I will test this theory shortly...

You are right.. the cables are much too close together.. they are quite thick and are therefore tough to maneuver... so they all generally lay on top of eachother.

However when I use the same cable as the "upper" portion of the double connection... it rests higher up on my case and does not come into contact or even come close to any other cables.. so I am not sure this is it either.

Keeping the same slot and switching the one "cable from hell" changes my results, so I doubt this is the case.

I had thought of that too, so I re-created my linuxcoin bootable usb from scratch and made sure persistence was not enabled at any time. Linuxcoin is very good at recognizing new cards no matter what their positions.

Anyways the positions of the cards and/or the brands do not matter, the only "problem" is using this one specific "cable from hell" i have labeled it now...  that does not work as an extension but does work as a single cable. And not only that... it DOES work as an extension, it simply does not show the desktop.

My only idea is that perhaps since the cables are very inexpensive... if the desktop requires more juice to flow through the cable number 1 (in order to display it..?) then that seems to be the only reason in my mind that this could be happening.

So confused... but thankfully after identifying that problem cable I now have 6 cards up and running on my MSI 790FXA... 3 different brands. (I was worried it was the interchanging of brands at first as well, but obviously not..).

Prepare to have your mind blown. I know mine is.

I purchased a bunch of pcie 1x extension cables through ebay. Modded them myself, and shorted connections A1+B17 with some solid wiring.

I occasionally combine two cables together to double their lengths. This works pretty well in general.

I have been wracking my brain for days trying to figure out why certain combos of cards didn't work in my MSI 890FXA-GD70 mobo.

It turns out that a specific cable... when used as a "doubling" cable on card number 0/1 (first card)... will show MOST of the booting sequence in linuxcoin v0.2a...

I mean I can see the post screen, the boot sequence of black and white screen/text... and then when loading the desktop everything hangs...

If I change that one cable out for another, the desktop loads fine.

If I use that cable in the 2nd - Nth card, the desktop loads fine.

Why on earth would an extension cable stop only the desktop from booting when used in card slot number 1?

Answer me this and you get 1 BTC.

Extra info:
- I have tried xfx, diamond and sapphire cards with the same cable... same result.

I think it is more some greedy bot-herder who wants the difficulty to go down so his crappy CPUs he "controls" can still mine something.

Honestly guys... how greedy can you be?!

So a few people have a massive hoard of bitcoins, so what? Unless your name is Carlos Slim, there will always be somebody "richer" than you on this planet.

If Bitcoins actually take off... "Satoshi" and all of the early adopters deserve to be billionaires, too. Much more so than Carlos Slim "deserves" to be a billionaire imho... (by monopolizing telephone lines and then charging poor civilians out the ass for it, selling cigarettes by the trillions, etc, etc...)

A new block chain would accomplish little at this point anyways in terms of distributing the wealth... There are already solo miners out there with 50Ghps+ rooms ready to rape a new difficulty level and quickly gain 10k+ "new bitcoins" in a few short days.

Full disclosure: I only found out about "Bitcoin" ~3 months ago. The second I discovered it I could not stop reading/thinking/gaining-interest in the topic. I have acquired ~100 BTC in that time mainly by getting lucky once finding a block and participating in a few different pools thereafter.

I can see about 48 now... it seems to be steadily going up for myself over time.

Here's a fun trick (that will blow your mind the first time you see it!)

Quickly shut down your bitcoin client... and start it back up again...

It should almost immediately inform you that you have ~100+ connections... WOW!?!?

But I assume that it uses cached connections from the previous load... until it can find new connections and delete the old ones... which is why it does this.

Gavin/anyone care to explain?

I don't think it really fits into his realm of political analysis and comedy.

How does bitcoin relate to US politics? It doesn't... yet

Perhaps at a later date, but not now imho.

Might I suggest you erase/edit-out the information about "verifications" in your original post???

That definitely had me worried about signing up to your pool for a short while... everything is going great so far however, keep up the good work!

How many megabytes per second upload/download do you have???

According to wikipedia, the Tianhe-I is the fastest supercomputer in the world. It can perform operations at approximately 2.566 PetaFLOPS.

How many hashes per second could this beast create?

Thank god...!!

I just purchased some AMD 160u single core 20W cpus... so they should be able to run multiple video cards without any problems on linux? Just not on windows?

Yes this is what I was thinking too... perhaps just a remnant from the good old solo mining days.

As pools become larger and more profitable for their owners, I am sure these "little things" will be more streamlined.

Are you using a legit version of windows..? 

My bitcoin address mysteriously dissappeared as well! Using firefox 4.0 ... newly registered, just getting started... it seems to be saved now however.

Also a tip for the OP... the drop down menu for the "donation" box doesn't work correctly in Opera. You can barely see what number you are selecting. Might want to force remove scroll bars.

I don't know why I have the option to create so many individial "workers/miners" for starters...

When creating an individual worker for a mining pool (like deepbit.net or btcmine.com) I am asked to create a separate password for that miner (so that I can submit shares using my username and password presumably?)

Why would I bother making a difficult to guess password for that miner in particular? Don't I want other people trying to crack my password and mine bitcoins for me through the pool if they so choose?

Why is there a password at all basically is my question?

Another thing I noticed... when pressing "shut down", the screen hangs showing the linuxcoin/linux mascot.

I assume it is waiting for me to press enter because it is a live cd?

Pressing enter does nothing.

FYI: clicking on "file manager" does not work. It simply re-loads the desktop screen for some reason?

58C ?? How long are you holding that temperature at 1000mhz?

Site is down

Anybody have a copy? Torrent file?