Ryn,the clocks don't show up like 000,so it's not the driver at fault.Either a reinstall of AB or install the beta may help.

You'd think for a overclocking program for enthusiast and occasional overclockers that AB would work 100% because you are dealing with changing voltages and clock speeds so it ought to be more reliable really.

At least ATIWinflash worked perfect 1st time in unlocking my shaders on my card (i didn't do a full conversion into HD 6970 due to energy use and risk concerns)

 

I'm having an issue with GUIMiner  v2011-07-01

When I ran it yesterday it was fine.Just now when I tried opening that same version,It loads but doesn't display correctly.
Here's an example of what I mean;
1.It loads into the sys tray and my taskbar (superbar in win 7) nut no matter how many times I click it to display normally,it simply refuses to display at all on my screen like normal programs.I have performance boosts on my GPU however I'll be forced to lose performance to get things working again.

Setup;
win 7 x64
Radeon HD 6950

I've had to fall back to v2011-06-14 just to get mining working again at a significant performance loss by at least 30MHash/s (annoying as I had poor productivity over this)

I ran the offending program as admin (still nothing),then use compatibility mode with XP and Vista settings (still no luck).

Please either help me get it to run on win 7 x64 or write a 'hotfix version' of the app so that I can get up and running again soon.Thank you.

Is there a version of those tools for ATI/AMD cards? It's just nice to test it out on locked ZIps,Rars I forgot passwords to from years ago to rescue my work files.

And please don't debate with me the rights and wrongs of using such tools as I'm aware of the implications if they are misused and possible legal issues.When used responsibly,they can be beneficial for you such as recovering lost passwords for your archives.Also this isn't the right thread for debating such issues (for those of you who were thinking of doing so)

I'm also familiar with Black/White hat type hackers as well.(Blackhats do this for financial gain no matter what means they use and whitehats report security loopholes to security companies that develop anti-hacking,firewall tools,e.t.c.As this is my understanding of them)


Also gaming,professional filmmaking (as my work tools require GPGPU acceleration so  a Radeon Hd 6950 would do very well there especially now that my shaders are unlocked as well as OC'd to the max as MSI AF doesn't work for me.)

How do you mine these test coins? how to mine with GUIMiner?

So this is the new thing after Bitcoin,namecoin and now test coin?wow looks like bitcoin based currencies are gaining steam now.Since mining namecoins is too complex for due due to registering a domain,but when I do it,it never works for me.I hope test coins can be mined easily atm as in no complex crap in the setup for the mining.

I want in on this,set me up asap for testcoin mining on PC and Mac,thank you.

After typing in those commands in the config file of MSI afterburner.I still don't have the options to overclock my GPU beyond limits.

I'll upload a copy of my cfg file and see if u guys can show me what wrong in there?

or if possible,(since I'm an inexperienced user of MSi afterburner),attach the amended cfg file from some1 who's more experienced with this tool.

Looks Like I can't attach files here,I'll have to display all that text in this post.Oh well,here it is:
[Properties]
ShowGeneralTab         = 1
ShowFanTab         = 1
ShowMonitoringTab      = 1
ShowOnScreenDisplayTab      = 1
ShowScreenCaptureTab      = 1
ShowVideoCaptureTab      = 1
ShowProfilesTab         = 1
ShowUserInterfaceTab      = 1

[Settings]
Skin             = compact.usf
StartMinimized         = 0
StartWithWindows      = 0
RememberSettings      = 0
FirstRun         = 1
FirstUserDefineClick      = 1
FirstServerRun         = 1
HwPollPeriod         = 1000
MMIOPageSize         = 4
PCIBusFilter         = -10h
ShowTooltips         = 1
ShowHints         = 1
PauseInSuspendedMode      = 1
CurrentGpu         = 0
Sync            = 1
AttachMonitoringWindow      = 1
MonitoringWindowOnTop      = 1
ShowPerformanceProfilerStatus   = 0
LCDFont            = font4x6.dat
LCDScrollTimerPeriod      = 30
UnlockVoltageControl      = 0
UnlockVoltageMonitoring      = 0
ShowOSDTime         = 0
RestoreAfterSuspendedMode   = 0
StartupViaTaskScheduler      = 1
StartupDelay         = 0
MinMonitoringGraphHeight   = -1
LocalizationDebugFlags      = 0
EnableLog         = 0
RecreateLog         = 0
LogPath            =
DontStopLoggingOnWriteFailure   = 0
LogLimit         = 10
ForceConstantVoltage      = 0
AllowCaptureVoltageDefaults   = 0
Link            = 1
UseDirectInputHotkeyHandler   = 1
SendToTrayOnClose      = 0
DataFilteringThreshold      = 10
ScreenCaptureFolder      =
ScreenCaptureFormat      = bmp
ScreenCaptureQuality      = 100
VideoCaptureFormat      = MJPG
VideoCaptureFolder      =
VideoCaptureQuality      = 85
VideoCaptureFramerate      = 30
VideoCaptureFramesize      = 2
VideoCaptureThreads      = FFFFFFFFh
FanSpeedReadbackDelay      = 1000
CaptureOSD         = 1

[ATIADLHAL]
EnableUnofficialOverclocking   = 1
UnofficialOverclockingEULA   = I confirm that I am aware of unofficial overclocking limitations and fully understand that MSI will not provide me any support on it.
UnofficialOverclockingMode   = 2
AccessibilityCheckingPeriod   = 0

[NVAPIHAL]
ClockDomainIdWorkaround      = -1

Hope this helps.

I have successfully unlocked shaders on my GPU with ATIWinflash.

Now I get 361MHash/s with the following settings:
1.Shaders unlocked
2.Overclocked to 840MHz (core clock) and 1260MHz (mem clock) currently
3.Use paramenters in GUIminer:-v -w128 -f2
I think

I used to only get 332MHash/s with same overclocking and parameters but without unlocked shaders.My GPU is a Sapphire Radeon HD6950.It is a reference card.

Word of advice:When using ATIWinflash,win 7 may temporarily freeze for less than a second or 2 but the system is quickly responsive after this,it then said that flashing was successfull then it asks me to restart computer for chances to take affect.

How to get above 400MHash/s on that card?
What parameters in GUIminer?
what clock speeds?
or anything else (like switch off Aero in win 7 to reduce GPU overhead maybe)?

Thank you

I really hope that BTc doesn't become worthless as I spent about a month mining on my 2 computers before and after the upgrade of the GPU on my main PC

If they do become worthless at least the card can still work for professional filmmaking as well as my laptop (MBP) which is mainly for pro filmmaking as well.The PC gets involved if the jobs too big for the MBP.

Thanx a lot slipperyslope for the in depth info on why things are the way they are.So it looks like that I can either mine more bitoins when the unprofitable miners stop mining but I can expect less income from each btc.It makes me think whether it's really worth doing even with the general boost in mining capability then because that'll keep me thinking in the mid term (up to 6 months at least)

Well I think I'll bite the bullet and keep mining then knowing that my mining abilities will be boosted simply because of the unprofitable miners going off mining,although it wouldn't hurt for me to learn how to mod my Radeon Hd 6950 card by at least unlocking the shaders so I can get even more btc than at the moment. I wonder if the remaining miners will resort to coin hoarding and wait until things get profitable to sell and the whole cycle will repeat itself or the best of the BTC years are truly behind us for good and another currency may take it's place until the same cycle happens again ans so forth.

Thank you for pointing that out Freemoney.The request for donations was written in error and am sorry for any offence that this may have caused.The offending text will be removed asap and the broken link corrected.

UPDATE:The offending text has now been removed and the link is now functional (I hope)

Wow,that was a very good explanation cjp.At least i know why bitcoins lose and gain value as well.
as my way of saying thanx,I'd like to give you a link to my blog :
www.film2240.wordpress.com if you like it ,please spread the world

and I'll PM you something else as well.So make sure to check your PM

UPDATE:offending text removed about the donation request.I apologise as this was written in error.

I'm not sure if I'm posting this in the right section (if not then please move it to the proper section) but have you guys noticed how btc is losing it's value in the past week or so.is this normal?Is this by design in btc or something else that's going on?

Because the other day I was set to make £10 from 1BTC mined (about $16.09) I think and then it suddenly dropped,at least that's what I saw on bitcoins.lc frontpage where it tells me the value.

is this site wrong on it's information? If you know of a more reputable and easy to understand source of information on this can you please tell me? As I'm quite worried that I'm mining at the moment,the difficulty is getting harder yet the value doesn't seem to reflect this.Maybe if some miners quit the difficulty will drop,but that only drops the difficulty though,not raise it's value (unless I'm wrong on that one)I think.

can someone who is more experienced with btc tell me what they think is going to happen with btc?can it recover after a dip like this? or will things only go downhill from here based on what they know?

What about the difficulty?as that affects mining.Can the difficulty drop as well as rise? or can it only get harder to mine?

Thanx 4 sharing your experience with this tool.Yikes I don't like the sound of that BSOD.It may need to be run as admin,because Once I just ran it and it BSOD my system,then when I re run it with admin rights,it worked for me and I didn't even flash my card yet,just checking out the utility as it's new to me.

At least the cards didn't get bricked tho :-)

my win 7 install isn't in good shape though so crashes are more likely.I was planning to buy an SSD that I can reinstall win 7 onto (to help boost performance,reduce power consumption,reduce heat and noise as well)

I hear that the Kingston V+100 ssds are good for mid range use.

OK.my motherboard is an Asus P6T-SE.There are no serial or paralell ports,there only one onboard NIC which I need for mining and film making work plus internet,I can't use a single DDR3 bank as that memory only works in triple channel on my mobo.Upgrading PSU is simply out of the question for me,
It'd be cheaper for me to store all data on 1 2TB eco HDD (and remove 3 old HDDs in the process) in addition to getting a kingston V+ 100 SSD (at 64GB or 96GB since it's only £10 difference for me from amazon.co.uk) plus I'd have lightning fast productivity as well than it would be for me to buy a more efficient PSU (Quality PSU for my needs would cost at least £170 due to the higher efficiency for 800W+,where as replacing my 3 HDDs with 1 2TB HDD plus add an SSD would only cost me ~£140)

onboard sound is necessary due to my work as a filmmaker when it's not mining,the gd GPU (radeon HD 6950 would still be a great asset for my work)

If you have any suggestions or know of something I may have overlooked on my mobo,then please share some tips that can help me:
1.meet environmental targets (mainly by reducing power consumption)
2.boost my mining performance on my GPU (by unlocking my shaders and OC'ing.Help is needed on this:http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=26187.new;topicseen#new as well please)
3.Boost general productivity of my PC.

Thank you

EDIT:How does underclocking mem clock on GPU boost performance?because I see the best mining setups having high core clocks and low mem clocks

Are we talking about CPU,RAM,onboard I/O stuff,e.t.c?

I've done the following to save power on my PC:
1.underlock my core i7 CPU to 1.35ghz (from 2.67ghz stock).Saved me Approz 25 Watts
2.Enabled 'Green ethernet' on my NIC as that saved me 10 watts (CAT5 cable length is 20 meters so big saving is made by not running current through it all the time)
3.Disabled firewire 400 as I never use it.saved 5 watts
4.removed one of my 3 HDDs.saved 8 Watts
5.changed fans from 80mm to 120mm as this improved the cooling and reduce power use at the same time. saved 8 watts doing this.

This is so far tho

I plan on making more low cost changes

Like switch to SSD and have a 2TB green HDD (which'll let me remove the final 2 HDDS saving me another 20 Watts)

The RAM was suto underclocked when my CPU was underclocked as well.

so far in total I managed to save 56 watts from just the PC (base unit)

I wonder what else can be disabled on a mobo to save energy?

What's that utility you have there that lets you adjust clock speeds and mem speeds? (program that says sapphire in the screengrab) As I could really use the help for my HD 6950 card

If I can't unlock shaders,what would the optimal settings be for my card for mining?

Thank you

Hi guys,
I'm a bit uncertain as to which method is the best (and most guaranteed to work) for flashing my Radeon HD6950 GPU with just unlocked shaders only mod (I'm not converting to a Radeon HD6970 mod because the risks are too high for my situation at the moment and high power use is an issue for me due to the 19% electricity price hikes in my area in the coming months)

I've got ATIWinflash tool at the moment as I'm not sure how to make a bootable USb stick for the DOS flashing of my GPU.

Would simply unlocking shaders with some form of overclock reduce the stability or lifetime of my card on it's own or would poor cooling be more likely to be the culprit? As I've recently upgraded my case cooling to  high power Schythe (I don't know how to pronounce that) fans (120mm of course as that's what my case can handle) that are doing a very good job of cooling my system even at moderate speeds and reasonably quiet.

Which flashing method is:
a.most likely to work
b.most effective from users who have tested these methods

Separate question,I've noticed BTC falling in value lately.What causes currency value to fall as well as rise?Do you think Bitcoin is going to keep on losing value or is this just a temporary thing that's normal on all currencies (real or internet based) and can go up again? Thank you

It sounds like your card may not be unlockable via BIOS updates or modified BIOS files.AMD have been trying to stop people unlocking the HD 6950 cards so that they'd have to shell out on a HD6950 card.I know it sux. Or maybe there's another method of unlocking that doesn't involve BIOS flashes.even then I think that if a card doesn't unlock via the BIOS method then it's quite unlikely that it's unlockable (there are exceptions to this of course but I don't know this for sure)

My card also has Dual BIOS switch.It's there so that if u brick ur card,u can go into like a safe mode where you can still boot to reflash the stock BIOS again.

If your cards not a reference board type,then it probably won't work anyway.The way to tell if it's reference is to look for the AMD logo near the PCI-E connector (gold edge that goes into  the motherboard)

Mine is a Sapphire (and yes it does have that black shroud with a picture over it's heat sink),the fan is positioned to hte back of the board (another way to tell that's its a reference board from what I'm hearing around the net) .

I hope this anwers your question.

P.S.Is it a reference board? (you can check by using the tips in my post)

I'd like 2 say thanx 4 the mining parameters as they have boosted my GPU mining quite a bit from 308MHash/s to ~330MHash/s (peak it hit 381MHash/s but that's just lucky I think) on just the same OC settings;
core clock 840MHZ (max catalyst will safely go)
mem clock 1260MHZ
Power control is +20%
fan is 55% (should be 62% for my GPU as temps get high)

Thank you JWU42

Looking around the DOS solution doesn't seem as difficult as it seems.I managed to make a copy of my stock BIOS in addition to a modified copy with just the shaders unlocked (but not mod it into HD6970 as I don't wanna risk my card.unlocking shaders is a low risk job)

can someone with experience on this please tell me in a clear step to step guide guide on what utilities to get,what settings to use,how to prepare USB stick for DOS flashing?As this would help me a lot as I'm struggling to get more than 310MHash/s with just OC'ing to the official max (840MHZ core clock,mem clock 1255MHZ-as this works better on my system).

How much of a boost can unlocking hte shaders give me with the current OC'ing level?

cus I've read that I can get up to 430MHash/s on that card.If I was to move back to mining solo (as my current pool doesn't seem to work the way I expect it to do nymore),how long would my card do if it was unlocked to get my 1st 50BTC (as I really need to payoff my upgrades within a few months)?

Thank you

Can the flashing happen within windows?As I am rubbish with cmds and other high risk ops at boot time.is there a utility thats all windows based?Will modding this card void my warranty?