well, i sleep in the same room, so keeping the screen on is a no go. and a dummy plug would probably work, yea. i forgot to mention the tv is plugged into the nvidia card and nothing into the amd.

either way, moot point. i think i've sorted it. i sat here reading a book while listening for the fan changes so i could test different things. first thing i did was reset the clocks to default. ran fine. i must have had them set too high or the fan speed inadequate or something along those lines. so, i THINK i'm sorted. least i hope i am.

bring on the asic's and no need to fudge like this...

mmm. bitcoins. absolutely.

sincerest sympathies.

this is precisely why every backup of my wallet i've ever done isn't stored in a readily indentifiable way. i hide the compressed and encrypted (password of over 20 characters)  in another file type using a mostly forgotten about DOS command.

also it reminds me that i need to set up my brass plate etching equipment again to make "paper" wallets that are more durable.

the last few comedic posts here had me snickering like an idiot and trying desperately not to wake anyone.

also: dang it! i lived in KC until june of this year. missed it by that much.

as to voting a rep: honestly? i'd have a much easier time declaring who wasn't appropriate, then who was. as such, i'll abstain.

yep. i have without issue in windows 7 for over 6 months now. ati card already paid for itself.

this isn't accurate. the difficulty can only increase by a FACTOR of 4 in a given 2 week period. so it can't increase 100x in two weeks, but over months, absolutely can. i don't think there's any sort of upper limit on difficulty.

I'm very interested in being a part of this aspect of things. I've worked in software QA (admittedly primarily video game related) for over a decade, and would love a chance to work on helping secure bitcoin software. the thought hadn't ever crossed my mind, or i'd have already been doing so.

who should i contact regarding this?

aboslutley incredible. i was alreayd planning my first asic purchase to be from you, and this just seals it.

so i just re-installed windows fresh the other day and am getting everything reset up. guiminer, radeon 6870 dedicated miner (a secondary card) that's worked fine as long as i've had it. now, when i turn off the tv screen i use as a monitor (it's an hdmi connection) about ten minutes or so later it seemingly stops mining. fan speed drops, no more submitted shares, guiminer console only reporting new long polls, but still showing a nonchanging hash rate. once i click stop/start, it gets going again, no problems.

i have a screensaver that comes on after 5 minutes idle, but all sleep and hibernate settings are off. using latest drivers. been trying to fix this for a day and a half now, and i'm out of settings to check. does anyone have any ideas?

for those who like point and click adventures, this series is AWESOME.

tried cleartype, no go. i run at 1920 x 1080, the native resolution of this screen.

ended up reinstalling windows and all that. apprently that fixed it. *shrug*

so, i have two video cards in my pc. and amd 6870 i run full time mining, and my nvidia 560 i use for everything else and mine on when i'm sleeping or otherwise not on the pc. no, i don't pay electricty and yes, i DO enjoy the extra heat.

this morning, while i was playing a game on xbox for no more then an hour, the PC was mining away. no errors, crashes, nothing like that. but when i came back from the xbox and went about my day (facebook, email, etc) i nitced text was different- pictures too. it's a bit hard to describe. everything looks flattened, and is heavily aliased. not just 3d stuff in games, i mean everything. text, icons, pictures on facebook or human faces. desktop backgrounds, everything. i think the anti-aliasing somehow got disabled system wide, but i've changed no settings that would cause that.

i've uninstalled and reinstalled both nvidia and amd drivers. i've run a system restore to before the issue. i've ran an update of direct x. i've triple checked every setting i can think of in windows and nvidia control panel. on perhaps 3 or 4 occasions over the last couple of weeks, i've had system hardlocks when stoping the ufaminer i'm using on the nvidia card. this was while using beta version of the latest driver and hasn't happened since i updated to the full driver release, but who knows it's relevance.

any ideas what the heck is going on, or how to fix it, short of replacing the card? could the mining have caused it somehow?

actually, since the reward halving will basically cut the supply of new coin in half, (meaning those miners who save their earned BTC now will still save it, those who cash it out through and exchange will still do so, etc) it very well could drive the price higher, even with no change in demand for coin. though since the demand is more or less constantly growing...

it's going a bumpy ride, as some actress once said in some movie or other.

looks like a LOT of volume moving the last day or so, but surprisingly little overall effect on price. still about where we were yesterday. interesting.

dang, and the takeover of cambodia bit was just getting my interest! (joke!)

reasonable. get the process down and understand it inside and out first with something small and simple, THEN do the bigger, more complex stuff. very reasonable approach.

...i want more shares now...

so we all, i think i can safely say, understand that eventually, when the block reward tapers off enough and transaction fees are the primary miner income, that the cost of transactions will, because of competition, be only a fraction above cost of operating the mining hardware. right? right.

so, when will we approach that point? we all know the block reward will be approach zero by roughly 2030, though not actually reach it for something like 100 years. so, will mining be a true "profitable" venture for the next twenty years? ten? or is the above premise wrong, and if so, what's your reasoning?

personally i believe with the block reward being 25 for the next 4 years, then 12.5 after that, etc, that we have roughly 10 to 12 years of actually making some solid income and paying off hardware and such. for bigger miners, even living off the income could/should be possible for a while. further out the variables are too many and too complex for me to figure. if the exchange rate (assuming relatively similar $ purchasing power and no collapse thereof) of BTC-$ goes to the oft rumored 100, then $650 a block isn't exactly anything to sneeze at, even divided between 1000 people. after all, with 144 blocks (roughly) found a day, that's about $93 a day for each of those people, assuming equal hash rates.

so, thoughts?

i've no idea what the impact of this would really be - but the chips discussed above are tiny. TINY. 6mmx6mm is smaller then most of my fingernails. what impact would a large chip size have on the whole hash/joule thing? the FPGA's in the oroginal BFL single are what, 3 or 4 times that size? larger, fewer chips = better power maybe?

...yea, i can't even convince myself on that one.

as always in financial terms, might makes right, in this case. fair shamair. who said business is fair?