thebearhere,
You are doing it wrong.
I can tell you how to fix those issues if you get rid of that astalavista.
Upgrade to win7, there is nothing new to learn, most of the time it is the best OS (de facto) when mining.
I wish someone could help me with that.
Why Ive been mining on it fine for years. I cloned the going bad hdd and when i did that im missing a file that wont let me update in order to install msvs 2015. Im missing one file and it can be updated but I don't know how to install it. If i could burn msvs 2015 on a cd, i would then put it on top of the new hdd and hammer it in.
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No thx i dont need to Max allowcate 100% stuff
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ps curious is it free win 7 ?