Primrose,

If you have a green check box in the lower right of the client, you should be all synced up.  The more you keep the client open, the more it will remained sync.  If you keep it off for a few days, just be ready to wait a bit for it to fully sync back up, and then you good to roll again.

As transaction occur, blocks are generated for those transactions.  These blocks are basically layered on top of each other, and to know about all transactions, you need to have the entire block history.

So what it means or what you're client is telling you is the last block in its history is over 11 days old, generally this should read in the minutes range.  Normally the client will catch itself up just by leaving the client open for awhile (progress bar at the bottom).  If you're leaving it open and nothing is occurring, check that you're not blocking IRC connections.

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Guys,

In further testing, try to skip the Fusion step, I believe it may have trimmed a little more then it should.  I just noticed my power plans in Win8 are completely screwy now.  It could be completely unrelated, but if you use Fusion, use with caution (This machine's Win8 install has been pretty dorked up from Dell).

I had the same issues, with two 7970's, I downgraded back to 13.1, problem solved.

Here's what I did, because Windows 8 was not happy about going backwards.

First I did the normal cata uninstall
Then using driver Fusion, I did a full clean up of all ATI AMD components. reboot.
Install the 13.1 drivers, and Ill guess you'll get an install warning like I did, if you read into the XML you'll find that everything but the drivers installed correctly.

To fix this, I went into where the installer unpacks (Typically c:\AMD\Driver_Version),
Then into Packages > Drivers > Display > W86A_INF, and find C8148486.inf (you just need the .inf, if your name differs).
Right click on it, and choose install.

Give it about 3-5 minutes, your screen should flash, and you should no longer have yellow flags on your video cards, and cgminer / bitminer should no longer crash.

I've been fighting with this for about 2 weeks now, short of reinstalling Win8, this was the only way I could find to get 13.1 running again.

Thanks for the heads up!

Replying to get my post count up so I can help somebody in another thread with crashing issues