People still mine on that shit?

I think I have it.  Open up cmd prompt and make the window larger in options, try 85W 50H.  Close that out and try your batch file again, It should work now that everything fits on the screen.

If that works, CGminer just crashes with 4 -S arguments for whatever reason. If it fails, you've got a bad single, a bad cable, or the wrong COM port.

Did you ever get this up and running?

I believe it's not crashing, but rather closing the batch file because "-S COM 6" is not a valid argument. You might want to try "-S COM6" or running cmd.exe then pasting the command in.

I think it's trying to scan for COM, which you don't have a single plugged into.

Sorry about the above. It was a slip up by me. Tihan is correct.

30 May 23:30: We're going to proceed with payouts of the few people we have verified hopefully tomorrow for 80% of their claims (the remaining 20% will be refunded later). A more lengthy process will be applied to everyone else.

Thanks for asking.  I have a few simple points.

About BFL
1.  You are pre-announcing this product before delivering your previously pre-announced product
2.  This is your second claim of delivering a product with ASIC hashing.  Your first was debunked as an FPGA as soon as product shipped.
3.  You seem to be using customer funds for purchases of product for development and general expenses.  If I am wrong about that please post a notarized statement from your escrow agent and I will apologize.

About business in general
1.  Paying in advance for development is an investment.  It is generally compensated with intellectual property, equity or loan interest.
2. Honest, viable businesses become insolvent all the time for lack of cashflow.  It is the reason for the Chapter 11 bankruptcy procedures.
3. Payments in advance for products become unsecured debts in a bankruptcy proceeding.  Unsecured debtors are among the lowest priority for recovery in these procedures and generally get nothing.  Even if the material is sitting in the shipping bay with a label on it, it isn't yours under bankruptcy.
4.  For reason #3 above it is unethical, and a violation of consumer protection laws in many places to sell product in advance of availability.  For the same reason, Visa and Mastercard require shipment before a sale can be charged.
5. Companies at risk of insolvency often make very generous guarantee offers.  A guarantee has no revenue cost in the present, and has no value in bankruptcy either.

I can't see ever being a customer of yours given your business practices.  And your question has given me the opportunity to  nicely summarize why people should use caution.  So I will leave your thread to your fans and investors.

I'm quite serious. I'm tired of people attacking BFL for no reason, and I will just start discussing long term depopulation plans with Theymos if this continues. Its completely up to the trolls inhabiting this thread on what happens next.

BFL sending me a unit for inspection and testing would prove it exists and works and isn't vaporware.

If you don't, I break your knees. 

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yea it should but I thought you were entering thru ssh, but yea it should goto a gui, you can try to force a GUI with the command but you will probably get an error, plus there is another error with your user id and idk think i can solved that over a forum LOL

I don't recognize that error, but lodcrappo isn't around very often... I somehow doubt that that error is related to the choice of card, but to answer your earlier question - yes a 5970 should work fine.

Perhaps you can try another USB on another rig?

well what that does is let you into the configuration file that Bamt will know how many GPUs to look for, right now all gpu's are disable so we have to enable them.
so we have to open a text editor and edit it, that is what vi is so you have to edit that file the way I pointed out. So after you type the command and after that you should be prompted to enter your root password. Then just hit the "i" button to start entering into vi, then after that use your arrow keys to go to the line that has Then change that 1 to a 0. Then just hit "esc" button then type :wq and hit enter. Then restart Bamt using and that should work to have BAMT see your first gpu when you want to add another GPU just go to the next one that has gpu2 and change the disable to 0. 0 in linux means true, 1 means false.

When you boot BAMT you should get a graphical screen anyways, not a command prompt. Wonder if it already hates you because of the 7970. Try a different card just for grins and see what happens.

use these commands...
then arrow down until you find, if you get an error trying to open it, then use
you have to be root
otherwise look for these lines
and change to

do that for gpu2 and gpu3 also which is a couple lines down after gpu1