nebogipfel

Fired up the old laptop to do it and realised I have vista on there. No xp machine anywhere. Any ideas what I could try?

See the previous comments about using Virtual Machines.....worked fine for me

The SETI@Home servers have been giving problems over the last couple of months. They tend to go down about 5pm each Tuesday and come back up about 5pm on each Friday.

SETI@Home is just doing its second donation drive, to get in a couple of new servers........

aka Albireo380

Yes it's been very flakey of late. I had a long list of completed units which all went past their "sell by" dates before they would upload. Bit frustrating really.

I have suspended Seti at the moment and have been doing Einstein@home but the units are often so short dated that they have gone past the deadline before they are finished which also makes the whole thing seem a bit pointless.

FWIW I liked the old (pre BOINC) Seti days, it just seemed to work very well.

It would be better if you could force BOINC to complete one or perhaps two tasks before starting others but I can't see any way to do it ....