Help! Nothing works anymore!

[twitami1]

So I have been mining a few months now. First GPUs, then a a few BFL FPGAs, and now I have 18 USB ASICs. Everything seemed fine until the USBs. One PC refuses to work with them (they show up in windows, but CGminer will not ever show them). The other PC was working fine with them. After restarting CGminer one day, now it just starts and says CGMINER.EXE has stopped working. I can't get anythign to work now. I tried another PC, and nothing seems to work on it either (CGMINER wont start). I have reinstalled it, I tried BFGminer, I tried Bitminter, nothing seems to work.

Bitminter says port probe error or something like that.

I installed the BFL drivers (which did work, now they dont seem to either), and I installed the ASIC USB driver, all using Zadig or whatever its called.

Any ideas? Please help the noob!!! 

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[notlist3d]

So I have been mining a few months now. First GPUs, then a a few BFL FPGAs, and now I have 18 USB ASICs. Everything seemed fine until the USBs. One PC refuses to work with them (they show up in windows, but CGminer will not ever show them). The other PC was working fine with them. After restarting CGminer one day, now it just starts and says CGMINER.EXE has stopped working. I can't get anythign to work now. I tried another PC, and nothing seems to work on it either (CGMINER wont start). I have reinstalled it, I tried BFGminer, I tried Bitminter, nothing seems to work.

Bitminter says port probe error or something like that.

I installed the BFL drivers (which did work, now they dont seem to either), and I installed the ASIC USB driver, all using Zadig or whatever its called.

Any ideas? Please help the noob!!! 

Can you go back to a restore date?

[Ytterbium]

It's probably a software issue, but if it's a hardware issue you could try them one by one to see if any work individually.

[HellDiverUK]

I've had WAY better luck with BFGMiner with the USB ASICs - cgminer wasn't playing ball at all.  BFGMiner "Just Works" using only the VCP drivers on a fresh Windows 7 install.  Hell, it even mines on the HD4000 in my i3-3225 of my mining rig.

[twitami1]

I've had WAY better luck with BFGMiner with the USB ASICs - cgminer wasn't playing ball at all.  BFGMiner "Just Works" using only the VCP drivers on a fresh Windows 7 install.  Hell, it even mines on the HD4000 in my i3-3225 of my mining rig.

I tired BFGminer as well, no luck. I am sure it is some software issues. It is jyst weird that cgminer will work, then when I start it again it won't. What are the VCP drivers?

[Unacceptable]

Did you use this info??

https://www.btcguild.com/index.php?page=support&section=blockerupter

Worked for me in less than 5 minutes I was mining with my BE's  

I just swapped the http & password for the pool I wanted instead of BTCGuild.

As for the BFL FPGA,I'm still having problems getting mine to work too  

Gonna try on a fresh install of Win7 soon.

[-ck]

Check for antivirus software interfering, quietly sneaking in and deleting or disabling things.

[simon66]

CGMiner do like to store info on your %appdata%(You type this on the Windows 7 Search bar on the start menu) folder. Have a look at it. My guess would be to deleted it and try cgminer again. Also, don't delete the whole %appdata% folder, that would screw your system up. Try finding a folder in there named cgminer or so. I think it's under Roaming.

[twitami1]

Thanks for the tips all. I will mess with it all some more.

I did get things working on another spare PC. I disconnected the USBs, then started CGminer, then reconnected them and it worked. Starting it WITH them connected it would crash. Weird.

[reactor]

I had to go through and delete just about everything my device manager recognized after re-installing usb3 drivers on my motherboard, may be a similar case. 

Same story, nothing was even recognized, although using cgminer 3.1.1 and using the -nogpu executable was the right combo after six restarts for various winbox crap to get everything recognized again.

[Zanatos666]

Same story, nothing was even recognized, although using cgminer 3.1.1 and using the -nogpu executable was the right combo after six restarts for various winbox crap to get everything recognized again.

This is most likely due to the fact that after 3.1.1 cgminer changed USB drivers from FTDI to winusb.  If you want to run a USB ASIC in cgminer above 3.1.1 then you have to use zadig to change over your diver association and then cgminer will see your unit(s).

[twitami1]

Same story, nothing was even recognized, although using cgminer 3.1.1 and using the -nogpu executable was the right combo after six restarts for various winbox crap to get everything recognized again.

This is most likely due to the fact that after 3.1.1 cgminer changed USB drivers from FTDI to winusb.  If you want to run a USB ASIC in cgminer above 3.1.1 then you have to use zadig to change over your diver association and then cgminer will see your unit(s).

Yeah I have done that.

[crazyates]

If you're just using USB devices, are you using the standard cgminer.exe or the cgminer-nogpu.exe ? The latter one does not require any sort of video drivers or OCL runtime installed.

[twitami1]

If you're just using USB devices, are you using the standard cgminer.exe or the cgminer-nogpu.exe ? The latter one does not require any sort of video drivers or OCL runtime installed.

Had the issue with both. I am sure it is some sort of driver crap somewhere, just not sure what. The fact that it works, then after restarting cgminer it crashes, is weird. Again, if I remove the USB miners and hubs, then start it, it works (usually).

[cryptograd]

Should've gotten an Avalon