Is there any good guides that explain how to get started with mining for total newbies?

Thanks

Antony

Give me this warning:


It's a headless Xubuntu Linux based mining rig.

After those warnings, only 1 or sometimes 2 GPUs work, not all three like usual.

ok i got cgminer to work but now it says nned to supply one server.   How do i do this.

no i have an ASUS EAH5750 windows vista running the asus runs open gl not open cl so this i think is the problem.  my video card is not open cl it says its open gl in the catalyst settings.  Does anyone know if this video card can mine coins or not capable or is there a way to download a driver for this my drivers i think are up to date and vista is also been updated i think.  anything?

I just want to try and install cgminer at least before i go out and buy video cards and not even know how to install this thing.  Is it hard or am i in trouble with trying to install this for example if i buy one of these cards will i be able to install and run cgminer.

Please tell me if i am just wasting my time even trying this.

I plan on running windows xp
cgminer    never used or set up a miner it will be my first time.

i am going to order an asics from butterfly labs whenever hopefully i get it soon.

Plan on buying a gpu card to start and learn how to set up miner software and hardware etc..


Is this something that can be achived without any experience and learn from the advice just from this forum. 

Is cgminer difficult to install is there anything else that i can run such as gui miner with asics since its easier
or should i just not attempt it and avoid mining altogether is it to late in the game to even start with asics being on market.

What are your thoughts.  All and every reply is appreciated.

Maybe I should go with SDK 2.6/2.7 since the 7850 is the faster card.

I have! But I've also seen people posting that they've had better rates with Catalyst 12.10 and 13.1, so I'm curious if the FAQ matches recent experience, and if a later driver might actually be better.

But, re-reading the FAQ brings up another question--if APP SDK 2.4 and 2.5 are best for 6xxx cards, and 2.6 and 2.7 are best for 7xxx cards, which will give me the best performance for my hybrid 6xxx/7xxx system? Maybe I should go with SDK 2.6/2.7 since the 7850 is the faster card.

Hi there

I'm very new to mining so please be gentle. 

I can't get any mining clients to work because they say that opencl.dll can't be found. My video adapter is ASUS HD7770. I've recently installed the opencl.dll download from the ATI website and it didn't work.

I've tried to research this issue and I found that some others had experienced similar problems but I'm still unclear what the solution is.

If anybody can help then thanks.

I want to mine litecoins.

Not exactly true.  The p2pool doesn't have infinite resources so the share chain only records so many shares.  If your hashing power is very low then there is a high probability you won't have any shares in the share chain at the time a block is found.

Choosing which multipool strategy?

Failover, Round Robbin? Want to use mutiple pools at the same time
Rotate? I'm not a pool hopper ;-)

Balance vs Load Balance?
Don't get it from README.
Maybe someone can explain it in a few simple words?

what are the pros and cons?

regards bcm42

There comes a time when you wont get anymore than penies but you wont get paid because the minimal amount you need to get a payout is 0.1 BTC ($10 USD)  Are there any pools that have a lower limit like 0.01 USD ?

switched to stratum.ozco.in and connected right off. weird. oh well.

US.ozco.in down? not been connection (port 3333) for most of the day now.