How To's and Guides Mega List

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All of your How To Guides in One Convenient Location

Mining Guides

• 7970 linux (xubuntu) guide please! by Lem
• BAMT How to Format a USB Drive for .img - Windows by BinaryMage
• BAMT Quick Start Guide For Newbies! by aaa801
• BAMT version 0.5 - Easy USB based mining Linux with farm wide management tools by lodcrappo
• CentOS 5.5 Mining Guide for ATI/poclbm by stickman
• Complete Guide To Mine Bitcoin on Xubuntu 12.04 - Google Docs by lueo
• Headless Bitcoin Miner Setup - Ubuntu 11.04 64bit by Joshua Ruehlig
• How to setup an automated headless LinuxCoin mining rig + watchdog by Yanz
• How to setup a cgminer using xubuntu 11.04 live on a USB by Kano
• Ozcoin Pool's Win7 cgminer setup guide by Graet
• Ubuntu 11.04 Desktop 32-bit mining install guide by Joema
• Ubuntu Natty Narwhal 11.04 Mining Guide / HOWTO by Inaba
• Ubuntu Natty Narwhal 11.04 & Oneiric Ocelot 11.10 Mining Guide / HOWTO by Inaba

Flashing Your Graphics Card Guides

• Flash your AMD GPU BIOS on a Linux Rig (still requiring Windows...) by MonoQuark
• Underclocking Memory to 150MHz on a 6990 running Linux by JinTu

Running a Pool - Guides

• A Complete Guide to P2Pool - Merged Mining (BTC/NMC/DVC/IXC/I0C) plus LTC, Linux by ThiagoCMC
• ecoinpool - A brand new pool mining software written in Erlang by p2k

Miscellaneous Guides

• An Introduction to JSON with an Overview on Usage - Youtube by Drew Wilson
• Assembly Language Programming Video Course - From the C/C++ Perspective by Arthur Griffith
• HOWTO: create a 100% secure wallet aiwk171
• How to Install a Bitcoin Wallet (Windows) - Youtube by WinTech94
• How to Install Vanitygen - Linux by Revalin
• How to Stay Anonymous and Secure Online: Please rate this Guide. by mastergrid
• Make your own open frame rig. by Detritus
• Restart bitcoind automatically if it crashes or dies using Monit by gjs278
• Simple wallet recovery using bitcointools by Matt Corallo
• Using MPOE - A beginner's guide. by MPOE-PR

E-Books

• Introduction to Bitcoin Mining by weex

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[weex]

More overview than howto guide...Introduction to Bitcoin Mining by weex https://www.coindl.com/page/item/201

Just a note, as of August 7th and since it's release in May, this guide has been downloaded over 2300 times!

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I hadn't thought of including pay-for material in the list. 

[weex]

It's free for now. You can always remove it if that changes.

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List updated.

[Graet]

I see a lot of guides to linux
I wrote a guide to cgminer with win7 and .bat file
https://ozcoin.net/content/win7-cgminer-setup-guide
hope thats a help

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Updated.

You might want to put a <div> with a 1px or 2px border on that batch script instead of text quotation marks. It will make the toot a little more readable.

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More guides added. 

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New feature: Rate the guides.
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[tgmarks]

This is cool and I appreciate the work you have put into it, but does anyone know where I can find a guide to setting up an Icarus fpga in windows 7 x64?

[lueo]

New item:

Complete Guide To Mine Bitcoin on Xubuntu 12.04
link: http://goo.gl/vP3G9

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Updated the list. Thanks lueo.

[opticbit]

Nice collection, I've used a few of these in the past.

and am checking on the vanitygen, I don't compile often.  Last time I did it was on a PowerMac G4 and it took a long time.

[CrazyGuy]

nice list