Oops. How do I get started again?

[CapeJohn31]

I have a decent PC with a good graphics card (NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti). FAH was working for me, then something froze and I tried to fix it - and failed. Now when I start FAH I get a "No work" message. I've tried reinstalling FAH with full restarts and it made no difference.
I run Windows 11 and keep it up to date.
Note that I run this both on a laptop (working fine) and a Desktop (not currently working). I'm on v8.5.5 on both machines. My username (listed below) is john27rg. I suspect that when I tried "fixing" things I stuffed up the workunit record or something and need someone who knows what they're doing to reset it.

My apologies for the hassle.

03:27:44:W :Unrecognized option 'power'
03:27:44:W :Unrecognized option 'paused'
03:27:44:W :Unrecognized option 'paused'
03:27:44:W :Unrecognized option 'pci-bus'
03:27:44:W :Unrecognized option 'pci-slot'
03:27:44:I1:*********************** Folding@home Client ***********************
03:27:44:I1: Version: 8.5.5
03:27:44:I1: Author: Joseph Coffland <joseph@cauldrondevelopment.com>
03:27:44:I1: Org: foldingathome.org
03:27:44:I1: Copyright: 2023-2025, foldingathome.org
03:27:44:I1: Homepage: https://foldingathome.org/
03:27:44:I1: License: GPL-3.0-or-later
03:27:44:I1: URL: https://v8-5.foldingathome.org/
03:27:44:I1: Date: Dec 1 2025
03:27:44:I1: Time: 13:40:46
03:27:44:I1: Revision: 2c6fbaa45e4ee4854195a9f0d4b86300975b6543
03:27:44:I1: Branch: master
03:27:44:I1: Compiler: Visual C++
03:27:44:I1: Options: $( /TP $) /std:c++17 /nologo /EHa /wd4297 /wd4103 /O2
03:27:44:I1: /Zc:throwingNew /MT
03:27:44:I1: Platform: win32 10
03:27:44:I1: Bits: 64
03:27:44:I1: Mode: Release
03:27:44:I1: Args: --open-web-control
03:27:44:I1: Config: C:\ProgramData\FAHClient\config.xml
03:27:44:I1:****************************** CBang ******************************
03:27:44:I1: Version: 1.7.2
03:27:44:I1: Author: Joseph Coffland <joseph@cauldrondevelopment.com>
03:27:44:I1: Org: Cauldron Development
03:27:44:I1: Copyright: Cauldron Development, 2003-2025
03:27:44:I1: Homepage: https://cauldrondevelopment.com/
03:27:44:I1: License: LGPL-2.1-or-later
03:27:44:I1: Date: Dec 3 2025
03:27:44:I1: Time: 11:44:07
03:27:44:I1: Revision: 83a4be55c1b21d5383650f51a7887fd9c25b836c
03:27:44:I1: Branch: master
03:27:44:I1: Compiler: Visual C++
03:27:44:I1: Options: $( /TP $) /std:c++17 /nologo /EHa /wd4297 /wd4103 /O2
03:27:44:I1: /Zc:throwingNew /MT
03:27:44:I1: Platform: win32 10
03:27:44:I1: Bits: 64
03:27:44:I1: Mode: Release
03:27:44:I1:***************************** System ******************************
03:27:44:I1: CPU: 12th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-12900K
03:27:44:I1: CPU ID: GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 151 Stepping 2
03:27:44:I1: CPUs: 24
03:27:44:I1: Memory: 63.79GiB
03:27:44:I1:Free Memory: 45.76GiB
03:27:44:I1: OS Version: 6.2
03:27:44:I1:Has Battery: false
03:27:44:I1: On Battery: false
03:27:44:I1: Hostname: DESKTOP-JOHN27RG
03:27:44:I1: UTC Offset: 11
03:27:44:I1: PID: 31528
03:27:44:I1: CWD: C:\ProgramData\FAHClient
03:27:44:I1: Exec: C:\Program Files\FAHClient\FAHClient.exe
03:27:44:I1:*******************************************************************
03:27:44:I2:<config>
03:27:44:I2: <!-- Project Settings -->
03:27:44:I2: <cause v='CANCER'/>
03:27:44:I2:
03:27:44:I2: <!-- User Information -->
03:27:44:I2: <passkey v='*****'/>
03:27:44:I2: <user v='john27rg'/>
03:27:44:I2:</config>
03:27:44:I1:Opening Database
03:27:44:I1:F@H ID = kdTvnHnhNuz-97I6mFCwePFZGLT78gbjNv2TNvtugQU
03:27:44:I3:Loading default resource group
03:27:44:I2:Listening for HTTP on 127.0.0.1:7396
03:27:44:I3:Loaded 0 wus.
03:27:44:I2:Loading gpus.json
03:27:44:I1:Started Windows systray control
03:27:44:I3:gpus = {
03:27:44:I3: "gpu:00:02:00": {
03:27:44:I3: "vendor": 32902,
03:27:44:I3: "type": "intel",
03:27:44:I3: "description": "Intel(R) UHD Graphics 770",
03:27:44:I3: "uuid": "86800000-8046-0000-0000-000000000000",
03:27:44:I3: "opencl": {"platform": 1, "device": 0, "compute": "3.0", "driver": "31.0"},
03:27:44:I3: "device": 18048,
03:27:44:I3: "supported": false
03:27:44:I3: },
03:27:44:I3: "gpu:01:00:00": {
03:27:44:I3: "vendor": 4318,
03:27:44:I3: "type": "nvidia",
03:27:44:I3: "description": "NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti",
03:27:44:I3: "uuid": "60a1d62d-02af-38c8-ee45-e8fe9bf26228",
03:27:44:I3: "opencl": {"platform": 0, "device": 0, "compute": "3.0", "driver": "591.44"},
03:27:44:I3: "cuda": {"platform": 0, "device": 0, "compute": "8.6", "driver": "13.1"},
03:27:44:I3: "device": 8712,
03:27:44:I3: "supported": true
03:27:44:I3: }
03:27:44:I3:}
03:27:44:I2:OUT1:> GET /machine/kdTvnHnhNuz-97I6mFCwePFZGLT78gbjNv2TNvtugQU HTTP/1.1
03:27:45:I2:OUT1:< HTTP/1.1 200 HTTP_OK
03:27:46:I2:OUT2:> GET /ws/client HTTP/1.1
03:27:46:I2:OUT2:< HTTP/1.1 101 HTTP_SWITCHING_PROTOCOLS
03:27:46:I1:Logging into node account
03:27:47:I2:REQ3:< GET /api/websocket HTTP/1.1

[toTOW]

Disable the Intel iGPU in Webclient (untick it).

[CapeJohn31]

No joy. And it wasn't enabled anyway.


If there's a way to copy in a snippet image in this editor it is escaping me...
[i"m"g]"C:\Users\john2\Downloads\jrg.png"[/i"m"g] isn't working (I put the double quotes around both "m"s so you can see what I'm trying.)

I did notice that I had "While on battery" enabled for my desktop, which makes no sense. So I disabled that, quit FAH and restarted my machine, restarted FAH, but no joy yet.

[Joe_H]

If there's a way to copy in a snippet image in this editor it is escaping me...

Images need to be hosted on an external site, this forum does not have local storage of images enabled for bandwidth reasons.

I did notice that I had "While on battery" enabled for my desktop, which makes no sense.

That option can be useful for a desktop system plugged into an UPS and also connected to it by USB cord. If power goes out, then folding pauses.

[CapeJohn31]

Ok, I've put a couple of images up on this site: https://www.john27rg.com/scratch

And I still get these warnings:
00:59:43:W :Unrecognized option 'power'
00:59:43:W :Unrecognized option 'paused'
00:59:43:W :Unrecognized option 'paused'
00:59:43:W :Unrecognized option 'pci-bus'
00:59:43:W :Unrecognized option 'pci-slot'

[calxalot]

That's normal. You have some obsolete v7 options that are ignored except for the warning.

[CapeJohn31]

Thanks for your help so far and happy new year!

So what can I try next?

Cheers

John

[calxalot]

Try installing 8.4.9, make sure the iGPU is not selected, reinstall 8.5.5. Should not need to uninstall.

[CapeJohn31]

That worked! Bizarre, but thank you! Cheers, John

[calxalot]

Seems to be a new bug to characterize and add to github issues.

[starship1230]

Had this issue too. Can confirm the fix above works. Appears to be the new client how just shows "unsupported" for iGPUs instead of providing a checkbox. If that checkbox wasn't unselected before upgrade, this issue occurs.

[toTOW]

The dev answered to my request to have a look at this topic :

[3:04 PM]
It would be better if someone created a GitHub issue for this kind of thing.  However, I figured it out and it will be fixed in the next release.  The problem is that the client is waiting for the enabled GPU to come online but it never comes online because it was blacklisted.  Same problem could happen if someone removed a GPU from their system.

[calxalot]

The changelog for unreleased 8.5.7 has:

- Don't wait for previously enabled GPUs if they are no longer valid.