Was 11.12 the introduction of 2.6? So, I would just need to extra the SDK from the 11.11 drivers?

Who/what is "Ben's Outlet"??

Anyone have experience with them?

11.9 final installed on two systems (Win7 x86 w/ 5750, Win7 x64 w/ 5830). 100% bug is gone on both.

What the hell does this crap mean? XP (SP2+) had better security (and compatibility) than Windows 2000, and Windows Vista's security was light-years ahead of 2000 or XP.

WHY would you post a screenshot of your ENTIRE desktop?

I'm not good with numbers, but if it's doing 150 to 175 Mhash/s at ~100 watts, that's 1.5 to 1.75 Mh/J, right?

The 5750 was $100 at a local store, and there was a $25 mail-in manufacturer's rebate (HIS brand). A new 5750 was purchased and taken right back: the store kindly applied the rebate price to it plus knocked more off for being "used", so I got to purchase it for extra cheap.
I used it to upgrade an old system that had an 8600 GT (6 Mhash/s).

Really? $55 for a card that gets 175 Mhash/sec seemed pretty nice to me. It turned an old box of mine into a nice miner for cheap.

The first time I experienced the 100% CPU bug was with an NVidia card (GeForce GT 330M). When I started mining I tried that and other NVidia cards (including a 9800 GX2 and 8800 GT).
Things were mostly fine when I switched to ATI cards. Two 5830s and a 5750. Catalyst 11.6 drivers, 0% CPU.

When I finally upgraded to Catalyst 11.8, then every single system hit 100% CPU. Setting the priority to "Below Normal" prevents it from slowing things down, but my CPUs still generates heat when at 100% load, 24/7.

I use GUIMiner, and it doesn't recognize my ATI cards when I use older drivers and SDK.

I just got the weird idle notification ~30 minutes ago (3 PM Central Time).
It tells me all my miners have been idle for ~540 minutes. It's been sending out notices of all my miners being idle for ~540 minutes all day now.

I visited this thread to see if it is a common issue. I guess I'm not alone.

Phoenix kept doing this for me, randomly. Something nothing, sometimes it would eat 100% CPU. Stopping & starting over and over sometimes fixes it.

Then again, poclbm never does this. I've been using that instead of Phoenix.

Well, I would say it requires a BIOS-supporting flash. I've flashed a lot of Mac/EFI firmwares onto older cards (Radeon 9700 Pro, GeForce 6, etc).

But what someone mentioned in another link about newer Mac hardware also supporting BIOS due to Boot Camp compatibility is interesting. Obviously it supports something BIOS-related as Windows boots up just fine on Macs, but it still may be a special, proprietary BIOS-ROM that doesn't work on "real" PC/BIOS systems.

Then again, through the magic of Hackintosh, x86 Mac OS X can obviously boot and run on a BIOS-only video card.

I tried to send 0.0000001 to someone and was prompted with the 0.01 fee notice.

I waited a while (a day?), and was able to send the 0.0000001 later without paying a fee. I figured the fee was to keep transactions down.

Are you guys saying you put 12 and 16 cards in one computer?

Yeah, the Sapphire 5830s have been nice.

$110 shipped.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814102878

I usually have them running cool at 966/300, stock voltage (~310 Mhash/s). If I bump the voltage a bit, they do 1050/300, but they start to get really warm unless I kick the fan way up (and anything over 50% is loud). That's good for almost 330 Mhash/s under Windows 7, though!

It's a little confusing, but BOTH the Sapphire 5830 cards are the Xtreme versions.

The $109.99 card comes in a box labeled "Xtreme", and easily clocks to 1000 MHz with the TriXX utility. Me and a friend ordered these, and are loving them (we get up to 330 Mhash/s, stable).

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814102878


The $129.99 (+ $7.56 shipping) card also comes in a box labeled "Xtreme".

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814102946

The only differences I know of is that the $129 card has a full-sized DisplayPort connector, while the $109 card has the Mini-DisplayPort adapter (like a Mac).

Honestly, the $109.99 card seems like the better deal. It is $27 cheaper than the other one, and has a more-common Mini-DisplayPort port. I already have adapters for that since I work with a bunch of Macs.
I haven't seen anything other than the DisplayPort size on the $129 card that makes it any better.

It may be back. I was able to login again.

BRILLIANT how there is no contact information unless you login first.

I have a horrifically-bad Internet provider, and during any one of the (many) daily reboots of my modem (due to communication errors), one of my miners will usually stop when disconnected.

So a "less than perfect" network connection can cause a miner to quit.

Why would  you make such a claim as that?

Why would you think that?

I was wondering what happened to the site. I came to this thread looking for info - apparently a lot has been going on!

Thanks for the updates.

GUIMiner doesn't work with older versions of the OpenCL drivers. I was having the same issue (Catalyst 10.11 + SDK 2.1 with my 5830).

I uninstalled all the ATI software, and installed just Catalyst 11.6 (which includes OpenCL drivers). Then GUIMiner works.

The 10.10/11+SDK 2.1 method is for the command-line miners (like Diablo) only, not for GUIMiner.