unMineable GPU Mining Guide

Confirm detection

Verify the GPU appears correctly in Device Manager and the vendor control panel. Close games, renderers, and other compute workloads before testing.

Practical note: Integrated and discrete GPUs may require different selections.

Test at stock settings

Start without overclocking or undervolting. Confirm that jobs are received and accepted before tuning.

Practical note: If the default setup is unstable, performance tuning makes diagnosis harder.

Tune carefully

Change one parameter at a time and record temperature, power, effective rate, rejected work, and stability.

Practical note: A small displayed speed gain can be a loss if power use or error rate rises significantly.

Scope of this page

This page has one primary intent: unMineable GPU Mining Guide. Download verification, Windows preparation, first setup, field-by-field configuration, safety assessment, and fault diagnosis are maintained as separate guides so that each change can be tested independently.

A mining result must be interpreted with local logs, accepted work, hardware temperature, total system power, network state, service terms, and payout-network details. A displayed hashrate alone does not establish stability or profitability.

Controlled Windows test

1. Confirm authorization to use the computer and electricity for mining.
2. Verify the delivered file, exact origin, publisher information, and security result.
3. Record the address, network, worker, algorithm, endpoint, and selected device.
4. Start at stock hardware settings for a limited period.
5. Stop on unexplained alerts, excessive heat, instability, or configuration mismatch.

What to record

Keep the Windows version, driver version, mining engine, algorithm, worker name, test duration, accepted and rejected work, temperatures, clock behavior, and error lines. Remove or mask wallet and account details before sharing a log.

Important: Never place a wallet seed phrase or private key in mining software, a configuration file, screenshot, or support message.

Reading logs without guessing

Read the log in chronological order. First locate the engine version and detected device, then the selected algorithm and endpoint, followed by authorization and share messages. A local hashrate line only proves that a calculation loop is running; an accepted-work message shows that the remote endpoint recognized useful work. Rejected, stale, authorization, DNS, timeout, memory-allocation, and device-reset messages describe different failures and should not be treated as one generic connection problem.

Copy only the few lines surrounding the first error. Remove payout addresses, account aliases, local user names, folder paths, IP addresses, and tokens before sharing diagnostics. Never post a seed phrase or private key; legitimate mining configuration does not require either secret.

Stop and recovery plan

Before starting, know how to close both the graphical wrapper and its child mining engine. After stopping, verify in Task Manager that sustained CPU or GPU activity has ended. If the system remains unstable, return clock and power settings to defaults, restart Windows, review protection history, and confirm that no scheduled task automatically relaunches the process.

After uninstalling or ending a test, review startup entries, scheduled tasks, download folders, extracted miner directories, firewall changes, and antivirus exclusions. Keep a file only when its purpose and origin are known. A broad exclusion that survives after the associated program is removed creates unnecessary exposure.

Claims this guide does not make

No fixed earnings, payback period, safe temperature, hashrate, payout time, or electricity result applies to every machine. Hardware revisions, cooling, ambient temperature, driver versions, algorithms, service rules, asset prices, fees, and local energy tariffs change independently.

Use the official service pages for current supported assets, networks, thresholds, algorithms, endpoints, and fees. Use the CPU, GPU, motherboard, and power-supply manufacturers for device limits. This explains a verification workflow; it cannot certify a third-party file or replace financial, electrical, legal, or hardware advice.