Andrew, great to have you on board. I'll help as much as I can but I have a Thanksgiving commitment coming up, so one thing you can do in the mean time is read the cryptocointalk thread for some more info and ask Aysyr for some help. Of course if anyone can jump in, please help.
We are releasing a new version in the -beta section of the web site with a new sleeker look. Check it out everyone. Also, there is a relatively major hiccup fixed in that version that has to do with performance and one other background issue (having to do with what the client does when you mine a solo block) that can potentially help the long term reliability (it had a memory leak that we fixed), so please check out the new version. One other major issue, I moved our code base back from reaper to guiminer, since many users want to use nvidia and cgminer. So-- please move your guiminer folder to the c:\users\~appdata\roaming\gridcoin folder. Rename it "guiminer". This way, when we upgrade that folder will not be erased or marked read only.
Ill comment on the pool mining asap.
Good luck everyone,
Rob Halford
Hi Grid,
thanks for your quick reply.
I have gone through all the info you suggested and was able to do this progress towards my CPU mining:
1. wallet and mining console work fine, BOINC runs OK and console sees its processing power, threads and credits.
2. modified gridcoin.conf so it looks like this:
server=1
rpcuser=user
rpcpassword=pass
rpcallowip=127.0.0.1
rpcport=9332
cpumining=true
3. went through the setup to CPU mine you posted. Added project from projects in wallet to BOINC, set user name to my GRC address and named that address "Default" in wallet.
4. Boinc is online and running the selected project.
However I would like to check if what is written above is how it should be done and also would like to ask this:
a. How do I check that I am really mining? Am I correct in thinking that if the button "Test CPUMiner" in Mining Console returns something else then just blank "Output:" then I am actually mining?
b. How are the coins for CPU mining awarded? Do I first need to mine the block myself, or is that only in GPU mining?
c. Mining Console shows "Boinc KH/ps = 0" this should be higher if I'm really mining, right?
d. Can I run other Boinc projects simultaneously with the one required for CPU mining?
Thanks for your help,
Regards,
Andrew.