Ok, so this is getting frustrating...
I've downloaded the bfgminer build which has the bf1.inf in it, which i've installed for my device successfully getting a COM port assigned to it.. yet no miner will work with it
The latest cgminer doesn't work at all (not even for block erupters, and yes, tried without them plugged in also) it just says "failed to initialise" / "you need to install a WinUSB driver for - BF1"
I have tried versions 3.7, 3.6.6, 3.5 and 3.4.3, to no avail
bfgminer simply won't detect anything... at all... just says no devices.. have tried the -S bigpic:all as well as \\.\COMn aswell as bigpic:\\.\COMn
it fails to work with either block erupter or bluefury
I have tried the version with the .inf, as well as version 3.4.0
bitminter beta detects all devices... but the bluefury gets the error "Probe of port COM43 failed: timeout"
I really don't care what miner I have to use, and whether or not it can run both varieties of miners at the same time or not.. I just want them hashing...
FYI, I am working with the infamous Windows Vista
P.S: Despite not hashing, the device gets hot, wtf?
This made me think it was DOA - but I have now tried 2 different devices, and they both behaved the same way.
So, can anybody please tell me what they're using, and how they got it to work? or point out anything I've clearly missed?
Thanks in advance
I did not try it on Vista. On Win7 I am using the bfgminer32 per the instructions earlier in this thread. I use the sample #MINE.bat file edited to suit my pool.
bfgminer.exe -S "BF1:all" -o
(not bigpic:all).
My single BF1 device gets about 2.26 GH/sec (I think that the number that matters is the second number in the bfgminer display, which is the all time average, while the first is a short term exponentially decaying average and the last number looks like a short time actually submitted shares average. The long term average should be taken after things stabilize (quoting any numbers in the first few minutes is misleading and not representative of the long term performance).
Good luck
Thank you so much. I'm glad it was something stupidly simple I was doing wrong, I was getting worried.