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Just a quick update on the problems I was having with my machines and Core 16 WU's. It's been three days since any issues have come up and I've seen at least a dozen Core 16's run on the various machines. I've made no changes to the machines what-so-ever. So unless I'm now getting some better behave...

@gwildperson If the answer is to have each donor babysit their folding machines 24x7 then I suspect I'm in the wrong place. lol That is a level of dedication that I don't even put into my full time job. :D It may take months to put what I'm suggesting into the client. What I'm suggesting wouldn't be...

Update on status: I've had very few issues since my post a day ago. I did have a few Core 16 WU's that wouldn't get to 1% which I had to dump. I've had mostly Core 17 WU's since which has lead to essentially a stable environment. For the most part it appears my machines are getting Core 17 WU's thou...

@Dr.G Just to be clear, I'm not asking why so many Core 16's are being sent out. There are other threads that are though as you have linked to. What I'm asking is why can't users exclude a Core in the client so when we run into situations such as you and I have, we can avoid having to dump a bunch o...

@ Bruce Thanks for the information. I did find another interesting anomaly. I've been grinding away on a Core 16 WU for several days on one of my single GPU systems. The hardware in that machine is the oldest I've got but it still uses the same R9 290X TRI-X GPU. In any event, although this machine ...

@ PS3EdOlkkola Thanks for the additional information! I'll look into them over the weekend. On an odd note. When jcoffland posted yesterday I started up my multi-GPU (three GPU's) computers again with all fresh WU's and there have been no locks or BSD's since I restarted them about 24 hours ago. I m...

@ Dr.G I read the thread. Thanks for the link. @ PS3EdOlkkola Thanks for the detailed post and it makes perfect sense. These machines have had some lengthy troubleshooting battles before so I'll give a quick list of what has been checked when I was running into the same issues with Core 17 WU's and ...

@ Bruce

Sorry but I haven't made any reports other than what was said in this thread. So if there are reports with missing GPU's I can assure you they aren't from me. The logs I've attached in this thread though I believe show the GPU's. They are all R9 290X TRI-X cards.

@ PS3EdOlkkola Great thoughts! Forgive me if I have this wrong but I'm assuming SMP folding means CPU folding through the F@H Control client. If that is the case then I do CPU fold via the client with a reduced number of threads. My CPU's are liquid cooled though and the digital readout is always vi...

@ 7im All the multi-GPU systems that hard lock constantly have exactly the same hardware. Every single piece of them. I also have one older computer that only has two GPU's and it seems to handle things better. It is the only multi-GPU that even has a chance of running Core 16's. It still BSD's but ...

@ Dr.G Yes indeed. The time and money is significant and of limited supply so it would be nice to use it efficiently. I do believe F@H is a worthy cause as well, but limits of what I can reasonably do are being reached. Fortunately there are alternatives. I'm sure production is down. Many people see...

@ DR.G Unfortunately, my results didn't turn out nearly as well as yours with the new drivers. I appear to have the same issues as before although it does look like the Core 17's may run a bit faster. Core 16's however, still hard lock the multi-GPU computers, cause BSD Windows crashes, and now this...

@ Dr.G

Great find! I checked AMD's drivers over the weekend to no avail. Looks like they issued them a day later! I'll get these installed everywhere and report back! Thanks again!

I have dual 295x2's and my computer runs core x16 units successfully (driver 14.7RC3). However PPD is insanely low -- the GPUs working on those units essentially generate no points (<5k PPD vs 220-260k PPD on core 0x17 units). TPF is about 5m45s. I've got 15 R9 290X TRI-X's and they just don't seem...

Yes, they will tell you a percentage if you ask for a legitimate reason. Asking for that info to see how many WUs you can safely drop is not, IMO, a legit reason. Do you really need to shut down the multi-gpu systems? Just remove one of the two GPU slots in FAH for a while until the core_16s run ou...