Topic: How to use GUI mining in Windows Server 2008 X64 (Read 19016 times)

You resuscitated a 4 year old post for dead software doing dead mining that no one does today... you cannot mine bitcoin with CPUs or GPUs or guiminer in any meaningful fashion let alone in solo mode. Please do more reading.

Halo everyone,I using Dell R310 server Windows server 2012. When i try to run GUIminer.exe in solo mining, Why it shows nothing to mine on?? pls help me..

This means that you're missing some .NET libraries needed by the program. Do you have the latest .NET framework installed?

Just wanted to add a couple of remarks here..

While searching the forum for ways to mine on Windows Server 2003 I came up empty-handed.  Specifically I had two problems:  getting the ATI driver to see the card, and getting OpenCL to work.  The driver issue was remedied by the following:

1) Download any version of XP 32 bit driver from ATI's site, I used 11.3
2) Run it, allow it to extract the files to c:\ATI\support\11_whatever
3) Cancel the installation immediately after it extracts everything
4) In Windows Exporer, navigate to the folder where the setup extracted its files
5) Right-click on Setup.exe, go to the Compatibility tab, and select Windows XP compatibility mode
6) Click OK, then launch Setup.exe
7) Install as normal, I always use the Custom mode

That might seem completely obvious to many of you, but personally, I've been using Server 2003 for a number of years and have never had to enable compatibility for anything.  As for OpenCL:

1) Snag GPU-Z and launch it
2) Verify that OpenCL is your problem by verifying that the OpenCL checkbox at the bottom is unchecked
3) If so, go to your desktop, right-click and go to Properties
4) Click the Settings tab, then click the Advanced button
5) In the next screen, click the Troubleshoot tab
6) Slide the Hardware Acceleration slider to full (don't ask me why this affects OpenCL)
7) Hit Ok, relaunch GPU-Z and verify that OpenCL works now as it should be checked

Note that I also ran 'dxdiag' to make sure DX was enabled, but like the Hardware Acceleration slider, it should have nothing to do with OpenCL.  Hopefully that helps *someone*, took me about 20 minutes of googling and screwing around to figure that out.

Now there is no reason to mine using cpu. You need gpu to mine some btc.

Dell R710
Xeon E5645. 2core 24logic core.
It's a very fast CPU than ordinary PC

It's very slow. What is your hardware? Did you have a video card?

I get almost 80MH/s on a cheap 48xx ATI card... So, yeah, that's pretty slow... Way fast for CPU, but slow in general.

thanks everyone.
I tried to use minerd.exe and it works! problem solved! lol

the speed is around  28MHash/s
Is it fast or slow ? compared to GPU mining?

false! Generic ati drivers works fine on my Windows server 2008 R2 x64. I used  standard windows 7 x64 driver with OpenGL support , it work's great!

galex , try to install OpenGl driver from c:\ATI folder (file OpenCL.msi) . Or download it from the ati site.

I am mining on Server 2008 R2 x64 boxes and have no problems installing generic ATI drivers.

I've also tried CPU mining on an R710 (dual hex core) using minerd.exe without any drivers and got something like 24 mhash/s with 11 threads, if I recall correctly. OP might want to take this route.

you can't install generic ati drivers on that OS, look out for Dell support ...

Did you checked OpenCl is turned on? Are ATI drivers ok?

Where an error is occurs?

thanks, but....How to Install it？ lol....
I tried to turn off DEP but it still didn't work
my computer is a Dell R710 Xeon Server，And I prefer to use CPU mining.is there any driver I need to install or any system settings I need to modify?

guiminer-20110521 work's great on this OS. Try to install it (not snaphot). Also try to disable DEP, mb this will help.

P.S. Did u installed all ati drivers, including OpenCL? Try to run Gpu-z utility, see is OpenCL checkbox checked.

The guiminer-20110521 can not run on this OS.
the error msg is someting wrong with concurrency setting and suggest to use tool sxstrace.exe

anyone know how to fix this issue?