Just a little overwhelmed

[wvdad]

 I have tried to setup for mining. My wallet started at 255~ weeks to update and it has stalled at around 70 for the last 7 or 8 hours. Is this normal? Bear with me folks, i am trying to soak up as much knowledge as i can. Just using a alienware X51 that sits around collecting dust most of the time.

[ChrisArnesen]

Nope that's not normal. Are you using bitcoin-qt? If so check the file debug.log in the data area. (~/.bitcoin on linux, dunno about Windows) It might give some clue as to what the holdup is.

[wvdad]

Yeah, thats the one. It is still progressing but very slow.

[vervolioman]

I have tried to setup for mining. My wallet started at 255~ weeks to update and it has stalled at around 70 for the last 7 or 8 hours. Is this normal? Bear with me folks, i am trying to soak up as much knowledge as i can. Just using a alienware X51 that sits around collecting dust most of the time.

Try restart your computer. If it continue to stall, you have manually delete blockchain