BOINC Client and Manager FAQs

BOINC Client Software Questions and Answers

BOINC 7

BOINC 7.0
BOINC command line switches
BOINC Installer: Error reading setup initialization file
BOINC Manager cannot connect to a client
BOINC Manager command line switches
BOINCCMD command line switches
Boinc_x.x.x_windows_intelx86.exe is not a valid Win32 application
Computing is suspended - requested by operating system
Einstein: Got server request to delete file XXXXXX
My Boinc says it is suspended. Now what?
Not requesting work or reporting results / Requesting 0 seconds of work, reporting 0 completed tasks?
RAM requirements for BOINC
Science applications continue running when I exit BOINC Manager
Setting percentage of CPU Time, how does it work? (CPU throttling)
Suspending computation - CPU usage is too high / CPU is busy
The anonymous platform (app_info.xml), what does it do? How to properly get rid of it?
Gstate.init() failed, error code: -180

Why does the "to completion time" go up?
Windows Installer error - Internal error 2755, 1601
Windows Installer error 1327: Invalid drive letter
Windows Installer Error 1706: Setup cannot find the required files / 1714: older version cannot be removed / BOINC.msi cannot be found / The feature you are trying to use is on a network resource that is unavailable / Error 1325. is not a valid short name
Windows Installer Error 1905

Pre-BOINC 7

BOINC 6.2 - 6.12
BOINC 6: Advanced Local Preferences
Can I hide BOINC from view?

BOINC Account Managers

Account Manager, what is that?
BAM!
GridRepublic

BOINC and Computer Terminology

BOINC Terminology: A
BOINC Terminology: B
BOINC Terminology: C
BOINC Terminology: D
BOINC Terminology: E
BOINC Terminology: F
BOINC Terminology: G
BOINC Terminology: H
BOINC Terminology: I
BOINC Terminology: L
BOINC Terminology: M
BOINC Terminology: N
BOINC Terminology: O
BOINC Terminology: P
BOINC Terminology: Q
BOINC Terminology: R
BOINC Terminology: S
BOINC Terminology: T
BOINC Terminology: U
BOINC Terminology: V
BOINC Terminology: W
CPU - Register Acronyms

BOINC Client Errors and Error Codes

Process exit codes 192 - 204
Error code -100 to -110 explained
Error code -111 to -120 explained
Error code -121 to -130 explained
Error code -131 to -140 explained
Error code -141 to -150 explained
Error code -151 to -160 explained
Error code -161 to -170 explained
Error code -171 to -180 explained
Error code -181 to -190 explained
Error code -191 to -200 explained
Error code -201 to -210 explained
Error code -211 to -220 explained
Error code -221 to -230 explained
Error code -231 to -240 explained
Application failed to initialize properly (0xc0150004)
Authorization failure -155
BOINC Manager pop-up: Communicating with client, please wait
Can't rename state file; The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process. (0x20)
Error code -1073741502 (0xffffffffc0000142) / error code -1073741502 (0xc0000142)
Error codes: Other BOINC errors
Exit code -1073741502 (0xC0000142) - Einstein
Exit code -1073741510 (0xc000013a) (On Windows Vista)
Exit code -1073741795 (0xc000001d)
Exit code -1073741811 (0xc000000d)
Fixing: The COM+ Event System failed to fire the ConnectionLost method on subscription A8EDB33C-55FF-4D5D-965A-27769CC279AD. The subscriber returned HRESULT 80010105
HTTP Error 0
HTTP error codes 404, 407, 416, 500, 501, 502, 503 and 504
Maximum disk space exceeded
Maximum elapsed time exceeded
Message from server: Completed task name refused: result already reported as success
Message from server: Incomplete request received
No URL for file transfer of application name
Process got signal 11
Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site. Access to reference site succeeded - project servers may be temporarily down.
Project Scheduler request failed: Couldn't resolve host name
Scheduler request failed: Error 417
Scheduler request failed: Failed sending data to the peer
Scheduler request failed: HTTP internal server error
Scheduler request failed: Server returned nothing (no headers, no data)
Signals list used in BOINC
Time of day
Waiting for memory (5.8 and above)