The machine that has the suspect 9800GT was tagged to become a Windows 7 machine however after three attempts at installing 7 (all ending in blue screens), I went for Ubuntu 9.04 desktop in 64-bit flavor. At the moment I have 3 consecutive GPUGrid work units that have completed successfully. I'm hoping that there was either a problem with the machines OS or else it was just a symptom of the hassles with GPUGrids latest work units (still doesn't explain the crashed SETI Cuda units...)
The latest upgrade is a 3.06GHz Celeron that has now been moved in
to out workshop area to run some equipment. This is replacing a rather temperamental 2.4GHz Celeron. As I was a bit concerned about heat in the case and didn't want to go for case fans ets, I opted for a heat-pipe cooled 9400GT CUDA card. I didn't read the specs very carefully and was a bit sad to note that it only has 16 stream processors opposed to the 112 on the 9800GT. I installed the latest driver off the Nvidia website (185.85) and everything seems to be up and running with little pain. I am a bit sad to see that the latest BOINC software doesn't have the option to run as a service (or am I missing something again??). While the 9400GT won't make a huge contribution to the credit total, it will churn out some SETI work units and hopefully some Milkyway work units (when CUDA work is available) in order to justify the power the PC consumes during an average work day. The other plus side is that it is the first time I will have the oppertunity to play around with CUDA/Boinc on a Windows machine.
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