Please help with gridseed setup

[cat2]

I bought a box full of scrypt mining stuff. I have an old dell pc running windows xp home version.

I got a dualminer and Gaw fury hashing but having trouble with 1 gridseed blade and 2 gridseed 5 chip miners.

The usb hub driver is working for the other miners but the gridseed miners dont show up. I loaded VCP_V1.3.1 and CP210x_VCP drivers. I dont know if loading both is a problem or what usb hub driver is best for this. Is there a driver for xp that you know will work for these miners?

Also not sure which cgminer version is best for both gridseed types. What works in the .bat file used to start mining? I've only used cgminer so far. Should I setup a .conf file instead of a .bat? Do I still need a .bat if I set up a .conf?

Anybody?

[jawitech]

I got my GC3355 running with VCP USB drivers (Win7 64bit) and the following bfgminer (v4.7.0) bat-file command:

bfgminer.exe --scrypt -o SERVER:PORT -u USER.NAME -p PASSWORD -d gridseed -S gridseed:all --set-device gridseed:clock=800 --no-submit-stale

Alternatively you could state each Gridseed separately with the Port ID, but I prefer this method.

Good luck, hope it works for you.

[cat2]

I got my gridseed blade miner going with bfgminer 3.10.0 but cant get bfgminer to see more than 2 miners at a time.
I had it online with 2 of the gridseed 5-chip miners. The first time I ran it, it connected 1 blade out of the 2 in the blade miner and 1 5-chip. Both of the 5-chip miners had blinky lights that I think mean they are hashing but only 1 was showing up in bfgminer. I tried a variety of power on proceedures but bfgminer would only show 2 miners. I settled on not powering on the 5-chip miners so bfgminer would grab both cards in the blade miner. The blade is hashing nicely on both cards with bfgminer and the pool reporting > 5 MH/s.

I have the dualminer running with cgminer recommended on the dualminer website.

I have the gaw fury running on yet another old version of cgminer.

So all these miners except for the 2 5-chip gridseeds are hashing nicely to stated specs.

It was weird to me that as I tried different versions of miner software I kept getting failed to initialize messages until I tried the versions that just popped up and worked. I currently have 3 versions of mining software running at the same time on a windows xp pc. I think to get the 2 5-chip gridseeds going I'll have to do it on a different platform. PC or raspberry pi. This cant be right. Is it normal to run different instances of mining software like this or is their 1 that can run them all?

[cat2]

I got my GC3355 running with VCP USB drivers (Win7 64bit) and the following bfgminer (v4.7.0) bat-file command:

bfgminer.exe --scrypt -o SERVER:PORT -u USER.NAME -p PASSWORD -d gridseed -S gridseed:all --set-device gridseed:clock=800 --no-submit-stale

Alternatively you could state each Gridseed separately with the Port ID, but I prefer this method.

Good luck, hope it works for you.

I will try this. Hopefully their is a version for my ancient pc and xp. Thanks.

[Zer0Sum]

I have 3 blades (2 x 40 chip boards).. and 2 gblacks (10 x 40 chip board)...
And I've had bfg 3.10 running with as many as 14 x 40 chip boards...
800 is def the right frequency... and if I add additional cooling with a good fan can run stable for days.

Gonna try bfg 4.7 and see what it can do.

[jawitech]

Any news? Did you get your gridseeds mining?

[cat2]

No time to try lately. Helping with Kids homework, taking them to skateboard park, work all day, etc.  

I currently have 3 versions of mining software running at the same time on a windows xp pc. Is it normal to run different instances of mining software like this or is their 1 that can run them all?

[jawitech]

You could try Multiminer.

You can run same devices in one instance, for separate devices use separate instances.

Here are running 5 instances of cgminer, minerd, sgminer and bfgminer at the same time