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Bad news. FAH actually has much higher requirements. The CPU is constantly moving data to/from the GPU while it runs. Each GPU needs a dedicated CPU thread/core and a bare minimum bandwidth of x4, we actually recommend x8. That means you need a quad core CPU as a bare minimum and the GPUs preferably...

4 GPUs. 4 GPUs. Assuming for a moment they are all double slot RX560s, that's a lot of bandwidth and real estate for a motherboard to provide. My initial guess would be you're running a high-end gaming/workstation motherboard, except the GPUs need a lot of breathing room exhaust the heat. The only o...

Lamberto Vitali wrote: ↑Fri May 20, 2022 4:13 pm ARGH! My 4 GPU machine keeps locking up. You can get to hate GPUs.

I think the real issue is that your machine is unstable.
You don't want to fix it so you make noise about a plethora of other things.

I do as little direct editing of the config file as possible, it's too easy to break. I use the advanced control panel pretty much exclusively to make my changes. It validates the settings and ensures the config file is formatted correctly when it is saved. When you directly edit the config file you...

Could you post links to the pages you are talking about. EDIT Nevermind, a quick google found the page and a Find got me the specific text. https://foldingathome.org/support/faq/installation-guides/configuration-guide/?lng=en I have not tested it but I think you would simply go into the "Extra ...

Not for me, could you edit your post and write a little about what your issue is.

The vast majority of folders run their machines 24/7 without issue. They don't stop them mid-fold to completely reconfigure them. The client does not know what you might do to your folding machine, only what you have done to it. You are the only person complaining about the client deleting slots whe...

Many of the decisions about how the FAHClient works were made long before I started contributing. I'm merely using the client to the best of my understanding. Some of that understanding was gained through doing things, some stupid and other calculated e.g. swapping out GPUs, changing the CPU slot si...

It's complicated. Most options will work in both command line and config. Some options are exclusive to one or the other, it's a game of trial and error trying to figure out which. Someone might have a definitive list, I don't. If you're using the option in command line you need to prefix it with --...

As for your setups, your CPU-only machine never had a GPU for folding. It would be unlikely you'd take all the GPUs out of your first machine and put them in the other, even if you did so, you could manually cancel those slots. I did and I looked at doing it again over winter 2021. There's a thread...

you can use the command line to get each executable to print out every option it can use

https://foldingathome.org/support/faq/i ... on/?lng=en

One or more of several things may have happened including:- *). you may have copied to the config to another computer. *). the GPU(s) may have failed and will never be available again. *). you have decided that "no GPU" is your config going forward. *). you may have decided to change your ...

I don't believe a similar option exists for the CPU. I would suggest adding "pause-on-start true" to your config. This will pause all slots in your system until you are ready to manually start them. Note:- this also sounds like the client worked correctly. When you removed your GPUs the cl...

It sounds like the client worked as designed.

You removed the cards, which removes the GPU slots.
In turn the client dumps the work units because it no longer has a suitable slot to process the work units on.
This is done within seconds of the client starting.

A few suggestions:- 1). Kaspersky is known to cause problems with FAH, I think the best advice is to remove it. At the very least every internet security application product has a list of exclusions, add "c:\programdata\fahclient" to this list. 2). I have no idea about your fritzbox. I do ...