Newbee with a mining rig build can't get working!

[TsonicTsunami]

This is my first computer build and I'm in way over my head. I was working for many days with a defective motherboard that almost drove me out of my mind. I have a new motherboard and all seems to be working fine.

I have:

EVGA SuperNOVA NEX 1500 Classified
ATX 12v/EPS 12v 1650  1500W 80 PLUS
Gold Power Supply 120-PG-1500-VR

Gigabyte Radeon HD 7970 WF 3X GHz Edition
3GB GDDR5 PCI-Express 3.0 DVI.I/HDMI?2X mini-
DP Crossfire Ready Graphics Card, the computer has 4 of these.

AMD A4-530 APU 3.4 GHz

Click on this to get a good look at it:



 Working with "GoldCoin: How to mine with a GPU using CGMiner"

I have very little to no experience with computers and coding. While I can download and unzip the file and create a short cut the next part of this I don;t understand at all!

"3. Create a shortcut to cgminer.exe, edit the properties of the shortcut and append to the target the required parameters mentioned below."

I put this in the Target and it says the path is no good!   --scrypt -o stratum+tcp://gld.cryptocoinmine.com:2020 -u TsonicTsunami.1 -p xxxxxx

I am exhausted, please help! THANKS!

I have to get away from this machine and take the dog for a walk before I go postal on it. I have been working on this miner for over two weeks and I'm starting to loose it!

[sizzflair]

Yea building and maintaining the mining rig isn't as easy as you think. Lots of debugging and little issues arise that you're trying to fix. I've spent numerous hours trying to get my rigs stable and I still don't know if it's 100 percent.

However, mining is fun at the same time. I had a blast building it and tweaking it. I'd build more if I had the time and money.

Im assuming you're using a windows OS? If so, you have to put cgminer.exe at the front of all that. After your password, you can fine tune your cards by putting in parameters.  Let me know if that helped.

[dustint]

 gld.cryptocoinmine.com is down you have to make an account on another working pool then create a worker on that pool and point your miner to it by replacing gld.cryptocoinmine.com:2020 with your new pool info.  Make sure you are using an older version of cgminer 3.7.2 or older i think because anything newer is for asic only.  You should create a batch file in your cgminer folder for your miner info.  Open your cgminer folder where cgminer.exe is and right click in there and make a new text document and rename it goldcoin.bat  Inside your bat file copy your miner details

setx GPU_MAX_ALLOC_PERCENT 100
setx GPU_USE_SYNC_OBJECTS 1
cgminer.exe --scrypt -o stratum+tcp://your pool:port -u user name created in pool -p password created in pool --auto-fan --thread-concurrency 10240 -I 13 -g 2

just doubleclick your .bat file when done and it should open cgminer and hopefully start mining away
--thread-concurrency might have to be changed for your cards but that is the one I use for my 7970's    hope this helps

[TsonicTsunami]

Thanks for getting back to me folks,

I have chores to do but I will be back at it later this afternoon
@ sizzflair, I am using Windows 7 64bit. Could  you explain having to  "put cgminer.exe at the front of all that" .

@dustin thanks a million, I'll try and point at a pool that is operational. Any suggestions?

Thanks again all, I have some renewed energy to go at this monster!

[CircuitSix]

Thanks for getting back to me folks,

I have chores to do but I will be back at it later this afternoon
@ sizzflair, I am using Windows 7 64bit. Could  you explain having to  "put cgminer.exe at the front of all that" .

@dustin thanks a million, I'll try and point at a pool that is operational. Any suggestions?

Thanks again all, I have some renewed energy to go at this monster!

You are more than welcome to join our pool, the link is in my signature

[sizzflair]

Thanks for getting back to me folks,

I have chores to do but I will be back at it later this afternoon
@ sizzflair, I am using Windows 7 64bit. Could  you explain having to  "put cgminer.exe at the front of all that" .

@dustin thanks a million, I'll try and point at a pool that is operational. Any suggestions?

Thanks again all, I have some renewed energy to go at this monster!

Pretty much use the bat file that dustint wrote. Having cgminer.exe in front of --scrypt makes it run.

[TsonicTsunami]

Thank you all, I had a friend come over and he got me going. It needs tweeking but its up and running. Thank you very much!

[CircuitSix]

Glad to hear you got it running What is your hash rate with that rig?

[sizzflair]

I'd guess 700-800 per card    Happy Mining!

Also, let me know how your PSU is.  I'm thinking of trading one of my Lepa 1600 for one of those.

[TsonicTsunami]

setx GPU_MAX_ALLOC_PERCENT 100
setx GPU_USE_SYNC_OBJECTS 1
cgminer.exe --scrypt -o stratum+tcp://your pool/port -u user name created in pool -p password created in pool --auto-fan --thread-concurrency 10240 -I 13 -g 2

just doubleclick your .bat file when done and it should open cgminer and hopefully start mining away
--thread-concurrency might have to be changed for your cards but that is the one I use for my 7970's    hope this helps

So these are the parameters my friend put in the bat file and the hash rate is 17.67 Kh/s for all 4 GPU. Seems to be running without a hitch but my friend sizzflair is talking 700 - 800 per card I imagine this rig needs some tweeking. How do I ramp it up a bit?
I'm just so happy to be participating in this revolutionary new technology, I's been quite a learning curve and there is still so much to learn. Any guidance on getting the hash rate up would be appreciated.

The PSU seems to be a very good one and I like that its modular.

[CircuitSix]

You should definitely be a lot higher than 17kh, that's about the speed of a slow cpu. 7-800 per card is more realistic. I would offer assistance but my workstation is down until my reactions back.

[dustint]

try tweaking --thread-concurrency   start at 2048 and try that then 4096 and 8192 if that doesnt help try to add these other parameters --gpu-memclock 1500 --gpu-engine 1044

[TsonicTsunami]

Right now in the pool it says 64 KH/s , whats the deal? I plugged in some of the numbers you gave me but things stay the same.   

[dustint]

maybe try to get 1 card running good first by disconnecting the others and just leave the one running that you have hooked up to the display i cant really tell but in your pic it looks like you have powered riser cables without the molex hooked up.  Once one is running good then add the others back

[TsonicTsunami]

Okay, I disconnected the 3 top cards from the PSU and the mobo. 0 card is running the same 17.84KH/s
Ideas?  thanks and btw Happy New Year!