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Message 33829 - Posted: 19 Jul 2010, 18:30:05 UTC
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I have two ATI 5970's i planned on using with BOINC and after the first two boots after installing BOINC on a fresh copy of Win 7 Pro the second GPU stopped showing up in BOINC, but windows still detects it fine.

Is there a way to force BOINC to redetect system hardware?
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Message 33836 - Posted: 19 Jul 2010, 22:37:42 UTC - in response to Message 33829.  

Try plugging a Monitor into it, then extend the desktop onto it, then the Monitor should no longer be needed,

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Message 33840 - Posted: 20 Jul 2010, 1:36:11 UTC - in response to Message 33836.  

What do monitors have to do with BOINC detecting a coprocessor?
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Message 33895 - Posted: 22 Jul 2010, 4:08:18 UTC - in response to Message 33829.  

I have two ATI 5970's i planned on using with BOINC and after the first two boots after installing BOINC on a fresh copy of Win 7 Pro the second GPU stopped showing up in BOINC, but windows still detects it fine.

Is there a way to force BOINC to redetect system hardware?


I never figured out how to redetect, but I did fix my issue.

I do not know the cause of the issue though. An uninstall/reinstall of BOINC and the drivers fixed the BOINC detection issue. Should have tried that first... It is a new build there are bound to be issues. :)
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