EDIT: This has been resolved. For some reasons, BOINC installed itself but did not have "Run the Client?" checked. This is true across several installs, and after deleting the various BOINC-created folders under Users and AppData in between uninstall/install rounds. Anyways, once that is correctly checked I can have machine-level configurations and projects.
Original post, for reference:
My desktop has been running BOINC on both CPU and GPU across projects for a while, but I recently installed BOINC on my laptop (T480s with MX150 dGPU) to further help in the COVID push. In the past, I've been hesitant to do so because laptops don't love continuous heat (esp. their batteries).
The client installed fine on the laptop, but then I was never prompted for anything after install, including selecting projects, identifying myself, or tying it to an existing client. Instead, it says "disconnected" all the time, and yet still runs the CPU and GPU projects that were determined through my desktop client (I recognize the name of the applications in task manager). Nothing shows up under tasks or project and I can't even see a log on the laptop, whereas the log on the desktop doesn't seem to show the activity of the laptop.
The laptop client also won't let me change local computing preferences, it just does nothing when I try to open it, but initially gave me an error message that the password doesn't match. This is annoying as I'd rather be able to have different settings on each client (less aggressive and CPU only on the laptop). I tried to change the project-level settings via individual websites (and then overwrite them locally as needed), but I'm not sure it will propagate if the laptop client is constantly disconnected...
Is any of this normal? Is there a way to run the two clients separately (even pick specific projects on each client?)
Original post, for reference:
My desktop has been running BOINC on both CPU and GPU across projects for a while, but I recently installed BOINC on my laptop (T480s with MX150 dGPU) to further help in the COVID push. In the past, I've been hesitant to do so because laptops don't love continuous heat (esp. their batteries).
The client installed fine on the laptop, but then I was never prompted for anything after install, including selecting projects, identifying myself, or tying it to an existing client. Instead, it says "disconnected" all the time, and yet still runs the CPU and GPU projects that were determined through my desktop client (I recognize the name of the applications in task manager). Nothing shows up under tasks or project and I can't even see a log on the laptop, whereas the log on the desktop doesn't seem to show the activity of the laptop.
The laptop client also won't let me change local computing preferences, it just does nothing when I try to open it, but initially gave me an error message that the password doesn't match. This is annoying as I'd rather be able to have different settings on each client (less aggressive and CPU only on the laptop). I tried to change the project-level settings via individual websites (and then overwrite them locally as needed), but I'm not sure it will propagate if the laptop client is constantly disconnected...
Is any of this normal? Is there a way to run the two clients separately (even pick specific projects on each client?)