I replaced a motherboard, which required a clean install of Win-7. I set the system name to exactly the same it used to be before I install BOINC. When I connected to my account manager BAM! I got the same name, but it showed up as another computer in the host list. This creats an orphan and I will eventually have to merge all projects that have this system. The merging will create a new project wide identity which taks a long time to propagate thru their data base.

How can I avoid this in the future when doing a clean install?

thanks for looking

As per BAM FAQ:

BAM! doesn't find my existing accounts at the projects, while I'm sure they're there.

BAM! can only find accounts when the email address, the username and the password of the project are the same as those of BAM!. Check these at the project, and change it when needed.

Do know that BAM isn't a Berkeley development. You will get answers way quicker when you ask them at the BOINCStats/BAM forums.

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