clients conflicting on dual cores?

For some reason the second copy of my folding client will stop and print:

Process 460 is currently running and may also be a client with Mach. ID 2.
Program will now exit. Upon restart, this check will not be done --
you may wish to check that no client is currently running in
C:\Program Files\fah2 before restarting.

I have each client configured with different machine IDs so i have no ideal why its doing this. Both are running as a service and both start up just fine and i can see both running at the same time but then the client in C:\Program Files\fah2 likes to randomly quit. I have another computer with hyperthreading and have had two clients running for several months but have never run into this problem. Is this a problem with dual core cpus?

try removing fah2 as a service and add it back using the -local tag....its worth a shot

Checklist -

Shutdown the services
Check the configurations - machine ID should be different
Make sure the clients are in its own folder
Resume Client

Report back.

how do i run it with the -local option?

i read: http://folding.stanford.edu/console-userguide.html and it said the run FAH3Console -local -config, which I did, now do I need to setup the service to run with FAH@C:+Program Files+fah2+FAH504-Console.exe -local too?

what do you see when you run regedit?
HKLM,System,CurrentControlSet,Services
scroll down to FAH
ImagePath should look something like

C:\Program Files\folding3\FAHConsole-5.04beta.exe -svcstart -local -verbosity 9

And, if you don't want to muck around in the registry, here is an easy gui based tool:

http://devel.bluetentacle.co.uk/dc/pkfsct/index.htm

alright I set both to run with -local in th registry, hopefully this will fix it.