I hate to dredge this up after 6 months, but I'm trying to set this up right now...on my Windows 7 box. Has any progress been made that a summary noob such as myself might be able to make use of? The wiki has some of the pieces, but I'm stumped on this one. Thanks, guys.

Edit: No other pertinent threads on the topic doesn't bode well for my noobness, either.

SENSE...OF...HUMOR...PLEASE....


Don't get me wrong...it's been 7 hours. I can only imagine that something is up, and I agree with you wholeheartedly. I'm a numbers man myself, so I can say that is this is epically improbable. :-/ I'm totally okay to think that we're under attack, because that means we've attracted some very seriously intelligent adversity. Slush, if this goes much past 9 hours, can you take a look?

Doing all of the above.

I can't even comprehend the type of attack this would take to pull this off. Granted, I'm still a noob, but you guys are definitely teaching me. I left Slush's the other night for a few hours and felt awful about it...been with the pool since I started with my CPU, pulling a nickel every day and a half. (and doing a hell of a lot better now, tyvm)

It must be an awesome block to be taking this long.

Hey now...I can assure you that my IP address and my politics have not a damn thing to do with one another.

This.

I definitely fancy some conspiracy theory...that and the 110 extra Ghash on the network. I wish I had that kind of power to just turn on. I'd make more than a bitcoin every 9 or 10 hours, that's for sure.

I noticed that the total pool hash rate stayed about the same for the 2-3 hours we were completely down. My theory: Mystery Miner DDOSed the largest pool to eliminate competition. What a bastard!

Wow...GPU is at 46C...that has to be a record!

It's a technically sustainable model...that's why I'm here. Wink Anything is better than the fractional reserve monetary system...even exchanging beads and shells. I'm in.

Eh...this isn't the worst news in the world. Sounds like an eye is being kept on it, is all.

On a side note, while I can certainly understand freedom and openness and a sustainable currency, pissing off the US Government is not high on my to-do list. At least not blatantly pissing them off.

Yeah...I took calculus, too. The generation numbers I was seeing were probably responsible for more coal burning than it was worth. Now I am actually making a bit of progress.

On topic, though, a friend of mine had a similar problem. His computer kept crashing whenever he would check the "Generate Coins" option in the client. We had him uncheck that and get up to speed with the poclbm miner...he has a 4850 and was pulling down 60-65 mhash/sec once he was configured correctly...but his GPU still climbed up over 110 degrees and would still crash his computer.

Turns out he may need a new mobo after all of that...it doesn't run the fans right, and even with the GPU fan running at 100%, I doubt that would be enough to keep everything cool. That much heat is just not good for mining...or anything else.

We used to run a lot of @Home stuff, and I'm wondering if it's a similar load on the system...never had problems like that with it.

I ran my CPU for a week before my 5830 showed up...ended up with about .32 BTC. It seems more important to help, even a little bit, than to make a profit. Must be all of that @Home ethic...

It took me a minute, but I figured it out. Also figured out how to read the block chain in the process, so it was a very worthwhile exercise. 

The 500k blocks suck, but at least I'm not the only one miffed by them.

This was kind of curious as well:

3261    2011-04-15 14:19:52    0:16:20    40419    0.07358313    118490    15 confirmations left
3260    2011-04-15 14:03:32    1:34:41    235634    0.05610185    118490    15 confirmations left

Will the real Block 118490 please stand up?

Interested; registered.

*pout*

Took us almost 4 hours last night for a block, too...and the Network Hash Speed is way lower this morning than usual, though ours is up. Bad luck indeed.

I would. It will probably take you 9 or 10 days at this difficulty (on average) to find anything at that speed. A pool is the way to go.

Ya...it vents heat in the case. Not sure if I have room in the case for one of those PCI coolers, but that's a good idea. Too late to crawl around to worry about it. Actually got the temp down to 77...all in a night's work.

I have a HP Pavilion a6700z; it was not a horrible machine at the time I bought it, and it was a great media PC. As it's still my primary home PC, I will definitely be looking into building a dedicated mining rig. For now, though, I'm stuck with this. Here's what I'm running (in the aforementioned case):

Athlon Dual Core 4850e Brisbane @ ~2.5GHz on an Asus Narra3 mobo (which means I have 1 PCI-e x16 slot)
600 PSU
4 GB RAM
Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit
and the 5830...it's an XFX
Total fans: 4 -- 1 on the processor, 1 exhaust, the PSU and the video card
No front intake fans -- no room for them in the case (the hard drive happens to be occupying that spot)

It doesn't bug me to run the fan all the time on the GPU. If it's bad for the fan, that's another matter entirely, though. Here is what I'm pulling down right now:

Catalyst 10.7 and SDK 2.1
poclbm-gui miner w/flags -v -w128
250-260 Mh/s even while running flash games and videos
Re-clocked using MSI Afterburner to 950/400 (any lower than 400 seemed to crash the computer...though I could definitely stand to bring that temp down some more...)
Fan at 75%
Current temperature is 82C (it is warmer in here...I have an AC...perhaps I should use it)

I would also point out that my old card ran at 78C for 2 years or more without incident with no overclocking at all...I used to run BOINC on it. Also, didn't like that temp, so pulling it down below 80 with the fans as we speak.

Thanks for the feedback, guys.

Edit: just knocked the memory clock down to 385...seems to be stable...will keep an eye on temps. My goal is below 80, for now, as I'm probably not savvy enough to carve holes in the tower. That would be an ideal situation, though.

Can't run it with an open case...the cats would have a field day. I had the fan at 60% and it was hovering between 80 and 84, depending on what I was doing. Just turned it up to 75%...we'll see what that does to the temps.

Edit: Temp down to 78 within minutes...that's what my old nVidia card ran at, so I'm not expecting much more.