Still in school so I live with my parents, once that's not the case I'll worry about power consumption versus payout, for now I just want free money to buy things. Although this is taking quite some time, something for nothing is always worth it.

I have no money, that's why I'm mining, but I will be saving up for that, and I know enough to scan all downloaded files.

It worked and gave me an openCL but it won't connect, my connection is fine because my CPU miners work, not sure where to go from here.

Good news, it works but I am having connection problems with my pool, and any time I try to set up a solo miner it doesn't work.

In my GUI package I found a readme and it gave me a link to an app that is supposed to make my GPU support openCL, downloaded, and I'm unzipping it now.

I'm using GUIminer and have been CPU mining but I didn't know I could have much better output with GPU mining, so how do I make the switch to GPU I know I have an AMD radeon HD3550M and that it accepts openGL and GUIminer uses openCL it's all quite confusing, can anyone tell me what I'm doing and give some links? I'm a fast learner so as long as the info is good and basic I'll be able to figure it out.

I'd like to be allowed into the forums there's a specific miner I'm using and I need to ask a question about solomining in the thread devoted to that miner which is under the miner software section. I guess in the area of proving I know more than the average newbie I'm running 9 miners on 3 processors connected to a pool, I'm only running 1.7 mhash/s which I guess is nice for someone that doesn't really know what they're doing. Thanks for any consideration.