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Economy / Marketplace / Re: Selling my 5970 card - card works perfectly I just can't get linux to work.

on: March 03, 2011, 08:41:38 AM

i'm referring to the fact that poclbm has to be restarted when it randomly 'fails to connect with bitcoin" even when bitcoin was and still is running..... lucky for my i don't have such a dull profession as programming. i guess you must be from taiwan and you live next door to an ATI factory?

Economy / Marketplace / Re: Selling my 5970 card - card works perfectly I just can't get linux to work.

on: March 03, 2011, 02:54:34 AM

creighto, it's more the fact that I don't want to spend the time on it. I would be able to get it going given enough spare time, but when you work full time the weekends are precious. the other point is that the current miners are buggy and unreliable. I would have to write more software to make them behave properly. so, do you want to buy the card?

Economy / Marketplace / Selling my 5970 card - card works perfectly I just can't get linux to work.

on: March 02, 2011, 09:16:24 AM

Hi there I recently bought this 5970 graphics card with the intention of mining bitcoins, but I have wasted so much time on trying to get ubuntu to work that I have decided to sell the card. I got the card working in windows xp, but apparently you can't use both cores because of some windows + crossfire thing, so I gave up. Plus all those miners were very buggy and wouldn't run reliably. So I knew I'd be in for more work than it's worth. Perhaps someone with more expertise and more free time than me can make use of this card. Important info: - I never overclocked the card. Just ran it on stock settings. - I bought the card from a guy who just used it for gaming before he upgraded to some 6xxx crossfire system. - No issues with the card. You can expect over 550MH/s from this card - providing you have the skills to set it up My asking price is US$499 plus postage, from Australia. Send me an email: rhettius at gmail.com if you're interested. Thanks, gl everyone. edit: here's some pics:

Bitcoin / Mining / Re: Mini PCI-E and PCI Express x1

on: February 28, 2011, 04:18:14 AM

have you read this blog? http://blog.zorinaq.com/?e=42 he uses x16 cards in x1 slots with the aid of an extension cable, although he says you can cut away the edges of the plug and sit the card in there

Bitcoin / Mining software (miners) / Re: python OpenCL bitcoin miner

on: February 28, 2011, 04:16:08 AM

Twice I have run this miner overnight on my PC and twice I have woken up to the CMD window saying "problems communicating with RPC server" or something of the like. Yes, it was working fine when I left it (i.e. displaying the khash rate). Bitcoin was still running (with -server) fine. Os: winxp not much point using this program if it cannot reliably mine 24/7. anyone else have this problem?

Other / CPU/GPU Bitcoin mining hardware / Re: Official DiabloMiner Thread

on: February 28, 2011, 02:19:14 AM

Quote from: DiabloD3 on February 27, 2011, 08:49:56 AM If it starts with 0/0, restart it until it doesn't do that. Something in the driver hoarked, and I can't fix that. As for attempts... thats not a bug. Those are supposed to happen. This is why they only show up during debug, that is normal operation. It means it found a block that the first 32 bits are 0 (aka a difficulty of 1) However, yours are all on GPU #2. This means you didn't turn off Crossfire. Since you're on Windows, owning more than one GPU for mining isn't really worth it since disabling Crossfire also disables all GPUs after the first one. I suggest you mine on Linux instead. thanks man!! great answer ok so that "attempts" message spamming the screen is supposed to happen when i first run it? yes i thought crossfire might be enabled but there was no option to disable it anywhere within the ATI config. i will investigate further. yep linux would be great, but its so hard to get working. i tried ubuntu and it wouldn't even install properly. thanks for teh advice.

Other / CPU/GPU Bitcoin mining hardware / Re: Official DiabloMiner Thread

on: February 27, 2011, 08:17:57 AM

Its running now, but i'm getting the following errors:

Code:

[2/27/11 7:16:22 PM] DEBUG: Attempt 1 found on Cypress
                               (#2)
[2/27/11 7:16:22 PM] DEBUG: Attempt 2 found on Cypress
                               (#2)
[2/27/11 7:16:22 PM] DEBUG: Attempt 3 found on Cypress
                               (#2)
[2/27/11 7:16:22 PM] DEBUG: Attempt 4 found on Cypress
                               (#2)
[2/27/11 7:16:23 PM] DEBUG: Attempt 5 found on Cypress
                               (#2)
[2/27/11 7:16:23 PM] DEBUG: Attempt 6 found on Cypress
                               (#2)
[2/27/11 7:16:23 PM] DEBUG: Attempt 7 found on Cypress
                               (#2)
[2/27/11 7:16:23 PM] DEBUG: Attempt 8 found on Cypress
                               (#2)
[2/27/11 7:16:23 PM] DEBUG: Attempt 10 found on Cypress
                                (#2)
[2/27/11 7:16:23 PM] DEBUG: Attempt 9 found on Cypress
                               (#2)
[2/27/11 7:16:23 PM] DEBUG: Attempt 12 found on Cypress
                                (#2)
[2/27/11 7:16:23 PM] DEBUG: Attempt 13 found on Cypress
                                (#2)
[2/27/11 7:16:23 PM] DEBUG: Attempt 14 found on Cypress
                                (#2)
[2/27/11 7:16:23 PM] DEBUG: Attempt 11 found on Cypress
                                (#2)
[2/27/11 7:16:23 PM] DEBUG: Attempt 16 found on Cypress
                                (#2)
[2/27/11 7:16:23 PM] DEBUG: Attempt 17 found on Cypress
                                (#2)
[2/27/11 7:16:23 PM] DEBUG: Attempt 15 found on Cypress
                                (#2)
[2/27/11 7:16:23 PM] DEBUG: Attempt 18 found on Cypress
                                (#2)
[2/27/11 7:16:23 PM] DEBUG: Attempt 20 found on Cypress
                                (#2)
[2/27/11 7:16:23 PM] DEBUG: Attempt 19 found on Cypress
                                (#2)
[2/27/11 7:16:23 PM] DEBUG: Attempt 22 found on Cypress
                                (#2)
[2/27/11 7:16:23 PM] DEBUG: Attempt 23 found on Cypress
                                (#2)
[2/27/11 7:16:23 PM] DEBUG: Attempt 21 found on Cypress
                                (#2)

....... etc

it goes on and on non-stop
card: 5970
os: windows xp.

Bitcoin / Mining software (miners) / Re: python OpenCL bitcoin miner

on: February 26, 2011, 11:33:06 PM

And just to add another issue: i ran poclbm overnight and in the morning it had stopped working with an error something like "failed to communicate with RPC server" ... does this mean the bitcoin server crashed some time overnight?

Bitcoin / Mining software (miners) / Re: python OpenCL bitcoin miner

on: February 26, 2011, 11:31:42 PM

Quote from: qed on February 26, 2011, 01:29:04 PM Is poclbm periodically checking for the correct generation of ashes or do i have to make a stability test after changing voltage/frequency? qed, if you read my post then you'd know that it does check. if your card isn't stable then it will crash with "Verification failed. check hardware"

Other / CPU/GPU Bitcoin mining hardware / Re: Official DiabloMiner Thread

on: February 26, 2011, 11:27:19 PM

Hi, I'm running diablo miner but it's just saying "0/0 khash" and never goes up from there (one 5970 card) Code: [2/27/11 10:25:18 AM] Started [2/27/11 10:25:20 AM] Added Cypress (#1) (20 CU, local work size of 64) [2/27/11 10:25:23 AM] Added Cypress (#2) (20 CU, local work size of 64) 0/0 khash/sec What could be the cause of this problem?

Bitcoin / Mining software (miners) / Re: python OpenCL bitcoin miner

on: February 26, 2011, 11:05:47 AM

sorry to post again, but now i'm encountering another problem. i've got a 5970 card. I run poclbm on GPU1 and i get no trouble. but on GPU2 it crashes after a few seconds with "verification failed. check hardware" so I tried underclocking the gpu to as low as it would go. the hash rate was down accordingly when i re-ran poclbm, but it still errored within 10 seconds. Any ideas? Thanks again Edit: i tried adjusting the worksize to a low number: "-w 8" . this reduced the MH/s to 38 MH/s (normal is 260) however the program still exited with "verification failed" after a minute or two. don't tell me this card is stuffed?

Bitcoin / Mining software (miners) / Re: python OpenCL bitcoin miner

on: February 26, 2011, 10:23:16 AM

Hi, I'm getting the following error in windows. (XP sp3, fresh install today. ) Any ideas? I have tried installing .net and C++ redistributable. Much appreciated, thanks. edit: after randomly installing various DirectX, C++ and .Net 2, 3, 4 versions, its now working. Who knows which one you actually need??

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