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Help with 6870 in Windows XP 32
by
speckman
on 24/06/2011, 03:50:15 UTC
First off, I'm sorry and almost sure this has been answered before, but I've looked for a while and tried a bunch of things, and I give up.

I have a 6870 that I'm trying to get mining on Windows XP 32 bit.  Got the catalyst drivers and stream sdk installed.  Tried 11.6 and 11.5  GPU-Z says that I don't have opencl installed.  Guiminer says the same thing.   I am using the card for the display, and the catalyst control panel launches (ie. the card is working).

I had the same problem trying to get a 5830 to work on a different xp 32 machine, but I got it to work on windows 7 64 super easily.  (windows 7 not an option on this--just a via nano with 1 gig)

For this computer, it's either xp 32 or linux.  I might go back to linux, but I followed one of the really popular guides to mining on ubuntu on here, and a couple hours later, after a reboot, my linux got hosed.  Smiley  And the stupid default ubuntu installer hosed my windows xp boot-capability.  So I started all over and figured windows should be easy.  Wink

Thanks for any help!