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So, I'm using GUIMiner to mine, latest version afaik, and sometimes it notes something about stale/invalid shares, sure. But other times, it'll just stop mining alltogether and not do anything anymore. Obviously I don't want to have to check my PC 24/7 to make sure it's still mining and manually restarting it every time. Does anyone know what to do about this? How to make it restart manually anyway.

do you have something like MSI afterburner monitoring your GPUs?

the only time's I've had mine 'stop' are either when there is a problem with the pool I'm mining or 1 of the GPUs overheats and shuts down (then the program needs to be restarted to get it going again).


Install afterburner and watch your connection (in GUIminer) as well as temp levels and you should at least have a starting point troubleshooting this.

I installed afterburner for monitoring my GPU before I even started minig. It NEVER goes over 62 celcius.

I only notice my miner stops mining is when I notice the GPU activity plummet from 99% to 1-2% in afterburner hardware monitor.

Sounds similar to a problem I had with one of my graphics cards. For no apparent reason it would fail and then restart (I'm using windows 7, and I'd get a message pop up saying "your graphics card has recovered from a fault", or something like that). The graphics card would restart okay, but GUIminer would sit there doing nothing until I stopped and restarted the mining operation.

So I did a little digging into the event manager on Windows 7 and found that every time it did this it would generate a fault code in the "system" log. Event code 4101 I think it was.

Now.. Windows 7 allows you to assign tasks to specific events. So I simply wrote a batch file to stop and restart my GUIminer program whenever this event occurred. Problem solved. Here's the batch file I used.


I don't know what operating system you're using, but perhaps you can use a similar method to stop and restart your instance of GUIminer.

I'm using win7 64 bits, but I don't have an error like that. I wish I could recreate it but it just randomly happens, no fault code, no popup. It seems to randomly stop mining when it hits an invalid share. I'll try to post more information if/when it happens again. Thanks for the help guys, I wish I could be more specific right now.

Hmmm...

You might not get a popup on your screen, but that doesn't mean some kind of event wasn't logged in the event viewer. I would suggest keeping a manual log of the exact times it happens (if you can), and perhaps then you can narrow it down to something.

At the bottom of GUIMiner, I noticed it say "job completed" or something similar, and then this -  EDIT - It says "warning, job finished" and some numbers.
https://i.imgur.com/8TIEcPQl.png

Have you tried mining with a different pool (if only for an hour or so) just to see if you get the same problem? I had trouble with Deepbit when I was testing out different mining pools. It would do much the same as you described (i.e. just stopped for no apparent reason). Although I don't remember seeing any specific messages.

Other mining pools I've tried on the same computer with same setup worked flawlessly.

any temp issues?  could be throttling