CraPE v0.3 beta - Boot from USB - Win8 PE Based Mining OS

[Hueristic]

It's really strange, I had success one time installing wireless drivers in the x86 os.
Rebooted and drivers were gone, tried again and it didn't wokr 

This is really confusing to say the least :p

The system drive (X:) loads into ram. When you're running it live you could erase half the files and rename the other half random gibberish, and on reboot it would go back to exactly how it was.

You gotta use dism to load drivers, offline. Here, extract this and go to where dism.exe lives and run those commands I told you a few posts back to add drivers: http://l.bitcasa.com/DmXx2Mck

OK, So I'm a little slow. Please explain to me why there are no ATI drivers installed?

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[ivanlabrie]

It's really strange, I had success one time installing wireless drivers in the x86 os.
Rebooted and drivers were gone, tried again and it didn't wokr 

This is really confusing to say the least :p

The system drive (X:) loads into ram. When you're running it live you could erase half the files and rename the other half random gibberish, and on reboot it would go back to exactly how it was.

You gotta use dism to load drivers, offline. Here, extract this and go to where dism.exe lives and run those commands I told you a few posts back to add drivers: http://l.bitcasa.com/DmXx2Mck

Thanks a lot!

Will give it a shot in a while...was trying to get my GTX 780 to run some 3d benchmarks at ridiculously high clocks (my idea of Saturday night fun)

[captchunk]

It's really strange, I had success one time installing wireless drivers in the x86 os.
Rebooted and drivers were gone, tried again and it didn't wokr 

This is really confusing to say the least :p

The system drive (X:) loads into ram. When you're running it live you could erase half the files and rename the other half random gibberish, and on reboot it would go back to exactly how it was.

You gotta use dism to load drivers, offline. Here, extract this and go to where dism.exe lives and run those commands I told you a few posts back to add drivers: http://l.bitcasa.com/DmXx2Mck

OK, So I'm a little slow. Please explain to me why there are no ATI drivers installed?

I think I'm a little slow too. What exactly doesn't have ATI drivers installed?

[eZc]

Is there any way, that changes done during OS operation surive a restart?
Isn't this an option you can set, that changes automatically are stored?

[crazyates]

Is there any way, that changes done during OS operation surive a restart?
Isn't this an option you can set, that changes automatically are stored?

No. The boot.wim gets extracted to RAM upon bootup, and any changes are NOT saved when you shut it down. Think of it like a "snapshot" of your OS, and you're always booting into that same instance of your OS every time you reboot.

To get around this, you can place SOME of your mining files on the USB drive itself, such as your SGMiner folder and config file. I also placed a PENetwork config file on there, which gets copied over to the X: drive upon bootup. This lets you make changes, and the OS can use these newer changes after reboot.

[ivanlabrie]

I'm adding network and gpu drivers to a winpe build I have...will try your latest vnc enabled one later.

This one boots to either a 64bit or 32bit winpe 8.1.

Thanks for the tips, post a donation address or pm me catcha.

[Hueristic]

It's really strange, I had success one time installing wireless drivers in the x86 os.
Rebooted and drivers were gone, tried again and it didn't wokr 

This is really confusing to say the least :p

The system drive (X:) loads into ram. When you're running it live you could erase half the files and rename the other half random gibberish, and on reboot it would go back to exactly how it was.

You gotta use dism to load drivers, offline. Here, extract this and go to where dism.exe lives and run those commands I told you a few posts back to add drivers: http://l.bitcasa.com/DmXx2Mck

OK, So I'm a little slow. Please explain to me why there are no ATI drivers installed?

I think I'm a little slow too. What exactly doesn't have ATI drivers installed?

Your release has no R9 drivers also I tried to force HD 7870 (same chipset) and got error "Not compatible with this version of windows"

Testing with R9-270

[Hueristic]

I'm adding network and gpu drivers to a winpe build I have...will try your latest vnc enabled one later.

This one boots to either a 64bit or 32bit winpe 8.1.

Thanks for the tips, post a donation address or pm me catcha.

You guys want to add nvidia NIC drivers (built in lanparty mobo i'm testing on).

http://www.dfi.com/DFI-Lanparty/support/MBDriverDownload.jsp?selectedDriveritemId=503

Are you modding Gandolf's release?

[ivanlabrie]

I'm adding network and gpu drivers to a winpe build I have...will try your latest vnc enabled one later.

This one boots to either a 64bit or 32bit winpe 8.1.

Thanks for the tips, post a donation address or pm me catcha.

You guys want to add nvidia NIC drivers (built in lanparty mobo i'm testing on).

http://www.dfi.com/DFI-Lanparty/support/MBDriverDownload.jsp?selectedDriveritemId=503

Are you modding Gandolf's release?

Would be cool...haven't had success yet.

[captchunk]

It's really strange, I had success one time installing wireless drivers in the x86 os.
Rebooted and drivers were gone, tried again and it didn't wokr 

This is really confusing to say the least :p

The system drive (X:) loads into ram. When you're running it live you could erase half the files and rename the other half random gibberish, and on reboot it would go back to exactly how it was.

You gotta use dism to load drivers, offline. Here, extract this and go to where dism.exe lives and run those commands I told you a few posts back to add drivers: http://l.bitcasa.com/DmXx2Mck

OK, So I'm a little slow. Please explain to me why there are no ATI drivers installed?

I think I'm a little slow too. What exactly doesn't have ATI drivers installed?

Your release has no R9 drivers also I tried to force HD 7870 (same chipset) and got error "Not compatible with this version of windows"

Testing with R9-270

Oh that's what those other drivers in CCC are for? LOL, bonehead move by me.

Ok I'm gonna update stuff.

[captchunk]

I'm adding network and gpu drivers to a winpe build I have...will try your latest vnc enabled one later.

This one boots to either a 64bit or 32bit winpe 8.1.

Thanks for the tips, post a donation address or pm me catcha.

You guys want to add nvidia NIC drivers (built in lanparty mobo i'm testing on).

http://www.dfi.com/DFI-Lanparty/support/MBDriverDownload.jsp?selectedDriveritemId=503

Are you modding Gandolf's release?

Would be cool...haven't had success yet.

Dude just link me the drivers you want on Gandalf's ISO, I'll load them and send you a link.

[manali9]

I there a way to update cgminer to 3.7.2?
I've tried to put it manually but when I launch it says unrecognized command
I also would like to add cgwatcher is that possible?
Many thanks

[hotwired007]

trying to run this and getting an error - libcurl-4.dll is missing? (running on a Q6700, 4GB, 5870, 5770, 5770 rig)

[captchunk]

It's really strange, I had success one time installing wireless drivers in the x86 os.
Rebooted and drivers were gone, tried again and it didn't wokr 

This is really confusing to say the least :p

The system drive (X:) loads into ram. When you're running it live you could erase half the files and rename the other half random gibberish, and on reboot it would go back to exactly how it was.

You gotta use dism to load drivers, offline. Here, extract this and go to where dism.exe lives and run those commands I told you a few posts back to add drivers: http://l.bitcasa.com/DmXx2Mck

OK, So I'm a little slow. Please explain to me why there are no ATI drivers installed?

I think I'm a little slow too. What exactly doesn't have ATI drivers installed?

Your release has no R9 drivers also I tried to force HD 7870 (same chipset) and got error "Not compatible with this version of windows"

Testing with R9-270

Oh that's what those other drivers in CCC are for? LOL, bonehead move by me.

Ok I'm gonna update stuff.

Right, so the issue wasn't that I hadn't put the drivers in, it was that the path that enables them on startup was all wrong. Fixed it, uploading right now. It's getting confusing if people are asking questions about my build or Crazyrates', so I'm migrating over here: https://litecointalk.org/index.php?topic=16545.msg135003#msg135003

[ivanlabrie]

I'm adding network and gpu drivers to a winpe build I have...will try your latest vnc enabled one later.

This one boots to either a 64bit or 32bit winpe 8.1.

Thanks for the tips, post a donation address or pm me catcha.

You guys want to add nvidia NIC drivers (built in lanparty mobo i'm testing on).

http://www.dfi.com/DFI-Lanparty/support/MBDriverDownload.jsp?selectedDriveritemId=503

Are you modding Gandolf's release?

Would be cool...haven't had success yet.

Dude just link me the drivers you want on Gandalf's ISO, I'll load them and send you a link.

Awesome!

I wanted to try it for nvidia gpus, so: http://www.nvidia.es/download/driverResults.aspx/73251/es
And I'll need EVGA Precision X, not sure if you can run that as a portable app. (also, cudaminer, the latest release)

[Hueristic]

Anyways, anybody had a chance to test out the build I made, especially people with 270-290 cards?

Link to the new builds in file format.
I don't do strange exe's