u/That_Temporary_832

I experienced a power loss few days back and ever since Salad isn't working for me. When Crypto mining is enabled, the app goes in an empty loop in which the Salad app shows that it is running a job but the system resources, both CPU and GPU are sitting idle, and when Crypto mining is disabled the app always keeps looking for a 'compatible job'. Its been more than 2 days and the app has completely died on me. Turns out you have to perpetually stay in a que for your system to receive a container workload, when you have disabled crypto mining in the app. This wait time can be 24-48 hours, maybe more. And If you experience a power cut, congratulations you are placed in the very end of the que.

This is what the Salad Support says:

"Your machine seems to be enrolled in crypto mining, however it seems that Salad attempted to run crypto miners (which is why the app was showing as running a workload), though the miner never managed to connect to the internet and remained in a connection loop as shown in its logs.

We are still investigating the cause of the issue internally to verify if it is caused by something on Salad's end or within the crypto mining pool's configuration.

We don't currently have a solution regarding this, if not to disable crypto mining on the machine which will stop this workload from running and only run container workloads when these are available."

I asked Grok about a solution and it says there is a way to bypass the Salad app completely and the earning will reflect in the Salad wallet. Its a complicated process that involves downloading external crypto mining software and receive the earnings in Salad. Is this possible, anyone else faced this? I have given up on Salad Support for help, since all their advice seem auto generated and isn't solving my problem. Surely I'm not the only experiencing this. You guys now anything about this. Any help is appreciated!

You said Monday!

Ever since the new update, the desktop app shows Running Job with "Salad is actively running a job on your hardware" But when checked in Performance tab, both the CPU and GPU are sitting idle with 0% usage.
Same results in Task manager, if the hardware is sitting idle then why is the application lying?
I have tried Pausing Indefinitely and Chopping again and again but the results are same. I doubt its a network sharing job. Reinstalling does not solve this problem either. Before the update my GPU was earning steadily. Why do you break something every single time with the new update?