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IronBredin
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Another Noobie here

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Windows 7 Professional, can't get GPU to work.

VendorID:DeviceID:PCI Bus:PCI Slot:PCI function:Vendor Name:Description
0x10de:0x0e08:1:0:1:NVIDIA Corporation:High Definition Audio Controller
0x10de:0x1056:1:0:0:NVIDIA Corporation:NVIDIA NVS 4200M
0x1217:0x13f7:11:0:0:O2 Micro, Inc.:1394 OHCI Compliant Host Controller
0x1217:0x8321:11:0:1:O2 Micro, Inc.:O2Micro Integrated MMC/SD controller
0x1217:0x8331:11:0:2:O2 Micro, Inc.:O2Micro Integrated MS/MSPRO controller
0x8086:0x0082:3:0:0:Intel Corporation:Intel(R) Centrino(R) Advanced-N 6205
0x8086:0x0101:0:1:0:Intel Corporation:2nd generation Intel(R) Core(TM) processor family PCI Express Controller - 0101
0x8086:0x0104:0:0:0:Intel Corporation:2nd generation Intel(R) Core(TM) processor family DRAM Controller - 0104
0x8086:0x1502:0:25:0:Intel Corporation:Intel(R) 82579LM Gigabit Network Connection
0x8086:0x1c10:0:28:0:Intel Corporation:Intel(R) 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 1 - 1C10
0x8086:0x1c12:0:28:1:Intel Corporation:Intel(R) 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 2 - 1C12
0x8086:0x1c14:0:28:2:Intel Corporation:Intel(R) 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 3 - 1C14
0x8086:0x1c16:0:28:3:Intel Corporation:Intel(R) 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 4 - 1C16
0x8086:0x1c1a:0:28:5:Intel Corporation:Intel(R) 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 6 - 1C1A
0x8086:0x1c20:0:27:0:Intel Corporation:High Definition Audio Controller
0x8086:0x1c22:0:31:3:Intel Corporation:Intel(R) 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family SMBus Controller - 1C22
0x8086:0x1c26:0:29:0:Intel Corporation:Intel(R) 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family USB Enhanced Host Controller - 1C26
0x8086:0x1c2d:0:26:0:Intel Corporation:Intel(R) 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family USB Enhanced Host Controller - 1C2D
0x8086:0x1c3a:0:22:0:Intel Corporation:Intel(R) Management Engine Interface
0x8086:0x1c4f:0:31:0:Intel Corporation:Intel(R) QM67 Express Chipset Family LPCInterface Controller - 1C4F
0x8086:0x282a:0:31:2:Intel Corporation:Intel(R) Mobile Express Chipset SATA RAID Controller
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Re: Another Noobie here

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Welcome to the folding support forum.

Your NVS 4200M is based on a GT 520M. While it uses a Fermi GPU, it is at the very minimum level to potentially process WU's. However the current GPU projects have moved on to requiring mixed precision calculations, and I do not see any support for double precision listed for an NVS 4200M. So that may be the reason you are not getting any work.
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Re: Another Noobie here

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You may also have an Optimus driver, which uses a frugal Intel GPU normally and only uses the more power hungry Nvidia when needed. This work poorly with F@H as at startup it sees the Intel.

You may find a setting to always use the Nvidia, which may still not be powerful enough to complete a Work Unit.

It only appears to support OpenCL 1.1, and lacks double Precision Math, either of which could prevent even starting.
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IronBredin
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Re: Another Noobie here

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Is this a folding-at-home setting?
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Re: Another Noobie here

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No it is in the Optimus control panel. You may or may not have one.
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Re: Another Noobie here

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In the nVidia Control Panel you can either set it to favor optimus on specific apps (like on the FAH client) or just always.
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