Folding@Home

acruxksa · Posted: Fri, 04 Apr 2008 17:06:15 Post Subject:

Oh, that's a good point. I'm not sure either. I used to frequent their forum, but haven't really checked it out lately.

**Doctor Feelgood** · Posted: Fri, 04 Apr 2008 17:19:33 Post Subject:

Not sure... Maybe they have prizes too! Laughing

acruxksa · Posted: Fri, 04 Apr 2008 20:01:56 Post Subject:

I've got my kill-a-watt meter and my entire folding rack pulls 570W (while folding with monitor on). Not bad for 3 q6600's an e6550, monitor and network switch. equates to about $50/month at 11.9 cents a killowatt. Currently the only system with a video card is the e6550. It's also got a hard drive and is running winxp so I can monitor my production via fahmon and smb to the 3 quads.

SpeedZone · Rated NC-17 Joined: 06 Apr 2008 Posts: 193

Hi

I just installed smp beta client for F@H, and now wonder whether it is possible to somehow set it up without the need for password?

"Problem" is that i dont use password when i login to windows. I simply have my account set as admin and thats it. I dont like that password message to popup at every boot...or at every wake up after screensaver jumps in,etc. So now i set password just to be able to install this client...but would really rather not see that password there.

So is there a way to bypass this or not? I tried with empty password field, but no go... Mad

Any ideas, suggestions?

Thanks! Wink

Crisis · Rated NC-17 Joined: 09 Feb 2007 Posts: 182

If you're using Windows XP you can do this simple trick

1. Run "control userpasswords2"
2. "Uncheck Users must enter a username and password to use this computer"

Another way is to download TweakUI
1. Install
2. Run and navigate to "Logon>Autologon" tree
3. Select "Log on automatically at system startup:
4. Enter "Username" and "Password"

To disable screensaver password prompt, right click on desktop
Then Properties > Screensaver. Untick "On resume, password protect"

SpeedZone · Rated NC-17 Joined: 06 Apr 2008 Posts: 193

Thanks Crisis,

but after an hour spent for this...i decided to leave everything as it currently is (and hoping and praying that Stanford UNI will soon release the latest gpu version of their client...then these password problems will be gone forever...cause i'll switch to gpu version asap. Grin

I tried first option...unchecked what you said...then logged out of my admin account....and try to login again....andddd....nothing....still wanted me to enter that damn password...crapppppp... Crazy

I didnt have time to install TweakUI...so i skipped that one... Grin

And regarding last answer....I didnt have that option there at all (on resume password protect)!? Did you mean "on resume display welcome screen"? Because i unticked that one and problem with password entry on resume was gone. (I know that i saw that "password protect" in the past at some screensavers...so maybe all doesnt have that option there)

So to sum it up...what i would like to do...is to have my (main and only one) admin account as it was before i started using F@H SMP Client....so without any password anywhere...I boot...and voila...I am in....no username entry...no selecting of account....no password...nothing.... Grin

But sadly...this smp client doesnt seem to work without that account password!? "Blank passwords cannot be accepted" or something like that is the message that is shown when i try to leave password field empty (at running install.bat of F@H Windows SMP Client V1.01).

So is there some simple workaround or not? Any ideas anyone? Bang Head

And Thanks once more for your time and help Crisis. Wink

Bye.

acruxksa · Posted: Thu, 10 Apr 2008 15:46:45 Post Subject:

I'm pretty sure there is no work around for the password requirement.

SpeedZone · Rated NC-17 Joined: 06 Apr 2008 Posts: 193

Hahaha...short and simple answer....Thank You acruxksa....that's all i wanted to hear... Grin

I believe i'll just have to live with that until new gpu version is released... Smile

And your "farm"? All ok? Smile

Bye4now.

p.s.
I read about scoring in F@H...and asked myself this at the end....if...i.e...some project is credited with 1700 points per day...that probably means that if i finish it in a day or less...i get those 1700 points (juding by my finished WU's so far)...BUT...what if you finish it in i.e. (its almost impossible with todays cpu's but still... Grin

) 3 hours? Or 6 hours? Would you get more points? Or is that sum for a day (1700 points) all you'll get no matter if you finish WU in 23hrs59min....or 1min...or anything between? Confused

acruxksa · Posted: Thu, 10 Apr 2008 20:09:25 Post Subject:

Nope, farm is down. Apparently my youngest son unplugged it lastnight so he could plug something else in............................... Grin

Unfortunately I'm away at work so hopefully my wife will be able to get things up and running again. Since they are just motherboards, I had to explain the concept of shorting the two power pins together to start them up, we'll know if she was able to figure it out in a few hours. Grin

**Doctor Feelgood** · Posted: Thu, 10 Apr 2008 20:17:51 Post Subject:

Oh wow... Good luck with getting that working! Around here I have a hard time explaining that the computer is on and just the monitor is off... Bang Head