Its alive and folding!
Working a standard SMP to start out with
Project: 6944
TPF 1:15
PPD 78.4K
 
Edit: took another 2 seconds off the time by sudo service mdm stop
and running fah in a pure terminal. TPF 1:13 PPD 81.6K
Project ID: 6944
 Core: GRO-A3
 Credit: 552
 
Name: H8QGi+F 4P
 Path: \\192.168.1.118\fah\
 Number of Frames Observed: 27
 Min. Time / Frame : 00:01:13 - 81,660.6 PPD
 Avg. Time / Frame : 00:01:24 - 66,157.3 PPD
 Cur. Time / Frame : 00:01:13 - 81,660.6 PPD
 R3F. Time / Frame : 00:01:13 - 81,660.6 PPD
 All  Time / Frame : 00:01:14 - 80,010.9 PPD
 Eff. Time / Frame : 00:01:26 - 63,862.9 PPD
 
Sure doesn't take much activity in the GUI to make the TPF fall off.
Just borwsing here rased the TPF to 1:26. That's why I'm now in a pure terminal mode.

It may, only way to find out is to test.
What Linux version are you running?
ctrl alt F1 will get the terminal, ctrl alt F7 or F8 will get you back to the GUI.
Without know the Linux OS your running I can't tell you the command to kill the GUI.
sudo service mdm stop
sudo service mdm start
is for Mint
I use two terminals, one for fah and the other to issue the command to turn off/on the GUI.
ctrl alt f1 threw f6 or f7 will give a separate terminal.
F7 or F8 will reactivate the GUI if its not turn off with the sudo service command.

johnerz

12.04.2  :)

I believe the command for 12.04 is
sudo service lightdm stop
sudo servive lightdm start
that or
sudo lightdm stop
and
sudo lightdm start
to restart the GUI.
 
Edit: if those don't work try
sudo stop lightdm
sudo start lightdm

Roger that!
Check my edit above also here is a helpful link to install Nvidia drivers if your using a Nvidia video card.
http://askubuntu.com/ques...-to-install-nvidia-run
Another helpful link.
http://askubuntu.com/ques...-one-exit-the-x-server
 
GDM was switched out for LightDM, so:

sudo stop lightdm 

Or in your service parlance:

sudo service lightdm stop 

Nice photo   Shame about the power circuit
 
I'm using the onboard video in my 4P  

I had a quick look, and it might not be possible to add an GPU with my current cooler config, it looks like its about 1/8" in the way - the only way to be sure would be to power off and try - that's not on the cards currently.
 
From you cooler setup the photo indicates it is not an issue for you?

My 4p 6172 did 8104 with a average TPF of 10:22 and minimum of 9:55. The 4p 24c 2.8 ghz 8439's did it with an average TPF of 13:44 so I'd say it's looking pretty good for 6124's.
 

No, it's still at stock clocks for the moment. I have all the goodies to OC it, just haven't gotten around to it yet.
 

Ys, i looked at the thread on [H] and it seemed a little harder, so I have yet to take the plunge
 
I seem the have picked up some conflicting info about it
 
this did it for me:
 

NOTE: when flashing manually via AFUDOS.EXE, you must provide SM-mandated options at the end of command line, i.e. /P /B /N /C /R
failure to do so will result in bricked board
 
 
wth??
 
other than that it seemed almost straight forward.......

Ya when you manually flash you have to also manually put in the name of the bios file then add the flags at the end.
AFUDOS.EXE XXXXX.BIN /P /B /N /C /R
 
If you use the flash.bat those things are already included within the flash.bat.
Sometimes you have to edit the flash.bat to match the bios name your using so the name matches.
 
This is what the inside of the flash.bat looks like:
 
@echo off
REN AFUDOS.SMC AFUDOS.EXE
STOP_EC3.EXE
AFUDOS.EXE %1 /P /B /N /C /R %2
REN AFUDOS.EXE AFUDOS.SMC
if errorlevel 1 goto UPDERROR
if "%2"=="/X" goto UPDDONE
if "%2"=="/x" goto UPDDONE
:UPDERROR
echo ************************************************
echo  IF BIOS UPDATE FAILS, PLEASE SEE INSTRUCTION
echo IN README FILE
echo ************************************************
goto UPDEXIT
:UPDDONE
STARTEC.EXE
:UPDEXIT
 
But no where in this .bat is a name of a bios files such as H8QG61.527 that actually comes in the zip package of a legit bios for this Sm board.
 
So I'm assuming that there is no need to rename the [H] bios file, just remove the H8G61.527 and replace it with [H] H8QG61.A11 bios file when you move those to the bootable USB flash drive.
Edit: or manually flash by typing this : AFUDOS.EXE H8QG61.A11 /P /B /N /C /R
but there isn't a AFUDOS.EXE within the zip file you get from SM there is a AFUDOS.SMC which I think is a compressed file that the flash.bat unpaks when ran. So yea kind of confusing to say the least.
In the old days it wasn't like this. lol

TheWolf

Well my day started off kind of bad. Found one 2P down then as I was getting it back up
a breaker tripped and 7 rigs went down. So I'm going to have to drop something from the loop.
The good news is everyone of them start its fold right back where it had left off.
Here is a shot of the H8QGi+F setup and running. Still waiting on the Tech station, should be here tomorrow.

 
Please get those boards off of the foam and get some airflow under them.  Hate to see you burn something up.

also, on the musky mod, you do not need to drill or tap the bolts, this is more or less an option.  i did not do this on 2 of my 4p boards.  I did it on the others, which makes it much easier to install.
 
You may even see your cpu temps drop if you get some air across the board.

On those chips' I would max the volts and crank the refclock.  Start at 240 and work your way up.  Do use a test wu and run 10 frames and then go up 2 more notches.  Rinse and repeat.  Once you find the spot where it fails, back down 1 notch and repeat until it runs stable.

Then, use production wu.

Wooden Underwear and a Wooly hat???
 
 
Wolf  any chance of a walk through, I'm baby sitting currently, but would love to try this this evening when I return home ???
 

How about the OC?  Juice them puppies up and push it.  They are non ES so even at max you are no where near board limits, especially on those chips.  8 cores and HE is nothing in terms of power draw.
 
Some music.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ps0MfBG5-Uo
 
Crank it up!!!!!
 
Also, what is the output of tpc-dram?
 
Run w/o quotes "sudo tpc -dram | pastebinit"  You may need to install pastebin.

Only changes I have made at this point in time is to the refclock.
Bumping 10mhz at a time. Now up to 256mhz stable with no other changes.
I did notice the DRAM clock has now changed to 800mhz and still stable with tight timings.
If what is shown is the correct reading for timings, the 800mhz also showed at boot up. 

 
Project ID: 8101
Name: H8QGi+F 4P
 Path: \\192.168.1.108\fah\
 Number of Frames Observed: 23
 Min. Time / Frame : 00:19:26 - 202,764.1 PPD
 Avg. Time / Frame : 00:19:55 - 195,428.1 PPD
 Cur. Time / Frame : 00:19:26 - 202,764.1 PPD
 
TPF is coming down quite nicely