Asrock E350M1 and openELEC

Hello,

last week i grabbed E350M1, CoolerMaster 120 Advanced and some ram to make a seedbox + htpc, so far so good i assembled all the components and start playing around.I discovered that some videos i was trying to play had playback issues like frame skipping, strange colors appeared on screen etc, after a lot of testing and googling i found this article, about another AMD Fusion APU that's having playback issues.The problem there was that the GPU did not have enough RAM, so i increased the shared memory to 1 GB (i think and 512 is enough too) and voila playback was flawless without any issues.That's it i hope that this will help someone that is in the same spot i was :)

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Sapphire Vapor-X 7970 GHz Edition litecoin mining low hash rate problem solved

Hello,

i have this card and i really could't get it to mine with more that 540 kh/s (litecoin), by luck i found this thread : https://forum.litecoin.net/index.php?topic=2963.0 and that solved my problem i got it mining with 720 without any tweaking.I did not found this solution if you want to donate or thanks anyone go to the thread i linked above :)

here are the instructions coped from the thread:


INSTRUCTIONS:
1. Download this Sapphire Video card bios:  http://www.techpowerup.com/vgabios/129658/Sapphire.HD7970.3072.120926.html
2. Download the ATI flash utility:  http://www.techpowerup.com/downloads/2230/ATIFlash_4.07.html
3. Create a bootable USB stick using this utility: http://rufus.akeo.ie/
4. Copy the BIOS and flash utility to the bootable USB stick.
5. Reboot from the USB stick.  DOS type command prompt will show up.
6. Run "atiflash.exe -i" which will show you the device IDs of your cards.
7. To start rewriting the BIOS, run "atiflash.exe -f -p 0 new.rom" where you replace "0" with the 7970 card device ID if different. "new.rom" is the filename of the BIOS you downloaded.
8. When it says successful, reboot.

i will only add that you may want to backup your current video card bios, so if you ever want you can flash it back.

that's it ! happy mining and thank to wugubob for this solution :)

Addic7ed service for xbmc subtitles addon (UPDATE 1)

Hello,

i was really surprised to see that the owner of addic7ed.com requested the removal of addic7ed service in the xbmc subtitles addon.So i dig up the source code of xbmc before this change happend and with a little bit of editing i got it working.I need it only for tv shows, so this code may not work for movies i don't really know, here are the steps to get it working:

!!!! you need to have XBMC Subtitles addon downloaded and enabled !!!!

1.download this

2.extract the rar in:
windows:
C:\Users\UserName\AppData\Roaming\XBMC\addons\script.xbmc.subtitles\resources\lib\services
linux:
$HOME/.xbmc/addons/script.xbmc.subtitles/resources/lib/services
mac:

HD/Users/your_username_here/Library/Application support/XBMC/addons/script.xbmc.subtitles/resources/lib/services

3.edit settings.xml in the resources directory

windows:
C:\Users\UserName\AppData\Roaming\XBMC\addons\script.xbmc.subtitles\resources\settings.xml
linux:
$HOME/.xbmc/addons/script.xbmc.subtitles/resources/settings.xml
mac:
HD/Users/your_username_here/Library/Application support/XBMC/addons/script.xbmc.subtitles/resources/settings.xml

insert this
<setting id="Addic7ed" type="bool" label="Addic7ed.com" default="false"/> 
after this
<setting id="AsiaTeam" type="bool" label="Asia-Team.net" default="false"/>

4.start xbmc and go to
System->Settings->Add-ons->Enabled Add-ons->Subtitles->XBMC Subtitles->Configure->Services
and enable addic7ted service

that's it you are go to go :)

I hope you like it

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