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Title: Noob- Sorry in advance but, Am i mining?
Post by: bigpotsUTG on April 12, 2013, 12:48:40 AM
Hello, bigpotsUTG here, im new to the mining world.i dont think i know what im doing but im giving it the old college try i guess. Im a professional poker player and was referred by a friend. I created an acct on bitcoin.cz, downloaded GUIminer. I have windows7 , i AM NOT a programer, but i know my way around a pc. So i have GUI open i crreated 2 miners, and try to hit start, but idk if its running???

Next step??



Title: Re: Noob- Sorry in advance but, Am i mining?
Post by: ironcross360 on April 12, 2013, 12:51:02 AM
It should say somewhere Running at xx mhash


Title: Re: Noob- Sorry in advance but, Am i mining?
Post by: blueapplesoda on April 12, 2013, 12:52:03 AM
and usually you will hear the fans in your rig start spinning. they make good space heaters at 100%...lol


Title: Re: Noob- Sorry in advance but, Am i mining?
Post by: bigpotsUTG on April 12, 2013, 12:52:41 AM
^ i dont see that. ? on the main default tab?


Title: Re: Noob- Sorry in advance but, Am i mining?
Post by: bigpotsUTG on April 12, 2013, 12:57:17 AM
k i think i found the problem. username is a kiv.something? where do i find that?


Title: Re: Noob- Sorry in advance but, Am i mining?
Post by: thesnoo23 on April 12, 2013, 12:58:12 AM
go to the pool you're mining with, and dig around until you find your workers. usually your worker names will be (your user name).something.


Title: Re: Noob- Sorry in advance but, Am i mining?
Post by: bigpotsUTG on April 12, 2013, 01:01:30 AM
go to the pool you're mining with, and dig around until you find your workers. usually your worker names will be (your user name).something.

ok FIRST, thank you. so i found that, put it in, then it said "valueerror1 or something?"


Title: Re: Noob- Sorry in advance but, Am i mining?
Post by: bigpotsUTG on April 12, 2013, 01:03:24 AM
go to the pool you're mining with, and dig around until you find your workers. usually your worker names will be (your user name).something.

ok FIRST, thank you. so i found that, put it in, then it said "valueerror1 or something?"

ok so now i go to view/summary, and it says stale 1, connection problems? do i need a super cumputer? also, how do i got to the "slush" pool to findmy workers/ maybe i dont have the name correct/


Title: Re: Noob- Sorry in advance but, Am i mining?
Post by: bigpotsUTG on April 12, 2013, 01:18:48 AM
and what is CPUaffinity? mine is on 0, should it be 1?


Title: Re: Noob- Sorry in advance but, Am i mining?
Post by: bigpotsUTG on April 12, 2013, 01:20:43 AM
 i think i got the log in stuff, but now it says "nothing to mine on, exiting"?anyone??
 is this #outofmyleague ?