Thank you for making the restrictions much more reasonable....

It was supposed to be for discussing forum policy, or so the title said....

Dunno what happened...



either way... +1
35 more to go....

Here I am, posting to increase my post count.... That's the purpose of this thread right?

Hell only 40 or so to got before I am considered "worthy"

Hi,

I am a long time lurker on the bitcoin forums and I would like to once again feel like I am a part of this community. Even though I don't post often (isn't this the problem you are trying to fix?) I now feel like a second class member of this community. I feel obligated to post nonsense in the event that when I do feel like posting a legitimate thread, I can do so in the proper location.

Please make me feel whole again....

To test this newbie section I posted a question about connection issues to deepbit. I could connect just fine with 1 card, but with 3 i disconnect constantly.

I posted this question in the noob section. It was quickly pushed off the front page and the only replies I received were from users that also had under 10 posts. They were just posting to post. All of the replies told me to switch pools. not the solution to my problem....

Before this limit, I posted a thread discussing my build, and got a few responses from others. I contributed my experiences to a few posts with similar hardware.

Is it unreasonable to assume that there might be reason for discussion related to my specific hardware? in my specific configuration?

Where else can users go to learn more and involve themselves more in the community if open discussion is not encouraged?

to quote Jessy Kane

By insisting on a 50 post minimum, you create an incentive for members to write posts with no substantive content- and so increase the signal to noise ratio in the forum to the point where it is near useless to newbies, and extremely unattractive to experienced posters. Threads scroll off the page as soon as they are made- because there is no incentive to search for answers already given- and every incentive to post the question again, even if it won't be answered.



If I cant ask questions and according to the mods I have nothing good to contribute to these forums... how else will I ever be able to post?

just moved as well...

guess Ill try out a pool with 0 fees...

I know the site has been having trouble the last few days..

but now I can get 1 of my 3 miners to work consistently (One will run for 30 mins with no connection issues) but as soon as I start all 3 I get this error

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "twisted\internet\tcp.pyc", line 529, in connectionLost

  File "minerutil\_newclient3420.pyc", line 826, in dispatcher

  File "minerutil\_newclient3420.pyc", line 1434, in _connectionLost_WAITING

  File "minerutil\_newclient3420.pyc", line 1363, in _disconnectParser

--- ---
  File "minerutil\_newclient3420.pyc", line 494, in connectionLost

  File "twisted\web\http.pyc", line 1366, in noMoreData

  File "minerutil\_newclient3420.pyc", line 409, in _finished

  File "minerutil\_newclient3420.pyc", line 1337, in _finishResponse

exceptions.AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'connHeaders'



I understand that this is common when deepbit is having connection issues, but why will one card mine for a while without problems but 3 wont?

I have tried creating new workers for each card but that does not appear to help either...

Anyone else having this problem?

just doesnt make sense to me to spread out discussion on the topics over multiple threads, if anything it would create more spam, although limited to this one forum..


So if I want to post a problem I have been having to the deepbit thread I should post it here first and hope tycho sees it?

Been reading and researching these forums for almost a month now, finally started to get into the mining game and make an account.

Now Im stuck here....

Just trying to get involved.. 

Thanks for the replies...

After some investigation last night I am pretty sure that it is the powersupply...

I tried to reconfigure the power cables (its modular) to spread the drain over multiple connectors but that did not seem to help
1/4 of the time when I hit the power button the psu fan will spin a quarter turn, stop and the system wont boot.... pretty sure this is the issue 


I have another older psu out of an old prebuild sony desktop that I tried to run one card off, but I could not get the psu to start without connecting to the mobo.. (tried shorting the green and black lines on the mobo connector). anyone else trying this?


Right now I have 3 of the cards mining, 2x5870 @ 435 MHash @ 75*C with fan on auto (usually around 45%) and the 6870 @ 315 Mhash @ 68*C fan also on auto...


Are those temps/speeds decent?

For those of you running linux, how do you OC the cards past 900 MHz? I would much prefer to run in linux but cant for the life of me OC my cards. the diff between 900 MHz and 980 MHz is about 75MHash for me...

single...


The 5870s have 2 crossfire tabs but the 6870s only have one... Im new to ATI/AMD cards in specific and multi gpu in general...
That lead me to believe I could not crossfire all of them together...


edit: should note that I have tried to crossfire the same model cards together... ie. both 5870s crossfired together and both 6870s crossfired together.. but both groups separate from eachother..

I just picked up the same motherboard and I am trying to get 2 5870s and 2 6870s to work with windows 7... So far windows will only recognize 2 of the cards... If you have any insight on getting them to work, it would be much appreciated

Hi all,

So I have windows 7 64 bit installed on a MSI GD70-890FX with 2 XFX 6870s and 2 5870s

For the lack of dummy plugs, I have connected each card to a monitor.. however only one monitor will actually display anything, the rest say check signal input.

When I power up the machine, only 2 cards are seen by the OS, one 5870 and one 6870

I have a 1000W power supply.

So my questions:
1) is it possible to run 4 of these cards in windows?
2) why are they not showing up?
3) should i attach a second power supply to some of the cards? The only other psu I have will not power on unless connected to a mobo.....
4) should i install a distro of linux? I havent found a way to OC the cards past 900 MHz in linux yet....

Thanks for the help