Power outages

[qquizz]

I also want to share in my experience with leaving UD running while gone from computer for several days.

I was all psyched b/c I was going to have my system run for 5 days straight w/o interuption. Well, hours after I left there was a storm and the power got knocked off. Ended up doing nothing, no WU's at all. There is a setting somewhere in the bios that will allow my machine to reboot when power comes back on (i think), and must have UD to autorun, this should fix this issue. Just wanted to pass this along to the forum. I am using an APC but when power outage is long it shuts down computer.

[impar]

Greetings!

And the internet connection?

[vaioman]

Hi

One would need a pretty hefty cache to run 5 days straight unless the system was set up to autoconnect when cache is full and upload/download more work.

[qquizz]

i have high speed (always on) so when computer "reboots" automatically, it will reconnect. If you don't have high speed then, i think you can still have the internet automatically connect. Otherwise, just have the bios restart the computer after a power loss, and use udmonitor cache.

At least in theory, this should work.

[j3pflynn]

Indeed, it does work - usually. The caveat is that sometimes you'll get a little power "blip" which can throw the MB logic into an undefined state, and it doesn't reboot properly. Learned from experience...

But most of the time, that BIOS setting will do the job. One warning obviously, is that if you have Windows set to require a logon, then you'll have to set UD up as a service so it will run regardless whether anyone logs on or not. To do that you may want to incorporate FireDaemon Lite-> UD monitor->UD agent, and you'll be in business.

[caz223]

Yeah, power outages suck.
I've only been folding for maybe 24 hours, and I've already lost blocks due to power failures.
Wacky, huh?

[berdux]

hello! i have a pentium 2 computer and i use it for routing of a wireless network to my main computer.
the bios doesn't have a setting for auto power up when power comes back. and i have to manually switch it on every time the power goes down... usualy it takes time to realize what has happened and my computers are running services (irc bots, shoutcast server etc) that are needed in the wireless network. also downloading stops

i've heard that i can do something with the PSU (cross some wires or sth) so that it will switch on the momment the power comes back!
does anyone know what exactly can i do?

[j3pflynn]

Don't know about that trick. Is the BIOS the most recent one? Sometimes they'll add features down the line, or decide to reveal hidden ones.