You could solo mine Bitcoins... it would be like playing the lottery.... you could think of it like fun... and maybe one day... you actually hit a block.... and get it all to yourself 
I hit 12.1 million last week. Almost...
Topic: Becoming Frustrated as a Newbie Miner (Read 847 times)
I hit 12.1 million last week. Almost...
You could solo mine Bitcoins... it would be like playing the lottery.... you could think of it like fun... and maybe one day... you actually hit a block.... and get it all to yourself
No, but I will. Thanks for the tip.
That sounds like an issue with the pool you are mining or connectivity in general. Have you tested a different pool to see if it behaves the same?
Been mining alt-coins (Scrypt), because by my math, even block eruptors aren't great ROI. Unless you're gonna put out a few thousand for some top-end ASICs, GPUs on Scrypt seem to be the way to go.
Are you Bitcoin mining? If so I would replace the 3 GPU's with 3 Block Erupters. You'll loose allot less money in the long run.
Sam
Sam
change pools or miner software
Setup a 3 Gpu Mining rig with plans to expand to 5 (it has the slots and the PSU can handle it), but I'm having a lot of issue.
First, one of the GPUs I got off ebay had horrendous overheat issues, so I resold it on Ebay, leaving me with 2 GPUs.
Next, after tweaking I kept having random crashes. CGminer wouldn't report dead, or sick, or give me any indication of a problem, it would just say "Cgminer attempting to restart" out of the blue, then hang indefinitely.
I reset all the settings in CGminer back to defaults (no powertune, no overclock on anything. The only non-default is auto-fan is on), and all that stopped.
But now, I'm having an issue where after Cgminer says "Stratum from pool 0 detected new block" it will sometimes just stop working. No crash. No error. No "attempting to restart", no DEAD/SICK, nothing.
The fans continue to run like normal, but the pool reports the worker IDLE, when I remote in, it connects, but the screen never appears, and when I check the logs, everything appears to have just stopped.
It doesn't blue-screen. It just STOPS.
How do I begin to debug this? There are no errors, there's nothing set to non-defaults. I'm at a loss.
First, one of the GPUs I got off ebay had horrendous overheat issues, so I resold it on Ebay, leaving me with 2 GPUs.
Next, after tweaking I kept having random crashes. CGminer wouldn't report dead, or sick, or give me any indication of a problem, it would just say "Cgminer attempting to restart" out of the blue, then hang indefinitely.
I reset all the settings in CGminer back to defaults (no powertune, no overclock on anything. The only non-default is auto-fan is on), and all that stopped.
But now, I'm having an issue where after Cgminer says "Stratum from pool 0 detected new block" it will sometimes just stop working. No crash. No error. No "attempting to restart", no DEAD/SICK, nothing.
The fans continue to run like normal, but the pool reports the worker IDLE, when I remote in, it connects, but the screen never appears, and when I check the logs, everything appears to have just stopped.
It doesn't blue-screen. It just STOPS.
How do I begin to debug this? There are no errors, there's nothing set to non-defaults. I'm at a loss.
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