Very strange behaviour

[BILLMCC66]

I have been folding now for some years and have recently encountered a very strange phenomenon.
I have been folding for the team 13790 for quite a while under the name of BILLM66 with 2 Nvida GPUs 1 X GTX290 and 1 X GTX 260 and at a peak produced around 18.000 ppd but about a month ago i started to get fluctuations in the points allocated for each WU where the WUs were being counted but very few points given.
In our small team we have a couple of guys who are knowledgeable about problems related to folding,so we attempted to rectify the situation.
I unloaded the client and restarted it, un-installed it and re-installed plus many other things too numerous to mention.
On two or three occasions this seemed to work and normal service resumed but always after a period things went downhill again so back to the drawing board.
I forgot to mention at the start of the post i also have VMware running an SMP client.
I tied everything we could think of but always the same result and i was just at a point where i was ready to throw in the towel but in a flash of inspiration or just blind fury that i could not solve this problem, i decided to switch my team just to see what if any difference it would make and i reverted to my original folding team 12072 under the name of BILLMCC66 and to my total shock the points started to roll up.
I am not a techie by any stretch of the imagination but i am unable to understand how with the same PCs and set up i can produce points for one team and not another.
At the moment i am leaving my rigs folding for 12072 as it doesn't matter so long as we help the project but i would welcome any thoughts you have or any help you can give to get me folding back on the team 13790.
Thanks
Bill

[augie]

We checked for EUE's etc. and there were no errors. Here's an example:

[v00d00]

Can you post your FAHlog.txt files for the last week or so for each client you run.

[BILLMCC66]

Sorry but i do not have Fahmon installed

[bruce]

I do not believe that there is any possible correlation to the points recorded in the stats and the UserName or TeamNumber to which they are credited.

The Stats server did have a problem a few days ago and some updates were not performed on the expected schedule. The points that were delayed were processed once the problem was resolved. I suspect that the timing of your observations happened to correspond with the delays associated with the server problem and you assumed that two independent events were somehow cause and effect.

[anandhanju]

You *may* have had a corrupted client configuration file, and may have been contributing anonymously to Team 0. The reconfigure would have fixed that. v00d00's request for the FAHLog.txt would clarify this aspect.

The FAHLog.txt file is not related to FAHMon. You can typically find it the folder you are running FAH from (or in the "Start in" directory of the shortcut).

[BILLMCC66]

I understand what you are saying about switching team should not make a difference but as Augie posted you can see that at one point with team 13790 i got 2.594 points for 3 WUs and then later in the same day i got 1.111 for 14 WUs.
As for the logs i may be a bit stupid but i can not find them in my folding folder?
We knew that the server had some problems and it caught up but the problem i was encountering was just the same after the server came back.
I disabled/un-installed the complete folding folder then downloaded it again and made a new folder but the results were just the same.
Later today i will shut everything down and start it up again with team 13790 and after 24 hours will see how things are.
Thanks for the input.
Bill