i dont know know what to do.....i just created my id and i m trying to start a project but it says -------------> climateprediction.net - 2005-02-05 06:10:25 - Deferring communication with project for 1 hours, 0 minutes, and 0 seconds.. i dont know what this means..venniboye@hotmail.com

This probably means that your computer is unable to communicate with the ClimatePrediction server for some reason. There will have been some other message earlier, I expect, and you can check whether it tells you anything else useful by going to the projects tab in the BOINC window and right clicking on the climateptrediction entry and selecting 'update'. There might be a further error message - or it might even work for you now!

The usual reason for communication problems, though, is that you have a firewall blocking it. In Win XP sp2 your Windows Firewall is in Control Panel - select it and choose Properties. You might find BOINC in the list, and it needs to be ticked to permit communication using it. If not, you will need to add boinc_gui to the list of programs. But there are other firewalls, so it is difficult to give general advice.

By all means come back with further questions.

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Contact with servers failed for whatever reason.

If you do not want to wait an hour to try again use the update (project tab right click climateprediction.net)

It may fail again or you may be unable to find the command if you haven't got that far. If so you may have a problem with your firewall preventing contact. Try reading the FAQ or ask again for further help.

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There are mainly two reasons when than happens:
- Server is down-> try latter.
- Firewall -> check firewall settings.

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vennela,
There are 2 text files, (to start with, 4 later), in the BOINC folder which contain the messages you get:
stdout for the messages you see in the gui under Messages, and
stderr for the error messages.
When these get re-written, (when you re-start BOINC), the .txt is renamed to .old, and new .txt files created.

If you look in these, (just double-click), you may get a clue.

Les