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[Solved] 11 bad work units in 3 hours

Posted: Tue Oct 04, 2022 4:19 pm
by pyrocyborg
Hi,

I've been having an issue with two 6700 XT and a 6800 XT. Thes cards are at stock settings, properly cooled. They're not overclocked at all, and all three systems CPU are running stock too. Drivers are 22.7.1 as per recommended on all three systems.

The cards are usually folding properly, without any kind of issue, with the odd BAD work unit, until they get a "seizure". All of a sudden, a 6700 XT started popping bad work units one after the other, completely destroying my Quick return bonus in a single night. The other 6700 XT isn't as bad, but this situation happened once before, and the 6800 XT does throw more bad work units than the average Nvidia, but it might be due to untested projects on these particular AMD cards as they're all 14xxx and 15xxx projects and they fail as soon as they're downloaded.

Are AMD 6000 cards that much in a bad state for folding? Every single 6000 card I have for folding is returning an error (or multiples) from time to time despite being stock, while Nvidia 3000 ones are folding fine while under a pretty low power limit (like 50% or lower). I doubt all three of my AMD systems are bad?

Re: 11 bad work units in 3 hours

Posted: Tue Oct 04, 2022 9:19 pm
by toTOW

Re: 11 bad work units in 3 hours

Posted: Thu Oct 20, 2022 6:03 pm
by pyrocyborg
It seems like drivers were the issue. Did a clean reinstall on all machines, DDU, and then installed drivers 22.10.1 (instead of 22.7.1) and so far, there is no issue with only one bad work unit out of 200-ish WU. Probably an issue while upgrading drivers 22.7.1 up from whatever version I had before.

Thanks!