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Can't figure out what I did wrong, I used the NewsLobster tutorial (http://www.newslobster.com/random/how-to-get-started-using-your-gpu-to-mine-for-bitcoins-on-windows), following the directions (somewhat) well.

What happens is that I run my bat file, I see a window pop up with the batch file's interior code, then a blank window, which immediately crashes stating "poclbm.exe has stopped working".


Halp?

You haven't given it a pool URL to talk to.....

My batch looks like this:

start poclbm.exe -d0 --host=deepbit.net --port=8332 --user=user --pass=pass

I added a pool (and looked at proper syntax) and now I have this:


Now it starts up, has a blank screen for about 10 seconds, and then crashes.

Can anyone help?

Bump for help?

Does the directory C:\Bitcoin\poclbm_py2exe_20119428 exist and is poclbm.exe in it?

Did you create your own account at deepbit and put your own username and password in it, or are you literally using --user=user --pass=pass because that's not going to work.

Are sure sure your video card is actually device 0?

I think you need poclbm_py2exe_20110428 not poclbm_py2exe_20119428

I beleive it's   -d 0 -o deepbit.net -p 8332

Changed it, same error.

1. Yes
2.Yes
3. I only have 1 video card, but how do I check?

try

start /DC:\Bitcoin\poclbm_py2exe_20110428 poclbm.exe -d 0  -o deepbit.net -p 8332  --user=user --pass=pass
pause

in your bat file and see what it says

There isn't a directory called poclbm_py2exe_20110428 in that folder, doesn't work :(

then change it to:

start /DC:\Bitcoin\poclbm_py2exe_20119428 poclbm.exe -d 0  -o deepbit.net -p 8332  --user=user --pass=pass
pause

and what does it say?

It displays the content of the batch file, opens a new window (poclbm.exe), where it shows the new window for about 5 seconds and crashes.

I don't mine on windows so if you're not getting error messages I don't know what to tell you.

Ask in the official poclbm thread here: http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=1334.0

Could it be that I have an nVidia card?

I have the same problem but it's AMD...

Try this:

1. Open up command prompt (Start - Run - cmd.exe)
2. cd \bitcoin (is this where poclbm.exe is? if not, go to the correct folder)
3. run poclbm.exe and it will output what devices it detects
4. post results here

I did that and it just starts up and freezes like before.

Got something to work!!!
Now when i run poclbm.exe, cmd shows up really quick and exits. It says something like "Wrong platform or more than one OpenCL platforms, choose one of the following,
1. AMD Accelerated Stream Processing.
2. ATI Stream.
But it closes to fast for me to do anything.

NOOO it's not working again...
Any run of poclbm.exe makes it freeze.

Add in "-platform 1" without quotes to the command line.

For example: C:\Bitcoin\poclbm_py2exe_20119428\poclbm.exe -d 0 -platform 1  -o deepbit.net -p 8332  --user=your_user_name_here --pass=your_password_here

It was working for a few minutes, using platform -0. platform -1 only gave me 300mh/s on a 5850.
However, when I restarted my computer, it's not working again. I can't even run poclbm by itself without it going "it has stopped working".
This is really frustrating me...

Should I try Ubuntu? I heard it's harder to configure everything on there tho...

..okay this is so weird.
Now it's not freezing again, but it's showing something like

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "poclbm.py", line 3, in <module>
File "pyopencl\_init_.pyo.", line 3, in <module>
---
---
Import Error: DLL load failed: the specified modeul could not be found.

Try removing your old ATI drivers and the current AMD drivers.  Reinstall the current drivers and try again.

Tried the platform thing, no luck.

Is it nVidia?

Bumping again for help.