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      RIPPEDDRAGON Regular Member last edited by

      Easiest solution is to stop using GUIminer and use CGminer…its really not that hard and is so much better than GUIminer. With CGMiner you can see everything happening the people here will be able to help you find your problem faster. It would take me all of 2 minutes to get a 7990 above 1MH with cgminer and then a few more minutes to get an initial tune of the card and hopefully hitting 1.3 MH/s.

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        mmyhre Regular Member last edited by

        Difficult at first but try this.

        -Find a Ddos protected pool. I mine with wemineftc.com. Been going smooth since i started.

        When mining 24 h your desktop is bound to shut down sometimes during a 24 period. At least mine does.

        • Enable auto log on feature in windows.
        • Write a .conf file with your setting and also setup alternate pools incase one of them goes down.
        • Download CGwatcher - A nice program that you can attach to the windows startup programs.

        Instruct the CGwatcher to load cgminer.exe that then loads the .conf file whenever windows starts.

        Use hardwire connection to internet and not wireless as some wireless adaptors do not load when a system shuts down other than normal.
        (that happend to me, And that is shit if you are not around to fix it.

        Little bit hassle to setup first time, but after it is done you can just do other stuff and the PC takes care of business for you.

        Morten

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          RIPPEDDRAGON Regular Member last edited by

          [quote name=“mmyhre” post=“46551” timestamp=“1387575873”]
          When mining 24 h your desktop is bound to shut down sometimes during a 24 period. At least mine does.
          [/quote]

          You either have a faulty part, bad GPU oc, too low of GPU voltage, or not enough power from the PSU. My machines do not need to auto restart ever…I can leave them running for days/weeks without intervention and they never crash with proper settings.

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            mmyhre Regular Member last edited by

            [quote]You either have a faulty part, bad GPU oc, too low of GPU voltage, or not enough power from the PSU. My machines do not need to auto restart ever…I can leave them running for days/weeks without intervention and they never crash with proper settings.[/quote]

            I would not argue with that.

            It is a PC from 2008 with a 650W PSU that i put a R9 290 card onto.

            So power supply should have been upgraded. However it runs at 880 khash and reboots about 1 time pr 24 h. Good enough for the time being.

            Tomorrow i am picking up parts for a new rig that will be with new components and 3 x R9 290 card. Will be interesting to see what that can give out.

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              FTClover Regular Member Banned last edited by

              Problem solved! It was actually the pool, for some reason its hashrate was 0 with 0 miners… thinking it was a DDOS attack… fcpool.com

              I used coinhuntr.com with different settings and got up to 17kh/s with an intel hd4000 or something like that :) but I am looking to invest in a proper rig, with 3x sapphire radeon 7950’s and 1000w power supply, total cost is gonna be something like 1400 euro so for now I’m fooling around with what I have just to get a feel for things, not a hope of actually mining anything worthwhile with what I got right now…

              I was thinking about going to internet cafés and setting up the software so that it automatically starts mining onstartup in the background while also connecting to my pool with my worker automatically and just put it on as many computers as possible. Would that be something that could be done? Is it legal? And if I put it on say 50 ordinary computers with average gpu’s what kind of hashrate do you think this wpuld generate?

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                mmyhre Regular Member last edited by

                [quote]I was thinking about going to internet cafés and setting up the software so that it automatically starts mining onstartup in the background while also connecting to my pool with my worker automatically and just put it on as many computers as possible. Would that be something that could be done? Is it legal?[/quote]

                Only if you get the owner permission to do so and that`s not likely. Otherwise it would be fraud.

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                  aatje92 last edited by

                  Lol you could also create a botnet and let 1000’s computers mine for you!!!

                  Seriously though, that would be illigal.

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                    FTClover Regular Member Banned last edited by

                    The botnet would of course BUT you pay to use these computers as you wish though and you may install whatever you like as long as it isnt keylogging software or other such thing, what I’m asking is if it ia possible to get software that automatically mines on startup with my credentials without it coming up on screen??

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                      timk225 last edited by

                      When I first set up CGminer, it gave me every problem it possibly could, it was enough to piss off the pope, so to speak. But once I got it going it was good.

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                        FTClover Regular Member Banned last edited by

                        [quote name=“timk225” post=“46711” timestamp=“1387655247”]
                        When I first set up CGminer, it gave me every problem it possibly could, it was enough to piss off the pope, so to speak. But once I got it going it was good.
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                        That is the exact reason im using guiminer-scrypt alpha! Spent hours tryna get cgminer to work but it was a never ending circle of failure hahaha

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                          aatje92 last edited by

                          It’s really not that hard. Just make a .bat file with cgminer.exe --scrypt -o stratum+tcp://yourpool.org -u user.1 -p x -i 13 -g 2

                          You could also use cgwatcher as frontend for cgminer ([url=http://manotechnology.blogspot.nl/p/cgwatcher.html]http://manotechnology.blogspot.nl/p/cgwatcher.html[/url])

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                            FTClover Regular Member Banned last edited by

                            [quote name=“aatje92” post=“46798” timestamp=“1387695381”]
                            It’s really not that hard. Just make a .bat file with cgminer.exe --scrypt -o stratum+tcp://yourpool.org -u user.1 -p x -i 13 -g 2

                            You could also use cgwatcher as frontend for cgminer ([url=http://manotechnology.blogspot.nl/p/cgwatcher.html]http://manotechnology.blogspot.nl/p/cgwatcher.html[/url])
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                            Yeah I’ve tried that man many times… it either says its looking for usb device for mining (no devices found) or just opens for a split second then closes…

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                              aatje92 last edited by

                              [quote name=“FTClover” post=“46865” timestamp=“1387714382”]
                              [quote author=aatje92 link=topic=6248.msg46798#msg46798 date=1387695381]
                              It’s really not that hard. Just make a .bat file with cgminer.exe --scrypt -o stratum+tcp://yourpool.org -u user.1 -p x -i 13 -g 2

                              You could also use cgwatcher as frontend for cgminer ([url=http://manotechnology.blogspot.nl/p/cgwatcher.html]http://manotechnology.blogspot.nl/p/cgwatcher.html[/url])
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                              Are you sure you’re running it with --scrypt?

                              Also, you could try adding -T -D for debugging output

                              Yeah I’ve tried that man many times… it either says its looking for usb device for mining (no devices found) or just opens for a split second then closes…
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                                FTClover Regular Member Banned last edited by

                                aatje92 you didn’t say anything? You just quoted other posts?

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