Guiminer - NVIDIA

[pigowallace]

Hi guys!

This is my first topic so idk if I doing something wrong. (I'm sry for my eng too!)

I have a question about guiminer and the NVIDIA cards.

I have the NVIDIA GeForce GT630M (I'm on a laptop). I have noticed that under "New miner" (in guiminer) there's "New CUDA miner..." and in the lower bar there's "[...] (for NVIDIA cards)". When I try to use this miner nothing happens... I mean... I have inserted host, username, port and password using "Other host" and when I click "Start mining!" nothing happens.

I have used OpenCL (and it works) but it says that is for ATI cards...

So... anyone knows why my CUDA miner doesn't work? Any advice?

Thanks!

[Skami]

First things first, mining with that card on a laptop is worthless you'd destroy your laptop before ever getting any results.
Second, what does the log/console in GUIMiner tell you?

[pigowallace]

I'm mining not on full load so the tempo will always stay around 45°C. It was just a try and I know that, on a laptop, mining is not a good idea.

However I have solved.

Thanks anyway

[marcinello]

I mined for some time on my old laptop and even on Raspberry Pi It's absolutely worthless, but at least you can test things out

[capitoljay]

Chances are that you do not have the CUDA miner executable or that GUIMiner is pointing to the wrong location.  Open up explorer and check the path that is set in Ext. Path (In GUI Miner) to verify that the executable is there.  

An easier means to an end is to use something like CG Miner or OpenCL Miner.  Both should be available out of the box in GUIMiner.

If you get going and you like how it works though, I'd suggest getting more powerful mining hardware.

[Alexander The Great]

I mined for a long time on a NVIDIA, isnt as bad as people say.

[Alexander The Great]

Nice!!

[pigowallace]

Chances are that you do not have the CUDA miner executable or that GUIMiner is pointing to the wrong location.  Open up explorer and check the path that is set in Ext. Path (In GUI Miner) to verify that the executable is there.  

An easier means to an end is to use something like CG Miner or OpenCL Miner.  Both should be available out of the box in GUIMiner.

If you get going and you like how it works though, I'd suggest getting more powerful mining hardware.

The problem was exactly that! Wrong path location

[Ethera]

listen to people.. just dont mine with it...

[robertsu]

You can mine with that only for test, do not expect to earn any bucks with that. Read about that first, you will see why. Its timewasting, notebook suffering etc...

[capitoljay]

I started out on NVidia but quickly moved to AMD.  I would also suggest moving to AMD.  Check out e-bay as even an HD 58XX card will crank out more calculations.  Also start looking to ASICs as given the current jumps in difficulty, we're in for a wild ride as these boxes come online.  The good news is that you can repurpose your GPU miners to something like Litecoin.  No ASIC miners there (yet)