Hi, I am completely new to the whole bitcoin thing and as a poor uni student am very interested in the world of mining. I downloaded GUIminer and followed the simple instructions. I created a BTC Guild account and have been trying to figure out how to get to work since. When I click Start mining it says 'Starting' then says 'Connecting' but then just sits at Connecting. I have disabled all firewalls. What have I done wrong?
Here is my console.
2011-06-16 15:35:55: Running command: D:\Miner\guiminer\miners\puddinpop\rpcminer-cuda.exe -user=-url=http://btcguild.com:8332
2011-06-16 15:35:55: Listener for "Cuda" started
2011-06-16 15:35:55: Listener for "Cuda": Client will start 1 miner threads
2011-06-16 15:35:55: Listener for "Cuda": Work will be refreshed every 4000 ms
2011-06-16 15:36:06: Listener for "Cuda": 1 CUDA GPU devices found
2011-06-16 15:36:06: Listener for "Cuda": Setting CUDA device to first device found
2011-06-16 15:36:06: Listener for "Cuda": Loading module bitcoinminercuda_20.cubin
2011-06-16 15:36:06: Listener for "Cuda": CUDA initialized
2011-06-16 15:36:06: Listener for "Cuda": Done allocating CUDA resources for (16,16)
2011-06-16 15:36:06: Listener for "Cuda": Finding best configuration step end (16,16) 994ms prev best=9223372036854775807ms
2011-06-16 15:36:06: Listener for "Cuda": Done allocating CUDA resources for (16,32)
2011-06-16 15:36:06: Listener for "Cuda": Finding best configuration step end (16,32) 354ms prev best=994ms
2011-06-16 15:36:06: Listener for "Cuda": Done allocating CUDA resources for (16,64)
2011-06-16 15:36:06: Listener for "Cuda": Finding best configuration step end (16,64) 316ms prev best=354ms
2011-06-16 15:36:06: Listener for "Cuda": Done allocating CUDA resources for (16,128)
2011-06-16 15:36:06: Listener for "Cuda": Finding best configuration step end (16,128) 277ms prev best=316ms
2011-06-16 15:36:06: Listener for "Cuda": Done allocating CUDA resources for (16,256)
2011-06-16 15:36:06: Listener for "Cuda": Finding best configuration step end (16,256) 261ms prev best=277ms
2011-06-16 15:36:06: Listener for "Cuda": Done allocating CUDA resources for (32,16)
2011-06-16 15:36:06: Listener for "Cuda": Finding best configuration step end (32,16) 953ms prev best=261ms
2011-06-16 15:36:06: Listener for "Cuda": Done allocating CUDA resources for (32,32)
2011-06-16 15:36:06: Listener for "Cuda": Finding best configuration step end (32,32) 334ms prev best=261ms
2011-06-16 15:36:06: Listener for "Cuda": Done allocating CUDA resources for (32,64)
2011-06-16 15:36:06: Listener for "Cuda": Finding best configuration step end (32,64) 306ms prev best=261ms
2011-06-16 15:36:06: Listener for "Cuda": Done allocating CUDA resources for (32,128)
2011-06-16 15:36:06: Listener for "Cuda": Finding best configuration step end (32,128) 265ms prev best=261ms
2011-06-16 15:36:06: Listener for "Cuda": Done allocating CUDA resources for (32,256)
2011-06-16 15:36:06: Listener for "Cuda": Finding best configuration step end (32,256) 256ms prev best=261ms
2011-06-16 15:36:06: Listener for "Cuda": Done allocating CUDA resources for (64,16)
2011-06-16 15:36:06: Listener for "Cuda": Finding best configuration step end (64,16) 923ms prev best=256ms
2011-06-16 15:36:06: Listener for "Cuda": Done allocating CUDA resources for (64,32)
2011-06-16 15:36:06: Listener for "Cuda": Finding best configuration step end (64,32) 322ms prev best=256ms
2011-06-16 15:36:06: Listener for "Cuda": Done allocating CUDA resources for (64,64)
2011-06-16 15:36:06: Listener for "Cuda": Finding best configuration step end (64,64) 300ms prev best=256ms
2011-06-16 15:36:06: Listener for "Cuda": Done allocating CUDA resources for (64,128)
2011-06-16 15:36:06: Listener for "Cuda": Finding best configuration step end (64,128) 261ms prev best=256ms
2011-06-16 15:36:06: Listener for "Cuda": Done allocating CUDA resources for (64,256)
2011-06-16 15:36:06: Listener for "Cuda": Finding best configuration step end (64,256) 254ms prev best=256ms
2011-06-16 15:36:06: Listener for "Cuda": Done allocating CUDA resources for (128,16)
2011-06-16 15:36:06: Listener for "Cuda": Finding best configuration step end (128,16) 910ms prev best=254ms
2011-06-16 15:36:06: Listener for "Cuda": Done allocating CUDA resources for (128,32)
2011-06-16 15:36:06: Listener for "Cuda": Finding best configuration step end (128,32) 315ms prev best=254ms
2011-06-16 15:36:06: Listener for "Cuda": Done allocating CUDA resources for (128,64)
2011-06-16 15:36:06: Listener for "Cuda": Finding best configuration step end (128,64) 297ms prev best=254ms
2011-06-16 15:36:06: Listener for "Cuda": Done allocating CUDA resources for (128,128)
2011-06-16 15:36:06: Listener for "Cuda": Finding best configuration step end (128,128) 258ms prev best=254ms
2011-06-16 15:36:06: Listener for "Cuda": Done allocating CUDA resources for (128,256)
2011-06-16 15:36:06: Listener for "Cuda": Finding best configuration step end (128,256) 252ms prev best=254ms
2011-06-16 15:36:06: Listener for "Cuda": Done allocating CUDA resources for (128,256)