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[STE\/E]

Glad it works for you Duke ...

@F$' I'll post my .bat file, can you see anything wrong with it ??? It was suspending the Wu's but not restarting them, then I changed the Path to the boincccmd to the proper Path & now it won't Suspend the Wu's anymore when they reach the Time limit I set. The Path to the .bat file should be okay too, I've checked it several times already ...

:@ECHO OFF

CLS

:BEGIN
E:\PROGRAM FILES \BOINC64 MGR\boinccmd --project http://donateathome.org/ nomorework

E:\PROGRAM FILES \BOINC64 MGR\boinccmd --project http://donateathome.org/ suspend

CHOICE /N /D Y /T 10

E:\PROGRAM FILES \BOINC64 MGR\boinccmd --project http://donateathome.org/ reset

CHOICE /N /D Y /T 15

E:\PROGRAM FILES \BOINC64 MGR\boinccmd --project http://donateathome.org/ resume

CHOICE /N /D Y /T 5

E:\PROGRAM FILES \BOINC64 MGR\boinccmd --project http://donateathome.org/ allowmorework

E:\PROGRAM FILES \BOINC64 MGR\boinccmd --project http://donateathome.org/ update

:END

Exit

[Duke of Buckingham]

No tasks for Donate at least for me.

[Fire$torm]

Glad it works for you Duke ...

@F$' I'll post my .bat file, can you see anything wrong with it ??? It was suspending the Wu's but not restarting them, then I changed the Path to the boincccmd to the proper Path & now it won't Suspend the Wu's anymore when they reach the Time limit I set. The Path to the .bat file should be okay too, I've checked it several times already ...

:@ECHO OFF

CLS

:BEGIN
E:\PROGRAM FILES \BOINC64 MGR\boinccmd --project http://donateathome.org/ nomorework

E:\PROGRAM FILES \BOINC64 MGR\boinccmd --project http://donateathome.org/ suspend

CHOICE /N /D Y /T 10

E:\PROGRAM FILES \BOINC64 MGR\boinccmd --project http://donateathome.org/ reset

CHOICE /N /D Y /T 15

E:\PROGRAM FILES \BOINC64 MGR\boinccmd --project http://donateathome.org/ resume

CHOICE /N /D Y /T 5

E:\PROGRAM FILES \BOINC64 MGR\boinccmd --project http://donateathome.org/ allowmorework

E:\PROGRAM FILES \BOINC64 MGR\boinccmd --project http://donateathome.org/ update

:END

Exit

Hmmmm, looks like you have two sets of problems.

1) You have an extra space where it should not be. E:\PROGRAM FILES \ should be E:\PROGRAM FILES\ This error is repeated for all the boinccmd lines.

2) You need to add quote marks to all directory paths. Example: "E:\PROGRAM FILES \BOINC64 MGR\boinccmd"

Batch files work at the shell/Command/DOS level and DOS is stupid. It sees any space as an End Of Line so it cuts off the rest of the statement. The quote marks say Hey stupid DOS, these spaces are not "End Of Line", so please keep reading"

All fixed below

:@ECHO OFF

CLS

:BEGIN

"E:\PROGRAM FILES\BOINC64 MGR\boinccmd" --project http://donateathome.org/ nomorework

"E:\PROGRAM FILES\BOINC64 MGR\boinccmd" --project http://donateathome.org/ suspend

CHOICE /N /D Y /T 10

"E:\PROGRAM FILES\BOINC64 MGR\boinccmd" --project http://donateathome.org/ reset

CHOICE /N /D Y /T 15

"E:\PROGRAM FILES\BOINC64 MGR\boinccmd" --project http://donateathome.org/ resume

CHOICE /N /D Y /T 5

"E:\PROGRAM FILES\BOINC64 MGR\boinccmd" --project http://donateathome.org/ allowmorework

"E:\PROGRAM FILES\BOINC64 MGR\boinccmd" --project http://donateathome.org/ update

:END

Exit

[STE\/E]

Okay I'll try that, I just copied the .bat files from one of your Quotes, I wondered about the Space & tried it both ways but still didn't work but didn't have the " " so it wasn't going to work ... Thanks

EDIT: No work right now to try the .bat file out ...

[Fire$torm]

Okay I'll try that, I just copied the .bat files from one of your Quotes, I wondered about the Space & tried it both ways but still didn't work but didn't have the " " so it wasn't going to work ... Thanks

EDIT: No work right now to try the .bat file out ...

You can test the .bat file with another project like MooWrap just to make sure BOINC sees the commands.

For testing with MooWrap

@ECHO OFF

CLS

:BEGIN

"E:\PROGRAM FILES\BOINC64 MGR\boinccmd" --project http://moowrap.net/ nomorework

"E:\PROGRAM FILES\BOINC64 MGR\boinccmd" --project http://moowrap.net/ suspend

CHOICE /N /D Y /T 10

"E:\PROGRAM FILES\BOINC64 MGR\boinccmd" --project http://moowrap.net/ reset

CHOICE /N /D Y /T 15

"E:\PROGRAM FILES\BOINC64 MGR\boinccmd" --project http://moowrap.net/ resume

CHOICE /N /D Y /T 5

"E:\PROGRAM FILES\BOINC64 MGR\boinccmd" --project http://moowrap.net/ allowmorework

"E:\PROGRAM FILES\BOINC64 MGR\boinccmd" --project http://moowrap.net/ update


:END

Exit

[STE\/E]

Project has work again, I set up a 2'nd Box with the .bat file to try & see if it works for me ...

[STE\/E]

Project seems to be down again ??? Wu's won't progress & the .bat file still doesn't work on either Box, doesn't stop the Wu's when the Time Limit is reached ... ... Back the WCG again for those 2 Box's ...

[STE\/E]

I got the .bat File to work at least on one Box, trying it on another Box to see if the change I made works on it too ... I added a few minutes to the Time Limit too as I noticed some of the Wu's run a few minutes longer & don't really need to be reset ...

EDIT: I was mistaken, the .bat file is working as it does suspend the Wu & then resume it like it should but for some reason the Wu's revert back to the standard Donate Setting's of running just 1 Wu while the other Wu sit's idle & using the .991 CPU instead of the .5 CPU I have in the app_config file. Also the 1 Wu running runs slower than crap & I have to Exit BOINC & Restart BOINC again to get 2 Wu's running again like they should until another Wu Hangs again ...

[Fire$torm]

I got the .bat File to work at least on one Box, trying it on another Box to see if the change I made works on it too ... I added a few minutes to the Time Limit too as I noticed some of the Wu's run a few minutes longer & don't really need to be reset ...

EDIT: I was mistaken, the .bat file is working as it does suspend the Wu & then resume it like it should but for some reason the Wu's revert back to the standard Donate Setting's of running just 1 Wu while the other Wu sit's idle & using the .991 CPU instead of the .5 CPU I have in the app_config file. Also the 1 Wu running runs slower than crap & I have to Exit BOINC & Restart BOINC again to get 2 Wu's running again like they should until another Wu Hangs again ...

OK, I had to make certain assumptions.
*you have your remote systems setup with automatic user login.
*Your remote systems have BOINC set to launch with user login

This version of the .bat file will fix Donate then shut down BOINC and then restart the computer. I had to set it this way as restarting BOINC from within a batch file has weird behavior. The shutdown command has a small popup window (which can be ignored) and is set to restart the system with the default timeout of 30 seconds.

:@ECHO OFF

CLS

:BEGIN

"E:\PROGRAM FILES\BOINC64 MGR\boinccmd" --project http://donateathome.org/ nomorework

"E:\PROGRAM FILES\BOINC64 MGR\boinccmd" --project http://donateathome.org/ suspend

CHOICE /N /D Y /T 10

SHUTDOWN /r /f

"E:\PROGRAM FILES\BOINC64 MGR\boinccmd" --project http://donateathome.org/ reset

CHOICE /N /D Y /T 5

"E:\PROGRAM FILES\BOINC64 MGR\boinccmd" --project http://donateathome.org/ resume

"E:\PROGRAM FILES\BOINC64 MGR\boinccmd" --project http://donateathome.org/ allowmorework

"E:\PROGRAM FILES\BOINC64 MGR\boinccmd" --quit

:END

Exit

[STE\/E]

OK, I had to make certain assumptions.
*you have your remote systems setup with automatic user login.
*Your remote systems have BOINC set to launch with user login

Yes, I get a split second of Power Outage every so often from ThunderStorms rolling thru, maybe once every 6 month's if even that often so I set them up that way as the Box's will power back on almost instantly. I could run UPS Battery Backups & did at one time but the Cost for the UPS's & replacement battery's & the extra heat created by the backups I decided it they just weren't worth it. I wasn't going to lose anything critical so I got rid of them all.

Your most recent .bat file works for me, at first it didn't quit do the job as when the Box rebooted only 1 Donate Wu would run when BOINC would start up & it would run real slow like 1 Hr + to run a Wu. The reason for that was because the Wu wouldn't be using any CPU Resources. There would be 8 CPU Wu's running after it rebooted, so I checked the BOINC Event Log to see if the BOINC Manager was seeing the app_config file in the Donate Directory. It was seeing it but was giving a Message about the Donate .exe file not being listed in the config file. So I guess it would revert to the standard Donate settings of running only 1 Wu.

Why it wouldn't use any CPU Resource I don't know because the Standard Donate settings are for it to use .991 CPU. Anywho I took the Config file out & put a app_info.xml file in it's place & now 2 Wu's start up when BOINC restarts again. They also use .5 CPU like the app_info.xml files says to use & run at there normal 18 Min's or so for 2 running. I was getting Wu Error's too when the Box's rebooted, with the new app_info.xml file in place with the Donate .exe listed I don't get the error's.

I also put a Shortcut to the BoincTasks .exe in the Windows Startup Folder so BoincTasks would restart when the Box rebooted. Without the Shortcut BoincTasks won't restart until you do it Manually.

This is the app_info.xml file I'm using if you need it, I guess you could name it app_config.xml, either way it should work:

<app_info>


<app>
<name>test</name>
<user_friendly_name>Donate ATI openCL app_info</user_friendly_name>
</app>



<file_info>
<name>dah618.exe</name>
<executable/>
</file_info>


<file_info>
<name>OpenCL.dll</name>
</file_info>



<app_version>
<app_name>test</app_name>
<version_num>618</version_num>
<platform>windows_intelx86</platform>
<avg_ncpus>0.500000</avg_ncpus>
<max_ncpus>0.500000</max_ncpus>
<flops>1e+11</flops>
<plan_class>opencl_ati_100</plan_class>
<api_version>7.1.0</api_version>
<file_ref>
<file_name>dah618.exe</file_name>
<main_program/>
<copy_file/>
</file_ref>
<file_ref>
<file_name>OpenCL.dll</file_name>
<open_name>OpenCL.dll</open_name>
<copy_file/>
</file_ref>
<coproc>
<type>ATI</type>
<count>0.500000</count>
</coproc>
<gpu_ram>268435456.000000</gpu_ram>
</app_version>



</app_info>