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Greetings! I signed up today to donate some cpu/gpu cycles to fight COVID; I got it up and running, set it to medium, and for most of the day it was happy and content - My RYZEN 2600 was pegged at 30% usage across all cores, and my graphics card was pegged at 50%.

I stepped away to make some dinner, came back and my computer had crashed. Looking at the logs, the processor jumped to 100% usage and the system became unstable as a result. Now every time I try to run folding at the medium preset, it's using 100% of my cpu and gpu, and if I try to set it to low, then the cpu is being hammered at 75% with the GPU being unused completely.

I feel like something got corrupted with the reception of a WU or when the system crashed the first time. I've tried going into advanced configuration and limiting the number of cores/threads but it's still using all 6/12 at 100% if I set it to anything higher than low, and 75% if I try low.

Anyone have any suggestions?

Welcome to Folding@Home!

Some background: There is a bug in the client that only uses one CPU on the first Work Unit, then uses the number you really have after that. So it may have done the first one just fine. In that Advanced Control, you can choose Configure, then Slots, then cpu, then set the number to 1. If that helps, then you can slowly increase the number. (Sometimes, the number only takes effect on the next WU, so go slowly)

Sadly there is not way to set a parameter for the GPU. If it is overheating , there may be a utility from the vendor to slow it down and to speed up the fan. I can help with that as I don't know what Graphics card you have.

If you need more details help, please post the first 200 lines of the Log as that tells us a great deal (Software version, Operating System, CPU, GPU, GPU Driver, and your configuration, etc.)

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(Normally 100% CPU and 100% GPU do not overheat a PC)

Isturma wrote:I stepped away to make some dinner, came back and my computer had crashed. Looking at the logs, the processor jumped to 100% usage and the system became unstable as a result. Anyone have any suggestions?

If the CPU cannot handle the load I would recommend to just disable the CPU slot and only run FAH on GPU.