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Title: GUIMiner stops mining after about an hour
Post by: Luke4507 on April 07, 2013, 11:22:18 PM
About 45 minutes to an hour and a half after I start mining I notice the MHash/s rate will freeze and it stops getting new shares. If I stop mining and start again it will pick back up with no problem and mine for another hour or so before freezing again. I've been mining for about two weeks and haven't had any problems until now. I haven't changed any hardware settings or drivers so I'm really quite flummoxed by the sudden failure. There is no screen saver enabled, the monitor is set to never shut off, and I've disabled ULPS. I don't think it can be an issue of the card shutting down due to not being used, since it happens even if I'm actively web browsing while mining. Any ideas on what the problem could be?

Specs
Mobo: ASRock Extreme 9
CPU: i7 3930k
GPU: Radeon HD 7970
OS: Windows 7


Title: Re: GUIMiner stops mining after about an hour
Post by: vm1990 on April 07, 2013, 11:28:46 PM
can you give us more info such as the software your using the mining pool and port number you using please


Title: Re: GUIMiner stops mining after about an hour
Post by: Luke4507 on April 08, 2013, 11:14:41 PM
The software is the latest version of GUIMiner. I'm part of Slush's Pool, mining.bitcoin.cz, and I'm not too sure what port. Whatever the generic port that GUIMiner uses, I guess. I never set up any specific port to be used.


Title: Re: GUIMiner stops mining after about an hour
Post by: Lauto on April 09, 2013, 09:36:28 AM
I have the same problem!! It misses the connection or something like that. I have the latest version of guiminer as well. It does not matter wich pool I use, it happen regardless the pool I use.


Title: Re: GUIMiner stops mining after about an hour
Post by: Luke4507 on April 09, 2013, 12:12:39 PM
So I don't think it's a GUIMiner issue. I downloaded Bit Moose and tried that and have the same issue. Left for a few hours and when I came back all activity on the card had ceased and the miner had stopped mining. Is there some setting or something that might be sleeping my card after X amount of time being "inactive"?


Title: Re: GUIMiner stops mining after about an hour
Post by: Splicer on April 18, 2013, 01:03:05 PM
Sigh I have the same problem, using a 5000 series and a 6000 series it happens on both of them at random times...


Title: Re: GUIMiner stops mining after about an hour
Post by: pendula032 on April 18, 2013, 01:23:37 PM
Try to restart rig. I have similar problem and i have reinstalled drivers and have downloaded the newer version of guiminer.  Try with cgminer?


Title: Re: GUIMiner stops mining after about an hour
Post by: Hei_ on April 18, 2013, 01:24:24 PM
when gpu gets to hot it stops also


Title: Re: GUIMiner stops mining after about an hour
Post by: newman_justin40 on April 18, 2013, 01:29:37 PM
Could be just Slush's pool having problems since the massive DDoS these last two days.