The most common reason for this is that you used two names when you joined. Please open BOINC Manager, in the advanced view. Look on the projects tab under "account". What does it say?

Hi all,
If you go to my team (Edwardians) click on member list joined/left
click on Grandma Pachi and you will see she has no device!
Yet she is crunching???? How come?

Thanks!

Hello Grandma Pachi,
That looks good - 58% through a work unit. Does 'My Grid' - 'Results Status' show that any results have been returned? (Explained in http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/forums/wcg/viewthread?thread=6105 ) If not, you might want to review the post on problems with Vista at http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/forums/wcg/viewthread?thread=12856

Lawrence

Hello Grandma Pachi,
Slow computer?

Yes, diagnosis is difficult at a distance, but in your case . . . .

First, Vista is extremely large. Windows XP takes up 3 GB on the disk drive. Vista takes 20 GB. Even though your memory size is 1 GB, this is minimal for Vista. By default, BOINC will run 1 work unit per core - - 2 simultaneous tasks on your dual-core computer. This will clog up your memory as it tries to run Vista and 2 BOINC application programs.

So go to 'My Grid' - 'Device Manager' and then click on your Selected Profile (I use 'home'). Read down until you come to Advanced Options - Processor Usage.

You want to set 'On multiprocessors, at most use: 1 processors'.

Then select 'Save' at the bottom to actually change your settings.

You might want to change the Workunit Cache settings as well. Some people boast of the days of work units in their cache. I use 0.1 days. Why try to keep more than a few hours on my drive?

The switch from Windows XP to Vista has been an eye-opener. The open-source BOINC project has been struggling to develop a BOINC 6 that can run easily on Vista. My personal guess is that it might be debugged in 2009, but I am not betting money. BOINC 5.10 installs easily on Windows XP, but on Vista it must be installed to a user selected file such as C:/BOINC. The automatic install to C:/Program Files/BOINC will fail due to access permissions, as explained in http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/forums/wcg/viewthread?thread=12856

I try to avoid using BOINC graphics as much as possible. We are trying to get the BOINC 6 graphics API to run with Vista, but I am paranoid. So my screen saver is 'blank'. Or pick some other screen savere, but not BOINC or WCG.

In general, every bit of information you send us helps us understand your problems better. There are a vast number of threads about problems with Vista, about it aborting running work units when restarting a computers that had BOINC installed in Program Files, etc. There is a lot of information in Start Here and on the web site in My Grid, but it takes time and lots of questions to find out what is important and how things work.

Lawrence