Quick Guide on How to Mine Ethereum on Windows

12 Aug
2015

ethminer-cuda-pool

Ethereum launched Frontier – the first release of the project including actual mining of Ether with CPU and GPU at the end of last month. The Frontier release comes with a command line only interface with a Javascript environment that allows building, testing, deploying and using decentralized applications on the Ethereum blockchain. Ethereum is being described as a decentralized platform that runs smart contracts: applications that run exactly as programmed without any possibility of downtime, censorship, fraud or third party interference. So far the available code is mostly intended for developers and though the network is active it is not very user friendly to normal people that might be interested in trying to mine some Ether. Ethereum’s next release named Homestead is supposed to offer in a few months a user friendly interface for normal users.

We have prepared a short guide that should get you started with Ethereum mining using the Frontier release on Windows and we have prepared the required software to create your own address as well as how you can mine solo or in a mining pool using either your CPU or GPU (OpenCL or CUDA). We want to warn you that although getting started with the basic usage and mining may not be that hard, to be able to take advantage of all of Ethereum’s features you’d need to spend some more time getting to know it as it things are not like with your average Bitcoin clone. We are going to be using geth (source), ethminer (source) and ethminer-cuda (source), you can download the package containing the Windows binaries for both from the link below then you need to follow the following instructions:

Generating wallet address:
– Open the geth folder and run geth-console.bat to start Ethereum in console mode
– The software will need to download the blockchain data, it can take some time
– In the console type: personal.newAccount("password")
– Instead of password in the quotes above write your own password and remember it well
– In the console type: eth.accounts
– This will list your Ethereum wallet address
– To check your account balance you can type: web3.fromWei(eth.getBalance(eth.coinbase), "ether")

Sending Ether to another wallet:
– First you need to unlock your account by typing in the console the following (replace password with your password): personal.unlockAccount(eth.accounts[0], "password")
– In the console type: eth.sendTransaction({from: 'your_address', to: 'recipient_address', value: web3.toWei(1, "ether")})
– In the above code replace your_address and recipient_address with the respective addresses, the example is for sending 1 Ether, but you can change the value depending on your needs

Mining locally on the CPU:
– Run geth-console.bat and to start CPU mining type: miner.start(4)
– The number in the quotes is the number of threads to use
– To stop CPU mining locally type: miner.stop()

Pool CPU/GPU mining using ethminer:
– Open the ethminer folder and edit the three bat files with your wallet address
– For CPU mining on the pool run: pool-cpu.bat
– For OpenCL mining on the pool run: pool-ocl.bat
– For CUDA mining on the pool run: pool-cuda.bat

The ethminer software uses the ethpool mining pool for mining, the pool fee is 2% and there is a flat fee of 0.01 Ether per payout charged with minimum payout of 1 Ether, also the pool is beta and there could be some issues. The geth software contains only CPU miner while ethminer supports CPU (up to about 2 times faster than geth CPU mining), OpenCL GPU mining for AMD (also works on Nvidia) and CUDA GPU mining. You can use OpenCL mining on Nvidia GPUs as well, could work on older GPUs that do not work with the CUDA miner. If you have integrated GPU it can also be detected as OpenCL capable and the miner may try to run on it, so you can try to use the --opencl-platform and --opencl-device command line parameters to avoid the problem.

Mining performance:
– ethminer CPU mining on Intel Core i7 5820K: 0.95 MHS
– ethminer OpenCL mining on AMD Radeon R9 280X: 24.4 MHS
– ethminer OpenCL mining on Nvidia GeForce GTX 980 Ti: 18.5 MHS
– ethminer CUDA mining on Nvidia GeForce GTX 980 Ti: 18.7 MHS

Do note that ethminer is 64-bit only and you need to have Visual C++ 2013 Redistributable installed (the 64-bit version) as it is compiled with Visual Studio 2013 and CUDA 7.5RC. Note that it seems AMD is currently faster mining Ethereum as compared to Nvidia GPUs and CPU mining is not much worth other than for testing purposes anyway.

– Download geth and ethminer compiled for Windows and ready to be used…






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64 Responses to Quick Guide on How to Mine Ethereum on Windows

Mr.X

August 13th, 2015 at 11:56

C:\ethminer>ethminer -F http://us1.ethpool.org/miner/0x1d0991db028630c0f7b49edad
406665fe45e1821/1 -G
i 11:52:58|main Getting work package…
i 11:52:58|main Grabbing DAG for #510e4e77
i 11:53:01|main Got work package:
i 11:53:01| Loading full DAG of seedhash: #356e5a2c
i 11:53:01|main Header-hash: e06fef432d6c9a85d124e7ff3288e255c33fc8263b1a
cee4a481888b3eaa80
i 11:53:01|main Seedhash: 510e4e770828ddbf7f7b00ab00a9f6adaf1c0dc9cc85f1f
8249c256942d61d9
i 11:53:01|main Target: 0000002af31dc4611873bf3f70834acdaef0f4f534f5d6058
5a5f1c1a3ced1b
i 11:53:01|gpuminer0 workLoop 0 #00000000 #510e4e77
i 11:53:01|gpuminer0 Initialising miner…
Using platform: AMD Accelerated Parallel Processing
Using device: Cayman(OpenCL 1.2 AMD-APP (1642.5))
i 11:53:01|main Mining on PoWhash #e06fef43 : 0 H/s = 0 hashes / 0.5 s
i 11:53:02| Full DAG loaded
X 11:53:02|gpuminer0 Error GPU mining: clCreateBuffer ( -61 )
i 11:53:02|main Mining on PoWhash #e06fef43 : 0 H/s = 0 hashes / 1.04 s
i 11:53:02|main Mining on PoWhash #e06fef43 : 0 H/s = 0 hashes / 1.58 s
i 11:53:03|main Got work package:
i 11:53:03|main Header-hash: 4b3dae4cba293e0fd340b8e90987fb5a22aba98979a3
a67aa50cba5278e3bc
i 11:53:03|main Seedhash: 510e4e770828ddbf7f7b00ab0a9f6adaf81c0c9cc85f1f
8249c256942d61d9
i 11:53:03|main Target: 0000002af31dc4611873bf3f7834acdae9f0f4534f5d6058
5a5f1c1a3ced1b
! 11:53:03|gpuminer0 Worker stopping 1.7 s
i 11:53:03|gpuminer0 workLoop 1 #510e4e77 #510e4e77
X 11:53:03|gpuminer0 Error GPU mining: clEnqueueWriteBuffer ( -38 )
i 11:53:04|main Mining on PoWhash #4b3dae4c : 0 H/s = 0 hashes / 0.5 s
i 11:53:04|main Mining on PoWhash #4b3dae4c : 0 H/s = 0 hashes / 1.04 s
i 11:53:05|main Mining on PoWhash #4b3dae4c : 0 H/s = 0 hashes / 1.58 s
i 11:53:05|main Mining on PoWhash #4b3dae4c : 0 H/s = 0 hashes / 2.12 s
i 11:53:06|main Mining on PoWhash #4b3dae4c : 0 H/s = 0 hashes / 2.66 s
i 11:53:07|main Mining on PoWhash #4b3dae4c : 0 H/s = 0 hashes / 3.21 s
i 11:53:07|main Mining on PoWhash #4b3dae4c : 0 H/s = 0 hashes / 3.75 s
i 11:53:23|main Got work package:
i 11:53:23|main Header-hash: bba0637f8e75dc8477e2457d47597e12055c252d2ff5
9c37fa6bdb413267ae4
i 11:53:23|main Seedhash: 510e4e770828ddbf7f7b00ab0a9f6adaf81c0dc9cc85f1f
8249c256942d61d9
i 11:53:23|main Target: 0000002af31dc4611873bf3f70834acdae9f0f4f534f5d6058
5a5f1c1a3ced1b
! 11:53:23|gpuminer0 Worker stopping 19.5 s
i 11:53:23|gpuminer0 workLoop 1 #510e4e77 #510e4e77
X 11:53:23|gpuminer0 Error GPU mining: clEnqueueWriteBuffer ( -38 )
i 11:53:23|main Mining on PoWhash #bba0637f : 0 H/s = 0 hashes / 0.5 s
i 11:53:24|main Mining on PoWhash #bba0637f : 0 H/s = 0 hashes / 1.05 s
i 11:53:25|main Mining on PoWhash #bba0637f : 0 H/s = 0 hashes / 2.59 s
i 11:53:27|main Mining on PoWhash #bba0637f : 0 H/s = 0 hashes / 4.14 s
i 11:53:28|main Mining on PoWhash #bba0637f : 0 H/s = 0 hashes / 4.68 s
i 11:53:28|main Mining on PoWhash #bba0637f : 0 H/s = 0 hashes / 5.23 s
i 11:53:29|main Mining on PoWhash #bba0637f : 0 H/s = 0 hashes / 5.78 s
i 11:53:29|main Mining on PoWhash #bba0637f : 0 H/s = 0 hashes / 6.33 s
i 11:53:31|main Mining on PoWhash #bba0637f : 0 H/s = 0 hashes / 7.87 s
i 11:53:31|main Mining on PoWhash #bba0637f : 0 H/s = 0 hashes / 8.42 s
i 11:53:38|main Got work package:
i 11:53:38|main Header-hash: 681d862e3254297e26dbb4a230096608647e8cf6b881
e889230dbd83fd1f130
i 11:53:38|main Seedhash: 510e4e770828ddbf7f7b00ab00a96adaf81c0dc9cc85f1f
8249c256942d61d9
i 11:53:38|main Target: 0000002af31dc4611873bf3f70834acdae9f0f4f534f5d6058
5a5f1c1a3ced1b
! 11:53:38|gpuminer0 Worker stopping 15.56 s
i 11:53:38|gpuminer0 workLoop 1 #510e4e77 #510e4e77
X 11:53:38|gpuminer0 Error GPU mining: clEnqueueWriteBuffer ( -38 )
i 11:53:39|main Mining on PoWhash #681d862e : 0 H/s = 0 hashes / 0.5 s
i 11:53:39|main Mining on PoWhash #681d862e : 0 H/s = 0 hashes / 1.04 s
i 11:53:40|main Mining on PoWhash #681d862e : 0 H/s = 0 hashes / 1.58 s
i 11:53:42|main Mining on PoWhash #681d862e : 0 H/s = 0 hashes / 3.07 s
i 11:53:42|main Mining on PoWhash #681d862e : 0 H/s = 0 hashes / 3.62 s
i 11:53:43|main Mining on PoWhash #681d862e : 0 H/s = 0 hashes / 4.16 s
i 11:53:43|main Mining on PoWhash #681d862e : 0 H/s = 0 hashes / 4.7 s
i 11:53:44|main Mining on PoWhash #681d862e : 0 H/s = 0 hashes / 5.26 s

whats wrong?

(Radeon 6990)

admin

August 13th, 2015 at 12:28

What about the drivers, maybe older version? Is CPU mining working just fine on that system?

You can try downloading the archive with the files again, it now includes two versions of ethminer to try – one for CUDA (also supports OpenCL and CPU) and one with OpenCL and CPU only.

Mr.X

August 13th, 2015 at 12:56

Yes Cpu Mining is no problem (AMD FX(tm)-8150 Eight-Core Processor )

Amd Sdk is up to date

and amd catalyt is it too
——————————————————-
Treiber-Paketversion 15.20.1062.1003-150728a1-187447C
Catalyst-Version 15.7.1
Anbieter Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
2D-Treiberversion 8.01.01.1500
2D-Treiberpfad /REGISTRY/MACHINE/SYSTEM/ControlSet002/Control/CLASS/{4D36E968-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}/0000
Direct3D-Version 9.14.10.01128
OpenGL-Version 6.14.10.13399
Mantle-Treiberversion 9.1.10.0077
Mantle-API-Version Nicht verfügbar
AMD Catalyst Control Center-Version 2015.0728.2244.39078
—————————————————————————
Grafikkarten-Hersteller Built by AMD
Grafik-Chipsatz AMD Radeon HD 6900 Series
Geräte-ID 671D
Anbieter-ID 1002
Subsystem-ID 0B2A
Subsystem-Anbieter-ID 1002
Revisions-ID 00
Grafikbus-Unterstützung PCI Express 2.0
Maximale Buseinstellungen PCI Express 2.0×16
BIOS-Version 013.011.000.014
BIOS-Teilenummer 113-C2060100-102
BIOS-Datum 2011/02/03
Speichergröße 2048 MB
Speichertyp GDDR5
Kern-Taktfrequenz in MHz 880 MHz
Speichertaktfrequenz in MHz 1250 MHz
Gesamtspeicherbandbreite in GB/s 160,0 GB/s

Mr.X

August 13th, 2015 at 13:11

With the new one this error

C:\Neuer Ordner\ethminer-opencl>ethminer -F http://us1.ethpool.org/miner/0x1d099
1db028630c0f7b49edad40666e45e1821/5 -G
Found suitable OpenCL device [Cayman] with 2147483648 bytes of GPU memory
miner 13:09:10|main Getting work package…
miner 13:09:10|main Grabbing DAG for #510e4e77
i 13:09:12| Loading full DAG of seedhash: #356e5a2c
miner 13:09:12|main Got work package:
miner 13:09:12|main Header-hash: 436e1d7b7cc88e301bf50a7fe5fb800abcb22367010
ce301808fddde2dee7c7f
miner 13:09:12|main Seedhash: 510e4e770828ddbf7f7b00ab00a9f6adaf81c0dc9cc85f
1f8249c256942d61d9
miner 13:09:12|main Target: 000000089705f4136b4a59731680a88f8953030fdd7645e0
11abac9f387295d2
i 13:09:12|gpuminer0 workLoop 0 #00000000 #510e4e77
i 13:09:12|gpuminer1 workLoop 0 #00000000 #510e4e77
i 13:09:12|gpuminer0 Initialising miner…
i 13:09:12|gpuminer1 Initialising miner…
miner 13:09:13|main Mining on PoWhash #436e1d7b : 0 H/s = 0 hashes / 0.5 s
Using platform: AMD Accelerated Parallel Processing
i 13:09:13| Full DAG loaded
Using platform: AMD Accelerated Parallel Processing
Using device: Cayman(OpenCL 1.2 AMD-APP (1800.8))
Using device: Cayman(OpenCL 1.2 AMD-APP (1800.8))
miner 13:09:14|main Mining on PoWhash #436e1d7b : 0 H/s = 0 hashes / 2.049
s
miner 13:09:15|main Mining on PoWhash #436e1d7b : 0 H/s = 0 hashes / 2.595
s
Printing program log

Creating one big buffer for the DAG
Allocating/mapping single buffer failed with: clCreateBuffer(-61). GPU can’t all
ocate the DAG in a single chunk. Bailing.
clEnqueueWriteBuffer(-38)
miner 13:09:15|main Mining on PoWhash #436e1d7b : 0 H/s = 0 hashes / 3.147
s
miner 13:09:17|main Mining on PoWhash #436e1d7b : 0 H/s = 0 hashes / 4.695
s
Printing program log

Creating one big buffer for the DAG
Allocating/mapping single buffer failed with: clCreateBuffer(-61). GPU can’t all
ocate the DAG in a single chunk. Bailing.
clEnqueueWriteBuffer(-38)
miner 13:09:18|main Got work package:
miner 13:09:18|main Header-hash: 8e56f4b1ee39d5f70533a171ad5e171234806fe2916
af905abd9bbb5e6b66e7c
miner 13:09:18|main Seedhash: 510e4e770828ddbf7f7b00ab00a9f6adaf81c0dc9cc85f
1f8249c256942d61d9
miner 13:09:18|main Target: 000000089705f4136b4a59731680a88f8953030fdd7645e0
11abac9f387295d2

R4zor3dge

August 13th, 2015 at 22:39

I get the same error for HD 6950 2GB gpu card with the latest AMD Drivers, AMD APP SDK and 2013 C++ redistribution installed. Also, this article should have shown how to solo gpu mine too. The pool get a few too many RPC connection lose, so that a lose in mining hash.

R4zor3dge

August 13th, 2015 at 23:27

I meant “gets too many…”, “connection loses” and “that’s a lose in mining”.

As far as the older AMD/ATI cards, maybe the miner is only optimized for the Radeon HD 7XXX and later cards…..

ltc_bilic

August 14th, 2015 at 09:14

for some reason this exe is not working for me,…it gets stuck at:

i 09:06:01|main Getting work package…
i 09:06:02|main Grabbing DAG for #510e4e77ÔÇŽ

and it stops without any error/warning,…any ideas how to get it working,…it’s same for CPU and GPU (cuda)

admin

August 14th, 2015 at 09:39

ETH mining seems to be still buggy and not optimized, a lot of people still seem to have problems, hopefully this will be resolved with updates of the miner software. So try both versions of the ethminer, the CUDA one also supports OpenCL and CPU mining.

Solo mining is not entirely problem free, we have tried with a single GPU for a day and sometime along the day geth got in some kind of loop and was not sending work for new blocks, but was stuck at sending work for an older block that has already been solved. So solo mining can also give you problems and the risk there is higher, though if lucky you can make more than pool mining. A guide for solo mining Ethereum is coming…

Nynto

August 14th, 2015 at 16:09

I keep getting an error about “illegal memory access” for my 560Ti. Does anyone know what’s wrong and what I have to do to fix it?

The CPU miner works perfectly… albeit slow.

admin

August 14th, 2015 at 16:25

If you are having trouble with Nvidia GPUs running the CUDA miner, then you can try to use them with OpenCL… it could work and the difference in performance is usually not much.

Nynto

August 14th, 2015 at 16:35

I guess you need a gpu with more than 1GB memory.

Richie

August 14th, 2015 at 19:11

Hello,

I have downloaded the files, etc. but I still can’t understand from your post how I can mine with my GPU Cuda or smth else.
If I want to use GETH, what .bat file should I create for solo mining, what should I write there?

I run on Gerforce SLI GT 755M (2 graphics cards)

could you please reply and help me set it up correctly, thank you.

admin

August 14th, 2015 at 20:01

A guide on solo mining with GPU can be found here: https://cryptomining-blog.com/5344-quick-guide-on-solo-gpu-mining-ethereum-on-windows/

nadmin

August 14th, 2015 at 20:19

It works alright with the supplied eth address in the bat,
but when I create a new one and use it it says:
i 14:16:59|main Getting work package…
JSON-RPC problem. Probably couldn’t connect. Retrying in 1…
i 14:17:01|main Getting work package…
JSON-RPC problem. Probably couldn’t connect. Retrying in 1…

admin

August 14th, 2015 at 21:14

ethpool has stopped accepting new miners for the moment (new wallet addresses), so that is why it is now rejecting new user connections. You can try solo mining as unfortunately we are not aware of an alternative pool available for the moment.

nhulongpm

August 16th, 2015 at 14:36

my balance 0x2d529425edf49cf53e8b7e52b10177d9160f715e, i have about 12 ethe in my balance,but i type: web3.fromWei(eth.getBalance(eth.coinbase), “ether”) in consonle, my balance have 0 ethe,i type in consonle : eth.sendTransaction({from: ‘0x2d529425edf49cf53e8b7e52b10177d9160f715e’, to: ‘0x263d845a19110802000139cbb7a4bbf2b2b8d6c0’, value: web3.toWei(1, “ether”)})
display in console : account does not exit or account balance too low.
help me

CoinYourBit

August 16th, 2015 at 15:20

I wanted to download compiled program, but my Mozilla displayed a notification that it was reported as a dangerous software.

admin

August 16th, 2015 at 18:24

nhulongpm, in the command try to replace eth.coinbase with your wallet address in quotes and see if it will work.

CoinYourBit, Google loves to mark all the mining software as a possible malware… we are constantly asking to get the site reviewed and get these false warnings removed. The source code is linked in the article for anyone that may have some concerns, you can compile yourself or download some of the other pre-compiled binaries.

Mr.X

August 19th, 2015 at 13:27

X 11:53:02|gpuminer0 Error GPU mining: clCreateBuffer ( -61 )
X 11:53:03|gpuminer0 Error GPU mining: clEnqueueWriteBuffer ( -38 )

No Problem more.. found the problem….

3Days had working on it^^

Can now mine with Radeon HD (Cayman) 6990

Bojadin

August 19th, 2015 at 20:19

Mr.X can you tell us? :)

MileJNA

August 19th, 2015 at 20:39

Mr.X I got the same problem with 6970 card.. will you help me ?

Bojadin

August 19th, 2015 at 20:54

No need Mr.X.. i found it too. needed 1 hour

MileJNA

August 19th, 2015 at 20:59

opaaa

Mr Bojadin, u r the man ;)

Guido

August 29th, 2015 at 11:16

Hi All, I am running Windows 10 on an Intel Celeron 1.8GH. I have downloaded the files, started geth-console.bat and still having this since 4 days. Wi-Fi has been disconnected sometimes. Does it take so long to generate a wallet address ?

Thanks

admin

August 29th, 2015 at 11:36

The wallet address can even be generated when you are offline, make sure you follow the guide on creation of the wallet.

Guido

August 30th, 2015 at 17:06

So if the last line in console is:

I0829 15:07:32.713816 8280 chain_manager.go:661] imported 1 block(s) (0 queued 0 ignored) including 0 txs in 8.0076ms. #160231 [5deaa65f / 5deaa65f]

Does it mean that I have the entire blockchain and can move to the adress creation ?

Thanks

admin

August 30th, 2015 at 18:51

Guido, it means that you are synchronizing the blockchain, you can see the number of the block and compare it to the latest from a blockchain explorer to make sure.

Guido

August 31st, 2015 at 17:17

Ok, perfect it worked on Windows 10.

What about the options in “pool-cpu.bat”
ethminer -F http://us1.ethpool.org/miner/walletadresse/0.1 -C
If 0.1 is the hash rate, what is C ? G ? what about the other options ?

Full example to mine with a 10MH/s ethminer instance to address 0xe6a7a1d47ff21b6321162aea7c6cb457d5476bca on ethpool US server under the name worker1:

ethminer -F http://us1.ethpool.org/miner/0xe6a7a1d47ff21b6321162aea7c6cb457d5476bca.worker1/10 -G (+ your usual options)

admin

August 31st, 2015 at 18:46

-C is for CPU mining, since the hashrate of a CPU is much smaller compared to GPU you need lower difficulty.
-G is for GPU mining using OpenCL, should work on both AMD and Nvidia-based video cards.
-U is for GPU mining using CUDA, you need to use the CUDA-capable miner as the standard one is only for OpenCL.

Supervisor

September 1st, 2015 at 10:01

Hello Mr. X and Bojadin,

how it works with the 6990? Whats the hashrate?

Please help

Thanks

Guido

September 1st, 2015 at 14:39

Thanks admin, now i’ll update or invest in hardware since my estimated earnings per months shows Ξ0.02841

Miguel Gato

September 3rd, 2015 at 12:49

Most of articles Ive read, says that cpu is not worth anymore, but if you have:
this: http://i.imgur.com/hfUMhXK.png

Is this worth mining ethereum?

I’m taking my first steps in the “mining” so – i need you advice :\

Thank you

admin

September 3rd, 2015 at 13:09

If you also have free electricity it might be somewhat worth it… otherwise CPU mining is pointless.
There are other crypto coins that are CPU only or mining with CPU is not much slower than GPU mining.

Miguel Gato

September 3rd, 2015 at 16:59

Thank you for your reply admin.

Maybe a little out of topic (sorry) but could you advise me to start mining a specific crypto coin to take advantage of this cpu’s?

Rob

October 23rd, 2015 at 01:32

i 17:27:35|main Mining on PoWhash #7837fd44… : 16777216 H/s = 8388608 hash
es / 0.5 s
i 17:27:36|main Mining on PoWhash #7837fd44… : 16968657 H/s = 20447232 has
hes / 1.205 s
i 17:27:37|main Mining on PoWhash #7837fd44… : 17000970 H/s = 32505856 has
hes / 1.912 s
i 17:27:38|main Mining on PoWhash #7837fd44… : 17015838 H/s = 44564480 has
hes / 2.619 s
i 17:27:38|main Mining on PoWhash #7837fd44… : 17044883 H/s = 56623104 has
hes / 3.322 s
i 17:27:39|main Mining on PoWhash #7837fd44… : 17086461 H/s = 68943872 has
hes / 4.035 s
i 17:27:40|main Mining on PoWhash #7837fd44… : 17081926 H/s = 81002496 has
hes / 4.742 s
i 17:27:40|main Mining on PoWhash #7837fd44… : 17087976 H/s = 93061120 has
hes / 5.446 s
i 17:27:41|main Mining on PoWhash #7837fd44… : 17098201 H/s = 105119744 ha
shes / 6.148 s
i 17:27:42|main Mining on PoWhash #7837fd44… : 17104647 H/s = 117440512 ha
shes / 6.866 s
i 17:27:43|main Mining on PoWhash #7837fd44… : 17102368 H/s = 129499136 ha
shes / 7.572 s
^CTerminate batch job (Y/N)?

just downloaded and started the ethereumpool-cuda.bat just to see what kind of performance I would get. however I cant seem to get it to utilize both of my Video Cards
it only seems to hash on GPU2 for some reason

I tried adding –gpu-devices 2 but it did not help

Thanks in advance for any help

Rob

October 23rd, 2015 at 02:17

Figured it out… –gpu-devices 0 1

wesley Jackson

November 10th, 2015 at 06:38

Goodnight everyone, I’m trying to mine with my Zogis video card Gforce 6500 1gb ddr2. however appears a driver mensangem cuda wrong version. already installed the nvidea driver straight from the site, both in windows 7 as the 10 in opcl also does not work in certain mining CPU. I’m just not getting the video card. Anyone know why?

admin

November 10th, 2015 at 17:26

wesley Jackson, you need a GPU with at least 2GB VRAM…

wesley Jackson

November 12th, 2015 at 04:25

tanks.. :D

Estevão

November 18th, 2015 at 04:03

I’m having problems to mine with more than one VGA card. I can mine perfectly using one VGA card..
Can someone help me?

admin

November 18th, 2015 at 14:52

If the miner is running only on the first GPU you can manually set all GPU IDs via the command line, so that they all are going to be used.

Stark

January 20th, 2016 at 02:42

i 17:35:53|main Header-hash: 0029154148f025b43951389a4894e9658bc17cef6310e14894581682623a338d
i 17:35:53|main Seedhash: 920a075f9d5202e2cdf7cd984490fddef5218a4e6b6ce5776ebdecee9129b7a7
i 17:35:53|main Target: 00000000dbe6fecebdedd5beb573440e5a884d1b2fbf06fcce912adcb8d8422e
i 17:35:53|cudaminer0 workLoop 1 #920a075f… #920a075f…
i 17:35:54|main Mining on PoWhash #00291541… : 0 H/s = 0 hashes / 0.5 s
i 17:35:54|main Mining on PoWhash #00291541… : 0 H/s = 0 hashes / 1.108 s
i 17:35:55|main Mining on PoWhash #00291541… : 616446 H/s = 1048576 hashes / 1.701 s
i 17:35:56|main Mining on PoWhash #00291541… : 903555 H/s = 2097152 hashes / 2.321 s
i 17:35:56|main Mining on PoWhash #00291541… : 1075830 H/s = 3145728 hashes / 2.924 s
i 17:35:57|main Mining on PoWhash #00291541… : 1189536 H/s = 4194304 hashes / 3.526 s
i 17:35:57|main Mining on PoWhash #00291541… : 1271001 H/s = 5242880 hashes / 4.125 s
i 17:35:58|main Mining on PoWhash #00291541… : 1331525 H/s = 6291456 hashes / 4.725 s
i 17:35:59|main Mining on PoWhash #00291541… : 1379964 H/s = 7340032 hashes / 5.319 s
i 17:35:59|main Mining on PoWhash #00291541… : 1417952 H/s = 8388608 hashes / 5.916 s
i 17:36:00|main Mining on PoWhash #00291541… : 1449644 H/s = 9437184 hashes / 6.51 s
i 17:36:00|main Mining on PoWhash #00291541… : 1475620 H/s = 10485760 hashes / 7.106 s
i 17:36:01|main Mining on PoWhash #00291541… : 1497382 H/s = 11534336 hashes / 7.703 s
i 17:36:01|main Got work package:
i 17:36:01|main Header-hash: f424994e5c59643d54299ccc500266565baa8175373cfe8111d440282d8619f4
i 17:36:01|main Seedhash: 920a075f9d5202e2cdf7cd984490fddef5218a4e6b6ce5776ebdecee9129b7a7
i 17:36:01|main Target: 00000000dbe6fecebdedd5beb573440e5a884d1b2fbf06fcce912adcb8d8422e
! 17:36:01|main Stop worker 0.109 s
i 17:36:01|cudaminer0 workLoop 1 #920a075f… #920a075f…
i 17:36:02|main Mining on PoWhash #f424994e… : 0 H/s = 0 hashes / 0.5 s
i 17:36:02|main Mining on PoWhash #f424994e… : 0 H/s = 0 hashes / 1.088 s
i 17:36:03|main Mining on PoWhash #f424994e… : 624152 H/s = 1048576 hashes / 1.68 s
i 17:36:03|main Mining on PoWhash #f424994e… : 921015 H/s = 2097152 hashes / 2.277 s
i 17:36:04|main Mining on PoWhash #f424994e… : 1096836 H/s = 3145728 hashes / 2.868 s
i 17:36:05|main Mining on PoWhash #f424994e… : 1212927 H/s = 4194304 hashes / 3.458 s
i 17:36:05|main Mining on PoWhash #f424994e… : 1292942 H/s = 5242880 hashes / 4.055 s
i 17:36:31|main Got work package:
i 17:36:31|main Header-hash: 47a38cd5838b60aac627cfc892a2caf2a46acf233b8291f8a1693bc28c7071e9
i 17:36:31|main Seedhash: 920a075f9d5202e2cdf7cd984490fddef5218a4e6b6ce5776ebdecee9129b7a7
i 17:36:31|main Target: 00000000dbe6fecebdedd5beb573440e5a884d1b2fbf06fcce912adcb8d8422e
! 17:36:31|main Stop worker 0.281 s
! 17:36:31|main pause 0.286 s
i 17:36:31|cudaminer0 workLoop 1 #920a075f… #920a075f…
i 17:36:32|main Mining on PoWhash #47a38cd5… : 0 H/s = 0 hashes / 0.5 s
i 17:36:32|main Mining on PoWhash #47a38cd5… : 0 H/s = 0 hashes / 1.101 s
i 17:36:33|main Mining on PoWhash #47a38cd5… : 1078781 H/s = 2097152 hashes / 1.944 s
i 17:36:34|main Mining on PoWhash #47a38cd5… : 1235556 H/s = 3145728 hashes / 2.546 s
i 17:36:34|main Mining on PoWhash #47a38cd5… : 1335340 H/s = 4194304 hashes / 3.141 s
i 17:36:35|main Mining on PoWhash #47a38cd5… : 1403716 H/s = 5242880 hashes / 3.735 s
i 17:36:38|main Mining on PoWhash #47a38cd5… : 1411695 H/s = 9437184 hashes / 6.685 s
i 17:36:39|main Mining on PoWhash #47a38cd5… : 1436602 H/s = 10485760 hashes / 7.299 s
i 17:36:39|main Mining on PoWhash #47a38cd5… : 1461522 H/s = 11534336 hashes / 7.892 s
i 17:36:40|main Mining on PoWhash #47a38cd5… : 1482784 H/s = 12582912 hashes / 8.486 s
i 17:36:40|main Mining on PoWhash #47a38cd5… : 1500934 H/s = 13631488 hashes / 9.082 s
i 17:36:41|main Mining on PoWhash #47a38cd5… : 1517789 H/s = 14680064 hashes / 9.672 s
i 17:36:42|main Mining on PoWhash #47a38cd5… : 1528982 H/s = 15728640 hashes / 10.287 s
i 17:36:45|main Mining on PoWhash #47a38cd5… : 1625579 H/s = 22020096 hashes / 13.546 s
i 17:36:45|main Mining on PoWhash #47a38cd5… : 1631678 H/s = 23068672 hashes / 14.138 s
i 17:36:46|main Mining on PoWhash #47a38cd5… : 1565782 H/s = 23068672 hashes / 14.733 s
i 17:36:47|main Mining on PoWhash #47a38cd5… : 1573821 H/s = 24117248 hashes / 15.324 s
i 17:36:47|main Mining on PoWhash #47a38cd5… : 1580767 H/s = 25165824 hashes / 15.92 s

Am I up and mining now? or is it just running in a loop? I did everything right in the instructions. I am running windows 10 on Nvidia Geforce Gtx 960M with an intel core i7. any info would be greatly appreciated.

admin

January 20th, 2016 at 10:52

Stark, yes, you should be. Using your wallet address you should be able to check the stats at the pool you are mining.

Bob

February 8th, 2016 at 22:46

Dear Admin Where can I find a complete list of ethminer command line switches and arguments ( often there is a README.TXT on directory with a program) or I can type

” ethminer /? or something like that that would scroll a list of possibilities ????

admin

February 8th, 2016 at 22:57

You can use -h or –help to get the list of available options, the downloadable archive comes with help.txt files with commands as well.

Bob

February 9th, 2016 at 05:17

Thank you I figured it out after asking. Even took screen shot could not figure out how to copy text from cmd window txt file

9d703459d03ad3d55a354e414f161f4a5c02410a

February 11th, 2016 at 09:26

i think my miner is running perfectly as picture shown above but when i go to the pool and paste my account detail and check status, it give me an:

Error: Account ‘9d703459d03ad3d55a354e414f161f4a5c02410a’ not found!

what does this mean? how do i know if my shares are being accepted or not?

9d703459d03ad3d55a354e414f161f4a5c02410a

February 11th, 2016 at 09:28

will you tip me some coins, as iam new to ethereum and i have no eth, please.

0x9d703459d03ad3d55a354e414f161f4a5c02410a

Simon

March 3rd, 2016 at 16:47

Hi there.

I have a Radeon HD 6950 with 2 GB RAM and after trying and trying it still gives me the
“clCreateBuffer(-61). PU can’t allocate the DAG in a single chunk. Bailing. clEnqueueWriteBuffer(-38)
Error by mining with 0 H/s

I have the newest “Crimson Edition 16.2.1 Hotfix” Driver from today came arround first March 2016.

CPU Mining works.

Does anyone know the fix AND is going to tell? :/

almohtarif

March 11th, 2016 at 11:33

i 09:27:45|main Seedhash: eada66563356d409600b12a514e79a41ce5763fcf7928810
226e3dce57fb9668
i 09:27:45|main Target: 00000000dbe6fecebdedd5beb573440e5a884d1b2fbf06fcce
912adcb8d8422e
i 09:27:46|main Mining on PoWhash #df7e092d : 267330 H/s = 134200 hashes
/ 0.502 s
i 09:27:46|main Mining on PoWhash #df7e092d : 269846 H/s = 316800 hashes
/ 1.174 s
i 09:27:47|main Mining on PoWhash #df7e092d : 296681 H/s = 545300 hashes
/ 1.838 s
i 09:27:48|main Mining on PoWhash #df7e092d : 313868 H/s = 785300 hashes
/ 2.502 s
i 09:27:48|main Mining on PoWhash #df7e092d : 322860 H/s = 1022500 hashes
/ 3.167 s
i 09:27:49|main Mining on PoWhash #df7e092d : 328921 H/s = 1260100 hashes
/ 3.831 s
i 09:27:50|main Mining on PoWhash #df7e092d : 333955 H/s = 1501800 hashes
/ 4.497 s
i 09:27:50|main Mining on PoWhash #df7e092d : 336633 H/s = 1737700 hashes
/ 5.162 s
i 09:27:51|main Mining on PoWhash #df7e092d : 338036 H/s = 1969400 hashes
/ 5.826 s
i 09:27:52|main Mining on PoWhash #df7e092d : 339523 H/s = 2206900 hashes
/ 6.5 s

but how i chek get my mining , i have web3.fromWei(eth.getBalance(eth.coinbase), “ether”) returne “0 “

admin

March 11th, 2016 at 13:28

almohtarif, if you are solo mining you need to first hit a block and then you will have a local balance available, but with that low hashrate solo mining is literally pointless. If you are pool mining you should check your stats on the pool, based on the pool payout minimum and timeframe it will again take some time before any coins are sent to a local wallet.

admin

March 19th, 2016 at 15:22

If you have a GPU with 2GB of memory and receive the following error: “Allocating/mapping single buffer failed with: clCreateBuffer(-61). GPU can’t allocate the DAG in a single chunk. Bailing.” You can try setting the GPU_SINGLE_ALLOC_PERCENT environment variable to 100 by running in the command line the following command before the miner: SET GPU_SINGLE_ALLOC_PERCENT=100 to see if it will fix the problem.

bill21

March 24th, 2016 at 20:46

Hello,

I got a GPU doing around 5MH/S and I decided to mine solo for now. I read about not being connected to the internet while mining solo shouldn’t make problems. Can you confirm that? In which periods do I have to start geth –rpc to keep the chain up synchronized, especially for solo mining?

Regards

admin

March 24th, 2016 at 21:03

There is no point to try solo mining with just 5 MHS. You need to be online when mining in order to have a synchronized blockchain.

Steve

March 24th, 2016 at 23:10

Did anyone figure out what hashrate you’d get out of an HD 6990???

Jdog

April 2nd, 2016 at 04:45

my dual 7970’s benchmarked at 45Mhs
just started. anyone wanna throw me a coin??

0xcabad522b735020ee4c4950f603f6a78a31ff8bf

Mark

June 3rd, 2016 at 23:28

just started. anyone wanna throw me coins

0x50448652ED77936C2805A9c6194a7Ef29eB249b2

Alex

October 22nd, 2016 at 08:30

Hello everyone,

Why is the blockchain so massive in data storage? The target is 1920000 and I’m currently at 917246, the data files currently amount to 7GB. This means the folder will be a huge amount by the time the block has finished syncing.

Is this normal? Thanks in advance.

amin

December 21st, 2017 at 11:28

hi in article says
r9 280x has 24mhs
i have same from asus, at best even with OC i get 13mhs
can you help me out if i have to do something to get that decent amount mhs ?!

thanks in advance

cashtan

January 19th, 2018 at 14:34

Siema,dziala ten program jeszcze wogole ?mecze sie troche z tym i lipton :)

cashtan

January 19th, 2018 at 16:50

> I0119 13:48:01.019530 eth/downloader/downloader.go:320] Block synchronisation started
I0119 13:48:05.603584 core/blockchain.go:963] imported 2 block(s) (0 queued 0 ignored) including 0 txs in 1.4648364s. #2 [88e96d45 / b495a1d7]
I0119 13:48:11.522955 core/blockchain.go:963] imported 2048 block(s) (0 queued 0 ignored) including 0 txs in 4.2344236s. #2050 [3d612266 / 2c83bc88]
I0119 13:48:11.894166 core/blockchain.go:963] imported 192 block(s) (0 queued 0 ignored) including 0 txs in 369.21ms. #2242 [21e46e5f / 703147f8]
I0119 13:48:15.606291 core/blockchain.go:963] imported 2048 block(s) (0 queued 0 ignored) including 0 txs in 3.6670989s. #4290 [9e4f763f / 02112ef0]

wtf

mechanator

March 21st, 2018 at 10:11

Still does NOT work with Windows 10×64 with CUDA 9 dev kit installed.
Still does NOT work with Windows 10×64 with CUDA 6.5 only installed.

Does NOT work on nicehash statrum connections , or with a Tesla m2050 or m2070 compute 2.0. Yes, I have tried it with CUDA 6.5, 8.0, and 9. Also tried without other GPUs of a higher compute level such as 3 and 5.0 (750ti). The Tesla cards have 3GB and 6GB of GDDR5 ram.
Aborts when trying to download a work unit.
Aborts when trying to run on open CL instead.

Tried to run the sample batch files included, nada.
Tried to create a new DAG, failed.

It DOES run in benchmark mode in CUDA or OPENCL mode, so there is hope…. :}

Removed the 750ti 2gb ram gpu running alongside and it still crashes. Even though I specifically told it to use the Tesla GPU.

The ancient versions all over the github is confusing. Other searches on google not helpful.
Probably the best solution would be Windows 7 x64 and just the Tesla 341.xx drivers?

How hard is it to get all the legacy versions documented and kept online the net in order?
Do I have to recompile from source code, if so which one runs right?

tinychiphub

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You might try adding a video or a related pic or two
to grab readers interested about everything’ve got to say.
In my opinion, it would bring your posts a little livelier.

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