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spazzychalk wrote:its confusing. FAHlog-Prev uploads last on mar 30, but the log ends in the middle of one WU and then the FAHlog picks up in the middle of a completely different WU

Is this the machine running 2 clients? You might be looking at the wrong log. Do you have old F@H folders left over from previous installs? You might be looking at one of them.

no the dell is 1 core. and now im showing 7 processors

spazzychalk wrote:no the dell is 1 core. and now im showing 7 processors

If you reinstall clients, it will show as additional processors active.

If your intel cpu client crapped (on sending for any reason) for over 7 days, as it seems your log suggests, you will lose a processor in the stats as well.

Have you been at 4 in the 50 day part up until lately?

i havent reinstalled anything. back to the 50 days is was showing 5 i think because of a reinstall but im actually talking about current one now last 7 days overnight it went from 4 to 7.

spazzychalk wrote:i havent reinstalled anything. back to the 50 days is was showing 5 i think because of a reinstall but im actually talking about current one now last 7 days overnight it went from 4 to 7.

You have, in fact, subbmitted WUs from 7 different client within the past week.

The Intel changed from UserID 395B507D20XXXXXXXX to 24B6AA207DXXXXXXXX.
The AMD also changed UserID -- apparently twice.
(At least the PS3 is stable.)

... either that, or somebody is contributing using your UserName/TeamNo

is there an issue with the client? im noticing almost everyone on my team showing too many clients at almost the same time mine happened. is it changing cores or some such?

The number of clients is based on (A) The User ID (16 hex digits representing the machine) and (B) The Machine ID (a single number representing each unique client associated with that User ID. In Windows, the UserID is put in the registry and is shared by each client on that copy of the OS.

If your security software prevents that number from being written to the registry, you'll probably get a new number assigned every time you reboot. Certainly you'll get a new number if you reinstall the OS. Certainly you'll duplicate the User ID value if you clone the OS with something like Ghost.

could the machine ID change by a windows update?

I highly doubt it. Windows updates do not touch the client.cfg file, which stores your Machine ID, in your client folder

spazzychalk wrote:could the machine ID change by a windows update?

DanGe wrote:Windows updates do not touch the client.cfg file, which stores your Machine ID, in your client folder

Along the same lines, the UserID is stored in the Registry. Normally windows update doesn't mess with existing registry keys. If you happen to need to restore your OS or you do a major upgrade, however, you may receive a fresh rebuild of the registry and if that happens you will get a new UserID.

well i just did a hard drive swap and i can definately say its not in the windows registry. i didnt ghost the drive over, i did a fresh install, copy and pasted the old program folders and ran them, no install exe. theyre both keeping their configuration, and one has uploaded since then and not added a new processor to the list.

If you didn't bring it over with the registry, then the client will get a fresh value on the new machine, which is what you want to happen if you're going to run both of them.

thats what i thought. but i never had to configure it to name or team # it was still configured, and when it finished a WU and uploaded sucessfully didnt add a new active processor.

spazzychalk wrote:when it finished a WU and uploaded sucessfully didnt add a new active processor.

That's unlikely. If you didn't move the user id stored in the registry, the client would get a new one as soon as you started it. The new log will show the new user id and the previous log would show the old user id.

spazzychalk wrote:thats what i thought. but i never had to configure it to name or team # it was still configured, and when it finished a WU and uploaded sucessfully didnt add a new active processor.

This is irrelevant. Those things are not stored in the registry and wouldn't be expected to change if you configure a new machine. Only the UserID is in question and you need to look in FAHlog, just like ChelseaOilman suggested.