Two followups from previously posted, unrelated, problems:

1)  The Radeon 5770 that worked for graphics, but I couldn't mine (bfgminer or cgminer - error about missing some registry file), works fine as a 3rd card in one of my Linux boxes.  Clueless what was wrong in Windows, but moving on...

2)  Recall how I partially lost temperature displays on 2 of my 3 mining machines?  On both the problem machines, only the first graphics card would display a temp, the 2nd one didn't.  Except on a 3rd machine (different mobos between them, but the same Gentoo Linux build), where both of the graphics cards displayed a temp.  Well... I put the 5770 in the "good" one, and it continues to display the temp - for the first 2 cards only!  <lol>  Hardly a crisis, but I do hope this problem disappears on my machines someday.

I like this Magic The Gathering Online Exchange a good bit more than the other one at the moment.

This may be noob of me to ask but, Ive had alot of block erupters for a while now and I just added one more to my collection today but I noticed that the green light was yellow on this one. Does this mean something or is it just a different color? 25 asic block erupters all with  green lights yet this one is yellow. Is it about to fail? I bought it from ebay and if it craps out I want to exchange it for a working one.

The wife loves bitcoin. She went nuts on overstock.com, getting some speakers for her computer, teapot, stuff and it just magically appears. Bitcoin is like a cute little money machine upstairs.

And although it's more expensive to heat with electricity than natural gas (we have radiant heat from the 1950's godlike) these things also throw off teapots and such.

C

the magical paperclip.

The reverse is also true. If you purchased badly and spent more on the device than you'll ever earn back effectively making a loss, then buying 10 of them means you make 10x the loss.

@Cassey, not sure what you mean. I'm relatively new to mining - and this is my first ASIC install.

I'm using bfgminer-3.10.0-win32 with these params:

rem As of bfgminer 3.8.X you no longer need to specify the –icarus-options or the –icarus-timing
bfgminer -o stratum+tcp://de1.miningpool.co:10701 -u mfread.asic1 -p x -S erupter:all

Unless it has changed, if you don't have any seats your account will be deleted after 24 hours. No big deal you can create another one, but just a heads up in case that happens you know why. Its not that we don't like you!

Good one - I'll look into a way to somehow filter that out.

Why do people buy multiple of the same product?  Does it become ineffective quickly? 

I don't think the top floor heat has kicked on since I fired up all these boosted miners. 220gh of power actually keeps the rooms warm at night. Come spring I'm really going to clock them down a *lot* but for now it's free heat and bitcoins!

That's awesome news. Man I break my setups all the time. I mess with them a lot (since I do dev based on them) so I've had my share of breakage. It always sucks.

That said, when something does break and you are able to figure it out and fix it yourself - well that almost makes up for it  I learned how to solder when my Blade V2 fuse assembly burnt up.

Moot point right now unfortunately.
I was finally satisfied it was all good to go so hardware wise and was going to move it to the server room.
Since I cannot lift anything I had to wait for my wife to carry it.
Long story short I asked her to wait a min so I could unplug it while I went to the bathroom and she didn't.  She broke the Ethernet socket off the board trying to unplug the cable.
I've spent all the time since I last posted about the seeing if I could fix it.  Nope not at all.  Closest I get is a general connection with 80% packet loss and no mining.  I feel like crawling into a hole and staying there.  I cannot seem to have anything just go ok.  We only had it a couple days now it is broken.  I hate being so injured that I cannot do things myself.
End of rant.
I will save the first argument if I can resurrect it.
Thanks for the help I appreciate it.

I still don't understand if people doesn't pay electricity bills or what, cuz I'm not selling my coins for that ridiculous price..

Well  I wasn't wrong, botnet just cut in 4 the price of the coin.

ive got 2 plugged into a docking station for my laptop and one has 37 HW errors and the other has 700.  the one with only 37 HW has 7450 accepted shares and the other with 700 HW errors only has 6780ish accepted shares.

any idea why such a huge difference?

seems like its messing up the accepted shares with all the HW

Hmm - the miner shouldn't start unless you select it. It might slow down a bit the first time it calculates the vote, but after that, it shouldn't take up many system resources.