diff --git a/clientgui/MainDocument.cpp b/clientgui/MainDocument.cpp
index 8e2d3d5043..3b76594ac5 100644
--- a/clientgui/MainDocument.cpp
+++ b/clientgui/MainDocument.cpp
@@ -2500,6 +2500,15 @@ wxString result_description(RESULT* result, bool show_resources) {
             strBuffer += _("Project suspended by user");
         } else if (result->suspended_via_gui) {
             strBuffer += _("Task suspended by user");
+
+        // do this check before the following because (if dont_suspend_nci is set)
+        // an NCI task may be running even if computation suspended
+        //
+        } else if (result->active_task && result->scheduler_state == CPU_SCHED_SCHEDULED) {
+            strBuffer += _("Running");
+            if (project && project->non_cpu_intensive) {
+                strBuffer += _(" (non-CPU-intensive)");
+            }
         } else if (status.task_suspend_reason && !throttled) {
             strBuffer += _("Suspended - ");
             strBuffer += suspend_reason_wxstring(status.task_suspend_reason);
@@ -2511,11 +2520,6 @@ wxString result_description(RESULT* result, bool show_resources) {
                 strBuffer += _("Waiting for memory");
             } else if (result->needs_shmem) {
                 strBuffer += _("Waiting for shared memory");
-            } else if (result->scheduler_state == CPU_SCHED_SCHEDULED) {
-                strBuffer += _("Running");
-                if (project && project->non_cpu_intensive) {
-                    strBuffer += _(" (non-CPU-intensive)");
-                }
             } else if (result->scheduler_state == CPU_SCHED_PREEMPTED) {
                 strBuffer += _("Waiting to run");
             } else if (result->scheduler_state == CPU_SCHED_UNINITIALIZED) {