Blocks stays on 0 in my client

[Victoria]

What if the blocks stays on 0, like at my client, I've 8 connexxions but I'm already waiting 2 days now to receive the bitcoins? What am I doing wrong?  I've transferred from mt gox and I can see that its waiting in blockexplorer.

[Gabi]

You don't receive bitcoins, i mean, they are already in your wallet.

But, to be able to see and use them you need to download all the blocks, why it isn't downloading? Well it's related to the fact you have only 2 connections, there is a problem with it, probably a closed port that stop your client from downloading the blockchain.

[saltg3n]

What does the block count in the status bar at the bottom say? If this stays at 0 or below the block number your transaction is included in you won't see them.

Normally it should increase (although quite slowly) even if you don't have port 8333 forwarded (or opened in your firewall) to the computer your bc client runs on. And even if the bc client can't establish a connection to the irc network to find new nodes it comes with some build in nodes, that's were you get the 8 connections from, iirc.

If your block count stays at 0 it could be that you have no internet connection at all.

[Victoria]

Thank you for the answers, but I still dont now what to do. I have an internet connection,  the bar at the bottom says 8 connections, 0 blocks, 0 transactions.
It's my laptop and I kept it all night online. Nothing has changed. Sometimes the 8 connections change in 7. My firewall is off.

[saltg3n]

That's odd... Is this a fresh Bitcoin install and what version are you using? And on what OS?

There are a few command-line options you could try, mainly -rescan or -checkblocks, although I never had to use them myself (yet) so maybe backup your wallet.dat beforehand. You can also check on all the options for the client here.

[Victoria]

OS is windows XP; bitcoin version 0.4.0-beta; I'll make a back up now, before I try these commends.
Thanx

[Victoria]

 i don't know it anymore, but i'm not giving up

[saltg3n]

Hmm, since it displays 8 connections I'm guessing it's not your firewall/router blocking (at least) outgoing connections of the btc client.

You could try a completely fresh install. Again, make sure you got your wallet.dat backed up and rename/delete your bitcoin data directory, start (maybe even redownload it first) the btc client and check if you get some blocks.

[Victoria]

I will retry it tommorow...thank you.
I quess a few bitcoins in the air, won't mind

[Victoria]

I've made a back-up from wallet.dat, removed everything from bitcoin on my computer, made a fresh download and installed it again, put the old wallet.dat in and http://YES : it's working now
Thank you

[saltg3n]

lol, np glad I could help. Cheers!