My new GTX275 ..

[veebee]

arrived this morning, and I excitedly shut down the machine it was going into and installed it.

After a number of attempts at booting up and getting "hard disk failure" I remembered I had to move (and unlplug) the hard drive to get the thing IN..!

once it started up, I checked the message tab in BOINC manager and sure enough "No CUDA device".... so I decided to get the latest driver before going through the "repair" method I have posted.

Get to NVIDIA's site and guess what ??? there is no driver for the GTX 275 !!!  I read on a forum that the 185.18.10 driver worked for the 275 so I downloaded and installed it via the  "Mike047" method and "voila" , Boinc Manager found 1 cuda device ... GTX 275.

So I opened the manager up to get GPU grid work and got a cpl of work units and as they were downloading another couple started.

Every single one of them died as soon as they started..."computation error"....


aaaaaarrrgghhh!!! 


anyone else using a 275 out there???

[Hurricane]

Bad luck veebee, I fried my old system using gpu crunching  . So I wouldn't recomend it ;)

[Wang Solutions]

Hi Veebee,

As far as I know any of the 200 series drivers for Linux should work. Don't be put off by work producing computation errors to start with. I have that happen occasionally even on Windows  - just suspend GPU Grid and then restart the computer in the first instance, then after full boot up re-enable GPU Grid. If that does not fix it then reinstall the driver WITH GPU GRID DISABLED/SUSPENDED, reboot and repeat.

[veebee]

thanks wang, will try that...when I am allowed to download more WU's.. reached a "limit of 4 per day"..

[Furlozza]

Veebs... 4 per day?? or one per core, (assuming you have card installed in quad)

[Wang Solutions]

There is a limit of 1 per core of the number of error WUs you can return in one day. Once that is reached, you cannot get more work for 24 hours.

[veebee]

OK... have done as Wang said... (even though I had po WU's "in hand"..) Suspended GPUgrid and re-booted the machine...did nothing to help..

so I did th same,  ...  AFTER re-installing older driver "180.51" and the new card has "flown" through 2 GPUgrid WU's.. and has 4 more waiting to be gobbled up ever so quickly.. !!!