Odd Behavior/Crashing with TThrottle

[noderaser]

I noticed some interesting behavior after I installed TThrottle... Two identical crashes, both occurring when I was away from the computer. The symptoms of the crash included non responsiveness of the computer, including a replicated task bar at the top of the screen, and alternating black/white screen sometimes with an error message in an odd (non-system) font. Ctrl-Alt-Del doesn't work, but everything seems ok after doing a hard restart of the computer. Whatever the error/crash might be, it causes BOINC WUs to error out immediately as I have exceeded my WU limit for this host on various projects.

After removing Tthrottle from the startup, the host has run for about 20 hours without replicating the error. Until installing Tthrottle, I have not experienced any crashes or erroring WUs. Any pointers on what to look for would be much appreciated. If you would like info from the errored WUs, I can provide that if necessary.

TThrtottle 1.69 (64-bit)
BOINC 6.6.36
Windows Vista Home Premium (64-bit) SP2
AMD Athlon64 X2 6000+ (Brisbane)
4 GB

[fred]

I noticed some interesting behavior after I installed TThrottle... Two identical crashes, both occurring when I was away from the computer. The symptoms of the crash included non responsiveness of the computer, including a replicated task bar at the top of the screen, and alternating black/white screen sometimes with an error message in an odd (non-system) font. Ctrl-Alt-Del doesn't work, but everything seems ok after doing a hard restart of the computer. Whatever the error/crash might be, it causes BOINC WUs to error out immediately as I have exceeded my WU limit for this host on various projects.

After removing Tthrottle from the startup, the host has run for about 20 hours without replicating the error. Until installing Tthrottle, I have not experienced any crashes or erroring WUs. Any pointers on what to look for would be much appreciated. If you would like info from the errored WUs, I can provide that if necessary.

TThrtottle 1.69 (64-bit)
BOINC 6.6.36
Windows Vista Home Premium (64-bit) SP2
AMD Athlon64 X2 6000+ (Brisbane)
4 GB

Strange, but to see more I like the TThrottle log.
Exit BOINC and check close all.
Next start TThrottle, go to the logging tab and copy everything in it and send it to me.

[noderaser]

16 October 2009 - 10:58:33 Driver installed properly. Driver Version: 1.9

Program version: 1.69 64Bit
Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium Edition, 64-bit Service Pack 2 (build 6002)
Vista or higher detected
64 Bit OS detected (AMD or Intel)

Language: User: 1033 ENU ,System: 1033 ENU
Amd/Ati: found 1 devices
Amd/Ati: Radeon X1600 Series  P
16 October 2009 - 10:58:33 No temperature sensor found.
Pos: 0, Temperature: 0

Vendor ID: AuthenticAMD
Vendor: AMD
HighestIntegerValue: 00000001 - Processor Signature: 00060FB2
Misc. info: 00020800
Feature Flags1 00002001
Feature Flags2 178BFBFF

Processor: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 6000+                 
Processor: Family: Fh, Model: 6B, Stepping: 2
Processor: Revision: BH-G2, Revision: G
Processor: Socket: AM2, Type: Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual-Core
Processor: Max Die (Tjunction) Temperature: 70.0 °C
      The real Max Die (Tjunction) temperature is not this value
      This value is for calculating the temperature ONLY
      Max Die (Tjunction) is normally about Max Case + 5C
Processor: Max Case Temperature: 70.0 °C, Max Power: 0.0 W

Core Temperature: 38 °C, Raw Data: 571C2A
571c2a,571c2a,571c2a,571c2a,571c2a,
71c2a,571c2a,571c2a,01111111
4ddc2a,4ddc2a,4ddc2a,4ddc2a,4ddc2a,
e1c2a,4e1c2a,4e1c2a,01111111
4e1c2a,4e1c2a,4e1c2a,4e1c2a,4e1c2a,
e1c2a,4e1c2a,4e1c2a,01111111

BOINC:
burp.renderfarming.net
vcsc.cs.uh.edu_virtual-prairie
www.enigmaathome.net
www.renderfarm.fi
www.worldcommunitygrid.org

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16 October 2009 - 10:58:45 Number of matching Programs (Processes): 0

[fred]

16 October 2009 - 10:58:33 Driver installed properly. Driver Version: 1.9

Program version: 1.69 64Bit
Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium Edition, 64-bit Service Pack 2 (build 6002)
Vista or higher detected
64 Bit OS detected (AMD or Intel)

Language: User: 1033 ENU ,System: 1033 ENU
Amd/Ati: found 1 devices
Amd/Ati: Radeon X1600 Series  P
16 October 2009 - 10:58:33 No temperature sensor found.
Pos: 0, Temperature: 0

Vendor ID: AuthenticAMD
Vendor: AMD
HighestIntegerValue: 00000001 - Processor Signature: 00060FB2
Misc. info: 00020800
Feature Flags1 00002001
Feature Flags2 178BFBFF

Processor: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 6000+                 
Processor: Family: Fh, Model: 6B, Stepping: 2
Processor: Revision: BH-G2, Revision: G
Processor: Socket: AM2, Type: Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual-Core
Processor: Max Die (Tjunction) Temperature: 70.0 °C
      The real Max Die (Tjunction) temperature is not this value
      This value is for calculating the temperature ONLY
      Max Die (Tjunction) is normally about Max Case + 5C
Processor: Max Case Temperature: 70.0 °C, Max Power: 0.0 W

Core Temperature: 38 °C, Raw Data: 571C2A
571c2a,571c2a,571c2a,571c2a,571c2a,
71c2a,571c2a,571c2a,01111111
4ddc2a,4ddc2a,4ddc2a,4ddc2a,4ddc2a,
e1c2a,4e1c2a,4e1c2a,01111111
4e1c2a,4e1c2a,4e1c2a,4e1c2a,4e1c2a,
e1c2a,4e1c2a,4e1c2a,01111111

BOINC:
burp.renderfarming.net
vcsc.cs.uh.edu_virtual-prairie
www.enigmaathome.net
www.renderfarm.fi
www.worldcommunitygrid.org

You can help by reading www.efmer.eu/boinc/faq.html How can I help!
Select the send EMail button,or copy everything in this logging window and mail it to me!
boinc@efmer.eu. We use this information to improve this product.

16 October 2009 - 10:58:45 Number of matching Programs (Processes): 0

It is almost impossible to say what caused the problem. I have no report of these kind of crashes .... yet.
You can try running TThrottle for a while with the Automatic active unchecked so it will do nothing bu read temperatures.
In that way it may be possible to isolate the problem.

[noderaser]

I ran with "Auto Active" unchecked per your suggestion, and the crash happened again but with a little higher functionality in the user interface, at least for a while. I was able to open the BOINC Manager and read the Messages tab, which indicated "DLL initialization errors" for the various WUs that errored out. I couldn't seem to get the Tthrottle window open, and Firefox would just crash if I tried to open it... I did get some error windows saying that Windows Explorer had crashed. Apparently, something doesn't like Tthrottle.