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Title: My new GTX275 ..
Post by: veebee on May 29, 2009, 01:47:53 PM
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???
Title: Re: My new GTX275 ..
Post by: Hurricane on May 29, 2009, 05:25:11 PM
Bad luck veebee, I fried my old system using gpu crunching  :boom:. So I wouldn't recomend it ;)
Title: Re: My new GTX275 ..
Post by: Wang Solutions on May 29, 2009, 07:51:36 PM
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.
Title: Re: My new GTX275 ..
Post by: veebee on May 29, 2009, 10:22:07 PM
thanks wang, will try that...when I am allowed to download more WU's.. reached a "limit of 4 per day"..
Title: Re: My new GTX275 ..
Post by: Furlozza on May 29, 2009, 11:16:27 PM
Veebs... 4 per day?? or one per core, (assuming you have card installed in quad)
Title: Re: My new GTX275 ..
Post by: Wang Solutions on May 30, 2009, 09:28:41 AM
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.
Title: Re: My new GTX275 ..
Post by: veebee on June 01, 2009, 12:04:02 AM
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.. !!!  :dance2: :dance2: