<engineer here> After a fair bit of consideration, I mounted the fans as I did due to the plans I had for mounting the pair of haba's in a ducted coldbox. They are going to receive a 4" duct of AC dedicated to their coldbox, with a second drawing away the heated air and exhausting it from the building.

I used some #5-40 (1/2 or 3/4" i can't rem) SHCS to mount the pump/block module to the board.

When i took the picture there was about 4x the amount of thermal paste as i left for actual mounting.  I used some very good paste that I use for some of our industrial applications (I don't have the spec on hand, can provide if needed).  Applied, rubbed around a bunch, spread with a razor, then scraped with a gauge that I made several years ago to leave .005-.010" of thermal compound in a nice even layer.  I always put a much larger patch of paste than the chip that is being sinked, and in this case, it's probably well over  6x the actual chip surface.

Didn't take pictures of the ducted cold box...it's ugly as homemade soap...its done gorilla style (ugly but tough)
Testing at present how the boards run at current build

Is this the US orders incoming to you or ??   I'm just down in Mississippi and anxious.

100% qc testing is pretty normal in lots of industries. It doesn't generally imply "used"....I know most of my work gets 100% inspect and test (although not electronic components), and I wouldn't have it any other way. I'd rather them fail at the mfr plant or in final installation that at the customers home.

Ozcoin ...been more stable and reliable and profitable than any i've hit.

that's very true. I think my problem is less in quantity/quality of posts but in the login time. 4 hrs on a single website is a VERY long time for me.

wait a minute. WTF is this whole thread about???

2011-08-26 12:07:07: Listener for "GPU": pool.ABCPool.co:8332 26/08/2011 12:07:07, long poll: IO error
2011-08-26 12:09:09: Listener for "GPU": pool.ABCPool.co:8332 26/08/2011 12:09:09, long poll: IO error
2011-08-26 12:11:49: Listener for "GPU": pool.ABCPool.co:8332 26/08/2011 12:11:49, long poll: IO error
2011-08-26 12:14:25: Listener for "GPU": pool.ABCPool.co:8332 26/08/2011 12:14:25, long poll: IO error
2011-08-26 12:16:29: Listener for "GPU": pool.ABCPool.co:8332 26/08/2011 12:16:29, long poll: IO error
2011-08-26 12:18:33: Listener for "GPU": pool.ABCPool.co:8332 26/08/2011 12:18:33, long poll: IO error
2011-08-26 12:20:37: Listener for "GPU": pool.ABCPool.co:8332 26/08/2011 12:20:37, long poll: IO error
2011-08-26 12:22:41: Listener for "GPU": pool.ABCPool.co:8332 26/08/2011 12:22:41, long poll: IO error
2011-08-26 12:24:44: Listener for "GPU": pool.ABCPool.co:8332 26/08/2011 12:24:44, long poll: IO error
2011-08-26 12:26:47: Listener for "GPU": pool.ABCPool.co:8332 26/08/2011 12:26:47, long poll: IO error

Still getting the same kinda thing, about 1% invalids.
Lifetime Valid: 3151 shares
Lifetime Stale: 43 shares
Lifetime Invalid: 31 shares

got a laptop with nothing but onboard running last night. much slower but plugging away, and I haven't seen any errors in it. Got the ufasoft thing running on it.

Yeah, the webpage shows me getting credit.
Lifetime Valid: 2264 shares
Lifetime Stale: 21 shares
Lifetime Invalid: 13 shares

so it's normal to have pages and page of these errors?

using GUIMiner, When I try to start mining, I get alot of the following

2011-08-25 11:07:32: Listener for "GPU": pool.ABCPool.co:8332 25/08/2011 11:07:32, long poll: IO error
2011-08-25 11:08:19: Listener for "GPU": pool.ABCPool.co:8332 Problems communicating with bitcoin RPC 0 2

the status bar shows it's running and a hashrate, and the pool shows me getting credits, although with some invalids and stales (i'm new, so i don't know wtf that really is)

GUIMiner version: v2011-08-23
Operating system: w7-64
Miner backend: OpenCL/poclbm
Video card: ATI 4800 series
Server: ABCPool

I'm byron. Fully new to this stuff. getting errors i think, but getting credit through the pool website too. getting about 90mh/s on a jacked up comp.

Reasonable. Good to see that at least someone is tending to the farm instead of letting it go rampant like many.