I was using P2Pool quite finely for quite some time now. Got a 5850 card in the mail and dual installed by my 560 ti just fine. Appeared to be working, installed MSI to get some tweaks. Had the screen freeze and restarted. Now Bitcoin simply won't connect. I've seen it get 1 connection sometimes, but that's not enough to do anything obviously. But lately I haven't even been able to replicate that.

The main symptom I can see is that I can't shut it down. It locks at 25 cpu and 46k mem or so in cntrl alt delete. I have to use the command menu to end it, lest it never ends. I am wondering if it's not so much the connection as it just hanging somehow. I tried uninstalling and reinstalling. Tried restarting computer, modem, router, etc. Ports have been forwarded and have been working effectively, no changes were made! Sans video card... any familiar..? Did a lot of Googling but received little results... Thanks..

Any recommendations on the best 5850 manufacturer?

So sorry, I meant in terms of US dollars. So yes, the decimal is one place off in terms of BTC. So I am getting around .03 it seems (it was high .038 before turning back down, so somewhere near here lies the median I expect). Time will tell and I'm learning a lot.

Hm, so do I understand right that "4.8"g/h is equal to 4,800 mh/s?  Or 480mhz? Or.. math isn't my strong suit.

I am approaching .33 payout per block with my 560 ti, pretty pleased for not having any specific hardware. Fun.

Awesome! I'm glad to help and really appreciate your information. I understand more every day!

Is .80 your average per block? What kind of m/s are you running? And card if you don't mind?

First of all I appreciate all the amazing information within this thread, even though it is nearly impossible to find with so many pages. None the less, thanks.

So I spent a lot of time confused and trying to learn and received little (but useful) input in the newbie thread I made here :

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=97288.0

You can read it to get an idea of what I've gone through, but here's where I'm at now:

https://i.imgur.com/AG7Qc.png

Glad to say I busted the last block, at least that's what I take it to mean. So am I finally getting the picture? One thing I don't understand, are shares based on an average in the past 24 hours or so? Is that why my payout keeps going up without discovering new shares rapidly? I assume there is no significance of finding a block since I am in the pool (which seems effective even for my low end machine GPU Nvidia). I am enjoying the learning experience about bitcoin and to use it.

Any advice would still be great, thanks!

Why not just buy them with dollars ? Unless there's something you absolutely need this instance.

I came to say this, though I am not a leo.

Fortunately the age of modern media and internet is allowing all to observe and a bit more transparency to take place with the law enforcement. It's no surprise they are already trying to shut that down in several states..

Hm, I had planned to just make a little linux box with cards to mine, but would Windows really do fine and not make any hit at all to the power? Hmm... something to think about at least before I move forward.

Sounds.. delicious? Good time for discovery.

Edit: Well, a little reading solved that, sorry.

Exactly, finding it to be a great resource.

As soon as I actually manage to mine or make some bitcoints I'm absolutely checking this out. Great idea and best of luck!

Though I must say after more delving I'm almost tempted to spend some USD here. Yummy looking.

Such a wonderful line. Thanks for all the helpful tips!

Hello everyone, I am semi new to bitcoin. I should be bouncing hither and thither to find the answers I seek on this wonderful board of knowledge! A toast to all present and to those to come!

Thanks, this was very helpful in adding to my basic understanding.

I have let it run some more time now thinking that perhaps I was unlucky for the first share. I was right in that my % of DoA seems to be leveling out to a lower area, however both shares I have thus received are still dead. I don't have any orphan or viable share it seems, so even when this next block is found I will have nothing. Which is fine, once I understand why that is.

Here is a new image after running all night:

https://i.imgur.com/gBnz0.png

My % DoA seems to have fallen, so that is good. But any ideas anyone?

Appreciated.

Edit: Also, does anyone conceivably know a manner in which to stop the instant updating in p2pool cmd prompt and alter it to update much slower so I can actually pay attention to some data? Thanks so much again.

And when I try to use CGMiner, I get no pools active and it closes.

Edit 2:

I also know that, for example, when I go to http://p2pool.info/ and check the statistics (I've been mining since about 1PM 8/1 in this "manner" that "seems" like it connects) I notice that my payment address is not available. It begins with "1cvp" and I search for it in active payout, in current workers, once blocks are completed (I have been mining since the completion of 2 or 3 blocks in said time). Does this mean I was not "part" of those blocks when they were mined and my mines were just not relevant? Despite my "shares" none were actually "accepted" by p2pool? Is that how it works? Is that why my only shares (2) were "dead"? Will, perhaps, today during the solving of 2-4 blocks I perhaps will be part of it?

Edit 3:

Finally seemed to have it connect. Before I could not pull up any query at 127.0.0.1 for information. Now I receive this:

https://i.imgur.com/cLeSO.png

Which is also what my GUIMINER and P2Pool looks like. Things seem okay, but I notice my DoA rate ranges from 20-50%. I did have a connection error earlier in the hour and thought that may have something to do with the statistic, but I'm not so sure anymore. Is my high DoA rate (for example, the only two previous shares acquired were dead shares) causing about half of my effort to be useless?

Hi !

A 560 ti nVidia, using GUIMiner -cuda, and p2pool.

Went through all the setups listed at the Wiki page here:

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/P2Pool

And everything seemed to be in working order. I get around 70-80 MHash a second says the GUIMiner, p2Pool seems to confirm this or did earlier when it was working. AFter some hours I noticed it telling me that the connection had been lost for several minutes. Over the hours I had collected some "shares" according to the miner, though I don't recall if the shares listed in p2pool were reflected. The speed seems to be about the same (P2Pool ranges from 60-200 mhash it claims). However when I restarted the programs I noticed there is no indication of previous shares. How does this work exactly? P2Pool claims "Shares: 0 (0 Orphan, 0 dead).

Suddenly and with no change of settings, my failure rate seems to be around 30-45% (DoA), this was not occuring a few hours ago. I tried restarting, but with no luck or change.

Here is an image of my command prompt.

https://i.imgur.com/YrPZf.png

Thanks!