I've said it before, I'll say it again. Part of the reason that new newbies don't get involved in the numbers that we would like is that these things *still* remain utterly goddamn inaccessible to the average Joe.
"Well you need a usb, but not any usb, and not any spacing on the usb, or your miners won't fit on the usb, and a power supply for that usb, but not any power supply for that usb, and the usb you want is some extraordinarily expensive usb. Then, now that you've gotten your usb, no. way. in. hell. will you be able to plug-n-play it with one program. First you gotta decide between a mining program, but not any mining program, you can choose the b mining program, or the c mining program, or the m mining program or the novak-version of one mining program, but any particular mining program may not work on your system, so's you gotta go get zadig and fiddle with that for a while, but no. way. in. hell. are you gonna get them working without a .bat file, and a .cfg file, or both files, or one or the other of those files, and it's exceedingly irritating to see if you need both and jeebus help you if you need a config file, good luck figuring THAT goddamn thing out, and if you. goddamn. type. an. extra. space. you're effed until you can figure that out and good luck on figuring that out, but a few thousand hours may get to the point where's you can plug in yer miners and start effin' around with hex values and clock speeds and then start effin around with a pot on your miner, which, though brilliant, leaves you noobs guessing as to just how quickly you can fry the goddamn thing loooong after the smile ROI has evaporated and loooong before the dust ROI has appeared - like the time I caught the ferry over to Shelbyville. I needed a new heel for my shoe, so, I decided to go to Morganville, which is what they called Shelbyville in those days. So, I tied an onion to my belt, which was the style at the time. Now, to take the ferry cost a nickel, and in those days, nickels had pictures of bumblebees on 'em. Give me five bees for a quarter, you'd say. Now where were we? Oh yeah: the important thing was I had an onion on my belt, which was the style at the time. They didn't have white onions because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big yellow ones..."
I've effed with lots of usbs, cubes, and plenty o' Bitmain miners, I'm no stranger and yet *still* I cannot get these to work.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Windows 8.1 system, ONE miner directly into a laptop USB, I've tried every version of mining program and .bat file I can think of, and read Novak's GekkoScience Compac BM1384 Stickminer Official Support Thread repeatedly to no avail.
Can anyone point me to anything that they have found helpful? Or, more directly, do I need both a .bat and a config file? Or just one or the other? If so, would someone mind too terribly posting what they've had success with that doesn't involve some sort of Linux or a Rasp Pi? Also, can I just crank the pot to 11 and let it go? 3/4s of the way and let it go? I want to push them, just not fry them.
I've got three, so I'm excited to get them into the club. Any help greatly appreciated!
yeah I have owned and worked with 1000 usb sticks some were hard to get to work.
try no config
try no .bat
click the cgminer file from novak's gekko build you did down load his build?