Hi all,
I'm extremely new to mining and decided to start using my rtx 3080 during downtime to mine some Ethereum. I started with phoenixminer and had everything running great for the past 4 days. I decided to update my Nvidia drivers since they stated their were critical security flaws in the current. After updating phoenix miner no longer works. I click on start_miner and it just says "access is denied". Im using sparkpool for my pool and mycrypto for wallet. I have tried everything from changing pools completely to changing to a secondary wallet address and even rolling back my drivers. Nothing is working. Does anyone have some insight or help for this? Its very discouraging just getting into this to have no idea how to fix it?
Thanks

I have searched online and only found 2 post after hours and they did not solve my issue. One saying that virus protection removes the phoenixminer.exe which that was not a problem and the other said they did a fresh install of windows, but I'm not ready to try that yet. I am on windows 10 and have tried running as admin and still does not work. I also tried T-rex miner and get the same error no matter what pool is in the .bat. I will try the uninstall driver route and see if that fixes it. If not I am stumped completely. Thank your for the suggestion.

Hi all,
I'm extremely new to mining and decided to start using my rtx 3080 during downtime to mine some Ethereum. I started with phoenixminer and had everything running great for the past 4 days. I decided to update my Nvidia drivers since they stated their were critical security flaws in the current. After updating phoenix miner no longer works. I click on start_miner and it just says "access is denied". Im using sparkpool for my pool and mycrypto for wallet. I have tried everything from changing pools completely to changing to a secondary wallet address and even rolling back my drivers. Nothing is working. Does anyone have some insight or help for this? Its very discouraging just getting into this to have no idea how to fix it?
Thanks