What exactly is happening with the devfee connection here? It looks like it fails to connect to xmr.suprnova.cc so it squanders away 20 seconds before trying cyptonight.usa.nicehash.com:

There is a blue pin header for 2 more USB ports on the mobo near the "southeast" corner of the CPU. Get something like the following to instantly add 2 more ports:

https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B06XCVSPZ1/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o01_s01?ie=UTF8&psc=1

I managed to find a used LCD monitor with a VGA port at a computer recycler for $20. I rather suspect I got taken to the cleaners on that one, but I think my desperation must have been evident... 

I actually prefer to use integrated graphics here, rather than one of the GPUs, I just wish the Aliexpress listing hadn't specifically said "don't use the onboard video port!" I mean, it's one thing to not include any instructions or manual at all, it's quite another to purposefully tell the customer the exact opposite of what needs to be done.

At any rate, I got Windoze loaded and am now installing the massive Nvidia driver package. This thing should be mining Equihash or Neoscrypt shortly.

Welp, dragonmike was right - just needed to plug in a crusty old VGA monitor to the onboard port and the screen was sitting at the install windows prompt.

However, the next peculiarity is that I thought this had UEFI BIOS so I already partitioned and formatted an HDD with GPT only to find out it is old-style BIOS and Windows 10 refuses to install to that HDD. Ah well, that, at least, is easy enough to rectify.

That's an argument to not use your pool!?! It's best to spread the hashrate around, not concentrate it in one pool!

Ah, a laptop. The low hashrate makes sense as laptop CPUs, even the "fast" ones, are optimized for extreme power savings by default.

Refresh your wallet balance - I just sent you 1 DERO so you don't have to wait 20+ days to find out if your wallet works or not.

Note that the latest version of XMR-STAK also mines with the CPU by default; you can disable with the --noCPU switch on the command line.

Thanks for the confirmation... I went rooting around in my computer parts junk pile and found a VGA cable and a DVI to VGA adapter; I was all excited there for a minute until I realized that was DVI out...

EDIT - my D1800 (6 GPU) has the v2.00 sticker on it as well.

That's how mine came... very cavalier, the Chinese.

Me and the OP might be experiencing the same problem - using 1.5V DDR3 memory instead of 1.35V DDR3L. In my case, I ordered what was described as DDR3/DDR3L memory from Amazon, as 1.35V is compatible with both, but they shipped 1.5V modules; a replacement module came in today and I'll be trying it out momentarily.

EDIT - well, "correct" DDR3L memory didn't solve the problem entirely, though it does seem that the board makes it farther along the boot process. I get one beep and then even a bit of HDD LED activity but no video from either of the 2 cards. I haven't tried the onboard VGA port for the simple reason I don't have a monitor with a VGA input; haven't in about 15+ years, actually... I guess the next step is to scrounge up a VGA input LCD monitor because it seems like that is the only issue.

I also tried hitting the "reset CMOS" button (just to the left of the USB/Ethernet ports) and that just resulted in a longer beep after power cycled.

My 2 CPUs combined do around 700 H/s, which is just under what my single RX 570 can do by itself (though the RX 570 requires 50% more power for 20-25 more H/s, I should note). I do have a bunch of Nvidia cards for mining as well, but they don't seem to do nearly as well at Cryptonight as AMD. I will revisit that as new mining programs become available, though (this was with xmr-stak).

Definitely - Nvidia cards have an advantage on Equihash (Zcash, Zclassic, Zencash, Hush, etc.) and Lyra2rev2 (aka Lyra2v2, Vertcoin and Monacoin are the only prominent examples I can think of) so it makes sense to use them on those algos.

Looks like whoever it was took their toys and ran home...Network hashrate is down to ~2.3 MH/s and difficulty, while still elevated, is at least below 300M. I'm (as of now) making a little over 6 DERO per day between my 2 CPUs! 

Uh, definitely not trying to sound elitist here, but that is a really low hashrate; even my 10+ year old AMD Phenom II 955 can do around 40-50 H/s. What kind of CPU and mining software are you using? (Please don't say you are using a laptop... mining is murder on laptops!).

Bah, I'm just cranky because I'm down to making just a little over 2 DERO a day, when only this morning it was closer to 10...

That's not how you figure out the devfee percentage except for the highly unlikely case where all of your shares were mined at the exact same difficulty setting as all of the dev's; generally, the devfee shares are mined at the lowest possible difficulty to ensure some are received during the brief devfee mining period (e.g. -72 seconds per hour for 2%, or whatever).

No, that's only true for Ethash; Hynix memory does just fine with Equihash, Neoscrypt and Lyra2rev2. All of my 1060 (so far - got 2 more coming in) have Hynix memory; see my benchmarks above.

If you can get those kind of numbers out of your 1060's then by all means mine ethash with them; that's fairly close to an RX 570 with modded BIOS loaded.

I was just wondering the same thing... as well as which asshat let NiceHack onto their pool?

Yeah, the GTX 1050 Ti isn't quite the useless door stop people make it out to be. Here are some of my benchmarks along with those of the ASUS Dual 3GB 1060 for comparison (and to stay on topic):

Equihash - 190 vs 305 - 1060 is 1.6x faster (dstm 0.5.6)
Neoscrypt - 460 vs 650 - 1060 is 1.4x faster (ccminer-klaust)
Lyra2rev2 - 14.8 vs 22.4 - 1060 is 1.5x faster (ccminer-klaust)
Cryptonight - lol, don't waste your Nvidia cards on this algo (385 vs. 485, in case you are a stubborn cuss, using xmr-stak)
Ethash - lol again, but 13.4 vs 21.9, so 1060 is 1.6x faster (claymore dual 10.3)

LOL, you dun goofed, son.