Can someone help me get set up?

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I've tried to get started litecoin mining but I don't know how to work the reaper miner.

I've read quite a few instructions but none of them help.

Any help is appreciated.

 

-Batwang

2

Why dont you use the wallet miner? I am new too.

3

Oh, I never saw that. Thanks I'll have a go with it and see the results.

Edit: I tried using the wallet miner but its mining at 0 hashes per second anyone got any advice?

4

So in the reaper file open reaper.conf with notepad and where it says mine bitcoins keep mine litecoins and remove the rest. After that open the litecoin.conf file. Go to pool.gotgrapedrink.com or another mining pool and make an account. In the litecoin.conf file you should have something like this.

host pool.gotgrapedrink.com


port 9344


user your_username.1


pass your_password

 


protocol litecoin

worksize 256


aggression 14

threads_per_gpu 1

sharethreads 18

lookup_gap 2

gpu_thread_concurrency 6144

 

5

Thanks for helping but once I do this and open reaper it keeps saying it can't connect to the servers.

6

What kind of graphics card do you have? AMD or NVIDIA? or are you trying to CPU mine?

7

It says something about the gpc nothing about cpus. I have an AMD.

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That's fine I just wanted to know so I could point you in the right direction.

1: Download Windows binary from https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=28402.0

2: Extract to preffered location (I dump it on C: but will work fine from other partitions or drvies)

3: Open notepad
copy and paste the following without the ""s

"
cgminer.exe -o http://pool:port -u username.workername -p password
"
set your own username.worker and password
save the notepad as cgminer.bat in the previously extracted cgminer folder

4: Create shortcut to dekstop for cgminer.bat

5: Double click cgminer.bat, wait a moment while cgminer starts up

6: Look in cgminer console to see you are submitting shares

 

if you have problems

1. tell me what pool you are using

2. paste your cgminer.bat here

9

Does it matter that I have windows 8?

10

Shouldnt

11

Which one is windows binary because there a bunch of stuff on that website?

12

windows 64 or 32... depending which one you have.

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I'm pretty sure i have 64