Ethereum Mining issues

[another random person]

Well, I've only just started to get into mining crypto currencies. So I was setting up the ethminer for OpenGL, I had run everything correctly as based off a tutorial, however upon running the command line meant to start mining I got an invalid argument error, I tried enabling and disabling crossfire on my AMD cards, I changed the command line to run on only 1 card and the for it to run on 2 cards. Basically, I tried all that I could think of. But I still got the error every single time regardless. 

 

The original command line: ethminer -G -t 2 -F http://pool.eth.pp.ua/?miner=30@[my wallet address]

All the other cmd lines I tried:

ethminer -G -t 2 -F http://pool.eth.pp.ua/?miner=35@[my wallet address]

ethminer -G -F http://pool.eth.pp.ua/?miner=30@[my wallet address]

ethminer -G -F http://pool.eth.pp.ua/?miner=35@[my wallet address]

 

(My max hash rate is 35.63 MHs)

 

What shows up after I press enter below.

 

B:\Mining\eth_pp_ua-openclminer\ethminer-opencl-0.9.41>ethminer -G -t 2 -F http://ethereumpool.co/?miner=34@0x16f136950DB5B9D911d4a3F37867a037A3515300
Found suitable OpenCL device [Tonga] with 4294967296 bytes of GPU memory
miner  14:25:54|main  Getting work package...
miner  14:25:56|main  Grabbing DAG for #7c4fb8a5ÔǪ
miner  14:25:57|main  Got work package:
  i  14:25:57|<unknown>  Loading full DAG of seedhash: #3868abc5ÔǪ
miner  14:25:57|main    Header-hash: adcb4d586c00f609e73ddd523c44af3f7db93895a88f69a248b0094b2d788c36
miner  14:25:57|main    Seedhash: 7c4fb8a5d141973b69b521ce76b0dc50f0d2834d817c7f8310a6ab5becc6bb0c
miner  14:25:57|main    Target: 0000000050d8b080b6c49da43b2e24509239a3e0955186556a0fb92b803163a0
  i  14:25:57|gpuminer0  workLoop 0 #00000000ÔǪ #7c4fb8a5ÔǪ
  i  14:25:57|gpuminer1  workLoop 0 #00000000ÔǪ #7c4fb8a5ÔǪ
  i  14:25:57|gpuminer0  Initialising miner...
  i  14:25:57|gpuminer1  Initialising miner...
miner  14:25:58|main  Mining on PoWhash #adcb4d58ÔǪ : 0 H/s = 0 hashes / 0.5 s
Using platform: AMD Accelerated Parallel ProcessingDAG  14:25:59|<unknown>  DAG Generation Failure. Reason: Invalid argument

 

 

Any help will be greatly appreciated.
 

[2FA]

That's a really non-descriptive miner they have and probably specific to their pool. I don't really know enough about it to comment much. It doesn't use Crossfire when mining, what driver version are you on?

 

I use the Ethermine pool with the Claymore's Miner which is better supported.

[kb5zue]

Ouch!  Just looking at your post reminds me why I am not a programmer.  But I do wish you the best of luck trying to make money out of thin air.  Or should that be thin internet?  Anyways.........................

[another random person]

5 minutes ago, DeadEyePsycho said:

That's a really non-descriptive miner they have and probably specific to their pool. I don't really know enough about it to comment much. It doesn't use Crossfire when mining, what driver version are you on?

 

I use the Ethermine pool with the Claymore's Miner which is better supported.

Ah okay...yeah they said the latest driver version so I upgraded to 17.6 but I'm trying what you use, and downgrading to 15.12 Let's hope that works....

[2FA]

3 minutes ago, another random person said:

Ah okay...yeah they said the latest driver version so I upgraded to 17.6 but I'm trying what you use, and downgrading to 15.12 Let's hope that works....

I'm seeing a lot of recent posts about a DAG generation error across different miners on Reddit and StackExchange. There must be something up with the Ethereum network if that's the case.

[another random person]

4 minutes ago, kb5zue said:

Ouch!  Just looking at your post reminds me why I am not a programmer.  But I do wish you the best of luck trying to make money out of thin air.  Or should that be thin internet?  Anyways.........................

Thanks! I'm trying to make money without working because I'm a lazy bugger  .

[another random person]

1 minute ago, DeadEyePsycho said:

I'm seeing a lot of recent posts about a DAG generation error across different miners on Reddit and StackExchange. There must be something up with the Ethereum network if that's the case.

Oh, I really do hope not....

[kb5zue]

Hey, gotta give ya credit for at least being honest.  But to be honest, I hate anything that has to do with Claymore Mines.  Those are real nasty buggers that we used during the Vietnam conflict.

[2FA]

Just now, another random person said:

Oh, I really do hope not....

It'll probably get fixed in the next couple of days. There is always Zcash to mine.  

[another random person]

4 minutes ago, DeadEyePsycho said:

It'll probably get fixed in the next couple of days. There is always Zcash to mine.  

Hmm, I've gotten it to work now with the 15.12 driver but it doesn't recognise the Asia server for ethermine...

[2FA]

Just now, another random person said:

Hmm, I've gotten it to work now with the 15.12 driver but it doesn't recognise the Asia server for ethermine...

Are you still using the same miner from the previous pool?

[kb5zue]

Good Luck, no matter what you decide to do.  As a human race, one of our biggest problems is our inability to acknowledge our short comings.  Once a person realizes that and acknowledges the problem, anything else is down hill.

[another random person]

4 minutes ago, DeadEyePsycho said:

Are you still using the same miner from the previous pool?

Nope, I'm now using claymores...Actually nevermind its working now. Are you aware of any instability issues caused by mining and using chrome?

[2FA]

Just now, another random person said:

Nope, I'm now using claymores...Actually nevermind its working now. Are you aware of any instability issues caused by mining and using chrome?

Nope, did you get a crash or something? I've only had that happen when my GPUs are overclocked.

[another random person]

1 minute ago, DeadEyePsycho said:

Nope, did you get a crash or something? I've only had that happen when my GPUs are overclocked.

Hmm, thats odd, when I was mining, chrome would freeze, apps won't open, windows key refused to work until when I closed the miner, all the actions I requested from earlier would execute in a split second.

[2FA]

11 hours ago, another random person said:

Hmm, thats odd, when I was mining, chrome would freeze, apps won't open, windows key refused to work until when I closed the miner, all the actions I requested from earlier would execute in a split second.

Some miners really take all of the graphics resources from your system and are pretty much unusable for normal tasks.