Thread 'my screen saver won't load the graphics but just says no running taks'

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chris Send message Joined: 23 Jul 10 Posts: 1	Message 33925 - Posted: 23 Jul 2010, 21:12:53 UTC i recently got a new laptop and installed the lastest boinc software, of which i then attached the seti project to. i used the same account i had on my last computer, which to add i had no problems with the seti screensaver but now it won't work. on load up of the screensaver it says no running tasks and my boinc manager just says downloading work from the server. i've unattached and reattached the project, uninstalled and reinstalled and checked all the settings. please help. heres a copy of the messages i'm receiving - 23/07/2010 20:12:41\|\|Starting BOINC client version 6.10.58 for windows_intelx86 23/07/2010 20:12:41\|\|log flags: file_xfer, sched_ops, task 23/07/2010 20:12:41\|\|Libraries: libcurl/7.19.7 OpenSSL/0.9.8l zlib/1.2.3 23/07/2010 20:12:41\|\|Data directory: C:\ProgramData\BOINC 23/07/2010 20:12:41\|\|Running under account Chris 23/07/2010 20:12:41\|\|Processor: 2 GenuineIntel Pentium(R) Dual-Core CPU T4400 @ 2.20GHz [Family 6 Model 23 Stepping 10] 23/07/2010 20:12:41\|\|Processor: 1.00 MB cache 23/07/2010 20:12:41\|\|Processor features: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss htt tm pni ssse3 cx16 lm tm2 pbe 23/07/2010 20:12:41\|\|OS: Microsoft Windows 7: Home Premium x86 Edition, (06.01.7600.00) 23/07/2010 20:12:41\|\|Memory: 2.93 GB physical, 5.86 GB virtual 23/07/2010 20:12:41\|\|Disk: 225.33 GB total, 196.00 GB free 23/07/2010 20:12:41\|\|Local time is UTC +1 hours 23/07/2010 20:12:41\|\|No usable GPUs found 23/07/2010 20:12:41\|SETI@home\|URL http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/; Computer ID not assigned yet; resource share 100 23/07/2010 20:12:41\|\|No general preferences found - using BOINC defaults 23/07/2010 20:12:41\|\|Reading preferences override file 23/07/2010 20:12:41\|\|Preferences: 23/07/2010 20:12:41\|\| max memory usage when active: 1502.30MB 23/07/2010 20:12:41\|\| max memory usage when idle: 2704.15MB 23/07/2010 20:12:41\|\| max disk usage: 10.00GB 23/07/2010 20:12:41\|\| (to change preferences, visit the web site of an attached project, or select Preferences in the Manager) 23/07/2010 20:12:41\|\|Not using a proxy 23/07/2010 21:04:52\|SETI@home\|Sending scheduler request: Project initialization. 23/07/2010 21:04:52\|SETI@home\|Requesting new tasks 23/07/2010 21:05:03\|SETI@home\|Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks 23/07/2010 21:05:03\|SETI@home\|Message from server: Project has no tasks available 23/07/2010 21:05:03\|SETI@home\|General prefs: from SETI@home (last modified 14-Jul-2010 10:29:20) 23/07/2010 21:05:03\|SETI@home\|Host location: none 23/07/2010 21:05:03\|SETI@home\|General prefs: using your defaults 23/07/2010 21:05:03\|\|Reading preferences override file 23/07/2010 21:05:03\|\|Preferences: 23/07/2010 21:05:03\|\| max memory usage when active: 1502.30MB 23/07/2010 21:05:03\|\| max memory usage when idle: 2704.15MB 23/07/2010 21:05:03\|\| max disk usage: 10.00GB 23/07/2010 21:05:03\|\| (to change preferences, visit the web site of an attached project, or select Preferences in the Manager) 23/07/2010 21:05:05\|SETI@home\|Started download of arecibo_181.png 23/07/2010 21:05:05\|SETI@home\|Started download of sah_40.png 23/07/2010 21:05:19\|SETI@home\|Temporarily failed download of sah_40.png: HTTP error 23/07/2010 21:05:19\|SETI@home\|Backing off 1 min 0 sec on download of sah_40.png 23/07/2010 21:05:19\|SETI@home\|Started download of sah_banner_290.png 23/07/2010 21:05:21\|SETI@home\|Finished download of arecibo_181.png 23/07/2010 21:05:21\|SETI@home\|Started download of sah_ss_290.png 23/07/2010 21:05:21\|SETI@home\|[error] File arecibo_181.png has wrong size: expected 52779, got 13444 23/07/2010 21:05:21\|SETI@home\|[error] Checksum or signature error for arecibo_181.png 23/07/2010 21:05:24\|SETI@home\|Temporarily failed download of sah_banner_290.png: HTTP error 23/07/2010 21:05:24\|SETI@home\|Backing off 1 min 0 sec on download of sah_banner_290.png 23/07/2010 21:05:35\|SETI@home\|Temporarily failed download of sah_ss_290.png: HTTP error 23/07/2010 21:05:35\|SETI@home\|Backing off 1 min 0 sec on download of sah_ss_290.png 23/07/2010 21:06:20\|SETI@home\|Started download of sah_40.png 23/07/2010 21:06:25\|SETI@home\|Started download of sah_banner_290.png 23/07/2010 21:06:27\|SETI@home\|Temporarily failed download of sah_banner_290.png: HTTP error 23/07/2010 21:06:27\|SETI@home\|Backing off 1 min 0 sec on download of sah_banner_290.png 23/07/2010 21:06:31\|SETI@home\|Incomplete read of 761.000000 < 5KB for sah_40.png - truncating 23/07/2010 21:06:31\|SETI@home\|Finished download of sah_40.png 23/07/2010 21:06:31\|SETI@home\|[error] File sah_40.png has wrong size: expected 2536, got 0 23/07/2010 21:06:31\|SETI@home\|[error] Checksum or signature error for sah_40.png 23/07/2010 21:06:36\|SETI@home\|Started download of sah_ss_290.png 23/07/2010 21:06:39\|SETI@home\|Temporarily failed download of sah_ss_290.png: HTTP error 23/07/2010 21:06:39\|SETI@home\|Backing off 1 min 0 sec on download of sah_ss_290.png 23/07/2010 21:07:27\|SETI@home\|Started download of sah_banner_290.png 23/07/2010 21:07:28\|SETI@home\|Temporarily failed download of sah_banner_290.png: HTTP error 23/07/2010 21:07:28\|SETI@home\|Backing off 1 min 0 sec on download of sah_banner_290.png 23/07/2010 21:07:39\|SETI@home\|Started download of sah_ss_290.png 23/07/2010 21:07:44\|SETI@home\|Temporarily failed download of sah_ss_290.png: HTTP error 23/07/2010 21:07:44\|SETI@home\|Backing off 1 min 0 sec on download of sah_ss_290.png 23/07/2010 21:08:44\|SETI@home\|Started download of sah_banner_290.png 23/07/2010 21:08:44\|SETI@home\|Started download of sah_ss_290.png 23/07/2010 21:08:45\|SETI@home\|Temporarily failed download of sah_banner_290.png: HTTP error 23/07/2010 21:08:45\|SETI@home\|Backing off 1 min 0 sec on download of sah_banner_290.png 23/07/2010 21:08:49\|SETI@home\|Temporarily failed download of sah_ss_290.png: HTTP error 23/07/2010 21:08:49\|SETI@home\|Backing off 1 min 0 sec on download of sah_ss_290.png 23/07/2010 21:10:03\|SETI@home\|Started download of sah_banner_290.png 23/07/2010 21:10:03\|SETI@home\|Started download of sah_ss_290.png 23/07/2010 21:10:04\|SETI@home\|Temporarily failed download of sah_banner_290.png: HTTP error 23/07/2010 21:10:04\|SETI@home\|Backing off 2 min 10 sec on download of sah_banner_290.png 23/07/2010 21:10:11\|SETI@home\|Finished download of sah_ss_290.png 23/07/2010 21:10:11\|SETI@home\|[error] File sah_ss_290.png has wrong size: expected 35399, got 8113 23/07/2010 21:10:11\|SETI@home\|[error] Checksum or signature error for sah_ss_290.png 23/07/2010 21:12:15\|SETI@home\|Started download of sah_banner_290.png 23/07/2010 21:12:22\|SETI@home\|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. 23/07/2010 21:12:22\|SETI@home\|Requesting new tasks 23/07/2010 21:12:34\|SETI@home\|Temporarily failed download of sah_banner_290.png: HTTP error 23/07/2010 21:12:34\|SETI@home\|Backing off 6 min 6 sec on download of sah_banner_290.png 23/07/2010 21:12:34\|SETI@home\|Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks 23/07/2010 21:12:34\|SETI@home\|Message from server: Project has no tasks available 23/07/2010 21:18:41\|SETI@home\|Started download of sah_banner_290.png 23/07/2010 21:18:52\|SETI@home\|Temporarily failed download of sah_banner_290.png: HTTP error 23/07/2010 21:18:52\|SETI@home\|Backing off 14 min 42 sec on download of sah_banner_290.png 23/07/2010 21:33:34\|SETI@home\|Started download of sah_banner_290.png 23/07/2010 21:33:45\|SETI@home\|Finished download of sah_banner_290.png 23/07/2010 21:33:45\|SETI@home\|[error] File sah_banner_290.png has wrong size: expected 25488, got 6547 23/07/2010 21:33:45\|SETI@home\|[error] Checksum or signature error for sah_banner_290.png 23/07/2010 21:33:56\|SETI@home\|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. 23/07/2010 21:33:56\|SETI@home\|Requesting new tasks 23/07/2010 21:34:07\|SETI@home\|Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks 23/07/2010 21:34:07\|SETI@home\|Message from server: Project has no tasks available 23/07/2010 21:35:22\|SETI@home\|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. 23/07/2010 21:35:22\|SETI@home\|Requesting new tasks 23/07/2010 21:35:28\|SETI@home\|Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks 23/07/2010 21:35:28\|SETI@home\|Message from server: Project has no tasks available 23/07/2010 21:37:43\|SETI@home\|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. 23/07/2010 21:37:43\|SETI@home\|Requesting new tasks 23/07/2010 21:37:51\|SETI@home\|Scheduler request completed: got 2 new tasks 23/07/2010 21:37:53\|SETI@home\|Started download of setiathome_6.03_windows_intelx86.exe 23/07/2010 21:37:53\|SETI@home\|Started download of setigraphics_6.03_windows_intelx86.exe 23/07/2010 21:37:55\|SETI@home\|Temporarily failed download of setigraphics_6.03_windows_intelx86.exe: HTTP error 23/07/2010 21:37:55\|SETI@home\|Backing off 1 min 0 sec on download of setigraphics_6.03_windows_intelx86.exe 23/07/2010 21:37:55\|SETI@home\|Started download of libfftw3f-3-1-1a_upx.dll 23/07/2010 21:38:00\|SETI@home\|Temporarily failed download of libfftw3f-3-1-1a_upx.dll: HTTP error 23/07/2010 21:38:00\|SETI@home\|Backing off 1 min 0 sec on download of libfftw3f-3-1-1a_upx.dll 23/07/2010 21:38:00\|SETI@home\|Started download of setiathome-6.03_AUTHORS 23/07/2010 21:38:03\|SETI@home\|Temporarily failed download of setiathome-6.03_AUTHORS: HTTP error 23/07/2010 21:38:03\|SETI@home\|Backing off 1 min 0 sec on download of setiathome-6.03_AUTHORS 23/07/2010 21:38:26\|SETI@home\|Finished download of setiathome_6.03_windows_intelx86.exe 23/07/2010 21:38:26\|SETI@home\|Started download of setiathome-6.03_COPYING 23/07/2010 21:38:26\|SETI@home\|Started download of setiathome-6.03_COPYRIGHT 23/07/2010 21:38:27\|SETI@home\|Temporarily failed download of setiathome-6.03_COPYING: HTTP error 23/07/2010 21:38:27\|SETI@home\|Backing off 1 min 0 sec on download of setiathome-6.03_COPYING 23/07/2010 21:38:27\|SETI@home\|Temporarily failed download of setiathome-6.03_COPYRIGHT: HTTP error 23/07/2010 21:38:27\|SETI@home\|Backing off 1 min 0 sec on download of setiathome-6.03_COPYRIGHT 23/07/2010 21:38:27\|SETI@home\|Started download of setiathome-6.03_README 23/07/2010 21:38:27\|SETI@home\|Started download of seti_603.jpg 23/07/2010 21:38:29\|SETI@home\|Temporarily failed download of seti_603.jpg: HTTP error 23/07/2010 21:38:29\|SETI@home\|Backing off 1 min 0 sec on download of seti_603.jpg 23/07/2010 21:38:32\|SETI@home\|Temporarily failed download of setiathome-6.03_README: HTTP error 23/07/2010 21:38:32\|SETI@home\|Backing off 1 min 0 sec on download of setiathome-6.03_README 23/07/2010 21:39:32\|SETI@home\|Started download of setigraphics_6.03_windows_intelx86.exe 23/07/2010 21:39:32\|SETI@home\|Started download of libfftw3f-3-1-1a_upx.dll 23/07/2010 21:40:00\|SETI@home\|Finished download of setigraphics_6.03_windows_intelx86.exe 23/07/2010 21:40:00\|SETI@home\|Started download of setiathome-6.03_AUTHORS 23/07/2010 21:40:04\|SETI@home\|Temporarily failed download of setiathome-6.03_AUTHORS: HTTP error 23/07/2010 21:40:04\|SETI@home\|Backing off 1 min 0 sec on download of setiathome-6.03_AUTHORS 23/07/2010 21:40:04\|SETI@home\|Started download of setiathome-6.03_COPYING 23/07/2010 21:40:07\|SETI@home\|Finished download of setiathome-6.03_COPYING 23/07/2010 21:40:07\|SETI@home\|Started download of setiathome-6.03_COPYRIGHT 23/07/2010 21:40:08\|SETI@home\|Finished download of libfftw3f-3-1-1a_upx.dll 23/07/2010 21:40:08\|SETI@home\|Started download of setiathome-6.03_README 23/07/2010 21:40:13\|SETI@home\|Temporarily failed download of setiathome-6.03_COPYRIGHT: HTTP error 23/07/2010 21:40:13\|SETI@home\|Backing off 1 min 0 sec on download of setiathome-6.03_COPYRIGHT 23/07/2010 21:40:13\|SETI@home\|Started download of seti_603.jpg 23/07/2010 21:40:16\|SETI@home\|Finished download of seti_603.jpg 23/07/2010 21:40:16\|SETI@home\|Started download of 19my10aa.10504.18477.13.10.82 23/07/2010 21:40:16\|SETI@home\|[error] File seti_603.jpg has wrong size: expected 9068, got 5315 23/07/2010 21:40:16\|SETI@home\|[error] Checksum or signature error for seti_603.jpg 23/07/2010 21:40:17\|SETI@home\|Temporarily failed download of 19my10aa.10504.18477.13.10.82: HTTP error 23/07/2010 21:40:17\|SETI@home\|Backing off 1 min 0 sec on download of 19my10aa.10504.18477.13.10.82 23/07/2010 21:40:17\|SETI@home\|Started download of 19my10aa.10504.18477.13.10.81 23/07/2010 21:40:19\|SETI@home\|Finished download of setiathome-6.03_README 23/07/2010 21:40:47\|SETI@home\|Finished download of 19my10aa.10504.18477.13.10.81 23/07/2010 21:41:04\|SETI@home\|Started download of setiathome-6.03_AUTHORS 23/07/2010 21:41:13\|SETI@home\|Started download of setiathome-6.03_COPYRIGHT 23/07/2010 21:41:15\|SETI@home\|Finished download of setiathome-6.03_AUTHORS 23/07/2010 21:41:17\|SETI@home\|Started download of 19my10aa.10504.18477.13.10.82 23/07/2010 21:41:20\|SETI@home\|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. 23/07/2010 21:41:20\|SETI@home\|Reporting 2 completed tasks, requesting new tasks 23/07/2010 21:41:29\|SETI@home\|Temporarily failed download of setiathome-6.03_COPYRIGHT: HTTP error 23/07/2010 21:41:29\|SETI@home\|Backing off 1 min 0 sec on download of setiathome-6.03_COPYRIGHT 23/07/2010 21:41:30\|SETI@home\|Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks 23/07/2010 21:41:30\|SETI@home\|Message from server: Project has no tasks available 23/07/2010 21:42:29\|SETI@home\|Started download of setiathome-6.03_COPYRIGHT 23/07/2010 21:42:31\|SETI@home\|Temporarily failed download of setiathome-6.03_COPYRIGHT: HTTP error 23/07/2010 21:42:31\|SETI@home\|Backing off 1 min 0 sec on download of setiathome-6.03_COPYRIGHT 23/07/2010 21:43:32\|SETI@home\|Started download of setiathome-6.03_COPYRIGHT 23/07/2010 21:43:41\|SETI@home\|Finished download of setiathome-6.03_COPYRIGHT 23/07/2010 21:43:46\|SETI@home\|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. 23/07/2010 21:43:46\|SETI@home\|Requesting new tasks 23/07/2010 21:43:48\|SETI@home\|Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks 23/07/2010 21:43:48\|SETI@home\|Message from server: Project has no tasks available 23/07/2010 21:45:03\|SETI@home\|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. 23/07/2010 21:45:03\|SETI@home\|Requesting new tasks 23/07/2010 21:45:12\|SETI@home\|Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks 23/07/2010 21:45:12\|SETI@home\|Message from server: Project has no tasks available 23/07/2010 21:47:27\|SETI@home\|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. 23/07/2010 21:47:27\|SETI@home\|Requesting new tasks 23/07/2010 21:47:37\|SETI@home\|Scheduler request completed: got 1 new tasks 23/07/2010 21:47:39\|SETI@home\|Started download of astropulse_5.05_windows_intelx86.exe 23/07/2010 21:47:39\|SETI@home\|Started download of astropulse_5.05_AUTHORS 23/07/2010 21:47:49\|SETI@home\|Finished download of astropulse_5.05_AUTHORS 23/07/2010 21:47:49\|SETI@home\|Started download of astropulse_5.05_COPYING 23/07/2010 21:47:51\|SETI@home\|Temporarily failed download of astropulse_5.05_COPYING: HTTP error 23/07/2010 21:47:51\|SETI@home\|Backing off 1 min 0 sec on download of astropulse_5.05_COPYING 23/07/2010 21:47:51\|SETI@home\|Started download of astropulse_5.05_COPYRIGHT 23/07/2010 21:47:53\|SETI@home\|Temporarily failed download of astropulse_5.05_COPYRIGHT: HTTP error 23/07/2010 21:47:53\|SETI@home\|Backing off 1 min 0 sec on download of astropulse_5.05_COPYRIGHT 23/07/2010 21:47:53\|SETI@home\|Started download of ap_graphics_5.05_windows_intelx86.exe 23/07/2010 21:47:58\|SETI@home\|Temporarily failed download of astropulse_5.05_windows_intelx86.exe: HTTP error 23/07/2010 21:47:58\|SETI@home\|Backing off 1 min 0 sec on download of astropulse_5.05_windows_intelx86.exe 23/07/2010 21:48:08\|SETI@home\|Temporarily failed download of ap_graphics_5.05_windows_intelx86.exe: HTTP error 23/07/2010 21:48:08\|SETI@home\|Backing off 1 min 0 sec on download of ap_graphics_5.05_windows_intelx86.exe 23/07/2010 21:49:08\|SETI@home\|Started download of astropulse_5.05_windows_intelx86.exe 23/07/2010 21:49:08\|SETI@home\|Started download of astropulse_5.05_COPYING 23/07/2010 21:49:11\|SETI@home\|Temporarily failed download of astropulse_5.05_windows_intelx86.exe: HTTP error 23/07/2010 21:49:11\|SETI@home\|Backing off 1 min 0 sec on download of astropulse_5.05_windows_intelx86.exe 23/07/2010 21:49:13\|SETI@home\|Temporarily failed download of astropulse_5.05_COPYING: HTTP error 23/07/2010 21:49:13\|SETI@home\|Backing off 1 min 0 sec on download of astropulse_5.05_COPYING 23/07/2010 21:50:53\|SETI@home\|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. 23/07/2010 21:50:53\|SETI@home\|Requesting new tasks 23/07/2010 21:50:57\|SETI@home\|Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks 23/07/2010 21:50:57\|SETI@home\|Message from server: Project has no tasks available 23/07/2010 21:52:12\|SETI@home\|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. 23/07/2010 21:52:12\|SETI@home\|Requesting new tasks 23/07/2010 21:52:14\|SETI@home\|Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks 23/07/2010 21:52:14\|SETI@home\|Message from server: Project has no tasks available 23/07/2010 21:54:29\|SETI@home\|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. 23/07/2010 21:54:29\|SETI@home\|Requesting new tasks 23/07/2010 21:54:39\|SETI@home\|Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks 23/07/2010 21:54:39\|SETI@home\|Message from server: Project has no tasks available 23/07/2010 21:55:35\|SETI@home\|Started download of astropulse_5.05_windows_intelx86.exe 23/07/2010 21:55:35\|SETI@home\|Started download of astropulse_5.05_COPYING 23/07/2010 21:55:45\|SETI@home\|Temporarily failed download of astropulse_5.05_windows_intelx86.exe: HTTP error 23/07/2010 21:55:45\|SETI@home\|Backing off 1 min 0 sec on download of astropulse_5.05_windows_intelx86.exe 23/07/2010 21:55:45\|SETI@home\|Temporarily failed download of astropulse_5.05_COPYING: HTTP error 23/07/2010 21:55:45\|SETI@home\|Backing off 1 min 0 sec on download of astropulse_5.05_COPYING 23/07/2010 21:56:58\|SETI@home\|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. 23/07/2010 21:56:58\|SETI@home\|Requesting new tasks 23/07/2010 21:57:01\|SETI@home\|Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks 23/07/2010 21:57:01\|SETI@home\|Message from server: Project has no tasks available 23/07/2010 22:03:16\|SETI@home\|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. 23/07/2010 22:03:16\|SETI@home\|Requesting new tasks 23/07/2010 22:03:27\|SETI@home\|Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks 23/07/2010 22:03:27\|SETI@home\|Message from server: Project has no tasks available ID: 33925 ·

Jord Volunteer tester Help desk expert Send message Joined: 29 Aug 05 Posts: 15632	Message 33926 - Posted: 24 Jul 2010, 1:39:27 UTC - in response to Message 33925. Since a couple of weeks, Seti has a new outage method, whereby they go off-line for 3 days a week. During that time you cannot download, upload, report or attach to the project. The outages run from Tuesday morning Californian time till Friday morning Californian time. Before the outage starts, all computers attached will try to download as much work as possible. After the outage is over, downloading is limited to 40 tasks per CPU, 320 tasks per GPU. All computers attached will be uploading for a while, taking up all of the bandwidth. This taking up of all of the bandwidth is what's causing you to not be able to attach at this time, you can see that as the HTTP errors in your log. Your screen saver won't show anything, since you aren't fully attached yet, your computer hasn't gotten a hostID number yet, it hasn't downloaded any work yet. Detaching and reattaching isn't going to help. Check the Technical News and Number Crunching forums on the Seti main forums for news about the outage. Or check the bandwidth graph, as long as it's pegged at 94 Mbit, you're not going to get through. Wait until it drops to below 80 Mbit before trying again. ID: 33926 ·

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