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@LAR_Systems Pretty cool chrome extension, thanks !

I got my trusty vega56 crunching away, dang that thing is a space heater...

Not going crazy this time  sick at home  (covid negatif) with 30°C in the study, can't really push much more than that. If I find the energy (or the itch grow too much) I might connect on my work account sometimes and then... 

Good folding you all, and as usual big thanks to @GOTSpectrum and his little helpers for organizing all that !

So I have a bit of an issue, every time I power off my desktop it does not respond to restart command (power button, reset button, power on lan, shorting the power button pin on the motherboard). 

In order to manage to restart it the following procedure need to be applied:

- turn off the power supply

- press the power button for 30s (or wait for the mb to empty its residual power)

- turn on the power supply while pressing the power button of the computer.

Doing a clear CMOS usually allows to restart the computer by pressing the power button however at the next power down the same happen. 

When the computer is on it works as expected stocked or overclocked. 

As I am totally at a loss on that one, I am open to any suggestion. 

History:

A bit of history on this problem as it as been ongoing for a while and is still present after some component changes and reinstall

It started a bit after adding the CPU to the water cooling loop. 

When installing the waterblock on the CPU, I had to use quite a bit of pressure as the backplate was not stock and the screws slightly too short. I observed when changing the motherboard that the IHS is slightly scratched on one corner (don't know if it could be relevant)

At the time the motherboard was an x470 aorus ultra gaming and it was a different power supply.

After reading that it could be a problem with the power supply I changed it with another unit that I knew was in good health (no change)

I then proceeded to change the cmos battery, after a bit of hope the problem appeared again 

As I needed to update my boot drive I also changed it (no change).

I also tried to disable fast startup, swap ram with other modules I had around (also tried single channel)

Did all bios update and such

Tried without any header in the motherboard (sound, usb, fans)

As I was really not happy with the VRMs of the motherboard and am planning for a gen 4 high core count I proceeded to change the motherboard, I had a bit of hope but the problem return after maybe 5 reboot without problems)

As I was really annoyed I also tried to set up wake on lan, which worked once.

What I did observed is that sometimes it would not restart even after turning off the power supply. In that case, removing all usb peripheral allows it to restart using the described procedure)

Sometimes letting the computer powered off for long (24h) it will restart on a button press (but not all the time)

I have also seen sometimes that the PC still appears as available in some socket processes after power off.

All this makes me wonder if the PC does not stay in some kind of active state.

Summary of steps taken:

- change of motherboard

- disable fast startup (windows 10)

- change of boot drive

- change of RAM

- try to use wake on lan

- windows reinstall

- linux install

- bios update

- chipset install

- CMOS battery change

Current components :

- Motherboard: X570 tomahawk

- CPU: ryzen 5 2600

- GPU: vega 56 (msi aero)

- RAM: corsair vengeance LPX 2*8gb

- Disk: WD blue SN550

- PSU: seasonic prime 1200 platinum

1 hour ago, GOTSpectrum said:

Well it seems the world is conspiring about us and our folding efforts, had a power outage today!

 

As long as things go as planned we are expecting to have pretty much everything in place over the next 24-48 hours then we will be set for the event. 

 

EDIT: It. Just. Never. Ends.

 

 

Dang! Good luck !

Oh boy, oh boy!

55 minutes ago, Favebook said:

Guys, I plan on learning about Linux, Ubuntu and virtual machines. Main reason is to widen my knowledge but I will need it for bunkering next year too.

 

I want to start from virtual machines with Win10, can you advise me which one is easier to learn and/or better? My current guess is that I should start with VMware or Virtualbox.

I personally use virtual box. It's free and I find it fairly easy to learn.

2 hours ago, Windows7ge said:

I don't understand what it is you're trying to say.

 

Temperature are getting higher, its getting a bit uncomfortable to have everything running full time.

While in winter its nice, allow for "free" heating. 

14 hours ago, Windows7ge said:

You know what I'd like to see? LTT hold their own BOINC events even if all we do is compete against each other. I'd partake just for the fun of it. Kind of lame that there's only one major event that everyone here gets involved in a year.

But then in fall/winter, temperature are getting out of hand here.

Or not, whatever, it add to the challenge

8 minutes ago, ConceptOW said:

P3D is just outputting more than us on both Rosetta and Sprint.

Dang, they must have recruited their smart fridges too !

(or maybe the cloud is with them)

1 minute ago, cbigfoot said:

thank God i pay my own electricity...Now i have gotten 1 letter and 1 Email from my electric company saying my usage has more than doubled with a coupon and adverts for 10% off 3 different "recommended" Air con companies...if only they Knew....

Might be useful to keep temperature in check for your server room house 

8 minutes ago, Windows7ge said:

Soooo this couldn't have come at a worse time. My landlord just figured out where 2kW's were going and he's pissed. I'm gonna try to downplay it but until I get him off my back I gotta shut everything down.  I'll see what I can do. No promises though.

Ow

1 minute ago, GOTSpectrum said:

Having a glance at P3D forum, they seem to be under the impression that if they can't find more power from somewhere for the marathon it will be a bronze finish for them... Let's hope they are all tapped out on the sprint!

 

It looks like P3D has claimed back just a few more points, the void grows greater! If you have anything more to throw at this, please do, hell even laptops, android devices, give it a higher percentage of your cores and CPU time. Whatever it takes! 

 

Android  does it run on smart TV...

OH COME ON

Nice, I am now in the world 1%, where is my cake !

6 minutes ago, FraktalU said:

Rosetta keeps giving me 8h WU´s regardless what setting I select...

For me it keeps saying that they are 8hrs but they complete within 1.5 hours

59 minutes ago, ConceptOW said:

Meanwhile you guys are using actual servers, I'm over here pushing buttons on azure for more power. lol

Well its a server somewhere  !

8 minutes ago, etv24 said:

Javelin looks like it should be cleared up by morning time here in the US. I just cleared out my bunker as well, I am full bore on Rosetta + GPU Jav until we have it. 
 

Ps. What are you guys averaging per WU on Rosetta? Mine seems small? The Rosetta task view is saying like 300/per? 

I am at around 50/60pts per 1.5 hour task.

2 minutes ago, leadeater said:

I tried that too, no it's not a good idea 

I am now trying to get our monitoring system to understand that those are HS (can"t even ssh into them) so it will restart them.

Ok got one back!

They are back! Decreasing RAM usage to 95% and crossing fingers.

Greedy Rosetta crashed two of my servers...
Might not have been a good idea to allow it 100% of the ram.

1 minute ago, leadeater said:

8.6k higher this points update, little short. Not that I'm counting and refreshing every hour.... definitely not doing that....

noooooo who would do that 

Ok ok, pushing two more 32 core servers, once I manage to remote into the instances. I believe they are good old Skylake.

Should put about 260 cores on my side, this time it's scrapping under the sofa . I still have around 64 on sprint.

It's funny how @leadeater makes me feel all small.

33 minutes ago, Kilrah said:

Joined with a 9900K... hopefully that'll help a bit, but it seems their WUs are over a day long so might not make it in time... and I didn't expect to let the PC run all night  Oh well

Smaller WUs like F@H seems much more "flexible" for part-time processing. 

On the rosetta website you can choose the target time under "project preference". The choice are 2, 4 and 8hours with 8 being default. It does not always work but worth a try

1 minute ago, leadeater said:

Thanks  Initial est is probably off, 9900k should do them in 6-8 hours, on the lower end. You can also go to the project site and set target run time as low as 2 hours, 8 hours is default.

And I noticed with a target time of 2hrs the epyc servers are currently pulling around 1h20min per task.

...

That is Epic !

2 hours ago, leadeater said:

Anyone able to join the fight on Rosetta@Home for the next day and a half? So close to 2nd place, can smell the silver in the air

I am adding two epyc servers (64cores) 

(you can say what you want but thats the best server name ever  )

6 minutes ago, leadeater said:

These are all brand new, not a big deal but weird anyway. Hopefully it'll kick in and start giving me 2 hour jobs, I set it to 2 hours days ago though.

Same here. 

So for the sprint, I have a lot of task taking the same amount as the other but that only get 6-7 points instead of 50-70 for others. Do you guys also observe this? and is there a trick to improve the yield?