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Hey guys,

I just got a new rig, but i've been getting TONS of problems and I don't know what to do.

I first tried using poclbm like I am right now. However, whenever I try to open it up, by itself or in a batch, it freezes and says it stopped working in win7.
Then I tried phoenix, same thing.
Guiminer doesn't even show up when I try to run it.
Then I tried diablo, and when I run it it says Java Platform SE binary has stopped working.

I'm soooo frusturated and i don't know how to solve this. I've been trying to figure it out for hours, but it's so messed.
It has worked once though. I got poclbm to run on one card on a pool, but after I rebooted, it's not working again. So I know I can mine on this computer, it's just not wanting to.

I've been thinking of trying Ubuntu, but would that actually help? I heard it's complicated to get everything configured and working too...

PLEASE HELP!!!

there's a bitcoin mining configured live linux environment floating around out there... all you'd have to do is download the image, burn to cd or usb, boot up off of the media and you're 99% ready to go... can't get much more simple than that really.

Tracked down link to what i was referring to.
LinuxCoin
http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=7374.0

really doesnt get much easier than that :)

If you are using an ATI card, then try reinstalling drivers and then MSI afterburner. If you are overclock reset to stock settings and try again. Usually freezing/crashing I only get when pushing core clock too high or it is overheating. Both things you can manage with MSI afterburner on Windows.

In fact any time I have had issues like you describe, reinstalling the video drivers has solved the problem.

Well it won't even start mining. Nothing appears in the cmd, it just greys out and stops working (the win7 "stops working") I've tried un and reinstalling the drivers, but its still the same. I don't have Afterburner yet.

on a virgin machine did you bother to install ati stream sdk

Yes tried both 2.1 and 2.4

Remove any drivers you have and download the Catalyst 11.5 package and install it fully then try again :)

Some SDK packages do not work with some versions of the driver.

I did :/ Like three times.
It's a new computer too, so I had no drivers previously...
This is so frustrating.

So if you run poclbm from the command line, not using a batch script or the start command, what is the output?

What type of card are you running?  Is it your primary card?

Running the .exe by itsellf, running it in a batch, or running in in a cmd, all results in freezing and saying "poclbm.exe has stopped working".
I have 2 6870s and 2 5850s. All new from yesterday, and I know they work because they mined for like 3 seconds before. Unfortunately, after the reboot, it went back to freezing.

How many of them are you running in the one machine?  Have you tried one at a time?

Sounds like a weird problem to say the least.  Maybe you have something wrong with your motherboard or there's something in your Windows installation conflicting with OpenCL.  Maybe you should do a clean install?

I'm switching to Ubuntu right now...

Yay more problems...
I put a 5850 in my main rig where my 6990 is. Installed drivers, installed sdk 2.4. When I try to use poclbm and run device=2, the 5850 only mines at like 3000kh/s, and the 6990 cores have slowed down from 330mh/s -> 270mh/s. Are the cards not compatible or something?

Maybe the 5850 is stuffed.  Try it by itself.

3000kh sounds more like cpu speeds!

Trial and error is your friend in this situation.  With the 6990 and 5850, try swapping the slots they're in.

Ubuntu is frustrating me...
I can't run the ati drivers because it says theres nothing to run .exe files.
I also can't run bitcoin, as it says some errors with not being able to lock /var/.........etc.

.exe files are for windows, try finding a .deb package, or compiling it from source (?)

Okay I'll try that.

On my main rig, poclbm isn't recognizing the 2nd core of the 6990 and the 5850. It only shows device = 0 the first core and device = 1 my CPU.

..What do i do?

No one said anything about crossfire, I know my cards don't perform well in win7x64 without crossfire enabled.

Are your cards crossfired? If not, I'd try that - linking cards with crossfire bridges and enabling it in ati ccc, install msi afterburner so you can monitor temps
then try running miner on one card first, then two, etc.

Assuming you have enough power for all cards.

For Ubuntu try this guide http://forum.bitcoin.org/?topic=7514.0

Also, before you run anything, type "sudo" before it, thats runs it like as a linux 'administrator'.

Sorry guys I was being unclear.

My main rig is Windows. It had a 6990, and I just put a 5850 in there too. But poclbm isn't recognizing all the gpus. I just took out the 5850 and now it's back to normal. I don't think you can crossfire different cards...

My new rig is using Ubuntu, and I'm currently running this:
http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=6299.msg121781#msg121781

Try the Ubuntu guide I posted, it's a bit more clear/straight forward

Using the one I posted, I got bitcoin to run. Now I just need to get poclbm to work...

Once I get to step 3 on yours, terminal starts saying "Could not get lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open 11
Unable to lock the admin directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), is another process using it?

I tried logging off and logging back on, but gives me the same thing.

As I said, you need to type "sudo <whatever>" to run it as root (linux eqiv to admin)

Okay I finally got everything to work.

When I do ./poclmb.py -o btcguild.com -u (username_user) --pass=(password) -p 8332 -d 1, it gives me problem connecting with bitcoin error. It'll stay there for about a minute, then it'll start mining. But then 5 seconds after that, it'll say "verification failed, check hardware!"

adding -v should work.

Got it thanks!
 
Last problem!!
Poclbm is working on my 2 5850's, but the 2 6870's are not showing up on poclbm when I enter start it without anything. How do I get the recognized?

Don't thank, tip ;)

what sdk do you have installed, I don't think 68xx is supported on <2.4

I think 2.1, because I was following the guide: http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=7514.0

How do I install 2.4? I can't do anything right on Linux :(