<p>It's pointless. With that kind of hardware, it would take you on the order of a month to mine a dollar's worth of Bitcoins, and the electricity used would cost you many times that.</p>

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2013-05-04T02:55:00.433Z
is mining at all relevant anymore?
David
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2014-01-05T19:14:39.707Z
Mining is completely relevant, the blockchain/mining mechanism is perhaps the MOST interesting thing about Bitcoin - It's just that a lot of us despise these CPU mining questions because most of them are actually asking "how do I mine on a botnet" or "how do I mine on my company's equipment without their knowledge/consent."
David Perry
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2013-04-11T03:42:14.007Z
David Schwartz
<p>I just started mining within the past week on my laptop but I am trying to set up 2 dedicated mining servers to run 24/7. I've been using UfaSoft's CPUMiner on Windows 8 on the laptop, but I cant seam to get it to work on either of my servers.</p>

<p>I am running a Dell Dimension 433c with a 600 MHz Pentium Pro with 256 MG RAM &amp; a Dell Dimension L1000R with a Pentium III again with 256 MB RAM both with Ubuntu Server 12.04 LTS x86 installed.</p>

<p>I downloaded the source code for both UfaSofts CPU Miner and CGMiner directly from the developer's website, downloaded all the dependencies needed for a rig without any GPUs and did a #make install for both.</p>

<p>With UfaSoft I keep getting Error 80072550 when ever I try to mine.
With CGMiner, It won't initialise and says that all devices are disabled. A friend of mine told me that it was picking up a GPU and was then disabling the CPU miner as a response but I think he may not know what he's talking about.</p>

<p>Any help that I can get would be greatly appreciated.</p>

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Trouble CPU Mining with CGMiner and CPUMiner on Ubuntu Server 12.04
Rowan Silverleaf
# Trouble CPU Mining with CGMiner and CPUMiner on Ubuntu Server 12.04

(Asked by: username_0 on 2013-04-10)

I just started mining within the past week on my laptop but I am trying to set up 2 dedicated mining servers to run 24/7. I've been using UfaSoft's CPUMiner on Windows 8 on the laptop, but I cant seam to get it to work on either of my servers.

I am running a Dell Dimension 433c with a 600 MHz Pentium Pro with 256 MG RAM & a Dell Dimension L1000R with a Pentium III again with 256 MB RAM both with Ubuntu Server 12.04 LTS x86 installed.

I downloaded the source code for both UfaSofts CPU Miner and CGMiner directly from the developer's website, downloaded all the dependencies needed for a rig without any GPUs and did a #make install for both.

With UfaSoft I keep getting Error 80072550 when ever I try to mine.
With CGMiner, It won't initialise and says that all devices are disabled. A friend of mine told me that it was picking up a GPU and was then disabling the CPU miner as a response but I think he may not know what he's talking about.

Any help that I can get would be greatly appreciated.

**Tags:** miner-configuration, mining-profitability, linux, cpu-mining


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## 1 answers

### Answer by username_1 on 2013-04-11. Score: 3

It's pointless. With that kind of hardware, it would take you on the order of a month to mine a dollar's worth of Bitcoins, and the electricity used would cost you many times that.

> **Comments:**
> **username_2**: is mining at all relevant anymore?  
> **username_3**: Mining is completely relevant, the blockchain/mining mechanism is perhaps the MOST interesting thing about Bitcoin - It's just that a lot of us despise these CPU mining questions because most of them are actually asking "how do I mine on a botnet" or "how do I mine on my company's equipment without their knowledge/consent."  

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