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OK, here's one more post. I think that's about 5 or 6 now.
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I ordered a 30 GH/s little single in March this year. I don't get the feeling it's a scam, I just hope I get it before difficulty is >100 million.
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OK thanks. It seems there isn't a solution, AMD must have changed something in the catalyst drivers in 11.7 making them work differently in XP and so far there's no workaround solution. I've gone back to 11.6 and maybe I'll upgrade to Win 7 one of these days.
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That's exactly the problem I've been having. Finally, for the first time I've read about someone else having the same problem. So, it seems like the new catalyst 11.7 and 11.8 drivers don't work properly with Win XP 32bit, at least as far as mining with multiple cards is concerned, and so far no one seems to have found any solution. On the bright side, 11.6 works fine for mining in Win XP 32bit, you just miss out on any improvements that 11.7 or newer might come up with.
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Thanks for the reply. No, that's not it. Affinity is already set to different cores in the mining software (GUIMiner v2011-07-01). I just find it strange that I haven't read about anyone else having a similar problem. Is my setup really that obscure? Win XP 32bit, more than one video card. When I first started out a few months ago I was using 11.5. Everything was working fine but I read that performance could improve with the 2.1 SDK so I switched to that from the 2.4 that came with 11.5 and it worked, performance did improve. When 11.6 came out, I upgraded to it. It didn't make any noticeable difference, but didn't screw anything up either, so I just left it. Now that 11.7 and 11.8 are out, trying to upgrade to either one screws things up so I can only effectively use one video card. I've tried uninstalling the old drivers and using driver sweeper to clean them out before doing a clean install, it didn't help. I've also tried both installing 11.7 or 11.8 seperately with SDK 2.1 and together with 2.5 that comes with it. Nothing I've tried works. I'm sure hoping someone sees this that has some ideas for me to try.
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I've got 2 5830s mining on my main computer and they both work reasonably well with the 11.6 catalyst drivers and SDK 2.1. Due to heat issues I can overclock one card to about 970/300 but the other card only to about 900/300 for hash rates of about 300 MH/s and 280MH/s respectively. Unfortunately, accessing websites containing flash causes my computer to lock up and spontaneously reboot. I've tried disabling hardware acceleration in flash and that only helps somewhat. It doesn't lock up every time anymore but still sometimes which is still quite a pain. I was reading about catalyst 11.7 and 11.8 and they supposedly have fixed the flash lockup issue so I was eager to try them. However, when I update the drivers I can no longer get both cards working at full capacity. For instance, I will start mining on the first card and it will be going at about 300MH/s, but when I start mining with the second card it will say it's mining at like 40MH/s and now the first card is at about 260. Does anyone know what's causing this behaviour and maybe have any suggestions about how to get the new drivers working properly? I'm running on XP 32bit by the way. Thanks.
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