Hey JayDDee, thanks for the kind words. It's people like you that make the internet such a great place. There was not pushing back on my part, I even clarified my answers and the reason for the confusion on my part. You'll have to forgive me if my level of self-respect exceeds that of people you usually have the luxury of mocking anonymously behind your computer screen.

deedeeranged was correct. I simply need to put the -nvidia -coin eth before the -pool in the .bat file, followed by -proto 3 after the rig name. I was able to launch the .bat as a shortcut on the desktop. For that information, I thank you deedeeranged.

So, JayDDee, it "obviously" was not related to the pool parameters, as you so clearly stated.

I am getting a feeling you are deliberately avoiding what we were asking, how YOU start PhoenixMiner from a command prompt or what is in the batch file you use.

From a Windows command prompt you would normally start as follows, this will avoid using the config.txt and epools.txt files:

/path/to/PhoenixMiner.exe -nvidia -coin eth -pool ssl://eu1.ethermine.org:5555 -pool2 ssl://us1.ethermine.org:5555 -wal YourEthWalletAddress.WorkerName -proto 3

if that works with the obvious changes for you, it can be put in a batchfile.


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There's no reason for me to "deliberately" avoid providing the info you are asking for. I'm looking for help, so that would defeat the purpose. I literally provided the files you asked for.

As far as how I start PhoenixMiner, I simply create a shortcut of the start_miner.bat file to the desktop, and launch it from there. Which works on all my AMD machines. If this is not the "normal" way of starting this, then I was unaware. I simply followed the steps I found on a site, or YouTube (not sure, it's been a couple years now). The only edits I made to the start_miner.bat file, is adding the address for -pool and -pool2, and then obviously my wallet.

Are you suggesting that I need to put the following info, "-nvidia -coin eth", in between the "PhoenixMiner.exe" and "-pool ssl://...." of the start_miner.bat file?

Again, I'm not trying to be difficult. I've let my AMD gaming rigs mine eth when not in use for the past couple years by simply putting the pool address and my wallet in the start_miner.bat file and launching it as a shortcut from the desktop, and it's worked. Obviously there's more to it with this NVIDA gaming rig, but I'm not finding much outside of asking for help here. So if I don't answer your question exactly how you want me to, it's not that I'm being difficult purposefully, I simply don't do this enough to understand what you are asking.

Hi, here's the config.txt. As I stated before, I've done nothing with it, as the AMD cards didn't require me to.

#
# PhoenixMiner configuration file
#
# If there are no command-line parameters when PhoenixMiner is started, it will search
# for config.txt file in the current directory and will read all command-line options from it
#
# You can put one or more command-line parameters on each line (separate them with spaces)
# If the line starts with '#' it will be ignored as comment
#
# NOTE. PhoenixMiner also "understands" the config.txt files of Claymore's dual Ethereum miner
# (but some of its options are not supported and will be ignored)
#

#-pool eu1.ethermine.org:4444 -pool2 us1.ethermine.org:4444
#-wal YourEthWalletAddress.WorkerName
#-proto 3
#-cdm 2

# Uncomment this to force the miner to read the dual-mining pools from the dpools.txt file
# instead of the command-line
#-dcoin blake2s


Here are the epools.txt file. Again, I've done nothing with it, it's how it is when you download the miner. So it has not been renamed or altered yet.


#
# PhoenixMiner ethash pools list (you MUST rename this files to epools.txt in order to use it)
#
# The pools specified in this file will be added to the pools specified with the PhoenixMiner's
# command-line options (see -pool and -pool2 command line options).
#
# Alternatively, you can omit the -pool option on the command-line and use only the pools in
# epools.txt file. This will give you the ability to specify more than two pools, and to change
# the pools without restarting the miner by using the 'r' key in the PhoenixMiner console to
# reload the epools.txt file.
#
# You must put one pool per line as specified in the examples below
# If the line starts with '#' it will be ignored as comment
#
# NOTE: PhoenixMiner also "understands" the epools.txt files from Claymore's dual Ethereum miner
#
# IMPORTANT: Replace the ETH address with your own ETH wallet address in the WAL: option (Rig001 is the name of the rig)
#

POOL: eu1.ethermine.org:4444, WAL: 0x008c26f3a2Ca8bdC11e5891e0278c9436B6F5d1E.Rig001
POOL: us1.ethermine.org:4444, WAL: 0x008c26f3a2Ca8bdC11e5891e0278c9436B6F5d1E.Rig001

# These are examples for ETC pools

POOL: ssl://eu1-etc.ethermine.org:5555, WAL: 0x008c26f3a2Ca8bdC11e5891e0278c9436B6F5d1E.Rig001, COIN: etc
POOL: etc-eu1.nanopool.org:19999, WAL: 0x008c26f3a2Ca8bdC11e5891e0278c9436B6F5d1E.Rig001, COIN: etc

# The following line shows all possible epools.txt options. The values for each option must follow the
# same rules as these specified in the Readme.txt file for the -pool, -wal, -pass, -worker,
# -proto, -coin, and -stales command-line options.
#
# NOTE: The WEAKSSL epools.txt option is slightly different from the -weakssl command-line option. As shown
# bellow, WEAKSSL needs a numeric value of 1 to skip the strict SSL certificate validation.

# POOL: europe.ethash-hub.miningpoolhub.com:20585, WAL: YourLoginName, WORKER: WorkerName, PASS: x, PROTO: 1, COIN: ubq, STALES: 1, WEAKSSL: 1

I'm only using 1 card per rig, and only mining the 1 pool with each rig. This rigs are gaming PC's that I mine with when they are not in use. So for the AMD rigs, I didn't touch the epools.txt or config.txt files. There was no need. Just enter pool 1 and 2, along with the wallet, in the bat file and the AMD machines were off and running, and have been for a couple years now.

When I tried the same miner, with the same bat file configuration, on the 1660, the miner spits out this error.

Using a Win 10 based machine with a GTX 1660 Super 6GB. I have the correct pool and wallet info (same settings I use on my 3 other AMD cards in my other machines).

But the miner shuts down almost instantly after starting. This is the message I get from the log file.

main Phoenix Miner 6.2c Windows/msvc - Release build
main Cmd Line:
main CUDA version: 11.0, CUDA runtime: 8.0
main Initializing NVML...
main NVML library initialized
main NVML version: 11.516.40
main Nvidia driver version 516.40
main GPU NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1160 Super: FHR (device id: 21C4)
main No OpenCL platforms found
main Available GPUs for mining:
main GPU1: Gigabyte NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1160 Super (pcie 1), CUDA cap. 7.5, 6 GB VRAM, 22 CUs
main Eth: No valid pools specified in epools.txt
main Eth: No valid pools specified on command line or in epools.txt
main Exit code: 5

This is my first time trying to mine with an NVIDIA card. Any help with figuring out why this miner exits immediately is greatly appreciated.
Also, is there a setting in the NVIDIA video card software that needs to be changed from graphics to calculating, like the AMD cards have?

Thank you batsonxl. I will try this as well.
Thank you everyone for your help.

After finding the compute mode setting, and restarting the mining in compute mode, my hashrates have gone up to 19-23Mh/s, each rig is slightly different. These hashrates are much more in-line with what I was expecting. This was the piece of info I was missing.

Thank you!

Each rig is reporting a hashrate of about 8Mh.

I did not switch to computer mode. Thank you for the info, I will look into that.

No, I did not mod the GPU BIOS, as stated, these computers are still used for playing games, so I do not want to take away that ability. My only intention is to give them a second function while they are not being used.

I'm using the stock clock speeds. I'm not sure what you mean by, "set core memory clocks for mining", but I will look into that. Are you referring to overclocking the GPU?

I am aware that I will not get 30Mh/s with the stock settings, I just didn't realize it would be almost 1/4 the hashrate if you did not adjust the cards for mining specifically. If that is the case, and the stock settings only yield an average of 8Mh/s, then it is what it is. I don't intend on applying any BIOS mod to the GPUs, as I want to continue to be able to use these rigs for playing games.
Thank you for you help, I do appreciate the info.

I've noticed that almost 20 people have looked at this, but no one has provided any insight or answers. Is my question something you're not supposed to discuss/talk about? Just curious if this topic is taboo.

Yes, each rig has a different name. And each is viewable in the dashboard of ethermine.org. I've been letting them all run for a little over a week straight with no interruptions to get accurate averages.

I have 3 gaming PC's in my home that I want to use for mining ETH while they are not being used. They're only really used on the weekends, so all week long they can be mining. All 3 rigs are almost identical. Ryzen 5 CPU or Core i5, all have 16GBs ram, all have 650W or higher PSU, all have RX 580 8G cards, and all are running Windows 10.

I've set up each one with phoenix miner, added the correct settings, and have all 3 mining to ethermine.org., and all 3 dumping to one Metamask wallet. When I look at whattomine.com, it says a single 580 should be getting a daily reward of 0.0017 @ 30Mh. And for 3 580s the daily should be 0.0052 @ 91Mh. When looking at the dashboard on ethermine.org, I can see all 3 rigs as active workers. however, even with all 3 running, I'm only getting 0.00099 rewards per day, and avg of 22.6Mh. I've tried looking up how to set up multiple rigs in one home, but I'm not seeing any answers online.

I do realize my Mh will we lower than normal, as I have not set up the cards specifically for mining. They are still using the most recent version of the Radeon Software meant for gaming. Does that really lower the Mh rate to an average of 7-8Mh per card?

I do get the impression that the pool sends out one work order to my IP, and work order is shared between all 3 rigs, and you only get credit for 1 rig solving the work order. So if that's true, then how do you set up your network to allow each machine to work on a separate block? I've tried adjusting the pool order for each rig, so they are each focused on a different pool, such as, rig 1 is focused on the east US pool, rig 2 is focused on the west US pool, and rig 3 is focused on the EU pools. It doesn't change my rates or estimated earnings.

Any help is much appreciated. Even if you just point me in the right direction. It's possible I'm just not using the correct terminology when searching for my answer.