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Posted: **Sat Aug 10, 2013 9:13 am**

I just installed an ATI 5770, added a GPU slot and tried to start folding and keep receiving this error in the logs:

08:36:48:WU00:FS01:Connecting to assign-GPU.stanford.edu:80
08:36:49:WU00:FS01:News: Welcome to Folding@Home
08:36:49:WARNING:WU00:FS01:Failed to get assignment from 'assign-GPU.stanford.edu:80': Empty work server assignment
08:36:49:WU00:FS01:Connecting to assign-GPU.stanford.edu:8080
08:36:49:WU00:FS01:News: Welcome to Folding@Home
08:36:49:WARNING:WU00:FS01:Failed to get assignment from 'assign-GPU.stanford.edu:8080': Empty work server assignment
08:36:49:ERROR:WU00:FS01:Exception: Could not get an assignment

gpu-index, opencl-index and cuda-index are all set to -1. I have manually created the GPU slot and have also reinstalled the software and let it automatically add the GPU slot. I've restarted the slot and the client after each change but the error just repeats and the retry time increases with each attempt.

I ran fahclient --lspci and this is the output:

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$ fahclient --lspci
VendorID:DeviceID:Vendor Name:Description
0x8086:0x25c0:Intel Corporation:pci8086,25c0
0x8086:0x25f7:Intel Corporation:P0P1
0x8086:0x3500:Intel Corporation:P1P2
0x8086:0x3510:Intel Corporation:P2P3
0x8086:0x3514:Intel Corporation:pci-bridge
0x8086:0x3518:Intel Corporation:P2P5
0x8086:0x1096:Intel Corporation:LAN0
0x8086:0x1096:Intel Corporation:LAN0
0x8086:0x3504:Intel Corporation:pci8086,3504
0x8086:0x350c:Intel Corporation:pci-bridge
0x8086:0x25e3:Intel Corporation:pci8086,25e3
0x8086:0x25fa:Intel Corporation:NRP4
0x1002:0x68b8:Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI:Juniper [Radeon HD 5700 Series]
0x1002:0xaa58:Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI:ATI Radeon HD 5770
0x8086:0x25e5:Intel Corporation:pci8086,25e5
0x8086:0x25e6:Intel Corporation:pci8086,25e6
0x8086:0x25e7:Intel Corporation:pci8086,25e7
0x8086:0x1a38:Intel Corporation:pci8086,1a38
0x8086:0x25f0:Intel Corporation:PBIF
0x8086:0x25f0:Intel Corporation:PBIF
0x8086:0x25f0:Intel Corporation:PBIF
0x8086:0x25f1:Intel Corporation:pci8086,25f1
0x8086:0x25f3:Intel Corporation:pci8086,25f3
0x8086:0x25f5:Intel Corporation:pci8086,25f5
0x8086:0x25f6:Intel Corporation:pci8086,25f6
0x8086:0x269a:Intel Corporation:HDEF
0x8086:0x2690:Intel Corporation:SRP1
0x8086:0x2692:Intel Corporation:pci-bridge
0x8086:0x2694:Intel Corporation:SRP3
0x8086:0x2696:Intel Corporation:RP04
0x14e4:0x4328:Broadcom Corporation:ARPT
0x8086:0x2688:Intel Corporation:UHC1
0x8086:0x2689:Intel Corporation:UHC2
0x8086:0x268a:Intel Corporation:UHC3
0x8086:0x268b:Intel Corporation:UHC4
0x8086:0x268c:Intel Corporation:EHCI
0x8086:0x244e:Intel Corporation:PCIB
0x104c:0x8025:Texas Instruments:FRWR
0x8086:0x2670:Intel Corporation:LPCB
0x8086:0x269e:Intel Corporation:PATA
0x8086:0x2681:Intel Corporation:SATA
0x8086:0x269b:Intel Corporation:SBUS

Any help or info appreciated!

Posted: **Sat Aug 10, 2013 11:39 am**

Welcome to the folding@home support forum tand.

Currently GPU folding on a MAC is not supported. Reports have suggested that Apple's OPENCL drivers require updating before anything can change. That's also true for the AMD graphic drivers as far as Linux folding is concerned. An AMD/ATI GPU is currently only able to fold using Windows. The nVidia GPUs can fold on both Windows and Linux.

You can pause your GPU slot and then remove it from your configuration.

Posted: **Sat Aug 10, 2013 4:00 pm**

There is an Installation Guide for OS X, The Requirements section does list that GPU folding is currently unavailable.

GPU folding does work fine if you boot your system into Windows using Boot Camp. Son does that periodically with his Mac Pro as there is some Windows only games he wants to run and leaves folding going for times he is not actively playing.

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