..and a recent escapee from Science United. How do I get work to process. I get "Communication deferred ..." in the BOINC Manager, so I must be doing something wrong. Or they may be on Xmas holiday. I "think" I've set up the PC so that it is Visible to you folks. Any and all help welcome!

..and a recent escapee from Science United. How do I get work to process? I get "Communication deferred ..." in the BOINC Manager, so I must be doing something wrong. Or they may be on Xmas holiday. I "think" I've set up the PC so that it is Visible to you folks. Any and all help welcome!

First, take a look at the Activity menu in Boinc Manager and, in the 3 areas, make sure the 2nd of each group of 3 is selected
That is:
Run based on Preferences
Use GPU based on Preferences
Network Activity based on Preferences

Most particularly that "Suspend Network Activity" is NOT selected

Select Rosetta@Home under the Projects tab of the Boinc Manager, then click update
Next, take a look at "Event Log" under the Tools menu of Boinc Manager, select the lines reported from that manual update and post what it shows.

It might look something like this:

23/12/2025 02:12:01 | Rosetta@home | update requested by user
23/12/2025 02:12:06 | Rosetta@home | Sending scheduler request: Requested by user.
23/12/2025 02:12:06 | Rosetta@home | Not requesting tasks: don't need (CPU: job cache full; NVIDIA GPU: no applications)
23/12/2025 02:12:07 | Rosetta@home | Scheduler request completed
23/12/2025 02:12:07 | Rosetta@home | Project requested delay of 31 seconds

Or perhaps like this:

23/12/2025 01:05:21 | Rosetta@home | Sending scheduler request: To fetch work.
23/12/2025 01:05:21 | Rosetta@home | Requesting new tasks for CPU
23/12/2025 01:05:22 | Rosetta@home | Scheduler request completed: got 1 new tasks
23/12/2025 01:05:22 | Rosetta@home | Project requested delay of 31 seconds

After you do those things and post back here, the solution might become apparent - no point guessing at this stage

NB: You've obviously registered on the website here, but is it too obvious to ask if you added the project (Tools menu, Add Project...) in the Boinc Manager with the exact same name and password as well?

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I set up the Activities as you requested.

Here is the Event Log you requested;

12/23/2025 5:31:12 AM | Rosetta@home | update requested by user
12/23/2025 5:31:15 AM | Rosetta@home | Sending scheduler request: Requested by user.
12/23/2025 5:31:15 AM | Rosetta@home | Requesting new tasks for CPU and NVIDIA GPU and Intel GPU
12/23/2025 5:31:16 AM | Rosetta@home | Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks
12/23/2025 5:31:16 AM | Rosetta@home | Server error: feeder not running
12/23/2025 5:31:16 AM | Rosetta@home | Project requested delay of 3600 seconds

Thank you for your help!

P.S. --Everything is same Name and same Password.

Please check the following:
https://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/hosts_user.php (From: Computers on this account -> View)
Which operating system is displayed?
Mine says “Alpine Linux” even though I have WIN 10. That's probably my problem.
However, I can't change that. Deleting and adding the PC doesn't change anything. I don't get any tasks. Same message: “Feeder not running.”

hi, try to look a this https://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/forum_thread.php?id=6893&postid=113258#113258

some add to do in host file ^^

I set up the Activities as you requested.

Here is the Event Log you requested;

12/23/2025 5:31:12 AM | Rosetta@home | update requested by user
12/23/2025 5:31:15 AM | Rosetta@home | Sending scheduler request: Requested by user.
12/23/2025 5:31:15 AM | Rosetta@home | Requesting new tasks for CPU and NVIDIA GPU and Intel GPU
12/23/2025 5:31:16 AM | Rosetta@home | Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks
12/23/2025 5:31:16 AM | Rosetta@home | Server error: feeder not running
12/23/2025 5:31:16 AM | Rosetta@home | Project requested delay of 3600 seconds

Thank you for your help!

P.S. --Everything is same Name and same Password

Great. You're calling for tasks properly, but the Server you've been pointed to was changed about 9 months ago. There's no way you could know.

First thing to say, none of this is your fault. Everyone's had to sort this out at one time - old users and new.
Second, click this link and make the edit described in my post there.
Hopefully this solves your problem.
On the plus side, tasks are available to grab right now, so you should get some.

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Thank you Sid Celery !

I modified my Hosts. It looks like this now;

# Copyright (c) 1993-2009 Microsoft Corp.
#
# This is a sample HOSTS file used by Microsoft TCP/IP for Windows.
#
# This file contains the mappings of IP addresses to host names. Each
# entry should be kept on an individual line. The IP address should
# be placed in the first column followed by the corresponding host name.
# The IP address and the host name should be separated by at least one
# space.
#
# Additionally, comments (such as these) may be inserted on individual
# lines or following the machine name denoted by a '#' symbol.
#
# For example:
#
# 102.54.94.97 rhino.acme.com # source server
# 38.25.63.10 x.acme.com # x client host

# localhost name resolution is handled within DNS itself.
# 127.0.0.1 localhost
# ::1 localhost
#Rosetta@home
128.95.160.156 boinc-files.bakerlab.org
128.95.160.156 bwsrv1.bakerlab.org

Is this the way it should look?