Really interested in getting into litecoin mining and I like that you are going with the proportional pay option. I hope I can get my software working so I can start hooking up to your pool lol.

Well damn. Im pretty sure I've already done that, but I may have to try that again. Im getting all sorts of errors regarding hardware from everything but the BitMinter Client And I would rather go with a proportional payment method, or possibly go into litecoin mining.

Anyone have any idea what causes this?

Hi everyone,

I'm rather new to bitcoin mining and came to this forum so I would be able to have a place to receive help with any issues I may have. I hope you all have a great day

I am attempting to mine in the Deepbit pool with CGminer and I get a repeating Invalid Nonce - HW error. Does anyone know what that is, what it means, or how to fix it? If Anyone could help that would be great.

I disabled crossfire, no difference.
Also I forgot to say before, but when I had uninstalled all my drivers and restarted I was able to open up GUIminer and (I believe) mine correctly using my CPU. It went at about 2Mh/s as opposed to the ~350 with the GPU it was running at before, not that it was actually giving me any valid shares though.

Edit: Removed drivers again, this time replaced them with 13.3 betas and so far Bitminter is working. Im having trouble getting CGminer to log in to a pool but thats likely just my incompetence. So far I think Im okay, still having issues with GUIminer but I think the biggest issue is past.


Heya all, I up and decided to try and mine for bitcoin as I have a nice gaming pc, twin 6950's in Crossfire and from what I understand that is not horrible for mining. So I attempted to get a miner running. I am running Windows 7

I had issues with GUIminer as it first was giving me a message about invalid hardware or something. I can't remember the exact message but from what I understand it meant that when they were being double checked they came back as invalid. Not that it matters anymore as GUIminer refuses to open, no crash message or anything, doesn't show up in task manager, but does show up in hidden icons by the time, however it promptly disappears when I mouse over it.  

After this kept happening I removed all my amd drivers with the uninstaller, used ccleaner to clean the registry, then used driver cleaner pro to delete all ati drivers. I then restarted, ccleaner again, dcp again, and again. I then installed 13-1_vista_win7_win8_64_dd_ccc_whql, and AMD_Catalyst_12.11_CAP2 (second one is profiles). After this GUI still does not start and it was at this point I started trying CGminer.


Anyway... I don't know a whole lot about how to work command lines, but I understand the BASIC principle. So I decided to try CGminer. I set it up using this tutorial.

https://forums.butterflylabs.com/showwiki.php?title=Tutorials:Getting+Started+With+CGminer+BFGminer

and in the bat file I put this:
cgminer -o http://api.bitcoin.cz:8332 -u WorkerName-p Password
I am in this one attempting to join the slush pool, and yes I have an account.

and named it StartMining.bat
The problem is, when I double click this bat file the command prompt appears. Says "[2013-04-08 17:15:08] Started cgminer 2.11.4" and then I get a cgminer.exe has stopped working and I have to close the command line. Obviously this is not supposed to happen and I have no idea what I am doing wrong.

If anyone can help me out I would be very grateful and I apologize for any blatant stupidity, its been about 24 hours since I working on this so I am a little out of it. Have a great day