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I installed Win 10 Enterprise 64-bit on an Intel 8700k and it did its windows updates thing.
Installed and ran BOINC but it says "no usable GPUs found".
I downloaded and installed the latest Nvidia driver for my GTX1050ti, version 398.36. After a reboot BOINC still says no usable GPUs found.
I have successfully used the driver 388.71 on other PCs so I d/l and installed that, same result no usable GPUs found.
I tried a clean installation of 388.71, same result no usable GPUs found.
How do I force Windows 10 to use the Nvidia driver and not the generic Microsoft video driver? |
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I installed Win 10 Enterprise 64-bit on an Intel 8700k and it did its windows updates thing.
Installed and ran BOINC but it says "no usable GPUs found".
I downloaded and installed the latest Nvidia driver for my GTX1050ti, version 398.36. After a reboot BOINC still says no usable GPUs found.
I have successfully used the driver 388.71 on other PCs so I d/l and installed that, same result no usable GPUs found.
I tried a clean installation of 388.71, same result no usable GPUs found.
How do I force Windows 10 to use the Nvidia driver and not the generic Microsoft video driver?
Asking the obvious...I'm assuming you rebooted after doing the Nvidia driver install? |
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Yes, each time the Nvidia installer requested a reboot. |
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Are you using Windows Remote Desktop? Are you using a VM? Either of those will make the GPU inaccessible.
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Or running multiple users on the same PC ? I did not look into that deeply, but Boinc starts automatically as the last user running before reboot. If you log in as a different user afterwards, the GPU is not accessible. |
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I'm sure you know this, but another possible problem is if BOINC is installed as a service, it won't be able to see the GPU.
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I don't know that the below will help but......
I have noticed this on Win 7 but on Win 7 it only occurs if you choose "Switch user"
instead of logging off the current user and then logging on to the new user.
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I don't know that the below will help but......
I have noticed this on Win 7 but on Win 7 it only occurs if you choose "Switch user"
instead of logging off the current user and then logging on to the new user.
Yes, same problem with Windows 10. With the added difficulty that Boinc can restart automatically after a reboot. Say user A is running Boinc and reboots. Boinc starts as user A before anyone logs in. And when user B logs in, even if he is the first, the GPU will appear as not accessible.
The workaround is to stop Boinc Manager, which stops the clients (running as user A) and then restart Boinc Manager which launches clients as user B. The GPU is then accessible.
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I don't know that the below will help but......
I have noticed this on Win 7 but on Win 7 it only occurs if you choose "Switch user"
instead of logging off the current user and then logging on to the new user.
It should work that way on any version of Windows.
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So in Win 10 you can't control the programs that run upon start like you can in Win 7?
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So in Win 10 you can't control the programs that run upon start like you can in Win 7?
You can.
This is a feature -- and a VERY useful one. When Win 10 does an update and reboots, it will optionally restart running tasks, including BOINC. This means BOINC doesn't die when Win 10 updates. That's a good thing, but you can disable it if you wish. It's on by default.
This potential problem here is only a problem if you're logging in as a different user. And the fix is simple enough.
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Maybe its just a hardware problem with the GTX1050ti. I'll look at a replacement GPU next week. |
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Just for curiosity, have you tried running GPUz to see if the OpenCL flag is checked ? |
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Is primegrid set to use the NVIDIA tasks and not AMD or something else?
I had a problem trying to run INTEL related tasks on another machine for another project and got that msg. Changed it to NVIDIA and got work. It may be set to the wrong GPU type. Mine happened because the INTEL video stuff did not work right at all and everything worked fine with the Nvidia settings. |
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Just for curiosity, have you tried running GPUz to see if the OpenCL flag is checked ?
That's exactly what happened with the INTEL chip as I just posted above. No opencl support, so no available gpus to use.
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Is primegrid set to use the NVIDIA tasks and not AMD or something else?
At the current time, on any BOINC sub-projects where we have GPU apps, we support both AMD and Nvidia GPUs.
We do not support Intel GPUs.
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Is primegrid set to use the NVIDIA tasks and not AMD or something else?
At the current time, on any BOINC sub-projects where we have GPU apps, we support both AMD and Nvidia GPUs.
We do not support Intel GPUs.
I know primegrid doesn't support intel, but a few other non primegrid projects do. Seti and Einstein for two examples... I didn't mean to mislead. if he has it set to AMD it will say no gpu available for tasks or something related to that as well. I had that happen when I upgraded from an AMD 6950 to the NVIDIA 1060. |
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I installed Win 10 Enterprise 64-bit on an Intel 8700k and it did its windows updates thing.
Installed and ran BOINC but it says "no usable GPUs found".
What are your Prime Grid preferences set to use? AMD or NVIDIA or neither? And if that is not it, then it probably is installed as a service as Michael Goetz stated. See this thread here - https://boinc.berkeley.edu/dev/forum_thread.php?id=11429
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I replaced the GTX1050ti with a GTX1060 6GB and installed Linux instead of Win 10.
GPU is running fine now.
I installed the 1050ti as a second GPU but it fails to be detected.
Conclusion: dead 1050ti GPU.
Didn't last more than 6 months running 24/7.
I wonder how the miners cope when they have 1000's of GPUs? They must be replacing dead hardware all day. |
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I've got the same issue on sepdk. If I disconnect my rdp session will it start using the GPU's?
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Wow that's not good. I've still a 590 and a few 690s running 24/7 for must be 5/6 years now. Still going. Not 365 but close enough as makes no difference. Was it in air-con room?
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I've got the same issue on sepdk. If I disconnect my rdp session will it start using the GPU's?
RDP is *guaranteed* to make your GPU's unable to run apps.
Turning off RDP should make the GPU usable, assuming there are no other problems.
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I replaced the GTX1050ti with a GTX1060 6GB and installed Linux instead of Win 10.
GPU is running fine now.
I installed the 1050ti as a second GPU but it fails to be detected.
Conclusion: dead 1050ti GPU.
Didn't last more than 6 months running 24/7.
I wonder how the miners cope when they have 1000's of GPUs? They must be replacing dead hardware all day.
I bought a few 750Ti gpu's from China and they are failing on me too, I don't know where you got yours, mine came off of Ebay as 'brand new unused' but say 'made in China' on them so probably not 'real' Nvidia cards. I have some older pc's that that model gpu is the best that I can put in them. The good thing is that they have 16, with HT, cpu cores in each pc so the gpu is extra. |
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Wow that's not good. I've still a 590 and a few 690s running 24/7 for must be 5/6 years now. Still going. Not 365 but close enough as makes no difference. Was it in air-con room?
Yes a/c in room 24/7. Max temp of room was 31C. Almost all of my computers are in that one room. |
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Not sure of the manufacturing country but the card was purchased from the same computer shop I buy most of my gear from. I think it was a dud GPU. Good thing it was a lowly 1050ti and not a more expensive card. |
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