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1  Bitcoin / Mining software (miners) / Re: Mac miner front-ends to Diablo and RPC on: June 01, 2011, 03:06:27 PM
Quote from: PaZer on June 01, 2011, 01:06:32 PM
Oh it does. I have iStat Menus Version 3.17. Under Preferences go to Sensors and select GPU from available sensors to active sensors. That's it! Don't forget to activate the sensor bar as well!

Unfortunately, it does not list GPU as an available sensor for me. Unless it is "PCIe Slot 1", which has a temperature of around 85° when running DiabloMiner.

Edit: It seems like this is indeed the GPU. Guess it really is overheating. It is usually around 65° and the moment I start DiabloMiner it shoots up to around 85° (even went to 90° once). I am no hardware geek, so I am not going to build some kind of cooling mechanism. Am I right in assuming that I a out of look then?
2  Bitcoin / Mining software (miners) / Re: Mac miner front-ends to Diablo and RPC on: June 01, 2011, 12:16:39 PM
Quote from: PaZer on June 01, 2011, 10:53:10 AM
Hi,

for reading CPU and GPU temperatures I use iStat (http://bjango.com/mac/istatmenus/). That's a perfect tool for mac, not only for mining! My iMac with Radeon HD 4670 has temperature around 83°C and 86°C. That's on the limit. That's the reason why I sometimes get the following message in DiabloMiner:

Code:
[01.06.11 12:23:25] ERROR: Invalid block found on Radeon HD 4670 (#1), possible driver or hardware issue

Is there a way to prioritize down the DiabloMiner to a lower priority, otherwise working with the mac at the same time is quite hard. Maybe there is also a way to reduce the GPU workload from 100% to 80%?

Unfortunately iStat does not show a GPU temperature for me. Neither do other tools.
3  Bitcoin / Mining software (miners) / Re: Mac miner front-ends to Diablo and RPC on: June 01, 2011, 08:55:00 AM
Quote from: DiabloD3 on May 31, 2011, 11:55:56 PM
That looks normal if your GPU is overheating. HW check errors will happen on all hardware from time to time, but driving the temp up is sure to do it.

Make sure your temp is below 85c.


Thanks for your answer! I have no way of checking the gpu temperature and don't want to risk damaging my hardware. I am probably not savvy enough to do serious mining anyway.

Can you give me a tip on how to cleanly uninstall the DiabloMiner.app? Since it starts automatically when I turn on my Mac, I assume it has installed some sort of system extensions?
4  Bitcoin / Mining software (miners) / Re: Mac miner front-ends to Diablo and RPC on: May 31, 2011, 10:51:16 PM
Hi,

just found out about Bitcoin a couple of hours ago, so this is all really new to me. I just downloaded and started the Diablo app (I am using a Mac Pro). During setup it asked me "Start mining automatically on log-in?". I said "yes", but now I am wondering: What log-in is meant by this? The system user log-in?

Also, does this look like everything is working properly to you:


Starting DiabloMiner (GPU)...
-----------------------------
[6/1/11 12:25:41 AM] Started
[6/1/11 12:25:41 AM] Connecting to: http://deepbit.net:8332/
[6/1/11 12:25:43 AM] Added ATI Radeon HD 5770 (#1) (10 CU, local work size of 256)
[6/1/11 12:27:11 AM] ERROR: Invalid block found on ATI Radeon HD 5770 (#1), possible driver or hardware issue
[6/1/11 12:27:12 AM] Block 1 found on ATI Radeon HD 5770 (#1)
[6/1/11 12:27:34 AM] Block 2 found on ATI Radeon HD 5770 (#1)
[6/1/11 12:28:46 AM] Block 3 found on ATI Radeon HD 5770 (#1)
[6/1/11 12:29:36 AM] Block 4 found on ATI Radeon HD 5770 (#1)
[6/1/11 12:29:54 AM] ERROR: Invalid block found on ATI Radeon HD 5770 (#1), possible driver or hardware issue
[6/1/11 12:30:38 AM] Block 5 found on ATI Radeon HD 5770 (#1)
[6/1/11 12:31:39 AM] Block 6 found on ATI Radeon HD 5770 (#1)
[6/1/11 12:33:49 AM] Block 7 found on ATI Radeon HD 5770 (#1)
[6/1/11 12:34:13 AM] Block 8 found on ATI Radeon HD 5770 (#1)
[6/1/11 12:34:55 AM] Block 9 found on ATI Radeon HD 5770 (#1)
[6/1/11 12:35:30 AM] Block 10 found on ATI Radeon HD 5770 (#1)
[6/1/11 12:36:32 AM] Block 11 found on ATI Radeon HD 5770 (#1)
[6/1/11 12:37:56 AM] Block 12 found on ATI Radeon HD 5770 (#1)
[6/1/11 12:38:18 AM] Block 13 found on ATI Radeon HD 5770 (#1)
[6/1/11 12:39:22 AM] Block 14 found on ATI Radeon HD 5770 (#1)
[6/1/11 12:46:20 AM] ERROR: Invalid block found on ATI Radeon HD 5770 (#1), possible driver or hardware issue
[6/1/11 12:47:29 AM] Block 15 found on ATI Radeon HD 5770 (#1)
[6/1/11 12:48:38 AM] ERROR: Invalid block found on ATI Radeon HD 5770 (#1), possible driver or hardware issue
[6/1/11 12:49:07 AM] Block 16 found on ATI Radeon HD 5770 (#1)
[6/1/11 12:49:20 AM] Block 17 found on ATI Radeon HD 5770 (#1)
89747/98467 khash/sec


Thanks!
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