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Ive got a card that keeps going dead every couple hours about 4 hours or so. I was looking to see if there is any basic script to restart cgminer every 4 hours to fix the issues.

there is a couple of scripts for if your card fails, but I can't seem to find em.

My machine with 4x 5970s kept falling over every day or two.  I've changed from cgminer to bfgminer and I haven't had a fall over since.

You could also look at your temps and see in you're getting a spike. 

maybe change the intensity down to 8?

Drop your clocks to prevent the cards from going dead. Or use a less efficient miner that doesn't drive them as hard.

So I turned down the difficulty still goes dead after a couple hours, Does anyone have any ideas about the script though, I just need the card to last another month or so till BFL comes out

Try blowing the dust out of the heatsink with a can of compressed air, but anyway, to answer your question...

If you're running on windows just click... Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Task Scheduler > Create Task

on Gnome GUI Linux its..
sudo apt-get install gnome-schedule
Applications > System Tools > Schedule Tasks.

or from linux command line search google for info on "crontab"

I did this once with a compressed air line ... cleaned it REALLY well, until it shattered.. oops. I'm more careful now :D

i have a python script like that in the mining thread in my sig

Drop GPU engine overclock, not "difficulty", whatever you mean by that.

I'm guessing he means intensity.

In addition to dropping your GPU clock, you might want to think about dropping your mem clock by -100 to -150.  Not only will your gpu run more efficiently, you it might thank you in the long run by lasting longer for you.