Thanks to Stop Spammers mod and ZB Blocker.. no more spam accounts in the past 24 hours.  Final total according to Stop Spammers, 1177 spammers stopped and deleted.

I'd really like to know how you set up your newbie system, that's really slick.  Either way, thanks for the previous info.

Why are some people being so paranoid?  You see how many orders they have and how little they are sleeping.  Do you really want them to rush while soldering your system?

(that being said, I understand.. every day is another btc missed)

It's okay, the government already has your name.  lol

I just exceeded 1001 spammers this week, lol. 

Ah okay, thanks.

I really like how it's done here and imagine there are a lot less spammers (which is how I would rather do it).  I installed the Stop Spammer mod and it has blocked 799 spammers. 

btw my forum is not bitcoin related so I'm not attempting to steal visitors in any way

Ignore my question... I just figured out how to install mods (installed Stop Spammers Mod) and lock down the forum.  Super easy and it wiped out all the spammers from CN, Russia, etc.  I love it!

I've looked all around and can't seem to find any information and thought I would ask here (especially since this is the website that initially put me on to Simple Machines).

Does anyone know how this forum set up the Newbie settings?  (post a certain number of posts, etc, etc, then get out of Newbie mode)

I thought at first it was connected to the Stop Spammer mod but the more I read the more it isn't.

Any thoughts from other forum admins?

.. my latest forum is a smashing success.. for spammers.  In two weeks I have 2 legit accounts and 756 spam accounts (and that's with blocking numerous IP addresses, ie 128.*.*.*).

How can everyone run 5 or 6 erupters on a dlink and I can't?

I'm running Windows 7 (64 bit), cgminer 3.4.2, zadig, system fan pointing at all erupters.

I had 8 erupters running smoothly off of two Belkin 4 port hubs for several days (hw under 1%).  I have 12 more erupters so I thought I would grab a couple d-link 7 ports (same one everyone has been talking about).

My issue.... I can't seem to get more than 3 running on a dlink... no idea why.  Right now I have 14 running smoothly (8 on two Belkin hubs, 6 on two dlink hubs) for 28 minutes now.  As I write this, I'm plugging in a 4th erupter into one of the dlinks and... zombie.  Surprisingly, that only look less than 1 minute to happen.

Errors I see:

AMU1: Comms error (werr=-7 amt-0)
AMU4: Comms error (werr=-7 amt-0)
AMU 4 failure, disabling!

AMU5: TIMEOUT GetResults took 1001ms but was 100ms

My cgminer command line is:

cgminer-nogpu.exe -o http://stratum.bitcoin.cz:3333 -u xxx -p xxx

I don't have the icarus commands because the newer versions don't need it and just ignore it anyway.

Thoughts?

... so I can drop in 5 cards (two x1 slots and three x16 slots)?  Oh this is about to become very fun.

Thanks for your response CryptoMinter

... adding to the fluff (and my initial 5).

except that would require a great deal of work by the moderators to keep track of who donated and is now allowed access.  This is easier.

A good question... would love to hear what others are doing.

I only started this week so I haven't amounted too many coins yet and still in the planning stage of what I really want to do.  At this point, the only people who have gotten rich are the people who sold me the equipment.  lol

He can't afford $300 but thinks this will still spark faith in his abilities?

... all donations will be exactly that... donations (to a lost cause).

.. okay I apologize for my lack of knowledge on this subject.  College was a looooooong time ago and PCI-E didn't exist so I'm slowly catching up.

My hardware..

motherboard is an ASRock 970 Extreme4
three 7970 video cards

My issue..

I need to order risers as my three 7970 video cards have a slight heating issue (when mining, they run at these temperatures 68, 90-95, and 82.... and this is with a small fan on top and an 18" blowing directly on it).  There is a decent space between vid 1 and 2 (thus 68 degrees), but almost no space between 2 and 3 (thus 90-95 degrees celcius).

My question...

My motherboard has two small pci-e slots and three full size (16) slots.  Does this mean I can put 5 video cards on my system by purchasing two 1x to 16x risers and three 16x to 16x risers?

Many thanks for answers