19:57 \| \| Running CPU benchmarks 19/11/2013 21:19:57 \| \| Suspending computation - CPU benchmarks in progress 19/11/2013 21:20:28 \| \| Benchmark results: 19/11/2013 21:20:28 \| \| Number of CPUs: 8 19/11/2013 21:20:28 \| \| 4379 floating point MIPS (Whetstone) per CPU 19/11/2013 21:20:28 \| \| 14343 integer MIPS (Dhrystone) per CPU ID: 51365 ·

m76 Send message Joined: 19 Nov 13 Posts: 7	Message 51366 - Posted: 19 Nov 2013, 21:28:53 UTC I think the problem might be related to the newest nVidia driver released today. Because I noticed in the full log, that this log entry also appears once before I updated Boinc, and that's the only other thing changed. So it might be a problem with GeForce R331 Game Ready Driver 331.82 - WHQL ID: 51366 ·

m76 Send message Joined: 19 Nov 13 Posts: 7	Message 51367 - Posted: 19 Nov 2013, 21:30:00 UTC I think the problem might be related to the newest nVidia driver released today. Because I noticed in the full log, that this log entry also appears once before I updated Boinc, and that's the only other thing changed. So it might be a problem with GeForce R331 Game Ready Driver 331.82 - WHQL ID: 51367 ·

m76 Send message Joined: 19 Nov 13 Posts: 7	Message 51368 - Posted: 19 Nov 2013, 21:35:12 UTC I think the problem might be related to the newest nVidia driver released today. Because I noticed in the full log, that this log entry also appears once before I updated Boinc, and that's the only other thing changed. So it might be a problem with GeForce R331 Game Ready Driver 331.82 - WHQL ID: 51368 ·

Claggy Send message Joined: 23 Apr 07 Posts: 1112	Message 51369 - Posted: 19 Nov 2013, 21:46:16 UTC - in response to Message 51365. Last modified: 19 Nov 2013, 21:47:12 UTC 19/11/2013 21:19:56 \| \| Starting BOINC client version 7.2.28 for windows_x86_64 19/11/2013 21:19:56 \| \| log flags: file_xfer, sched_ops, task 19/11/2013 21:19:56 \| \| Libraries: libcurl/7.25.0 OpenSSL/1.0.1 zlib/1.2.6 19/11/2013 21:19:56 \| \| Data directory: C:\ProgramData\BOINC 19/11/2013 21:19:56 \| \| Running under account Gabor 19/11/2013 21:19:56 \| \| No usable GPUs found 19/11/2013 21:19:56 \| \| Host name: TAKACSGA 19/11/2013 21:19:56 \| \| Processor: 8 GenuineIntel Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3820 CPU @ 3.60GHz [Family 6 Model 45 Stepping 7] 19/11/2013 21:19:56 \| \| Processor features: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss htt tm pni ssse3 cx16 sse4_1 sse4_2 popcnt aes syscall nx lm vmx tm2 dca pbe 19/11/2013 21:19:56 \| \| OS: Microsoft Windows 7: Enterprise x64 Edition, Service Pack 1, (06.01.7601.00) 19/11/2013 21:19:56 \| \| Memory: 15.95 GB physical, 31.90 GB virtual 19/11/2013 21:19:56 \| \| Disk: 111.69 GB total, 48.13 GB free 19/11/2013 21:19:56 \| \| Local time is UTC +1 hours 19/11/2013 21:19:56 \| \| Config: use all coprocessors 19/11/2013 21:19:56 \| \| Config: don't compute while BeamNG.drive.x86.exe is running 19/11/2013 21:19:56 \| \| Config: don't compute while RailWorks.exe is running 19/11/2013 21:19:56 \| \| Version change (7.0.28 -> 7.2.28) 19/11/2013 21:19:56 \| Einstein@Home \| URL http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/; Computer ID 6851222; resource share 100 19/11/2013 21:19:56 \| Milkyway@Home \| URL http://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/; Computer ID 507212; resource share 100 19/11/2013 21:19:56 \| \| General prefs: from http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/ (last modified 20-Feb-2007 09:57:49) According to your host id at Milkyway: http://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/show_host_detail.php?hostid=507212 Your have two GeForce GTX 660's and were successfully completing Wu's with Boinc 7.0.64 and 331.65 drivers: http://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/result.php?resultid=612201232 http://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/result.php?resultid=612201231 Have you allowed Windows to update it's graphic drivers, as opposed to getting them from Nvidia, or have you updated your driver from Nvidia? Have you been trying to use Remote desktop on that host? (I would have expected Boinc 7.0.28 to say the GPUs have become unusable) Please confirm that the Monitor is connected to one of the GTX 660 and not to it's internal GPU. Claggy ID: 51369 ·

Jord Volunteer tester Help desk expert Send message Joined: 29 Aug 05 Posts: 15640	Message 51372 - Posted: 20 Nov 2013, 6:39:58 UTC - in response to Message 51368. WHQL That's a Windows driver, which lacks CUDA and OpenCL support. Only drivers from the GPU manufacturer --Nvidia in this case-- contain that support. Get the drivers from them. ID: 51372 ·

m76 Send message Joined: 19 Nov 13 Posts: 7	Message 51374 - Posted: 20 Nov 2013, 7:31:37 UTC Sorry guys, the drivers are from NVIDIA, And I haven't been using remote desktop ever. ID: 51374 ·

Claggy Send message Joined: 23 Apr 07 Posts: 1112	Message 51379 - Posted: 20 Nov 2013, 10:56:29 UTC - in response to Message 51374. Try uninstalling 331.82 and install 331.65 instead. Claggy ID: 51379 ·

Richard Haselgrove Volunteer tester Help desk expert Send message Joined: 5 Oct 06 Posts: 5149	Message 51391 - Posted: 20 Nov 2013, 15:15:10 UTC - in response to Message 51372. WHQL That's a Windows driver, which lacks CUDA and OpenCL support. Only drivers from the GPU manufacturer --Nvidia in this case-- contain that support. Get the drivers from them. The 'recommended' Windows drivers from the NVidia site also carry the WHQL mark, to indicate that they have been tested by Microsoft. ID: 51391 ·

Richard Haselgrove Volunteer tester Help desk expert Send message Joined: 5 Oct 06 Posts: 5149	Message 51393 - Posted: 20 Nov 2013, 15:20:39 UTC There appears to be some undocumented change in the 331.82 driver - I tested "331.82-desktop-win8-win7-winvista-64bit-international-whql" - which causes GPU detection to fail with 20-Nov-2013 14:48:31 [---] Caught SIGSEGV in NVIDIA GPU detection 20-Nov-2013 14:48:31 [---] Caught SIGSEGV in OpenCL detection 20-Nov-2013 14:48:31 [---] No usable GPUs found if BOINC is run without restarting the computer first. After restarting the computer (and on a sample of one machine only, so far), all seems normal. ID: 51393 ·

m76 Send message Joined: 19 Nov 13 Posts: 7	Message 51396 - Posted: 20 Nov 2013, 16:36:23 UTC I restarted the machine numerous times yesterday (after installation), but it still wouldn't work. But today I turn it on and it works. Curious. ID: 51396 ·

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