So... I had a few coins in my bitjack21 account... and they appear to have disappeared.   I noticed a notice on the website that says there was an issue "syncing" some accounts after an upgrade.

I emailed the support account yesterday, and sent andrew a PM on here today, but havn't heard anything back.

Anyone know a better way to get ahold of Andrew?

... people wouldn't trash your threads if you didn't freak out when people low balled you.

Just ignore the low ball messages and move on... instead of talking trash and getting on the defensive.

sold, thank you for all the replies.

It's a powercolor 5850, exactly like the one show here:  http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814131386

With one major exception... one of the blades on the fan is broke off, causing the fan to vibrate and make a lot of noise (and also not cool as well as it could).  The card otherwise works without issue.

Make me an offer on the card, or sell me a fan.  No reasonable offer will be rejected.  I'll accept btc or paypal.

lol... like I said... back up we go :p.

someone with a lot of coins is shakin' the tree... and a lot of branches are fallin :p

to all the panic sellers... you're gonna be cryin' when it jumps back up just as fast.

Well I got linuxcoin up and running.  Running at 975/300... with Fastloop enabled I'm at 92%  GPU utilization.  Which gives me 271mhash  (before i was just over 300)

Fastloop=false... drops utilization to 81% and leaves me at 220mhash  (it used to put me just over 300)  Any ideas?  I'm almost certain it's something in the card's bios that needs tweaking... but without knowing what I don't want to just go changin values :p

Edit: it should be noted that auto fan speed now does NOTHING.  The card will cook if I don't manually set the fan speed.
Edit 2: I have no problem getting the GPU to 100% utilization with msi kombustor

well I plan on rebuilding my machine with a different board and fresh install in the next few days... hopefully that tunes everything in again.

Alright... so I downloaded the original bios from techpowerup and flashed it... now I'm able to modify clock speeds again and it's no longer stuck at 157 (although it does clock down to it when not in use).

However, FASTLOOP=false still kills me when using phatk... and before it didn't.  Any ideas?  (I would put this in hardware forum... but can't post there yet )

nope, 800/1000 is original.   Ubuntu wouldn't boot from usb.. just hung.

Reset bios to defaults... nope.  Anyone know how to reset a XFX 5830?

Well I figured out what's causin the problem... just have to figure out how to fix it now.  Card is stuck with Core @ 157Mhz, 300Mhz Memory

Well with some more tinkering it looks like "FASTLOOP=false" kills about 90 mhash.  Before it gave me a nice boost...

I was playing with the core overclock in MSI afterburner... cranked it up to 1000.. and the screen went white briefly, then came back after about 10 seconds.  Windows 7 stated the driver had crashed and was recovered.  Since then... I can't get pheonix to load the GPU more than 80% (limiting my mhash to 230or so... was 310).

I got a fresh copy of the miner... same thing.  Any other ideas?