thankyou for the reply,

I have a fan cooling the chips and they get warm to touch but by no means hot. I think I may have solved this problem (touch wood) by decreasing to 53 and also the "pencil mod" which i read would help stabilise the frequency (I used to get alot of the frequency drop over 50% detected message). However since then - no issues!

However, as you can see for some reason when using


I get MMQ show up as dead - I dont know what MMQ is, I assume it is my CPU or GPU as I have OpenCL installed on both but don't use either for mining. Whenever I put


into the .bat file (after my password but before -S all) bfgminer just crashes immediately after it trys to open. By crashes, I mean the window pops up and immediately vanishes. I tried going in through the bfgminer menu (M -> + -> select device) but as soon as I set focus to the "MMQ0" in the list bfgminer closes every time. Does anyone know what MMQ could be or how I can stop it showing up?

edit: i spoke too soon i have my fist problem back though it didn't do it for a few hours that time so i will play more with the numbers