Hi there,
Of course the title is meant to be light hearted. I have already been informed that overclock.net is primarily for gamers and world-class overclockers. I can definitely respect that and will be sure to keep the content of my posts purely technical. My background is in science and engineering, so even though I am new to mining, I started playing around with the command line with DOS 6.0. At that time I deleted "autoexec.bat" because it seemed like it was just some unnecessary file... 24 years later I am doing similarly ignorant things to video cards and hopefully some of the experts here won't mind entertaining some of my questions. On a personal note, I'm currently unemployed but started mining as a way to make residual income so I can write a business plan to start a biotech company. Unfortunately, I've had nothing but problems with my 6 GPU miner. As the hardness level for ethereum mining has increased and price decreases, the consequences of my gambling with speculative mania have left me 3k worth of debt. I can see where gamers that can't get video cards have little sympathy for just another silly miner, but perhaps my background might help some to empathize with why I am so doggedly pursuing information to get my computer running smoothly again. I am doing the work, I just need to figure out what is the problem and I know some of the experts here could probably tell me what I need to do. Furthermore, whether I am gaming or mining should be irrelevant because it comes down to a hardware or software problem to get a GPU running again.
Sincerely,
Jon
Of course the title is meant to be light hearted. I have already been informed that overclock.net is primarily for gamers and world-class overclockers. I can definitely respect that and will be sure to keep the content of my posts purely technical. My background is in science and engineering, so even though I am new to mining, I started playing around with the command line with DOS 6.0. At that time I deleted "autoexec.bat" because it seemed like it was just some unnecessary file... 24 years later I am doing similarly ignorant things to video cards and hopefully some of the experts here won't mind entertaining some of my questions. On a personal note, I'm currently unemployed but started mining as a way to make residual income so I can write a business plan to start a biotech company. Unfortunately, I've had nothing but problems with my 6 GPU miner. As the hardness level for ethereum mining has increased and price decreases, the consequences of my gambling with speculative mania have left me 3k worth of debt. I can see where gamers that can't get video cards have little sympathy for just another silly miner, but perhaps my background might help some to empathize with why I am so doggedly pursuing information to get my computer running smoothly again. I am doing the work, I just need to figure out what is the problem and I know some of the experts here could probably tell me what I need to do. Furthermore, whether I am gaming or mining should be irrelevant because it comes down to a hardware or software problem to get a GPU running again.
Sincerely,
Jon