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Looks like a test pattern to me.
ATI Overdrive looks something like that when its calculating overclocks.
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I am trying this ,
add pool
write config file
open config file
how do I specify time spent on each pool ?
--------------Readme------------------- --rotate <arg> Change multipool strategy from failover to regularly rotate at N minutes (default: 0) --------------Readme Not--------------- |
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I have 2 GPU on my computer, 1 HD 6670 and 1 HD 7970. I want to use my 6670 to play games and 7970 to scrypt miining. The 6670 is on device 0 and 7970 is on device 1. The 6670 can't mine scrypt because whenever I try to launch cgminer with only 6670, it will stopped working, but the 7790 can scrypt. But when I have both card in my PC, and even when I disable device 0 on cgminer, I still won't start. A windows box saying cgminer has stopped working will pop.
My cgminer config is :
cgminer -d 1 --scrypt -o stratum+tcp://stratum2.wemineltc.com:3333 -u x -p x -o stratum+tcp://us3.wemineltc.com:3333 -u x -p x --thread-concurrency 10240 -I 13 -w 256 -g 2
-------------Readme----------------------- --remove-disabled Remove disabled devices entirely, as if they didn't exist --device|-d <arg> Select device to use, one value, range and/or comma separated (e.g. 0-2,4) default: all -------------Readme Not------------------- Should look something like this -d 0 --remove-disabled |
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Nothing currently, I'm still looking for the best software to use! I have a fairly powerful computer but no specialised equipment as yet.
Well your getting the cart in front of the horse just a bit. But CGMiner is definitely a good, if not the best, choice for mining program. Probably need to decide which mining hardware you want to use and what coin you, primarily, want to mine first though. Sam |
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not sure about intel, but amd based MB has controls in the bios for whether or not to use the internal or card based gpu. You may want to look there.
He has already been there and done that. He wants to use the Intel GPU for his actual display. And wants CGMiner to not use the Intel GPU. The problem is that OpenCL detects a different number of devices than ADL which causes problems if you want CGMiner to monitor and manage temps, clocks and fan speeds. Sam |
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Anybody any idea how to work around this? Aka telling CGMiner to ignore the Intel Graphics, and continue within everything else as usual. (its sees the gpu's as 0:0-3 and the intel gpu as 1:0)
Try using the CGMiner argument --remove-disable for the Intel GPU. -------------Readme----------------------- --remove-disabled Remove disabled devices entirely, as if they didn't exist --device|-d <arg> Select device to use, one value, range and/or comma separated (e.g. 0-2,4) default: all -------------Top Post----------------------- Q: Can I mine with AMD while running Nvidia or Intel GPUs at the same time? A: If you can install both drivers successfully (easier on windows) then yes, using the --gpu-platform option. --------------------------------------------- May not be better than a dead flying whombat or dummy plugs. But worth looking into. Sam |
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Avoid daisy chaining the hubs together, otherwise a number of the erupters may not be recognized or may intermittently not mine.
Have you actually verified this? I had asked this question just a few posts ago but didn't get an answer. I plan on daisy chaining 3 Rosewill hubs for use with 12 Erupters and one Jalapeno. Will that cause a problem? Thanks, Sam I have. It is a reproducible problem with my DLinks, and with a 'plugable' brand 7 port powered hub. Daisy chain = 2-3 devices not running on each side of the chain. Why? Who knows. Simple to fix though. Well I'll see what happens with my setup. I'll have the ports on my Win7 Mining rig to go straight to the Hubs or I can chain them. I'll give it a whirl both ways. Thanks for your input, Sam |
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Avoid daisy chaining the hubs together, otherwise a number of the erupters may not be recognized or may intermittently not mine.
Have you actually verified this? I had asked this question just a few posts ago but didn't get an answer. I plan on daisy chaining 3 Rosewill hubs for use with 12 Erupters and one Jalapeno. Will that cause a problem? Thanks, Sam |
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Thanks for such a good thread and informative posts!
I'm getting the gear together while waiting for 10 Erupters to arrive, and have a very noob question. I've looked around but can't find an answer.
I'm not sure how the miners work so don't know whether there is any advantage of using USB3.0 vs UCB2.0 hubs. (for running 10 Erupters of a USB hub or two). I'm guessing no, but to be sure...
No there is no advantage to USB 3.0 vs 2.0. These are USB 1.1 devices. If you plan on using CGMiner DO NOT get USB 3.0 hubs as that support is still in development. What you need to pay attention to is the Power Supply of the USB Hub. People have been using the Anker 10 Port USB 3.0 hubs because they have a 4 Amp power supply so they can put 8 Block Erupters per Hub. I am using 7/5 Port Rosewill USB 2.0 Hubs which have a 2 Amp Power Supply so I can put 4 Block Erupters per Hub. Each Block Erupter draws .5 Amp. So unless you modify a Hub you cannot put 10 devices on a 10 Port Hub, not safely/reliably anyway. |
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tracking shows they left me a pink slip for signature confirmation. no pink slip, the rest of the mail was in the mailbox which means they didn't come to my house.  M Just drop by the Post Office tomorrow with an ID. All should be fine. The Post Man/Person never comes to my door either. Oh the perks of Government jobs. |
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Hey,
I'm looking to join a mining pool so I was wondering if anyone had any recommendations for the best mining software (Windows or Mac)
Cheers,
Derebeyi.
What are you mining with? |
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I was wondering what dose the "Diff #/#" mean? (cgminer version 3.1.1) I'm a first time user of this program.
Diff x/y x=difficulty the share meets y=difficulty the pool will accept Edit: From CGMiner readme.txt ----------Readme-------------------------------------------------------- The running log shows output like this: [2012-10-12 18:02:20] Accepted f0c05469 Diff 1/1 GPU 0 pool 1 [2012-10-12 18:02:22] Accepted 218ac982 Diff 7/1 GPU 1 pool 1 [2012-10-12 18:02:23] Accepted d8300795 Diff 1/1 GPU 3 pool 1 [2012-10-12 18:02:24] Accepted 122c1ff1 Diff 14/1 GPU 1 pool 1 The 8 byte hex value are the 2nd 8 bytes of the share being submitted to the pool. The 2 diff values are the actual difficulty target that share reached followed by the difficulty target the pool is currently asking for. ---------ReadmeNot------------------------------------------------------ |
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AAArrrrgggg!!!! My miners came today and I was at work so I could not sign for them. AND tomorrow is the 4th so the PO is closed... I'm toooo impatient for this...
Stupid job. I need my magic USB sticks to make me rich so I don't have to work... JK
I'll just have to go get them on Fri.
Same thing happened to me. I went to the post office just before the closed on the third and asked them nicely to look anyway and they found my package. Hashing away. |
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complaining that it sees more OpenCL devices than devices with ADL.
Try using dummy plug's on all GPU's. Try swinging a dead wombat around the room too, because it's probably as useful as dummy plugs. Don't have one of those, but I do have resistors. When will people get it in to their heads that dummy plugs haven't been needed in over 18 months? This old issue was fixed back in late 2011.
For an old issue that has been fixed it sure has resolved allot of odd problems here and there. But my suggestion is just a WAG, no idea if it would really help but I know it doesn't hurt. Sam |
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complaining that it sees more OpenCL devices than devices with ADL.
Try using dummy plug's on all GPU's. Also search the Mining Support group. I think someone else had a productive suggestion a while back. Can't remember what it was though. |
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os2sam; 4; 4.2218; 1EZr8UGnSZkGGhTHdSnb46t63iF4GcPKoP
Signed message sent. Rescued my order from the Post Office this after noon and they are mining away with no problems. I'm really impressed with CGMiner 3.3.1. Thanks for everything Canary, Sam |
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using cgminer 3.3.0 or 3.2.1 cgminer-nogpu.exe -o poolname -u username -p password --icarus-options 115200:1:1 --icarus-timing 3.0=100 -S COMx i get cgminer-nogpu.exe: -S: unrecognized option followed these instructions https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=220450.0works fine in bitminter but would like the option to change pools any suggestions? With CGMiner 3.2x and above you don't use the icarus options nor the -s. Just use cgminer-nogpu.exe -o poolname -u username -p password and CGMiner will do the rest for you and will start mining with all your devices. Don't forget to setup some failover pools. Sam Edit: Follow the ASIC Readme with CGMiner. Also review the advances USB options in the regular readme. |
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I just got mine. 2 red and 2 black.
Had them mining in under 2 minutes.
Thank you for your amazing customer service.
Question: Is it better to set up a worker for each one of them or is it ok to run them all under one worker?
I've got five per worker. I have 6 Erupters at the moment and have 2 per worker per pool in 3 different CGMiner sessions. Using the -ICA:2 argument in CGMiner 3.3.1 and has been working great. But if your only mining on one pool at a time just run them all in one instance with one worker. Just make sure you have failover pools setup. Sam What does -ICA:2 do in the new version? Does it limit it to two icarus devices? I left off a bit, it should be --usb ICA:2. But yes it limits that session to two Icarus devices. |
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Why not just one using Balanced mode and let cgminer balance the work between the three pools?
What params do you use for the three different instances? (and -ICA:5 does what? Limit number of icarus devices to 5? So -ICA:* would grab all of them?) Do you know if this is working with Anker 10 port USB 3.0 hubs? It wouldn't in cgminer 3.2.1
Balance doesn't balance well enough to compare pools objectively. With 15 Erupters I would use "--usb ICA:5" for each of 3 instances for a total of 15 devices. That tells CGMiner to use only 5 Icarus devices per instance. I don't have to worry about which five or what com port they are mapped to, just uses any available five. If you want CGMiner to grab all Icarus devices then use NO parameters besides your pool info. Quality control seems to be good enough with the Erupters that you can actually compare apples to apples to see how well a pool is doing. For instance I can see objectively how much better stratum is than getwork. I have no idea about Anker USB 3.0 Hubs. I heard all the trouble others were having with those so I chose to skip that problem altogether and get a USB Hub that would not cause problems. I guess I'm just odd that way. Sam |
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Agree. When you're running 47 of the things, and they have this annoying tendency to change com-ports every time you reboot, that -S all in bfgminer is a real timesaver.
That said, I do run both miners on various machines under both Windows and Linux (and Raspbian).
I divvy up my Erupters between 3 different pools so I run three instances of CGMiner and tell each to grab however Icarus devices I want it to and it just grabs what is available and runs. If I had to map a serial port number to each one I would need to be modifying my .bat files most every time I rebooted or made a configuration change. When I get all 15 of my devices I can just use --usb ICA:5 and be done and not worry about it. Sam |
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