ATI Radeon HD 5970 not detected
30 Aug 2013 18:44:30 UTC
Topic 197171
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I detached from E@A two weeks ago to do some unavoidable work on my PC. I had to throw out the old graphics card, and put in the ATI 5970 together with a clean install of Windows XP and all the drivers and updates. No hanging tasks for the old NVIDIA but BOINC does not recognize my current card. I would appreciate some practical tips for solving the problem as I don't want to waste resources on CPU tasks only.
New computer ID - 8635454.
ATI Radeon HD 5970 not detected
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Did you install Boinc as a service? This will prevent Boinc from detecting and using the GPU.
What driver version did you install for the GPU, AMD dropped OpenCL support under Win XP from Catalyst v. 12.2 and newer. I don't use AMD cards so can't recommend what driver to try but I think you have to have one that's older than 12.2...
Reference this GPU cheat sheet for different driver versions.
Rollback to Catalyst 12.1 and
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Rollback to Catalyst 12.1 and reinstalling BOINC changed nothing - still no GPU detected. BOINC is not installed as a service. It looks like I'm running out of options.
Please post your Boinc
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Please post your Boinc startup messages from the Event log, the first 30 lines will do.
Claggy
I did a Google search on my
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I did a Google search on my problem for an hour, found nothing useful, then uninstalled BOINC totally (thrashing tasks which was an unpleasant decision), cleaned the registry, restarted the computer, and installed BOINC from scratch. The same happened again even with Catalyst 12.1
31-Aug-2013 19:01:26 [---] No config file found - using defaults
31-Aug-2013 19:01:26 [---] Starting BOINC client version 7.0.64 for windows_intelx86
31-Aug-2013 19:01:26 [---] log flags: file_xfer, sched_ops, task
31-Aug-2013 19:01:26 [---] Libraries: libcurl/7.25.0 OpenSSL/1.0.1 zlib/1.2.6
31-Aug-2013 19:01:26 [---] Data directory: C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\BOINC
31-Aug-2013 19:01:26 [---] Running under account Vladimir
31-Aug-2013 19:01:26 [---] Processor: 4 GenuineIntel Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q6600 @ 2.40GHz [Family 6 Model 15 Stepping 11]
31-Aug-2013 19:01:26 [---] Processor features: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss htt tm pni ssse3 cx16 nx lm vmx tm2 pbe
31-Aug-2013 19:01:26 [---] OS: Microsoft Windows XP: Professional x86 Edition, Service Pack 3, (05.01.2600.00)
31-Aug-2013 19:01:26 [---] Memory: 2.00 GB physical, 3.85 GB virtual
31-Aug-2013 19:01:26 [---] Disk: 48.83 GB total, 35.48 GB free
31-Aug-2013 19:01:26 [---] Local time is UTC +3 hours
31-Aug-2013 19:01:26 [---] No usable GPUs found
31-Aug-2013 19:01:26 [---] No general preferences found - using defaults
31-Aug-2013 19:01:26 [---] Preferences:
31-Aug-2013 19:01:26 [---] max memory usage when active: 1023.24MB
31-Aug-2013 19:01:26 [---] max memory usage when idle: 1841.83MB
31-Aug-2013 19:01:26 [---] max disk usage: 35.38GB
31-Aug-2013 19:01:26 [---] don't use GPU while active
31-Aug-2013 19:01:26 [---] suspend work if non-BOINC CPU load exceeds 25 %
31-Aug-2013 19:01:26 [---] (to change preferences, visit a project web site or select Preferences in the Manager)
31-Aug-2013 19:01:26 [---] Not using a proxy
31-Aug-2013 19:01:26 [---] This computer is not attached to any projects
31-Aug-2013 19:01:26 [---] Visit http://boinc.berkeley.edu for instructions
Initialization completed
May be I should note here that I'm not an IT pro, and tinkering with the OS and BOINC isn't my favorite passtime. If there is a relatively simple solution, I'll try it. If not - this would be a sad end to my 8 years' contribution to DC. I live in the poorest country in the European Union, and the fantastic corruption here does not help with the mess in the economy. It's all about survival now, and I can't spare the money for a better PC with Windows 7 for example. If BOINC can't use my current GPU - sorry, it's all I have.
@Vladimir AMD Catalist has
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@Vladimir
AMD Catalist has some peculiar habits.
Before you install a new version of the program you have to remove the older version completely. You have to uninstall the older version completely.
Here is the procedure AMD gives:
http://forums.amd.com/game/messageview.cfm?catid=444&threadid=162444&enterthread=y
Part two of the uninstall I did with the following free program, just choose AMD in the program:
http://treexy.com/products/driver-fusion
Thanks for the tip. I did it
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Thanks for the tip. I did it in a much more messy way which every sane person would warn me against because it could easily cause a system crash with the inevitable new installation of Windows. I won't describe it here but I was fed up with AMD's policy of "Daddy knows best". All's well that ends well - now my GPU crunches for E@A. :-)
Nice that you say that
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Nice that you say that all’s well now.
A lot of people are not that polite.