Is there some reason one of my machines would change itself to a new computer ID on its own?

I am running BOINC client 4.45 on an Athelon XP3200 running W2K. It gave me trouble yesterday and said it couldn\'t connect to the local host. Rebooted and everything seemed OK. But now I notice that it is sending trickles under a new ID. When looking at teh list of computers, I see 2 new instances of this machine (both IDs are sequential) and the one sendign trickles show no credit.

Is it reload time??

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Mark<br />
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Did you upgrade your version of BOINC? Sometimes a large upgrade will change the ID of the computer enough it thinks it is a new one. It looks like the trickles under the new computer ID are being credited to your old computer ID...i.e. the result is associated with the old ID, and it is the result that is accumulating credits.

You should be able to merge your old one into your new one, and hopefully, get the credits aligned correctly.

Sometimes a connection issue can cause a new host record to be created. You should be ok. You may want to merge the duplicates.
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&gt; Did you upgrade your version of BOINC? Sometimes a large upgrade will change
&gt; the ID of the computer enough it thinks it is a new one. It looks like the
&gt; trickles under the new computer ID are being credited to your old computer
&gt; ID...i.e. the result is associated with the old ID, and it is the result that
&gt; is accumulating credits.
&gt;
&gt; You should be able to merge your old one into your new one, and hopefully, get
&gt; the credits aligned correctly.
&gt;

No upgrade, I'd been runngin this version for at least a couple of weeks. I did notice that the credits are going to the old ID. I may wait until this run is finished before merging.

Thanks

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Mark<br />
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&gt; Sometimes a connection issue can cause a new host record to be created. You
&gt; should be ok. You may want to merge the duplicates.
&gt;

As far as the connection issue you mention, are you talking about when it had trouble connecting to the local host?

Thanks
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Mark<br />
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&gt; &gt; Sometimes a connection issue can cause a new host record to be created.
&gt; You
&gt; &gt; should be ok. You may want to merge the duplicates.
&gt; &gt;
&gt;
&gt; As far as the connection issue you mention, are you talking about when it had
&gt; trouble connecting to the local host?
&gt;
&gt; Thanks
&gt; <br />
&gt; Mark<br />

I was thinking more of a problem reaching oxford.
John Keck -- BOINCing since 2002/12/08 -- <a href="http://www.boinc.dk/index.php?page=user_statistics&amp;project=cpdn&amp;userid=191"><img border="0" height="80" src="http://191.cpdn.sig.boinc.dk?188"></a>

&gt;
&gt; I was thinking more of a problem reaching oxford.


Looking back through the logs, there hasn't been a problem there since the server issues a while back. Nothing around the time this anomoly happened.

Thanks again,

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Mark<br />
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