So I'm trying to get started mining for the first time, running windows 8.1, firewall completely disabled, with a nvidia 750m (I know it's likely not profitable but I'm going to build a new system if I can figure this out).
I installed Geth, ran geth --rpc and I believe it is fully synced as it is on number 3770541 which is current according to the "best block" on the ethnetstats page.
I left geth --rpc running and started up ethminer from c:\program files\ethminer\ethminer.exe. I created a batch file with this to start:
setx GPU_FORCE_64BIT_PTR 0
setx GPU_MAX_HEAP_SIZE 100
setx GPU_USE_SYNC_OBJECTS 1
setx GPU_MAX_ALLOC_PERCENT 100
setx GPU_SINGLE_ALLOC_PERCENT 100
cd c:\Program Files\ethminer
ethminer -G --opencl-platform 1
Once I run that, ethminer does recognize my nvidia 750M and starts mining on PoWash #c46788e8 (for example) at 0.00MH/s, the geth window that is still running says "Starting mining operation" then continues to print things such as "Commit new mining work".
After about a minute of this, it will say "Got work package: #f0eb1894" (the info after the hashtag is always different from what it was "mining" previously) and it will just hang there.
As a side note - it is not creating any files in the C:\users\[user]\appdata\local\ethash folder.
Any idea what I am doing wrong? I can provide access to the system if necessary.
Thanks in advance for any help guys.
I installed Geth, ran geth --rpc and I believe it is fully synced as it is on number 3770541 which is current according to the "best block" on the ethnetstats page.
I left geth --rpc running and started up ethminer from c:\program files\ethminer\ethminer.exe. I created a batch file with this to start:
setx GPU_FORCE_64BIT_PTR 0
setx GPU_MAX_HEAP_SIZE 100
setx GPU_USE_SYNC_OBJECTS 1
setx GPU_MAX_ALLOC_PERCENT 100
setx GPU_SINGLE_ALLOC_PERCENT 100
cd c:\Program Files\ethminer
ethminer -G --opencl-platform 1
Once I run that, ethminer does recognize my nvidia 750M and starts mining on PoWash #c46788e8 (for example) at 0.00MH/s, the geth window that is still running says "Starting mining operation" then continues to print things such as "Commit new mining work".
After about a minute of this, it will say "Got work package: #f0eb1894" (the info after the hashtag is always different from what it was "mining" previously) and it will just hang there.
As a side note - it is not creating any files in the C:\users\[user]\appdata\local\ethash folder.
Any idea what I am doing wrong? I can provide access to the system if necessary.
Thanks in advance for any help guys.