Trying to turn an old pc into a mining rig. NVIDIA GeForce 210. Need help :( - page 2.

EckhartJV

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Quote from: shibob on December 08, 2017, 10:51:53 AM

Haha I got the same Geforce 210 in my PC. Actually that PC is for my work, but even if it's not the case, I dont think it could mine or worth to mine any coin.

yeah. . . u know. it's not about profiting. It's just that I want to set up the software so I understand how to do it successfully. I'm not going to buy a $700 gfx card if I don't know if I'm even capable of setting it up right. . .

This is supposed to be a test run.

shibob

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Blockchain Evangelist.

Haha I got the same Geforce 210 in my PC. Actually that PC is for my work, but even if it's not the case, I dont think it could mine or worth to mine any coin.

EckhartJV

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Can cryptonight mine eth and etc?

Kronos21

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To learn mining, you should have the actual equipment. Many existing algorithms do not support your GPU. It seems to me that 2GB is only available for cryptonight algorithm. Maybe you need to find a site similar nicehash which will automatically test your equipment. But I don't know of such sites.

EckhartJV

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My old pc has NVIDIA GeForce 210 and Windows 10 64 bit.

I installed:

Visual Studio Express Community Edition 2017
Visual C++ redistributable package 2017
CUDA toolkit (of what could be installed, I didn't have visual something or other installed, so I couldn't install a few features)

I got the latest version of ethminer zip and made a batchfile with the prompt -U -F miningpool/mywallet. . . but it said "ethminer has stopped working" Tried the -G switch too, same thing.

I tried to see if Claymore would be any different. . . and I made a batchfile for it, but it said it couldn't detect CUDA or NVIDIA GPU

I get that my video card sux, but MY GAWD CAN THESE PROGRAMS EVEN ACKNOWLEDGE ITS EXISTENCE?? It has like 2gb.

I just want to learn how to mine and get my feet wet. I know i won't be pulling in a lot of coins, but I really just want to get the process done successfully so I know what to do when I decide to invest in a more expensive setup... PLs just give me a chance Sad

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I got the latest version of DDU and wiped the NVIDIA drivers and then did a fresh install of the latest driver -- still no dice for both ethminer or claymore.

Pls help Sad

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