Anyone wanna help a noob? Reward in OP

[smalloy08]

Hi all,

I really want to get into LTC mining, but it seems that I cannot get any of my computers/laptops to run them.  I've tried every major mining program in the book. 

I'm asking simply if anyone could get on torchat sometime and give me some tech support?  It seems that any forum thread about helping noobs with these kinds of things just drop off after 1 response or so (then no follow up help) :/  I can reward a day's (or three) worth of mining to anyone who gets it running, or a small amount of BTC

It would be ideal to get it up on my linux system, but I also have windows.

[lethes]

I've had experience setting up ltc mining using cgminer in windows 7. Would be happy to talk you through it but need a little info first.

a) Are you planning on using a GPU (3D graphics card) or CPU to mine?
b) Which specific mining programs have you tried so far?
c) What problems did you encounter and at what stage of installation?

Also, a brief profile of your system specs would help to determine which is the best way to go forward.

[barwizi]

just post the problems you are having, current config, hardware and software. f u r using ubuntu we can get you up real quick.

[smalloy08]

I'll post up about all of the specifics later today, but I have tried scrypt miner, cgminer, the miner provided in Litecoin wallet, cpuminer, and maybe others that I don't remember.  I am going to be busy until Monday night most likely but I'll make sure to put up specs, error messages, ect.

Thanks for the responses

[vm1990]

***cough*** GUIminer alpha scrypt pretty much noob proof
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=150331.0

run program
file
new miner
cgminer
enter setting set device
away you go

[smalloy08]

AMD Phenom(tm) 9750 Quad-Core Processor
2.41GHz, 2.75 GB RAM

Windows XP

NVIDIA GeForce 7025/NVIDIA nForce 630a

***cough*** GUIminer alpha scrypt pretty much noob proof
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=150331.0

Tried this, but my noobtastic skills couldn't even get it started
-Downloaded
-Opened file
-Extracted guiminer
-Clicked on guiminer to start up

-I got this error:
See the logfile 'C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\Desktop\guiminer-scrypt_win32_binaries_v0.04\guiminer.exe.log' for details

*The log shows*:
ERROR:root:Exception:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "guiminer.py", line 3085, in run
  File "guiminer.py", line 2457, in __init__
  File "wx\_core.pyo", line 11206, in Enable
PyAssertionError: C++ assertion "item" failed at ..\..\src\common\menucmn.cpp(841) in wxMenuBase::Enable(): wxMenu::Enable: no such item
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "guiminer.py", line 3094, in <module>
  File "guiminer.py", line 3085, in run
  File "guiminer.py", line 2457, in __init__
  File "wx\_core.pyo", line 11206, in Enable
wx._core.PyAssertionError: C++ assertion "item" failed at ..\..\src\common\menucmn.cpp(841) in wxMenuBase::Enable(): wxMenu::Enable: no such item
ERROR:root:Exception:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "guiminer.py", line 3085, in run
  File "guiminer.py", line 2457, in __init__
  File "wx\_core.pyo", line 11206, in Enable
PyAssertionError: C++ assertion "item" failed at ..\..\src\common\menucmn.cpp(841) in wxMenuBase::Enable(): wxMenu::Enable: no such item
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "guiminer.py", line 3094, in <module>
  File "guiminer.py", line 3085, in run
  File "guiminer.py", line 2457, in __init__
  File "wx\_core.pyo", line 11206, in Enable
wx._core.PyAssertionError: C++ assertion "item" failed at ..\..\src\common\menucmn.cpp(841) in wxMenuBase::Enable(): wxMenu::Enable: no such item