[Guide] Noob guide to solo mining USB Erupters with cgminer

[demonmaestro]

This guide worked great for me, thanks. The only difference is that the new cgminer (3.9.0) no longer accepts the -G option. I simply removed it and it works fine.

That is because the -G is for the GPUs. Support for GPUs were taken out of cgminer.

[last2come222]

That's a good and easy to understand guide. Thanks for doing this. Going to try solo mining - seems to be cool

[Sea Cow Sister]

 ???I feel like an idiot. I can't seem to figure out how to get the cgminer.exe to open. All the files on winzip or peazip have 10 files with the .exe file and they won't open. What am I doing wrong? I have tried cgminer files from all over the web. Help please.

Mary

p.s. My Rebuild Mary's Breasts website is not getting enough hits. I even said I would accept bitcoin. Cyber-begging is hard work. What forum does this belong in?

https://www.giveforward.com/fundraiser/68t3/rebuild-mary-s-breasts

[demonmaestro]

???I feel like an idiot. I can't seem to figure out how to get the cgminer.exe to open. All the files on winzip or peazip have 10 files with the .exe file and they won't open. What am I doing wrong? I have tried cgminer files from all over the web. Help please.

Mary

p.s. My Rebuild Mary's Breasts website is not getting enough hits. I even said I would accept bitcoin. Cyber-begging is hard work. What forum does this belong in?

https://www.giveforward.com/fundraiser/68t3/rebuild-mary-s-breasts

it shouldn't be a exe file it should be a zip file with a possible bat file.

[Sea Cow Sister]

It is a zip file. Open it and there are many many files, my computer kept kicking off the exe file since it said it was corrupted. I fixed that and no worries. However, every time I tried to extract all of the files, they don't extract. I expected to extract the files and see the exe to just click and poof... an application for a miner would open up and be the cgminer. Forgive me, I always make things too difficult. Nevermind. Appreciate your taking the time to answer.

[sobe-it]

i think i got this working correct. i figured id give it a try since my big ant is going to town. took only a few minutes.