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Installed 1.59 and there's no change - still have to remove the check mark from "Show CPU tasks" to see all my tasks. I'm getting along okay so it is just a mystery.

So it sounds like the problem is with this version of BOINC Manager.  Want me to revert to an earlier version to test?

7.2.42 probably.

That's exactly what I'm using right now. Same Windows version same project and NV card.
For now I have no idea, made some changes in 1.59.

Yes, it should have said 7.2.42 - sorry.  I'll edit it to fix it for benefit of others. Does your 7.2.42 show CPU usage?  As I said earlier, I'm getting by okay now so no rush for me.

1) I am currently attached to SETI and just added WUPROP to check the NCI tasks, and it shows okay with the "'show NCI tasks" checked.  I can add other projects if you want me to test them.  By the way, WUPROP is not on the list to add a project in BM or BOINC Manager, so I used the URL method.

2) The Use column is blank for CPU in BT 1.58 and also in BOINC Manager for version 7.2.42 (x64). Both BM and BT show the correct usage for GPU and NCI including the NVidia info.

3) 64 Bit Windows 8.1.

So it sounds like the problem is with this version of BOINC Manager.  Want me to revert to an earlier version to test?

Now this is interesting.  I tried turning the "Show CPU/GPU/NCI tasks" off and back on.  No tasks show when all 3 are checked, but the CPU  and GPU tasks show when I turn off Show CPU  but leave GPU checked.  ( I don't have any NCI tasks on hand so don't know what happens there.)  If I check CPU but not GPU the GPU tasks show but not the CPU  tasks...... 

So I can get by but I'm puzzled.

The Show Cpu, Gpu, and NCI are all checked. 

I Just did a clean install of Win 8.1 and had to reinstall my Apps.  With version 1.58, I see everything I want on all tabs except the Tasks tab.  I've set the columns I want, and they show but no tasks show.  When I first installed it they were okay, but they went away while I was working through all the settings to get it set up the way I wanted.  I uninstalled and reinstalled but no change.  The gadget show the running tasks. I have only one computer.  I've tried synchronize.

Did it solve things?

No, still the same  - no work from SETI for 15k days!  Guess I irritated someone. 
Not a big deal, just letting you know in case you do some work in the area.

Will stay with this version.   

Just installed 1.37, thanks. 

Minor glitch, probably the same as Mark J observed for v1.30 - the project properties shows garbage when backoff times are in effect:  Example:

BoincTask 1.32:

CPU backoff time                         15545d,10:51:21
Backoff Interval                                      00:20:00
NVIDIA backoff time                     15545d,10:33:21
Backoff Interval                                      00:20:00

BOINC 7.0.28 for Windows 32 bit:

CPU work fetch deferred for                      00:14:26
CPU work fetch deferral interval                00:20:00
NVIDIA GPU work fetch deferred for           00:01:20
CPU work fetch deferral interval                00:20:00

(Wicked) I've been using little utility known as SpeedFan, that has already done "adapting for different mobos" thing.

Thanks, I'll take a look at it. 

(Fred)

No, it's simply too much work to adapt to all kinds of motherboard. Simply too much work for me to handle.

Fred, I didn't mean to suggest that you develop for all possible motherboards.  I don't know much about the subject, but was assuming that if more boards show up with this feature, maybe the sensors would be similar enough to read them.  I'm sure you don't need different logic for each gpu & cpu make/model, so thought it might be a similar situation.  Anyway, thanks for the time and thoughts.

Can Motherboard temperatures be monitored or throttled?  Here's what I ran into with a new ASUS M4N68T-M V2 MoBo.  The CPU (AMD 125w 1090T Phenom II) was constantly downclocking to half its normal frequency when crunching BOINC tasks.  I monitored this with TThrottle's temp graphs (sawtooth pattern as it downclocked and then resumed normal frequency).  CPU-Z displayed the frequency in the taskbar so I could see the relationship.  BIOS contained two options for hardware monitoring - one for the CPU and one for the MoBo.  ASUS documentation was totally inadequate - no clue as to what these are or the implications.  Experimentation showed that the Mobo option was causing the problem so I've disabled the option for Mobo monitoring and left the CPU option enabled.  The CPU option has not kicked in yet. When CPU temp gets too high, TThrotles actions are less severe than letting BIOS cut the frequencly in half.

Now running with TThrottle set for max 66 C and having no problems - but I'm concerned with leaving that Mobo monitoring option disabled.  My old mobo died from unknown causes after less than 3 years, of which the last year and a half were 24/7 crunching.  If it was heat related, I hate to kill another one that way.

Assume the BIOS (AMI 0901 dated July 5, 2011) is looking at a temperature sensor, so I'm asking if Tthrotle can be exanded to cover the Mobo?

update:  Removed TThrottle and reinstalled, logged off and on, and the calibration is no longer a problem, so now it's just a curiosity thing.   

Attempted the recalibration on the expert tab, but it won't complete the first time processor check.  The progress bar goes halfway and then restarts.  I suspended other cpu intensive stuff like BOINC, but no luck.  Only thing I can do to stop it is to exit TThrottle and then it starts again if I restart TThortle.   Can't let it run this way since it hurts BOINC tasks too much.

Yes, I know a dummy like me has no business on the expert tab, but the devil made me look at it.

Platform is Win XP, BOINC 6.34, cpu is AMD 1090T 3.2 ghz hexcore.   TThrotle version is v5.10.

Another Fred.