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Title: Miner Help?
Post by: stuckbundles on May 05, 2013, 02:34:19 PM
Hi all.  Having a load of trouble getting started mining.

I have installed LTC Client and Wallet, and signed up for a mining pool - and installed ScryptMiner.  It launches fine, I entered the provided server address, worker name and password, then pressed 'start mining' - but it never seems to connect, no mining occurs. 

Someone suggested I try GUI Miner Scrypt instead - I downloaded it and extracted the files - but when I run it I get an error message - "Errors occured - see the log file 'C:xxx...' for details".

The log reads:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "guiminer.py", line 18, in <module>
  File "pyopencl\__init__.pyo", line 4, in <module>
  File "pyopencl\_cl.pyo", line 12, in <module>
  File "pyopencl\_cl.pyo", line 10, in __load
ImportError: DLL load failed: The specified module could not be found.

I'm trying to CPU mine on a Windows 7 64bit system.  Intel chip (so assuming AMD driver updates to be no help).  Thanks for any responses.


Title: Re: Miner Help?
Post by: benmuc on May 05, 2013, 03:50:59 PM
I use cgminer, and havent had any problems so far.

Your log looks like it is missing a DLL or a DLL failed to register.


Title: Re: Miner Help?
Post by: stuckbundles on May 05, 2013, 03:55:57 PM
I use cgminer, and havent had any problems so far.

Your log looks like it is missing a DLL or a DLL failed to register.

Thanks.  Any idea how I might fix it?  I've tried downloading / re-installing.


Title: Re: Miner Help?
Post by: Arcas on May 05, 2013, 03:56:14 PM
I use cgminer, and havent had any problems so far.

Your log looks like it is missing a DLL or a DLL failed to register.
I agree. I've had no problems with cgminer.


Title: Re: Miner Help?
Post by: stuckbundles on May 05, 2013, 04:29:20 PM
I use cgminer, and havent had any problems so far.

Your log looks like it is missing a DLL or a DLL failed to register.
I agree. I've had no problems with cgminer.

I suck.  I can't even get that to download from the links in this thread: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=28402.0


Title: Re: Miner Help?
Post by: zif33rs on May 05, 2013, 04:33:00 PM
http://ck.kolivas.org/apps/cgminer/cgminer-3.1.0-windows.zip (http://ck.kolivas.org/apps/cgminer/cgminer-3.1.0-windows.zip) Try this.


Title: Re: Miner Help?
Post by: luzhixianus on May 05, 2013, 04:38:23 PM
if you  use CPU miner,

you can use LTC client directly, with minerd.exe.

if you want to do GPU miner,  cgminer is a good choice.



Title: Re: Miner Help?
Post by: stuckbundles on May 05, 2013, 05:11:52 PM
if you  use CPU miner,

you can use LTC client directly, with minerd.exe.

if you want to do GPU miner,  cgminer is a good choice.



I would be CPU mining.  Sorry, can you provide or link to instruction for how to 'use minerd.exe with the LTC client'?


Title: Re: Miner Help?
Post by: stuckbundles on May 05, 2013, 05:22:07 PM
Thank you for the replies about CGMiner.  I've downloaded it.

At the URL prompt, I'm entering "pooledbits.com:8337" - the info provided by the pool.  But, the program goes no further.  What I am I doing wrong?