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I did a google but results seem to imply you can only GPU mine on a linux machine. Don't get me wrong, I love linux but I don't have a linux machine available.
I have a Windows XP machine with an ATI Radeon HD 2600 Pro on it. Dunno if this card is any good either but it'll probably be better than trying to mine with the CPU.
So, any help would be appreciated.
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LMGTFY
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March 05, 2011, 01:40:24 PM |
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I did a google but results seem to imply you can only GPU mine on a linux machine. Don't get me wrong, I love linux but I don't have a linux machine available.
I have a Windows XP machine with an ATI Radeon HD 2600 Pro on it. Dunno if this card is any good either but it'll probably be better than trying to mine with the CPU.
So, any help would be appreciated.
Can't help with Windows, but there's a forum poster who's created a live CD for mining. It looks like the ATI side of things is still a work in progress, however. You could boot from the live CD for mining, then reboot sans-CD for regular Windows use. Are you certain that the HD 2600 Pro has OpenCL? A cursory Google suggested it might not (but all the threads I saw were Mac-focussed, so YMMV...) |
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March 05, 2011, 01:43:22 PM |
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LMGTFY
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March 05, 2011, 01:45:05 PM |
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There's also a GUI, which might simplify things. |
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March 05, 2011, 01:52:46 PM |
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Radeon 2600 doesn't support OpenCL AFAIK
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no to the gold cult (OP)
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March 05, 2011, 02:22:38 PM |
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Thanks for answers people. According to the caps viewer I've not got CUDA support unfortunately. Maybe time to consider investing in new quipment. If I do I will definitely consider the Live CD too.
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March 05, 2011, 03:04:37 PM |
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Thanks for answers people. According to the caps viewer I've not got CUDA support unfortunately. Maybe time to consider investing in new quipment. If I do I will definitely consider the Live CD too.
CUDA is Nvidia only... ATI's cards support OpenCL only from the HD 4XXX series and later |
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no to the gold cult (OP)
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March 05, 2011, 03:25:19 PM |
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Thanks for answers people. According to the caps viewer I've not got CUDA support unfortunately. Maybe time to consider investing in new quipment. If I do I will definitely consider the Live CD too.
CUDA is Nvidia only... ATI's cards support OpenCL only from the HD 4XXX series and later Yup, no OpenCL either.  |
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March 08, 2011, 09:34:50 PM |
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I'm trying GPU Caps Viewer, but it keeps closing with an error as soon as it starts. Anyone else had this problem or know what it might be?
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March 08, 2011, 09:41:11 PM |
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I have a Windows XP machine with an ATI Radeon HD 2600 Pro on it. Dunno if this card is any good either but it'll probably be better than trying to mine with the CPU.
So, any help would be appreciated.
You can perfectly mine on Windows machine (with a compatible video card, of course). At least if you got no more than 4 GPUs in one PC. |
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March 08, 2011, 10:14:53 PM |
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I've been mining on two different computers with windows 7 just fine.
Use Neereus's link.
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March 09, 2011, 12:27:53 AM |
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Can someone please upload Stream SDK 2.2 somewhere like hotfile or rapidshare. The link on AMD's website to it is broken.
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March 09, 2011, 02:21:29 AM |
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This is really aggravating... I got 2 BSOD's while installing Catalyst and it finally worked the third time. Now I'm trying to install Stream SDK another couple of BSOD's and now my computer doesn't boot. I get the "starting windows" with the balloons, then the fan on the video card spins up and the screen goes black.  Looks like I'm going to have to install either Win7 x86 or Ubuntu 64-bit.  |
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March 09, 2011, 04:11:09 AM |
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AMD's drivers have always been notoriously bad, boot into safe mode before installing.
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March 09, 2011, 04:24:03 AM |
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Turns out if the DPI is set over 100 = instant BSOD. Once I reduced it to 100 Catalyst and Stream SDK installed fine. After it's installed, if I set it over 100 Windows will only boot in safe mode. And 100 is too small for me. |
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March 09, 2011, 04:31:33 AM |
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AMD's drivers have always been notoriously bad, boot into safe mode before installing.
I always hear this, but my experiences have been pretty awesome. Only one bug and it was fixed the next driver release. |
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March 09, 2011, 04:41:12 AM |
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AMD's drivers have always been notoriously bad, boot into safe mode before installing.
I always hear this, but my experiences have been pretty awesome. Only one bug and it was fixed the next driver release. The drivers aren't bad - why people still say that is likely because the installer looked like crap. It still looks bad, and there are plenty of issues installing drivers for older ATi hardware, but current AMD videocards tend to work well...though there are sometimes still installer problems People equate driver tweaking UI == driver |
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March 09, 2011, 05:16:26 AM |
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Turns out if the DPI is set over 100 = instant BSOD. Once I reduced it to 100 Catalyst and Stream SDK installed fine. After it's installed, if I set it over 100 Windows will only boot in safe mode. And 100 is too small for me. I installed with and use 150 % DPI something must be conflicting |
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