Hi all, this is my input:

10/04/2010 11:54:28 p.m. SETI@home update requested by user
10/04/2010 11:54:33 p.m. SETI@home Sending scheduler request: Requested by user.
10/04/2010 11:54:33 p.m. SETI@home Requesting new tasks for GPU
10/04/2010 11:54:38 p.m. SETI@home Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks
10/04/2010 11:54:38 p.m. SETI@home Message from server: (Project has no jobs available)
10/04/2010 11:54:53 p.m. SETI@home Sending scheduler request: To fetch work.
10/04/2010 11:54:53 p.m. SETI@home Requesting new tasks for GPU
10/04/2010 11:54:58 p.m. SETI@home Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks
10/04/2010 11:54:58 p.m. SETI@home Message from server: (Project has no jobs available)
10/04/2010 11:55:13 p.m. SETI@home Sending scheduler request: To fetch work.
10/04/2010 11:55:13 p.m. SETI@home Requesting new tasks for GPU
10/04/2010 11:55:18 p.m. SETI@home Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks
10/04/2010 11:55:18 p.m. SETI@home Message from server: (Project has no jobs available)
10/04/2010 11:56:33 p.m. SETI@home Sending scheduler request: To fetch work.
10/04/2010 11:56:33 p.m. SETI@home Requesting new tasks for GPU
10/04/2010 11:56:38 p.m. SETI@home Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks
10/04/2010 11:56:38 p.m. SETI@home Message from server: No work sent
10/04/2010 11:56:38 p.m. SETI@home Message from server: Your NVIDIA GPU has insufficient memory (need 254MB)
10/04/2010 11:56:38 p.m. SETI@home Message from server: Your NVIDIA GPU has insufficient memory (need 384MB)
11/04/2010 12:00:25 a.m. Suspending computation - CPU usage is too high
11/04/2010 12:00:35 a.m. Resuming computation
11/04/2010 12:02:39 a.m. SETI@home Sending scheduler request: To fetch work.
11/04/2010 12:02:39 a.m. SETI@home Requesting new tasks for GPU
11/04/2010 12:02:44 a.m. SETI@home Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks
11/04/2010 12:02:44 a.m. SETI@home Message from server: (Project has no jobs available)

Earlier I had the previous version of BOINC and a previous version of NVIDIA driver (I think it was 186.85) I am now running Vista 64 (I also had Win 7 64 with no problems at all) and I have a 256MB card (NVIDIA GeForce 9500M (GF 9200MGS + GF 9400MG running in hybrid SLI)) with driver version 197.16. I had the GPU working before, I don't know if it is the client, or the new driver, but the servers now respond that the GPU has insuficient memory? and at other times that the server has no jobs available? I'm confused... any ideas?

thanks.

I forgot to post my preferences...

10/04/2010 11:36:54 p.m. Starting BOINC client version 6.10.43 for windows_x86_64
10/04/2010 11:36:54 p.m. log flags: file_xfer, sched_ops, task
10/04/2010 11:36:54 p.m. Libraries: libcurl/7.19.7 OpenSSL/0.9.8l zlib/1.2.3
10/04/2010 11:36:54 p.m. Data directory: C:\ProgramData\BOINC
10/04/2010 11:36:54 p.m. Running under account Jorge
10/04/2010 11:36:54 p.m. Processor: 2 GenuineIntel Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU P7350 @ 2.00GHz [Family 6 Model 23 Stepping 10]
10/04/2010 11:36:54 p.m. Processor: 3.00 MB cache
10/04/2010 11:36:54 p.m. Processor features: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss htt tm pni ssse3 cx16 sse4_1 syscall nx lm tm2 pbe
10/04/2010 11:36:54 p.m. OS: Microsoft Windows Vista: Home Premium x64 Edition, Service Pack 2, (06.00.6002.00)
10/04/2010 11:36:54 p.m. Memory: 3.75 GB physical, 8.52 GB virtual
10/04/2010 11:36:54 p.m. Disk: 262.99 GB total, 203.57 GB free
10/04/2010 11:36:54 p.m. Local time is UTC -5 hours
10/04/2010 11:36:54 p.m. NVIDIA GPU 0: GeForce 9500M (GF 9200MGS + GF 9400MG) (driver version 19716, CUDA version 3000, compute capability 1.1, 240MB, 21 GFLOPS peak)
10/04/2010 11:36:55 p.m. SETI@home URL http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/; Computer ID 5366766; resource share 100
10/04/2010 11:36:55 p.m. No general preferences found - using BOINC defaults
10/04/2010 11:36:55 p.m. Preferences:
10/04/2010 11:36:55 p.m. max memory usage when active: 1918.71MB
10/04/2010 11:36:55 p.m. max memory usage when idle: 3453.69MB
10/04/2010 11:36:55 p.m. max disk usage: 10.00GB
10/04/2010 11:36:55 p.m. don't use GPU while active
10/04/2010 11:36:55 p.m. suspend work if non-BOINC CPU load exceeds 25 %
10/04/2010 11:36:55 p.m. (to change, visit the web site of an attached project,
10/04/2010 11:36:55 p.m. or click on Preferences)
10/04/2010 11:36:57 p.m. Using proxy info from GUI
10/04/2010 11:36:57 p.m. Not using a proxy

I forgot to post my preferences...

10/04/2010 11:36:54 p.m. Starting BOINC client version 6.10.43 for windows_x86_64
10/04/2010 11:36:54 p.m. log flags: file_xfer, sched_ops, task
10/04/2010 11:36:54 p.m. Libraries: libcurl/7.19.7 OpenSSL/0.9.8l zlib/1.2.3
10/04/2010 11:36:54 p.m. Data directory: C:\ProgramData\BOINC
10/04/2010 11:36:54 p.m. Running under account Jorge
10/04/2010 11:36:54 p.m. Processor: 2 GenuineIntel Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU P7350 @ 2.00GHz [Family 6 Model 23 Stepping 10]
10/04/2010 11:36:54 p.m. Processor: 3.00 MB cache
10/04/2010 11:36:54 p.m. Processor features: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss htt tm pni ssse3 cx16 sse4_1 syscall nx lm tm2 pbe
10/04/2010 11:36:54 p.m. OS: Microsoft Windows Vista: Home Premium x64 Edition, Service Pack 2, (06.00.6002.00)
10/04/2010 11:36:54 p.m. Memory: 3.75 GB physical, 8.52 GB virtual
10/04/2010 11:36:54 p.m. Disk: 262.99 GB total, 203.57 GB free
10/04/2010 11:36:54 p.m. Local time is UTC -5 hours
10/04/2010 11:36:54 p.m. NVIDIA GPU 0: GeForce 9500M (GF 9200MGS + GF 9400MG) (driver version 19716, CUDA version 3000, compute capability 1.1, 240MB, 21 GFLOPS peak)
10/04/2010 11:36:55 p.m. SETI@home URL http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/; Computer ID 5366766; resource share 100
10/04/2010 11:36:55 p.m. No general preferences found - using BOINC defaults
10/04/2010 11:36:55 p.m. Preferences:
10/04/2010 11:36:55 p.m. max memory usage when active: 1918.71MB
10/04/2010 11:36:55 p.m. max memory usage when idle: 3453.69MB
10/04/2010 11:36:55 p.m. max disk usage: 10.00GB
10/04/2010 11:36:55 p.m. don't use GPU while active
10/04/2010 11:36:55 p.m. suspend work if non-BOINC CPU load exceeds 25 %
10/04/2010 11:36:55 p.m. (to change, visit the web site of an attached project,
10/04/2010 11:36:55 p.m. or click on Preferences)
10/04/2010 11:36:57 p.m. Using proxy info from GUI
10/04/2010 11:36:57 p.m. Not using a proxy

My Laptop's 8400M GS is also showing less Memory with the 197.16 drivers, down to 113Mb now, from 128Mb with the 195.81 drivers,
and my Desktop's 9800GTX+ is down to 495Mb from 512Mb with the 197.13 & 197.25 drivers too,
I've posted a question on Nvidia forum, no reply yet, another posting there will help,

Cuda-Z and Boinc report less Memory with 197.xx drivers

Claggy

Edit: my hosts at Seti: Computers belonging to Claggy

Downgraded my E8500 Vista 64bit machine to 196.34, now shows 512Mb again.

Claggy

The strange thing is that BOINC reports less memory but everywhere else in the computer (system information, NVIDIA control panel, etc) video memory is reported correctly (256 MB). Why does BOINC report less memory?

Probably because Boinc's querying the Cuda api, and that's the reply it gets,

Claggy