Thanks for the reply. I actually have tried that with and without the --scrypt option, the one I posted is the most recent one. I will try it again just in case. Thank you again.
I guess you are aware that NOBL had a switch to PoW/PoS today and changed the PoW algo to M7M (CPU mining).
Try to replace localhost with 127.0.0.1, in the conf file as well as in the .bat file. Just in case...