Mining help

[FoolishReporter]

Hello all. I'm a complete newbie to mining, so I came here to ask if long "droughts" of no shares are something that is commonplace with BTC mining. I'm set up on BTCGuild using GUIMiner. (I have a Windows 8 touchscreen laptop with an Intel graphics card, not an ideal set up I know.) For all of last week, everything was humming along fine and then over the weekend I had to restart my computer etc. Since then, GUIMiner shows me to be mining, but that's about it. Haven't received an accepted share in almost two days.

So again, as a newbie, I was just wondering if these long periods of time without any noticeable progress being made is commonplace, or if there's something goofy on my end.

Thanks!

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[tacoman71]

When I was a noob, I used guiminer to mine because terminal style miners seemed too complicated. But when I tried using them, they were very easy to use, all I had to do was type in my pool account stuff and the rest is taken care of. Plus I was hashing faster than with guiminer. I suggest bfgminer. Exactly what are you using to mine?

[BitCoiner2012]

I would suggest CGMiner for start, GUI was easy to begin with, but CGMiner is much better IMO.

As far as no progress, not sure what you mean.. ARe you on PPS or PPLNS..? What do you mean, no shares showing?

[BG4]

Hello all. I'm a complete newbie to mining, so I came here to ask if long "droughts" of no shares are something that is commonplace with BTC mining. I'm set up on BTCGuild using GUIMiner. (I have a Windows 8 touchscreen laptop with an Intel graphics card, not an ideal set up I know.) For all of last week, everything was humming along fine and then over the weekend I had to restart my computer etc. Since then, GUIMiner shows me to be mining, but that's about it. Haven't received an accepted share in almost two days.

So again, as a newbie, I was just wondering if these long periods of time without any noticeable progress being made is commonplace, or if there's something goofy on my end.

Thanks!

If I understand you correctly ...You are mining with a laptop with internal graphics card....If this is the case...You will burn up they laptop before you have any considerable coins....and be out of a laptop....If you are doing it just for the fun of it..I would suggest picking up a block erupter....It will find you more shares and take it easy on your internal video card.....with the price drop and all....its not going to make you rich...but it will make mining more fun....

[Damnsammit]

Stop mining with your laptop.

If you want to get some BTC, then check out the giveaways, coinchat, faucets, etc.

You will get more with faucets than you will with your laptop.  If you want to get a n00b mining rig, I suggest finding a 5850 on craigslist or eBay and putting together a small rig.  Hopefully you have some spare parts laying around for a desktop, but if not, you can always find some cheap stuff to throw together.  Also, mining BTC with a GPU is a lost cause.  Mine an alt-coin and then trade it for BTC.

Good luck!  The world of Bitcoins is very exciting.  

[boatase]

Hello all. I'm a complete newbie to mining, so I came here to ask if long "droughts" of no shares are something that is commonplace with BTC mining. I'm set up on BTCGuild using GUIMiner. (I have a Windows 8 touchscreen laptop with an Intel graphics card, not an ideal set up I know.) For all of last week, everything was humming along fine and then over the weekend I had to restart my computer etc. Since then, GUIMiner shows me to be mining, but that's about it. Haven't received an accepted share in almost two days.

So again, as a newbie, I was just wondering if these long periods of time without any noticeable progress being made is commonplace, or if there's something goofy on my end.

Thanks!

I would never mine BTC with a laptop. You should instead mine altcoins or something else with a lower difficulty where it may still be possible. Also, you could CPU mine stuff like XPM and quarkcoins.

[jarhed]

(I have a Windows 8 touchscreen laptop with an Intel graphics card, not an ideal set up I know.)

For the love of.....Please stop Mining.

[10bserver8]

block erupters

[cp1]

If your hash rate is so slow that you don't find anything valid before the block changes you may never find anything.