Please help me!
I'm trying to update my wallet with a backup from my wallet.dat from 3 years ago. 
But I get an error: "Warning: error reading wallet.dat! All keys read correctly, but transaction data or address book entries might be missing or incorrect."   How do I recover my coins? I mined quite a lot back in the day you know...

I did this twice yesterday and no coins came in.  I did it again just now and now my coins are finally coming in...

How come my wallet says it's up to date and the last found block was 2319 when all the pools are at block 2558  
And yes I updated the new purecoin.conf

Hi Justin and fellow miners,

My rig has been running well without cgminer freezing up on me since I put in a fourth R9 290 card about 2 weeks ago.
I've also switched to "cgminer 2014" that's what I call it. It's a modified 3.7.2 version by Martin "Kalroth" Danielsen's.
http://k-dev.net/cgminer/
I prefer its layout, but that is totally up to you to decide.
Accepted shares have been move to the top of the window.
Rejected shares are now shown in percentage instead of number of shares.
This way your intensity number doesn't move out of screen or to the next line if your miner's been running for a day or a couple of days.
http://tardis1.tinygrab.com/grabs/d81565c15a2cf37d3230cae351598037e61edfc786.jpg

Hope it helps anyone else as much as it has helped me keeping my miners going.  

cgminer --scrypt -o http://cmc.ltcoin.net:7721 -u username.worker -p workerpassword

Mining right now!

Hi there Vladman,

Maybe this will solve your problem:
Just run your .bat file to start CGminer without CGwatcher running. Then in cgminer type: S then W and press Enter. A cgminer.conf file will now be saved in your CGminer directory. Now stop CGminer, and start CGwatcher. If configured correctly, CGwatcher will automatically start CGminer and start hashing now that there is a cgminer.conf file to start CGminer instead of your batch file. After that you can edit cgminer.conf to set the different settings for both your cards. Separate each cards value by a comma:

"lookup-gap" : "2",
"intensity" : "20,18",
"worksize" : "256,256",
"thread-concurrency" : "32765,24000",
"gpu-engine" : "1000,950",
"gpu-fan" : "0-95,0-100",
"gpu-memclock" : "1500,1250",
"gpu-memdiff" : "0,0",
"gpu-powertune" : "10,20",
"gpu-vddc" : "0.000,0.000",
"temp-cutoff" : "95,90",
"temp-overheat" : "85,80",
"temp-target" : "80,75",
"gpu-threads" : "1"

I have 2 rigs, one with 3x XFX R9 290's, and one with 1 Asus R9 290.
Note: All 3 cards are elevated from the mobo by riser cables pcieX1 to pcieX16.
The rig with 3 cards is the one that is giving me these frozen miner windows. One day everything is fine, mining the whole day into the next. Then another day it freezes up to a couple of times. I just can't seem to figure out what could be causing this. Perhaps a new cgminer process is starting too soon after killing the previous cgminer.exe  I'm just guessing here.
The single card rig hasn't had any problems at all mining under cgwatcher supervision.

Just now another failed cgminer restart, this is from cgwatcher.log:

[8-2-2014 15:24:33]          Accepted shares have not changed for 5,033333 minutes, longer than the threshold of 5 minutes. Attempting to restart...
[8-2-2014 15:24:33]      [d] Miner.Restart begin.
[8-2-2014 15:24:33]          Restart CGMiner was requested, preparing to stop then start the miner to make sure its configuration settings are reloaded...
[8-2-2014 15:24:33]      [d] Miner.PerformStopStartRestart called. (Profile=Digger;Miner=C:\cgminer-3.7.2-windows\cgminer.exe;HasFullAPIAccess=True;Initiator=Monitor;Reason=#NAME# was successfully restarted.)
[8-2-2014 15:24:33]      [d] Miner.StopMining called: Miner=C:\cgminer-3.7.2-windows\cgminer.exe;ProcessID=4728 (True);BatchProcessID=0 (False);Config=C:\cgminer-3.7.2-windows\cgminer.conf;Arguments=--config C:\cgminer-3.7.2-windows\cgminer.conf;HasFullAPIAccess=True;KillOnReadOnlyAccess=True;IsBatCmdFile=False;ProcessID=4728;.
[8-2-2014 15:24:34]          CGMiner process closed outside of CGWatcher!
[8-2-2014 15:24:34]      [d] Miner.StartMining (for restart) called. [Profile=Digger;MinerFile=C:\cgminer-3.7.2-windows\cgminer.exe;MinerFileUsed=C:\cgminer-3.7.2-windows\cgminer.exe;MinerExecutable=C:\cgminer-3.7.2-windows\cgminer.exe;Config=C:\CGWatcher-1.3.5\temp.conf (C:\cgminer-3.7.2-windows\cgminer.conf);Arguments=--config C:\CGWatcher-1.3.5\temp.conf;Anticipated Port=4028;Used Port=4028;HasFullAPIAccess=False;IsBatCmd=False;BatCmdPath=C:\cgminer-3.7.2-windows\cgminer.exe (C:\cgminer-3.7.2-windows\cgminer.exe);LastKnownInstanceCount=0/0]
[8-2-2014 15:24:35]      [d] Miner.IsProcessAlive(4792) returns True. [First try, process is alive.] (CPID4792/CMPID=4792/CBPID=0)
[8-2-2014 15:24:35]      [d] Waiting for CGMiner to initialize API. Process 4792 alive=True, minerid=4792.
[8-2-2014 15:24:36]      [d] Watch for miner, expected process is 4792 (alive).
[8-2-2014 15:24:36]      [d] CGMiner process is running using ProcessID 4792, expecting port 4028.
[8-2-2014 15:26:15]          CGMiner process closed outside of CGWatcher!
[8-2-2014 15:26:15]      [d] Finish wait for miner to start, process is 0 (not alive).
[8-2-2014 15:26:15]      [d] CGMiner process 0 not alive at Miner.StartMining exit.
[8-2-2014 15:26:15]          Start miner failed on 1st attempt. Killing any remaining processes and trying again.
[8-2-2014 15:26:15]      [d] Miner.IsProcessAlive(4792) returns False. [First try, test process is nothing.  ex: Process with an Id of 4792 is not running.] (CPID0/CMPID=0/CBPID=0)
[8-2-2014 15:26:15]      [d] Miner.StartMining (for restart) called. [Profile=Digger;MinerFile=C:\cgminer-3.7.2-windows\cgminer.exe;MinerFileUsed=C:\cgminer-3.7.2-windows\cgminer.exe;MinerExecutable=C:\cgminer-3.7.2-windows\cgminer.exe;Config=C:\CGWatcher-1.3.5\temp.conf (C:\cgminer-3.7.2-windows\cgminer.conf);Arguments=--config C:\CGWatcher-1.3.5\temp.conf;Anticipated Port=4028;Used Port=4028;HasFullAPIAccess=False;IsBatCmd=False;BatCmdPath=C:\cgminer-3.7.2-windows\cgminer.exe (C:\cgminer-3.7.2-windows\cgminer.exe);LastKnownInstanceCount=0/0]
[8-2-2014 15:26:16]      [d] Miner.IsProcessAlive(4340) returns True. [First try, process is alive.] (CPID4340/CMPID=4340/CBPID=0)
[8-2-2014 15:26:16]      [d] Waiting for CGMiner to initialize API. Process 4340 alive=True, minerid=4340.
[8-2-2014 15:26:17]      [d] Watch for miner, expected process is 4340 (alive).
[8-2-2014 15:26:17]      [d] CGMiner process is running using ProcessID 4340, expecting port 4028.
[8-2-2014 15:26:22]      [d] CGMiner running and API initialized on port 4028, process matched to profile Digger.
[8-2-2014 15:26:22]      [d] Finish wait for miner to start, process is 4340 (alive).
[8-2-2014 15:26:22]          CGMiner was successfully restarted.

I'm not sure. But when it happens, I think cgwatcher is waiting for the miner to start.
I was looking at cgwatcher.log and miner.log.
This morning I noticed a frozen cgminer screen. This was not an empty cgminer window as before, but all data was frozen. At 6:43 I closed the frozen cgminer window.
This is from cgwatcher.log:
[2-2-2014 23:00:24]          The computer is now idle (30 min, 5 sec since last activity, 30 min requirement).
[3-2-2014 6:31:42]           The computer is no longer idle. <=== Here I turned the monitor on after I woke up.
[3-2-2014 6:43:00]           CGMiner process closed outside of CGWatcher! <=== Clearly I wasn't awake yet  , here I closed the frozen cgminer window
[3-2-2014 6:43:00]       [d] Monitor.EnsureMinerRunning found miner stopped; I will wait at least 15 seconds to ensure miner is running...
[3-2-2014 6:43:00]           The miner is closed outside of CGWatcher and you've requested for me to ensure it stays running. Attempting to start...
[3-2-2014 6:43:00]       [d] Miner.IsProcessAlive(2896) returns False. [First try, test process is nothing.  ex: Process with an Id of 2896 is not running.] (CPID0/CMPID=0/CBPID=0)
[3-2-2014 6:43:00]       [d] Miner.StartMining called. [Profile=Digger;MinerFile=C:\cgminer-3.7.2-windows\cgminer.exe;MinerFileUsed=C:\cgminer-3.7.2-windows\cgminer.exe;MinerExecutable=C:\cgminer-3.7.2-windows\cgminer.exe;Config=C:\Users\Digger\Downloads\CGWatcher-1.3.5\temp.conf (C:\cgminer-3.7.2-windows\cgminer.conf);Arguments=--config C:\Users\Digger\Downloads\CGWatcher-1.3.5\temp.conf;Anticipated Port=4028;Used Port=4028;IsBatCmd=False;BatCmdPath=C:\cgminer-3.7.2-windows\cgminer.exe (C:\cgminer-3.7.2-windows\cgminer.exe);LastKnownInstanceCount=0/0]
[3-2-2014 6:43:00]       [d] Miner.IsProcessAlive(4580) returns True. [First try, process is alive.] (CPID4580/CMPID=4580/CBPID=0)
[3-2-2014 6:43:00]       [d] Waiting for CGMiner to initialize API. Process 4580 alive=True, minerid=4580.
[3-2-2014 6:43:01]       [d] Watch for miner, expected process is 4580 (alive).
[3-2-2014 6:43:01]       [d] CGMiner process is running using ProcessID 4580, expecting port 4028.
[3-2-2014 6:43:08]       [d] CGMiner running and API initialized on port 4028, process matched to profile Digger.
[3-2-2014 6:43:08]       [d] Finish wait for miner to start, process is 4580 (alive).
[3-2-2014 6:43:08]           CGMiner started successfully.
[3-2-2014 6:43:13]           Restart miner if share totals do not change for 5 minute(s) enabled.
[3-2-2014 6:43:18]       [d] Monitor.Check skipped due to being within 30 seconds of miner start.
[3-2-2014 6:43:21]           Number of minutes without total shares increase set to 10.
[3-2-2014 6:43:28]       [d] Monitor.Check skipped due to being within 30 seconds of miner start.
[3-2-2014 7:13:37]           The computer is now idle (30 min, 7 sec since last activity, 30 min requirement).
[3-2-2014 9:07:41]           Accepted shares have not changed for 10,11667 minutes, longer than the threshold of 10 minutes. Attempting to restart...
[3-2-2014 9:07:41]       [d] Miner.Restart begin.
[3-2-2014 9:07:41]           Restart CGMiner was requested, preparing to stop then start the miner to make sure its configuration settings are reloaded...
[3-2-2014 9:07:41]       [d] Miner.PerformStopStartRestart called. (Profile=Digger;Miner=C:\cgminer-3.7.2-windows\cgminer.exe;HasFullAPIAccess=True;Initiator=Monitor;Reason=#NAME# was successfully restarted.)
[3-2-2014 9:07:41]       [d] Miner.StopMining called: Miner=C:\cgminer-3.7.2-windows\cgminer.exe;ProcessID=4580 (True);BatchProcessID=0 (False);Config=C:\Users\Digger\Downloads\CGWatcher-1.3.5\temp.conf;Arguments=--config C:\cgminer-3.7.2-windows\cgminer.conf;HasFullAPIAccess=True;KillOnReadOnlyAccess=True;IsBatCmdFile=False;ProcessID=4580;.
[3-2-2014 9:07:42]           CGMiner process closed outside of CGWatcher!
[3-2-2014 9:07:42]       [d] Miner.IsProcessAlive(4580) returns False. [First try, test process is nothing.  ex: Process with an Id of 4580 is not running.] (CPID0/CMPID=0/CBPID=0)
[3-2-2014 9:07:42]       [d] Miner.StartMining (for restart) called. [Profile=Digger;MinerFile=C:\cgminer-3.7.2-windows\cgminer.exe;MinerFileUsed=C:\cgminer-3.7.2-windows\cgminer.exe;MinerExecutable=C:\cgminer-3.7.2-windows\cgminer.exe;Config=C:\Users\Digger\Downloads\CGWatcher-1.3.5\temp.conf (C:\cgminer-3.7.2-windows\cgminer.conf);Arguments=--config C:\Users\Digger\Downloads\CGWatcher-1.3.5\temp.conf;Anticipated Port=4028;Used Port=4028;HasFullAPIAccess=False;IsBatCmd=False;BatCmdPath=C:\cgminer-3.7.2-windows\cgminer.exe (C:\cgminer-3.7.2-windows\cgminer.exe);LastKnownInstanceCount=0/0]
[3-2-2014 9:07:43]       [d] Miner.IsProcessAlive(2968) returns True. [First try, process is alive.] (CPID2968/CMPID=2968/CBPID=0)
[3-2-2014 9:07:43]       [d] Waiting for CGMiner to initialize API. Process 2968 alive=True, minerid=2968.
[3-2-2014 9:07:44]       [d] Watch for miner, expected process is 2968 (alive).
[3-2-2014 9:07:44]       [d] CGMiner process is running using ProcessID 2968, expecting port 4028.
[3-2-2014 10:55:31]          CGMiner process closed outside of CGWatcher! <=== Here I close the empty cgminer window
[3-2-2014 10:55:31]      [d] Finish wait for miner to start, process is 0 (not alive).
[3-2-2014 10:55:31]      [d] CGMiner process 0 not alive at Miner.StartMining exit.
[3-2-2014 10:55:31]          Start miner failed on 1st attempt. Killing any remaining processes and trying again.
[3-2-2014 10:55:31]      [d] Miner.IsProcessAlive(2968) returns False. [First try, test process is nothing.  ex: Process with an Id of 2968 is not running.] (CPID0/CMPID=0/CBPID=0)
[3-2-2014 10:55:31]          The computer is no longer idle.
[3-2-2014 10:55:31]      [d] Miner.StartMining (for restart) called. [Profile=Digger;MinerFile=C:\cgminer-3.7.2-windows\cgminer.exe;MinerFileUsed=C:\cgminer-3.7.2-windows\cgminer.exe;MinerExecutable=C:\cgminer-3.7.2-windows\cgminer.exe;Config=C:\Users\Digger\Downloads\CGWatcher-1.3.5\temp.conf (C:\cgminer-3.7.2-windows\cgminer.conf);Arguments=--config C:\Users\Digger\Downloads\CGWatcher-1.3.5\temp.conf;Anticipated Port=4028;Used Port=4028;HasFullAPIAccess=False;IsBatCmd=False;BatCmdPath=C:\cgminer-3.7.2-windows\cgminer.exe (C:\cgminer-3.7.2-windows\cgminer.exe);LastKnownInstanceCount=0/0]
[3-2-2014 10:55:32]      [d] Miner.IsProcessAlive(2876) returns True. [First try, process is alive.] (CPID2876/CMPID=2876/CBPID=0)
[3-2-2014 10:55:32]      [d] Waiting for CGMiner to initialize API. Process 2876 alive=True, minerid=2876.
[3-2-2014 10:55:33]      [d] Watch for miner, expected process is 2876 (alive).
[3-2-2014 10:55:33]      [d] CGMiner process is running using ProcessID 2876, expecting port 4028.
[3-2-2014 10:55:38]      [d] CGMiner running and API initialized on port 4028, process matched to profile Digger.
[3-2-2014 10:55:38]      [d] Finish wait for miner to start, process is 2876 (alive).
[3-2-2014 10:55:38]          CGMiner was successfully restarted.


I hope this helps in finding my bug.

I've been using 1.3.5.2 for a couple of days. Just now I had another blank window problem.

Today was the first time since my previous post that I had the problem again.
The problem happened about an hour before I got home. When I got home I noticed it was more quiet than "normally".  All gpu fans were running @ low rpm's.
Both cgminer 3.7.2 & cgwatcher 1.3.4.6 were frozen with empty windows.
When I closed the cgminer window, cgwatcher unfroze and it restarted cgminer, after which the cgwatcher overheat protection kicked in with fans @ 100%, as my gpu's were @ 90 Celsius.
Haven't rebooted this miner since it happened. But everything appears to be normal.

My (CG)miner has been running very smoothly for the past two days with CGwatcher 1.3.4.6 monitoring it's activity. No restarts, or reboots.  
As promised: Time to make a donation!
Mining for you as i'm writing this.

Thank you for this awesome piece of code you compiled Milone!

I downloaded CGwatcher 1.3.4.6 yesterday and my problem with the blank window hasn't occurred since.  If it does occur again, I will try your test build.

The setting "Kill miner and try again if mining hasn't started within 60 seconds" is enabled.
I think what could be it in this case, is that the blank window isn't a cgminer.exe process at that moment. Eventhough it says cgminer.exe in the window title.
All the other times I think it works fine I guess.  

I managed to make screenshots this morning.
The CGWatcher log stated: "cgminer closed outside of cgwatcher."

http://tardis1.tinygrab.com/grabs/d81565c15a85db686a8081564355a745789f565365.jpg
http://tardis1.tinygrab.com/grabs/d81565c15a5bc9f4439351984156e78410e103b052.jpg

I've noticed already twice in the past two days that CGminer.exe was killed by CGWatcher after which CGminer was restarted but only an empty DOS box appeared.
Then CGWatcher appeared to be stuck as I could only see an empty CGWatcher window.  I closed the DOS box and CGWatcher "unfroze" and Cgminer restarted again and started mining.
I'll make a screenshot next time this happens.
My miner was down for 8 hours because of this.   (This is what I was hoping CGWatcher would prevent from happening.)
I've set the option to always kill cgminer.exe instead of shutdown command.


I'm using 3 XFX R9 290's on an Asus B85-Plus mobo with 8GB and an Intel i3 cpu powered by 1200W Club3D psu.
Windows 7 x64, CGminer3.7.2, CGWatcher1.3.4

If after killing CGminer.exe a pause of like 5 seconds is implemented before CGminer.exe is restarted by CGWatcher, would that maybe solve the problem?

This is not just another piece programming.
CGwatcher is the best thing that's happened to me in the past 2 months!!!
I actually just started using CGwatcher, but it looks very promising to me.
When I'm absolutely sure that CGwatcher is doing all the watching for me and I have no downtime on my miner(s), a donation will be made. You can count on that!
I can't post or reply in other threads yet as a newbie, otherwise my praise would be in your thread:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=185553.280

Many thanks Milone!