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Nicehash miner hangs at starting excavator server #1361

Open hariharanpalani opened 6 years ago

hariharanpalani commented 6 years ago

Hi, I am trying to launch the nicehash miner version 2.0.1.5. It hangs at starting excavator server step. Can you please let me know any settings needs to be changed or it is really issue?

interbiznw commented 6 years ago

They were hacked and lost ~$60M. https://www.reddit.com/r/NiceHash/comments/7i0s6o/official_press_release_statement_by_nicehash/

Motherboard commented 6 years ago

I experience it myself.. It started OK yesterday, but after a while the console window was gone and the GUI was showing as if it was mining, but the GPU was idle. After closing NiceHash Miner and starting it again it said it updates the excavator, and hangs on Starting Excavator Server (the process is using plenty of CPU, but nothing else is happening).

Tried to restart the computer - NiceHash Miner needed again to update the excavator, and it again hangs on Starting Excavator Server...

Even complete uninstall and reinstall didn't change anything - it doesn't even get to the stage in which I can setup a worker again

F1Rumors commented 6 years ago

Right. Bit the bullet & took a closer look. The excavator download is failing, because the anti-virus is eating the results of the unzip attempt, so the expansion is missing important files (like the executable). You may just want to turn off scanning for a couple of minutes whilst starting the application... that will permit the expansion to work. Then you need to ensure that files under C:\Users\<YOUR ACCOUNT>\AppData\Roaming\nhm2\bin\excavator_server then/now C:\Users\<YOUR ACCOUNT>\AppData\Roaming\nhm2\bin\excavator_cuda9.1 are excluded from the anti virus, or the excavator server will get randomly deleted whilst you are mining!

Motherboard commented 6 years ago

You're right, it was the antivirus, after whitelisting excavator it worked fine.

josephpusateri commented 6 years ago

Good lord! I am so grateful to have found this thread... been dealing with this problem for a while. Turning off scanning for a moment did the trick

GianniKoch commented 6 years ago

Hi I got the same issue, just turn your antivirus realtimescan off and restart your nicehash app, it will work, same for the v1 versions where your nicehashminer start exe deletes it selfs after you got an error that there are no system things... just turn of your anti virus and it will be fixed!