I've joined with single 7850 GPU and making 0.01 BTC a day which isn't bad. There were two minor incidents that I'd like an answer to.
First, yesterday I heard my GPU cranking really loud and upon inspection I was getting several hundred stale (connections?) in GUIMiner. At this time my account showed 0 hash rate. So I restarted my miner and everything came back to normal. I'd like to understand what happened there and what I can do to avoid it or possibly burning out my GPU.
Second, today everything was humming along and at the end of my work day I checked my account and it sowed last share 7 hours ago. I don't think I had made any contribution during this time. However my GUIMiner was clicking just normal showing 352 MH/S - In statistics, I have no shares from 19195 to 19199 while GUIMiner seem to be running normal. So I'd also like to find out what happened here?
I'm getting some USB ASIC chips on Monday and plan on changing over to BFGMiner. Is this the right thing to do with slush's pool?
Appreciate any input and keep up the good work.
When I used guiminer, I found one or more gpu's needed a stop/restart about every 12 hours or they'd go off into never-never land, and a complete kill and reload of the app about every 3 days kept it from crashing.
Now I use cgminer for my gpu workers and bfgminer for my fpga/asic workers. cgminer gives me the same start-stop control over my gpus that guiminer did, without guiminer's frequent hangs, plus other controls not directly accessible in the guiminer app like temp cutoffs per gpu and fail-overs. Last I used guiminer, it would not support fpga/asic workers -- don't know if it does now -- so use bfgminer since it usually auto-detects fpga/asic devices, and if it doesn't, you can force it to scan any usb ports it missed. I could use bfgminer for my gpus, too, but have been too lazy to change my cgminer .bat files to bfgminer.