To quote myself in a PM:

Hi, I was just looking at your results on the Folding@Home team. I think I have worked out why you arent getting a lot of points. Please search through your FahLog.txt and try and find the following:

"Simulation instability has been encountered. The run has entered a
state from which no further progress can be made.
This may be the correct result of the simulation, however if you
often see other project units terminating early like this
too, you may wish to check the stability of your computer (issues
such as high temperature, overclocking, etc.).
Going to send back what have done.
logfile size: 53331
Writing 54020 bytes of core data to disk...
... Done."

BTW this is where my 2nd WU  came from... I've really only done 3

Hi Guys,

I have found the instability report that FM asked me to look for, and been trying through the Folding Forum and other sources to find out what exactly is going on.

Part of the points/vs/wu score is that the folding program needs to be shut down for a couple of minutes before I turn off the machine or it doesn't write the files to disk properly. Another suggestion is that the machine itself is at fault, so I need to strip it down and reassemble it after cleaning, but that will have to be done on a free day (tomorrow?).

IE is better than it was, but still not 100% stable, and winding the folding cpu usage from 100% down to 85% has helped as well.

I'm open to further ideas as I seem to have gotten as far as I can trying to sort the machine out, so now we're down to the folding itself.

All help gratefully received,

Roger.

A member of the MicroMart-UK Folding team, no.46590

Go on, you know you want to!

Hi Tippon and Fridgemaker,

Sorry for the double reply, but I've just read the query that peteandchris have recently put on regarding crashing on Gromacs, as that is virtually all I have been given to run.

Coincidence, or something more sisnister???

Roger

A member of the MicroMart-UK Folding team, no.46590

Go on, you know you want to!