BTC Guild and cgminer Newb Help please

[reficuldrol]

I am trying to get this up and running. So far I:

1. Installed cgminer 3.8.4
2. Registered an account on BTC guild
3. Followed steps on btc guild to get this rolling
4. signed in to the stratum.btcguild.com:3333
5. Installed a bitcoin wallet from bitcoin.org

How do I get whats happening to show results on the btcguilds Dashboard. It shows 0's all across the board.
Under "Active Worker Summary" its showing 0's, its like Im not connected at all.
Command Prompt is showing that I am connected. Why is the Dashboard information empty?

 cgminer version 3.8.4 - Started: [2013-12-06 12:47:14]
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(5s):0.000 (avg):0.000h/s | A:0  R:0  HW:0  WU:0.0/m
 ST: 2  SS: 0  NB: 3  LW: 38  GF: 0  RF: 0
 Connected to stratum.btcguild.com diff 2 with stratum as user (My USer)
 Block: 17f9eb8c...  Diff:707M  Started: [12:53:13]  Best share: 0
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 [P]ool management ettings [D]isplay options [Q]uit
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 [2013-12-06 12:46:47] Waiting for USB hotplug devices or press q to quit
 [2013-12-06 12:46:47] Need to specify at least one pool server.
Input server details.
URL:
stratum.btcguild.com:3333
Username:
Myname
Password:
Mypassword
 [2013-12-06 12:47:13] Pool 0 difficulty changed to 2
 [2013-12-06 12:47:13] Probing for an alive pool
 [2013-12-06 12:47:14] Network diff set to 707M
 [2013-12-06 12:51:22] Stratum from pool 0 detected new block
 [2013-12-06 12:53:13] Stratum from pool 0 detected new block[/s]

[shorena]

I am trying to get this up and running. So far I:

1. Installed cgminer 3.8.4
2. Registered an account on BTC guild
3. Followed steps on btc guild to get this rolling
4. signed in to the stratum.btcguild.com:3333
5. Installed a bitcoin wallet from bitcoin.org
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with what are you trying to mine? Afaik cgminer only works with ASCIS and FPGA now.

[reficuldrol]

Btc guild

I am going to be honest, this is the first time I have ever looked into bitcoin mining.. I have a real nice gamer build and I wanted to see what I could do with it.

[shorena]

Btc guild

uhm no, with your CPU or your GPU?

If the answer is yes -> need another tool (e.g. bfgminer)

If the answer is no (as in you want to use external hardware to mine) -> check if the device is found by your OS

[reficuldrol]

I could use both? Probably the CPU its most powerful. There an advantage over using one or the other?

External? I will use my OS harddrive. Is there an external device I need additionally?

[pontiacg5]

Nothing in your gaming computer is useful for mining bitcoins, you will waste money trying.

But you might be able to mine litecoins, if you have an AMD card. With Nvidia it's next to pointless.

[shorena]

I could use both? Probably the CPU its most powerful. There an advantage over using one or the other?

External? I will use my OS harddrive. Is there an external device I need additionally?

Using your CPU for BTC Mining is a waste of money (you pay for electricity), same goes for GPU. But if you just want to try it out you need another tool. cgminer only works with extra hardware (like these http://www.1a20.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/1zp6s8i1.jpg )

As pontiacg5 posted, better mine another coins

[reficuldrol]

Nothing in your gaming computer is useful for mining bitcoins, you will waste money trying.

But you might be able to mine litecoins, if you have an AMD card. With Nvidia it's next to pointless.

I have a Intel I7 3770K Oc'd to 5Ghz 24/7 -- I use an AMD Radeon HD 7870 Ghz Edition OC'd as well

I couldn't make money at idle time with this? Do I have to spend bitcoins or $ to mine bitcoins?

[reficuldrol]

I could use both? Probably the CPU its most powerful. There an advantage over using one or the other?

External? I will use my OS harddrive. Is there an external device I need additionally?

Using your CPU for BTC Mining is a waste of money (you pay for electricity), same goes for GPU. But if you just want to try it out you need another tool. cgminer only works with extra hardware (like these http://www.1a20.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/1zp6s8i1.jpg )

As pontiacg5 posted, better mine another coins

Are those what they call Block Erupter? I need USB block erupters?

[shorena]

I could use both? Probably the CPU its most powerful. There an advantage over using one or the other?

External? I will use my OS harddrive. Is there an external device I need additionally?

Using your CPU for BTC Mining is a waste of money (you pay for electricity), same goes for GPU. But if you just want to try it out you need another tool. cgminer only works with extra hardware (like these http://www.1a20.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/1zp6s8i1.jpg )

As pontiacg5 posted, better mine another coins

Are those what they call Block Erupter? I need USB block erupters?

Yes they are called block erupters, but I would not recommend buying them. Even they cost you too much in electricity and hardware. CGMiner only works with these or similar hardware.

Try BFGMiner or GUIminer it will work with your CPU and or GPU but, as said above, you will pay more for electricity than you will get in BTC.

[reficuldrol]

So what I am gathering is that its a lot harder than I thought to mine bitcoins. I would need an extremely efficient and costly "dedicated" server in order to make any money from this?

[pontiacg5]

So what I am gathering is that its a lot harder than I thought to mine bitcoins. I would need an extremely efficient and costly "dedicated" server in order to make any money from this?

Not server, but hardware. All hashes are counted as equal, but not all hashes are generated from the same amount of electricity. That is what makes bitcoin unprofitable for your current hardware.

Trying to get hardware that will actually pay for itself is hard.