Hello all. I'm a complete newbie to mining, so I came here to ask if long "droughts" of no shares are something that is commonplace with BTC mining. I'm set up on BTCGuild using GUIMiner. (I have a Windows 8 touchscreen laptop with an Intel graphics card, not an ideal set up I know.) For all of last week, everything was humming along fine and then over the weekend I had to restart my computer etc. Since then, GUIMiner shows me to be mining, but that's about it. Haven't received an accepted share in almost two days.
So again, as a newbie, I was just wondering if these long periods of time without any noticeable progress being made is commonplace, or if there's something goofy on my end.
Thanks!
If I understand you correctly ...You are mining with a laptop with internal graphics card....If this is the case...You will burn up they laptop before you have any considerable coins....and be out of a laptop....If you are doing it just for the fun of it..I would suggest picking up a block erupter....It will find you more shares and take it easy on your internal video card.....with the price drop and all....its not going to make you rich...but it will make mining more fun....