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#1

Questions / Unstable temperature reading

Last post by hucker - May 12, 2025, 02:25:37 PM

On an old laptop (Intel core i3 M350 4 core CPU), Tthrottle is showing temperatures fluctuating between 70 and 84C in the space of half a second.  Is this normal?  If a part of a CPU was really changing temperature that fast surely it would fall to pieces with thermal stresses?

Here is the output from MSI Afterburner showing the 5 sensors, CPU and core1-4, and the CPU usage.



Isn't this very bad for the CPU?  For now I've turned tthrottle off, and look what happens:



I don't even understand what's happening, surely without throttling, doing more work, it should be hotter now?!

#2

Wish List / Project priority in task list

Last post by hucker - May 09, 2025, 07:20:23 AM

Please add the column for project priority in the task list.

#3

Wish List / Allow easy way to copy a proje...

Last post by hucker - May 09, 2025, 07:02:46 AM

At the moment to copy a project URL I have to copy the whole set of properties, paste it into notepad, then extract the address only.

#4

Wish List / Dark mode please

Last post by hucker - May 09, 2025, 06:25:19 AM

How do I get boinctasks to use dark mode?

#5

Questions / Re: Crashing

Last post by fred - April 10, 2025, 06:33:37 PM

From the error message, the problem seems to be in the KERNELBASE.dll.

You find the info here:
https://efmer.com/boinctasks/boinctasks-crashes/

It will take a while before I'm able to look into it.

But Windows 11 at least still has many bugs, that let things crash....

#6

Questions / Re: Crashing

Last post by hucker - April 01, 2025, 02:55:20 PM

It's only doing it when playing a game through Bluestacks Android emulator.  Must be something to do with it grabbing the GPU?  I diable Boinc and Folding when running the game.  But Boinctasks is showing the other computers running.

Event viewer shows:

Faulting application name: boinctasks64.exe, version: 1.95.0.0, time stamp: 0x66865309
Faulting module name: KERNELBASE.dll, version: 10.0.22000.2538, time stamp: 0x06aca232
Exception code: 0xc000041d
Fault offset: 0x0000000000052bdc
Faulting process ID: 0x3650
Faulting application start time: 0x01dba2c123cda5a0
Faulting application path: C:\Program Files\eFMer\BoincTasks\boinctasks64.exe
Faulting module path: C:\WINDOWS\System32\KERNELBASE.dll
Report ID: a2e9a8bf-9085-4afe-8494-56472e757c44
Faulting package full name:
Faulting package-relative application ID:

#7

Wish List / Re: BOINC's project list often...

Last post by Joseph Stateson - April 01, 2025, 02:14:12 PM

Really strange problem over at Rosetta.  The normal way to add the project fails to get data unless the following is added to hosts at
c:\windows\system32\etc\hosts

128.95.160.156 boinc-files.bakerlab.org
128.95.160.156 bwsrv1.bakerlab.org

So not even all_projects_list.xml is sufficient to make that project work.

At least I did not have to detach / re-attach to fix the problem.

#8

Questions / Re: Crashing

Last post by Joseph Stateson - April 01, 2025, 02:08:44 PM

If running windows then check the event viewer. I am running 1.94 with 10 systems and silent restart disabled.  The only problem I have seen is when I accidentally select "All Computers" when I have messages or history on the display.  If I am fast enough I can select a PC else I either wait it out (takes to long) or try to close the app and restart it.

Possibly you have some setting contributing to the problem or I am not using some feature that you are having a problem with.

#9

Questions / Crashing

Last post by hucker - April 01, 2025, 12:32:08 AM

Boinctasks occasionally crashes and silently restarts, no big deal, but recently it's doing it every few minutes, and when it restarts, Windows stupidly puts it in focus, so it interrupts what I'm typing.  It might be only when I'm playing Dust Lands on the Bluestacks android emulator.  How do I go about troubleshooting this?

#10

Wish List / Re: Fix "exclusive application...

Last post by hucker - April 01, 2025, 12:30:40 AM

According to what I read, the file name should work, like FahCore_a7.exe

Thanks, I see you use Folding too.  It's what I needed it for!