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Title: Does anyone know how to get a bi fury 5ghz/s usb miner to work with cgminer 3.70
Post by: justafool76 on January 18, 2014, 06:04:45 AM
Hello there fellow coin miners

My very first post and i am sure that somebody will tell me off for posting..

Well heres my problem i have got a bi fury usb stick and i can not get it to work with cgminer 3.7.0 as i use this program for scrypt mining, and i cant get my stick to work with cgminer 3.7 the higher versons of cgminger work, but i they dont allow scrypt mining,  if anyone can help please can you let me know

I am willing to part with the very little amount btc that i have which is only 0.00005000

Its yours if you can help me with my problem,  so what i am looking for is help to get my usb miner to work on cgminer 3.7 verson or if sombody can point me to a program that allows scrypt mining please can you let me know

Thanks in advance. :-\


Moderator action: removed all caps.


Title: Re: DOES ANYONE KNOW HOW TO GET A BI FURY 5GHZ/S USB MINER TO WORK WITH CGMINER 3.70
Post by: Rh3nium on January 18, 2014, 08:15:10 AM
Have you downloaded the drivers?

http://www.silabs.com/products/mcu/Pages/USBtoUARTBridgeVCPDrivers.aspx (http://www.silabs.com/products/mcu/Pages/USBtoUARTBridgeVCPDrivers.aspx)

use those with the new USB device. should you after that installation not "see" your device (can happen with win7), don't worry.
Fire up cgminer, should work.

If you want to run CG miner for your graphics card as well, make a copy of the CGMiner folder simply.
Use one for GPU, one for USB stick. when us start the USB stick version, use the no-gpu.exe version (for V3.7).

Hope this helps, I am kind of new to all this myself

PS: please don't type in all CAPS, it is pretty exhausting on the eyes.


Title: Re: DOES ANYONE KNOW HOW TO GET A BI FURY 5GHZ/S USB MINER TO WORK WITH CGMINER 3.70
Post by: Blaater on January 18, 2014, 12:40:59 PM
Just run a second CGMiner version 3.8 or above, that should do the trick.


Title: Re: DOES ANYONE KNOW HOW TO GET A BI FURY 5GHZ/S USB MINER TO WORK WITH CGMINER 3.70
Post by: byt411 on January 18, 2014, 02:53:57 PM
First, please don't write in all caps. That is usually treated as an aggressive intention.

On the other hand, ASICs cannot mine scrypt. They are designed for bitcoin, which uses the SHA-256 algorithm, and not the scrypt one.
You can only mine SHA-256 coins. You cannot mine scrypt coins.


Title: Re: Does anyone know how to get a bi fury 5ghz/s usb miner to work with cgminer 3.70
Post by: justafool76 on January 19, 2014, 12:00:40 AM
ok thanks for the help from every one

and I am sorry for typing in caps

if I can ask a second question

how do I get the same device to work in bfgminer, as it wont show in bfgminer

you guys rock!!!!

thanks for all of your help


Title: Re: Does anyone know how to get a bi fury 5ghz/s usb miner to work with cgminer 3.70
Post by: byt411 on January 19, 2014, 01:12:17 AM
ok thanks for the help from every one

and I am sorry for typing in caps

if I can ask a second question

how do I get the same device to work in bfgminer, as it wont show in bfgminer

you guys rock!!!!

thanks for all of your help

Try installing these drivers:
http://www.silabs.com/products/mcu/Pages/USBtoUARTBridgeVCPDrivers.aspx
http://www.ftdichip.com/FTDrivers.htm


Title: Re: Does anyone know how to get a bi fury 5ghz/s usb miner to work with cgminer 3.70
Post by: justafool76 on January 19, 2014, 01:23:57 AM
thanks for your info.

I have tried both and they don't seem to work.

is there a guide some where that will show me how to install these


Title: Re: Does anyone know how to get a bi fury 5ghz/s usb miner to work with cgminer 3.70
Post by: byt411 on January 19, 2014, 01:41:55 AM
thanks for your info.

I have tried both and they don't seem to work.

is there a guide some where that will show me how to install these

Hmmm
It would be good if you included a screenshot of your BFGMiner.


Title: Re: Does anyone know how to get a bi fury 5ghz/s usb miner to work with cgminer 3.70
Post by: justafool76 on January 19, 2014, 02:12:15 AM

ok sorry for being such a noob but how do I put a screenshot in this post as I cant see a option when I post a post

so sorry



Title: Re: Does anyone know how to get a bi fury 5ghz/s usb miner to work with cgminer 3.70
Post by: justafool76 on January 19, 2014, 04:14:16 AM
ok so I cant at this moment provide a screen shot so I have provide a link to anyone who would like to take a look at my bfgminer screen on my computer


https://www.dropbox.com/s/g530fibmfqr0u41/bfgminerscreenshot.JPG  (https://www.dropbox.com/s/g530fibmfqr0u41/bfgminerscreenshot.JPG)

I hope someone on these forums can help if they can

and if someone can tell this noob how to post a screen shot on forum please let me know

thanks for your time.


Title: Re: Does anyone know how to get a bi fury 5ghz/s usb miner to work with cgminer 3.70
Post by: byt411 on January 19, 2014, 11:48:59 AM
Have you tried pressing "M" or "+" to try and add devices?


Title: Re: Does anyone know how to get a bi fury 5ghz/s usb miner to work with cgminer 3.70
Post by: justafool76 on January 19, 2014, 01:07:07 PM
yes I have but the bi fury doesn't show up

I have idea what to do


Title: Re: Does anyone know how to get a bi fury 5ghz/s usb miner to work with cgminer 3.70
Post by: justafool76 on January 19, 2014, 06:34:08 PM
Ok I have fixed my problem


thanks to all for the help


can any of the mods please close this post please or what ever it is that needs to happen.

thanks