The Burst software on my computer is frustratingly Fubar in so many areas.



  • @socalguy

    Argh. It took 30 minutes for the reply box to pop open today. I think our 4G connection is down to 1G today. Usually gets very slow on working day mornings.

    But the home computer
    Pentium G3220 @ 3.00 GHz 3.00 GHz RAM 4.0 BG 64- bit operation x64- based processor
    and disk is NTFS.
    I discovered that I have 2 trays, one on the left which is always visible and the one on the right is hidden until you hover/click. It never occurred to me, what happened to the right tray?, when we got the new PC< since it was rarely if ever used. So that's taken care of.

    Received some burst as I have at least a dozen times, but could not find the "Set Account info" BUt I noticed that the message I set from my in-laws had arrived. SO I tried naming the wallet, and sending a message to in laws. both worked.

    JUst went back to wallet, and the message re public key is no longer there. Success (I hope/think)

    BUT i have a new glitch. when checking the plotter, it said 40% of disc is used. and the same number of free G. But when I was looking for the NTFS the drive had much less free space. In fact the free space is exactly the amount if the last plot had worked. After the first stall, I was doing it in chunks, -maybe smaller chunks wouldnt be to hard. ;)

    Wow, I just rececked and the plotter has the correct free disk amount. But I just rebooted the PC, because it was getting sludgy.

    So reboot, to update/reset the plotter - it seems.

    I think I am good to go for now. I will try Surfbar when I have a chance.

    Thanks ever so much. And I do like the picture of the ocean. I could be talked into retiring to a place like that. Or before, but, I am not likely to find a job as good as I have now, anywhere close to a great place like your picture.



  • @doc327hank The pic was taken near Sunset Cliffs in San Diego. San Diego is a great place to live though it is a bit pricey. Happy Mining. :)



  • @socalguy

    Wow it's been over a week. and I think things are working, ANd maybe not. (i've not been home every night, and this forum is blocked at work)

    When I figured out (finally guessed right) to start mining, I got a pop up with a list of about two dozen blocks over lapping other block, then almost the same number o block that have the wrong name or are the incorrect size. I presume that is sort of normal? and those would not be used/could not be used. Is there a "patch" to fix that?

    Oh yeah, I've been to San Diego a couple of time, and the beach didn't look like that: full of people. And yes it is a bit pricey.

    Some operating questions: If you lose connection to the internet, does mining restart when reconnected? Like wise when PC is shut down, does mining restart automatically? If it doesn't that could explain why I am not seeing any mining results. and I will have to figure a way around that.

    Finally. Once you start mining, can you plot again? Specifically, I am thinking of taking one of the hard drives from our last PC and and installing it on the current one. Any advice would be useful, helpful and appreciated.



  • @doc327hank

    1. yes. Your mine can reconnect after a DC.
    2. no. You have to manually start the mining process when the pc shut down or restarts.
    3. yes, you can plot while mining.


  • @jervis
    Found the plot checker. I think I got it to work- Windows 10 is really frustrating, I needed different commands, because of the way windows 10 set up things. Good thing I kind of remembered a few things from DOS. . We have a 83 year old relative who doesn't do much on her lap top and even she says it is worse than before.

    But restarting, every time the PC restarts will certainly reduce effectiveness, because my wife will never remember to restart mining, and she shut it down every time she leaves the house.

    And I cannot find how to optimize. But probably will not do much good with the restart problem.


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  • @doc327hank well, in contrary, I like win 10 very much. it's easier to use than any windows version there is. :) Do you use a tablet or an andriod phone with 4g connection? You can install a teamviewer and use it to monitor your miner :)



  • I have 10 on the PC it was pushed as an update from 7. with 10 I can't find anything. NOthing is in a logical place, at least things I am looking for.

    I have can only guess at what you mean by using a tablet.
    But I'm an old fart who used an IBM 360 then a 370 in grad school, and then had a huge gap until PC became prevalent in the 90s : And I still use a cell phone, not a smart phone. LOL.

    Right now I am still trying to get the miner running smoothly. And inevitably- there is something about the devices I have that requires something extra for the program to work right. Or maybe it just seems that way. :)

    Thanks



  • @daWallet

    Thanks for the running a s service tip. I had no idea of what that meant and skipped it. Now just cross my fingers that every thing else works!



  • @doc327hank
    it dosent show me the captcha why that????



  • @daWallet @jervis

    I think I still have something not right. After a start mining, There is a white page with a very long series of characters maybe a hundred or a few hundred. At that point to only way I have been able to get the wallet was by rebooting. Now that I have mining as a service it sarts without me. When I click on online wallet, I get a gray page, like the old login page, but it's a blank grey page.

    Any suggestions on what I am doing wrong or not doing right?



  • Oh, I see you just need to wait a few minutes and there it is.
    Well it's here now.



  • @doc327hank O'm glad everything works out fine :)


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