[QUOTE=Xyzzy;410265][URL]http://www.cnn.com/2015/09/12/us/new-york-pit-bull-attacks/[/URL][/QUOTE]
[quote]Boves, who own a pit bull named Gina[/quote]
Now ye know the reason... obviously, dogs can feel the smell better than we do, and who the hell knows what was in their heads.
This reminds me some time ago when my boss had two huge dogs, I don't know the breed but they were huge and very nice dogs, and they both died from old age. Anyhow, that day my boss was walking the two dogs in the park and a couple of stray dogs attacked these two dogs, it was a short fight, these dogs were big and calm and you could have not many chances to put too much a fight against them, but you know how it is for the owner, my boss was worried and he jumped in between the dogs to separate them. In spite of the fact that there was no attack to person, i.e. the dogs continued to fight each-other, and they - luckily - didn't turn against the human in the middle, however he got caught in the leashes and felt down, breaking one of his front teeth in half. He had to have an implant and he came to work for a while with a "front hole", then later he was very funny for weeks because the doctor told him to unscrew and screw the "new toy" from time to time until the place gets used with it, he used to do that with his tongue and suddenly when you expected less, he was smiling at you nicked.

[url]http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/06/dog-aggression-study-applied-animal-behaviour-science_n_4911861.html[/url]

[url]http://www.politifact.com/georgia/statements/2011/aug/03/elaine-boyer/are-pit-bulls-more-aggressive-other-dogs/[/url]

[url]http://atts.org/breed-statistics/statistics-page1/[/url]
[CODE]Breed Name Tested Passed Failed Percent
[B]AMERICAN PIT BULL TERRIER 870 755 115 86.8%
AMERICAN STAFFORDSHIRE TERRIER 657 555 102 84.5%[/B]
AUSTRALIAN SHEPHERD 680 559 121 82.2%
GOLDEN RETRIEVER 785 669 116 85.2%[/CODE]

Just sayin' ;)

To bring things back on topic, I'm still have issues with my GTX 570. Does anybody else reading this thread have one, and if so, 1) have you successfully completed an exponent without any crashes? 2) if 1, how?

[QUOTE=wombatman;410307]To bring things back on topic, I'm still have issues with my GTX 570. Does anybody else reading this thread have one, and if so, 1) have you successfully completed an exponent without any crashes? 2) if 1, how?[/QUOTE]

Let me get back to you on that. I have a GTX 570 which I really love, but can't run right now because of messed up power connectors. It has been a while since I could run it reliably. However, there are others here who have run those. I just don't have current operations to draw from.

[QUOTE=wombatman;410307]To bring things back on topic, I'm still have issues with my GTX 570. Does anybody else reading this thread have one, and if so, 1) have you successfully completed an exponent without any crashes? 2) if 1, how?[/QUOTE]

What is it doing?

It hits the TDRdelay limit, Windows kills the driver, and the driver is restarted. So far, I just deal with it via a looping shell file as advised by someone on here. That way the program is repeatedly run until the exponent is completed.

I also can't really identify a rhyme or reason for the crashes (i.e., it's not heat or anything like that).

If you go back to [URL="http://www.mersenneforum.org/showthread.php?t=12576&page=205"]page 205[/URL] you'll see our discussion on this (with a link to some more info). Unfortunately, nothing has changed with the driver and the compute 2.0 cards. You could downgrade your driver or continue to use the batch file you're using. As far as my testing showed your results should still be good. Are you having any problems getting matches on your checksums?

[QUOTE=flashjh;410996]If you go back to [URL="http://www.mersenneforum.org/showthread.php?t=12576&page=205"]page 205[/URL] you'll see our discussion on this (with a link to some more info). Unfortunately, nothing has changed with the driver and the compute 2.0 cards. You could downgrade your driver or continue to use the batch file you're using. As far as my testing showed your results should still be good. Are you having any problems getting matches on your checksums?[/QUOTE]

Nah, all my checksums are right, so I'm assuming it's not a memory/computational problem either. For the meantime, I'll hold off on doing any CudaLucas work and stick to mfaktc. I'll come back to the problem and try to get it resolved later on.

The only way to fix it is to downgrade the driver or get a new card. The 5xx series is too old to expect a driver fix at this point.

[QUOTE=flashjh;411004]The only way to fix it is to downgrade the driver or get a new card. The 5xx series is too old to expect a driver fix at this point.[/QUOTE]

Well, I'm hoping to get a new card around Christmas time, so I'll just add this reason to my list. ;)

There is a known problem with 570 cards they are not very stable for LL, we had a discussion here in the past, but I don't remember the brand or the reason, neither how and if it was fixed. I can look for that topic if I have some time today during the lunch break. I am more into 580s and only tested few 570s (which I didn't own) in the past, luckily I never met the instability problem.