I am getting a feeling you are deliberately avoiding what we were asking, how YOU start PhoenixMiner from a command prompt or what is in the batch file you use.

From a Windows command prompt you would normally start as follows, this will avoid using the config.txt and epools.txt files:

/path/to/PhoenixMiner.exe -nvidia -coin eth -pool ssl://eu1.ethermine.org:5555 -pool2 ssl://us1.ethermine.org:5555 -wal YourEthWalletAddress.WorkerName -proto 3

if that works with the obvious changes for you, it can be put in a batchfile.


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There's no reason for me to "deliberately" avoiding providing the info you are asking for. I'm looking for help, so that would defeat the purpose. I literally provided the files you asked for.

As far as how I start PhoenixMiner, I simply create a shortcut of the start_miner.bat file to the desktop, and launch it from there. Which works on all my AMD machines. If this is not the "normal" way of starting this, then I was unaware. I simply followed the steps I found on a site, or YouTube (not sure, it's been a couple years now). The only edits I made to the start_miner.bat file, is adding the address for -pool and -pool2, and then obviously my wallet.

Are you suggesting that I need to put the following info, "-nvidia -coin eth", in between the "PhoenixMiner.exe" and "-pool ssl://...." of the start_miner.bat file?

Again, I'm not trying to be difficult. I've let my AMD gaming rigs mine eth when not in use for the past couple years by simply putting the pool address and my wallet in the start_miner.bat file and launching it as a shortcut from the desktop, and it's worked. Obviously there's more to it with this NVIDA gaming rig, but I'm not finding much outside of asking for help here. So if I don't answer your question exactly how you want me to, it's not that I'm being difficult purposefully, I simply don't do this enough to understand what you are asking.