Re: How to use ASICMiner Block Erupters with CGMiner on Windows 7
5 - Run cgminer-nogpu with these options:
--icarus-options 115200:1:1 --icarus-timing 3.0=100 -S COMx -S COMy -S COMz -S COMetc
For my 7 miners, I'm using:
--icarus-options 115200:1:1 --icarus-timing 3.0=100 -S COM3 -S COM4 -S COM5 -S COM6 -S COM7 -S COM8 -S COM9
Note that I saw a post from one of the cgminer authors suggesting to use 115200:2:1 and 3.0=80. When I did that, I got errors and cgminer immediately crashed.
I'm getting about 333mh/s with the above on Win7x64.
M
I really appreciate your post. For all of us noobs out there can you be a bit more specific on how you do step 5? Very basic stuff I know, but I am trying to learn. When I run my cgminer no gpu it first wants me to enter a url. After I put in the mining pool info and my worker info it goes away. How do I set it up to run using the options you have specified? I know its connected and working b/c I am able to mine using the USB BE using bitminter's software. Thanks.
Sounds like you are trying to run it from windows explorer? What you want to do is create a command script to run it that pauses at the end, so you can see what it's saying before windows closes the command window. If Bitminter's software is working for you, you might want to stick with that. Bitminter is one of the best pools around if you don't want to go pay per share (PPS). It's what I use.
To make a command script, open notepad and enter something like this:
Code:
cd \mining\cgminer
cgminer.exe [with your parameters]
pause
cgminer.exe [with your parameters]
pause
Then save it where you can easily get to it as cgminer.cmd. Hopefully you've already turned off the "feature" in windows to hide known file extensions (tools -> folder options in windows explorer), otherwise you'll end up with a file called cgminer.cmd.txt.
The cgminer readme has info on what parms to use to specify a pool, password, and so forth.
M