How to mine in the background with just one graphics card out of 2?

[Viro]

Going away for 11 months, thinking of leaving my PC (with an ATI 5850 in it) to my sister. I'm trying to figure out how to keep mining while I'm gone.

Basically, my sister just wants to play the sims 3 and watch youtube videos. I'm thinking, I'll put another card in my PC (I have a gtx 460 lying around) for gaming.
I want the pc to use the gtx 460 for everything that isn't mining, but every time the PC boots, I want it to automatically and invisibly start mining with the 5850.
Is this doable? Would it cause any problems for my sister?

[grndzero]

I think GUIminer has an option to run on startup. You just need to figure out what --device and --platform options you need for poclbm.

[SomeoneWeird]

It shouldn't, im using poclbm and have it setup so each time my computers starts it calls mine.bat, which in turn calls poclbm.exe with all the args (--device etc.) that it needs. You can do that by going into "Task Scheduler"

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[Viro]

That looks like it's exactly what I'll need, but will it run invisibly if I do that?

[SomeoneWeird]

It should as im pretty sure theres an option in the Scheduler to hide it.

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[dikidera]

And what about temps?

[Sukrim]

Use guiminer, test stable settings (recommended: 2 instances on 1 GPU in 2 different pools)
Once everything works out, on the "Summary" tab select "Autostart" (meaning it will start mining when the program is launched - NOT when Windows is booted!)

Then start guiminer.exe automatically minimized (Task planner or whatever) - one way to do this: Create a link to guiminer.exe, move it into the "Start Menu - Autostart" folder, right click to edit settings and select "Minimized" from the dropdown selector.



No donation address, as this is basic knowledge and giving help is something that you shouldn't be paid or beg for!

[nster]

you'll need a dummy plug for that 5850