Quote from: fireforce on May 19, 2013, 07:03:02 PM

Quote from: epochonaut on May 19, 2013, 05:37:46 PM

Hi all! Just got a new place where my electricity is included in the rent so I figured I'd set up a miner. I've been thinking about it for a while so this is as good an opportunity as ever right?

I just want to get a miner going while I'm familiarizing myself with all the technical aspects of bitcoin. I've installed GUIminer and set up an account in one of the mining pools. However, GUIminer isn't detecting my video card. I've opened up my tower and made sure that I do in fact have a video card and that the monitor isn't just running off the motherboard.

Do I need two video-cards, one for my monitor and another unused video-card for mining, or can I use the same card for both at the same time?

Make sure you surf the AMD website or nvida site for your updated drivers. Could make the difference.

got to be careful with drivers the new AMD drivers are very buggy best to ask or look around see which drivers are working otherwise you could fall into a world of hurt, AMD 12.8 drivers are the latest stable but 13.1 work 99.9% of the time anything after that your asking for trouble