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Greetings one and all!

Ok, so as instructed, I'm posting in the "Newbies" section (which is appropriate for my case). I've joined a mining pool, but when I went to go download a 'miner app' (is that how it's said?) It just flashed a command window,and went away. Even running it as an administrator , same effect.

The OS is Windows Vista Service Pack 3.
The Mining software was DiabloMiner (I downloaded whatever the most recent one is)






Forgive my poor knowledge of the topic, I'm learning  ;D Thanks for any help!

Try launching it from the command line to see if it gives you any messages.

(Again, please bear with me on being a "Noob")

would I be using (Assuming it's ran as Administrator):

C:\Windows\System32\Users\<username>\Desktop\DiabloMiner.exe  ?

cmd.exe C:\Windows\System32\Users\<username>\Desktop\DiabloMiner.exe

I did it just how you typed, I got back the copyright date of Microsoft windows and a Version number,
Then I just did C:\Windows\System32\Users\<username>\Desktop\DiabloMiner.exe and I got "The system cannot find the path specified"

bro use your actual username not <username>

If you don't know the computer's username type this in cmd
echo %username%

you will see it, like An0n.

Then in cmd paste C:\Windows\System32\Users\An0n\Desktop\DiabloMiner.exe
That's if DiabloMiner.exe is on your desktop.

And is the path C:\Windows\System32\Users or C:\Users? don't know about vista.

I did replace <username> with the proper one  8) but we did get somewhere!

It kicked back:

"Exception in thread "Main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/commons/cli/ParseException
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.apache.com..."

Man, aren't I just a very typical noob?  :)

Also the default path when I open cmd (as admin) is C:\Windows\system32>

With your level of command line knowledge, you should consider using the guiminer instead.  search forums for m0mchill guiminer.

Just to confirm, is it from here: https://github.com/m0mchil/poclbm ?

Making sure I got the right idea , found a direct download :-) thanks for everyone's help also!! You guys rock

Oh, so I have now a GUIMiner  ;D So now (Oh great, more questions?) I signed up for the pool at mining.bitcoin.cz and I have a miner set up for Ufasoft CPU (since that's what I'm using as is, I don't have a very fancy NVidia  card or anything) and this is how I have it configured:


Ext. Path:  C:\Users\Username\Downloads\guiminer\miners\ufasoft\bitcoin-miner.exe
Server: Slush's Pool
Website: http://mining.bitcoin.cz
Username: myusername
Password: mypassword
Extra flags: -v -w128 -f 30 (I saw somewhere this was default?)
CPU Affinity is checked , zero value
Balance is zero value.


So I'll click "Start Mining" and I get a nice message:

-x type=host:port Use HTTP or SOCKS proxy, Examples: -x http=127.0.0.1:3128 (etc.)

So for the Extra Flags, should I be doing -x http= then the IP of mining.bitcoin.cz?

So NOW I'm getting 933 khash/s :D I did something right!

Congratulations on getting this working.

But 933 khash/s is pretty low, you are doing CPU mining? do you have GPUs?