Well, here is what I have come to.
I thought I had a way to run Xp sp3 off a usb harddisk. I have it installed, but the system hangs right before it ask me to select Safemode or normal boot ect.
What I really need is a way to run this hardware rig at the OC settings above. Linuxcoin detects all my hardware, and while Im having connection issues, I think once I move from 0.2 to 0.2b I should be fine.
So if anyone knows how to pull off these speeds and get the clocks to set, I would be very thankful in the ways of bitcoins. The hardware can handle it, I have identical rigs ruining windows just fine, I just dont have any more sata drives right now.
Shakaru, I used Linuxcoin in persistent mode according to the great instructions at
http://www.linuxcoin.co.uk/wiki/index.php/Headless_LinuxcoinYou can skip all the overclocking script stuff (see below).
Then got the latest Ubuntu CGminer binary from
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=28402.0And finally installed Atitweak (
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=25750.0) with
sudo easy_install adl3==0.3
Atitweak is by far the easiest overclocking tool to use, and with 11.6 ATI drivers (which Linuxcoin comes with) you can overclock as much as you like. Full control of Core clock, memory and voltage. I even tried to undervolt a little to save some power consumption, which I couldn't do in Windows.
I set up a 4x5870 rig with automatic scripts for overclocking startup, within 2 hours, having messed up for days with Windows, Trixx and AfterBurner. Not all cards are the same manufacturer so I have different overclock settings for them. Example, my unattended startup script below (when I am going to be away for days, and I don't want to care about temperatures and stuck cards, so lower MHash):
#!/bin/bash
atitweak -A 0 -e 720 -m 240 -v 0.95
atitweak -A 2 -e 690 -m 230 -v 0.95
atitweak -A 1 -e 690 -m 230 -v 1.07
atitweak -A 3 -e 780 -m 260 -v 1.0
cd /root/cgminer-1.5.8
screen -d -m ./cgminer -o xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -u xxxxxxxxx -p xxxxx -I 8 -k phatk -v 2 -w 256
Hope this helps.