I have a brand new Dell Computer,Windows 7, 64 Bit, internal Graphics. While the program runs occasionally I get clunking sounds and I get cascading error messages saying "NVIDIA OpenGL errors too numerous to list". Is there any fix for this?

Mentioning "clunking sounds", sounds to me like a hard drive that is dying. Clunking sounds aren't good. If you do not know much about computers, then have someone with knowledge check the machine at home, or else if still under warranty, call Dell. Don't continue to use the machine --with BOINC or without it-- before someone has checked the mechanical internals. If your hard drive is failing, it can go any minute now and when it does go, you lose any possibility to get information off of it!

In the least it can be a videocard driver that is misinstalled, but I suspect more that it really is your hard drive dying and that therefore the videocard cannot read the driver correctly and thus throws that error.

At least none of this is anything that BOINC does by itself. Most project science applications running under BOINC are a good tool to stress one's computer to the max and see what breaks if something is about to break. But a hard drive is normally not one of the things that break.

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I don't think the hard drive is going on the brand new computer. The clunking sounds are not mechanical, but a speaker sound that can be muted, which I do. However, the message now has a heading of "NVIDIA OpenGL Driver". I think I have the newest driver which I downloaded last night,I wonder if the program is set up for the newest NVIDIA driver with Windows 7. Any other thoughts?

Is your video card built into the motherboard or is it a separate OEM card? Either way you need to get the model number and go to the Nvidia website and get the correct driver for your model. To find your model in Win7 right click on My Computer, click properties, click device manager, double click display adapters. That should show you what model of video display you have.