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Darin May

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Message 77385 - Posted: 16 Apr 2017, 3:54:31 UTC

I updated my Win10x64 to the Creator's edition and BOINC was throwing the GPU unavailable error message.

A manual install of the latest driver fixed the problem. 381.65
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Message 77393 - Posted: 16 Apr 2017, 18:42:35 UTC - in response to Message 77385.  
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I updated my Win10x64 to the Creator's edition and BOINC was throwing the GPU unavailable error message.

A manual install of the latest driver fixed the problem. 381.65

My first guess is that the video driver was updated.
The video drivers provided via Windows update are not the ones you want to use for processing tasks.
Normally they are stripped of the required components for the GPGPU applications to function. Such as CUDA or OpenCL.
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Message 77398 - Posted: 16 Apr 2017, 21:13:02 UTC - in response to Message 77393.  

Thanks for the straight forward message about the windows update and loss of GPU function. After a reinstall of Nvidia drivers, initially it still didn't function but a restart got her going straight away. Thanks for the info! Pick
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Message 77399 - Posted: 16 Apr 2017, 22:30:41 UTC - in response to Message 77393.  

Well, in this case GeForce Express indicated the driver was current but I forced a reinstall of the same driver and it then worked.
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Message 77864 - Posted: 12 May 2017, 3:33:11 UTC - in response to Message 77385.  

I have not yet done the creators update to my Win 10, but the last Nvidia update, 382.05, killed my 2 GPU's for processing GPU tasks. Un-instlaling back to 381.65 fixed my issues.
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