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Title: Becoming Frustrated as a Newbie Miner Post by: bo122081 on September 11, 2013, 02:18:53 PM Setup a 3 Gpu Mining rig with plans to expand to 5 (it has the slots and the PSU can handle it), but I'm having a lot of issue.
First, one of the GPUs I got off ebay had horrendous overheat issues, so I resold it on Ebay, leaving me with 2 GPUs. Next, after tweaking I kept having random crashes. CGminer wouldn't report dead, or sick, or give me any indication of a problem, it would just say "Cgminer attempting to restart" out of the blue, then hang indefinitely. I reset all the settings in CGminer back to defaults (no powertune, no overclock on anything. The only non-default is auto-fan is on), and all that stopped. But now, I'm having an issue where after Cgminer says "Stratum from pool 0 detected new block" it will sometimes just stop working. No crash. No error. No "attempting to restart", no DEAD/SICK, nothing. The fans continue to run like normal, but the pool reports the worker IDLE, when I remote in, it connects, but the screen never appears, and when I check the logs, everything appears to have just stopped. It doesn't blue-screen. It just STOPS. How do I begin to debug this? There are no errors, there's nothing set to non-defaults. I'm at a loss. Title: Re: Becoming Frustrated as a Newbie Miner Post by: LHB on September 11, 2013, 04:02:03 PM change pools or miner software
Title: Re: Becoming Frustrated as a Newbie Miner Post by: os2sam on September 11, 2013, 04:49:18 PM Are you Bitcoin mining? If so I would replace the 3 GPU's with 3 Block Erupters. You'll loose allot less money in the long run.
Sam Title: Re: Becoming Frustrated as a Newbie Miner Post by: bo122081 on September 11, 2013, 05:15:42 PM Been mining alt-coins (Scrypt), because by my math, even block eruptors aren't great ROI. Unless you're gonna put out a few thousand for some top-end ASICs, GPUs on Scrypt seem to be the way to go.
Title: Re: Becoming Frustrated as a Newbie Miner Post by: nachius on September 11, 2013, 07:34:51 PM That sounds like an issue with the pool you are mining or connectivity in general. Have you tested a different pool to see if it behaves the same?
Title: Re: Becoming Frustrated as a Newbie Miner Post by: bo122081 on September 11, 2013, 07:58:33 PM No, but I will. Thanks for the tip.
Title: Re: Becoming Frustrated as a Newbie Miner Post by: Ex0deus on September 12, 2013, 06:27:44 AM You could solo mine Bitcoins... it would be like playing the lottery.... you could think of it like fun... and maybe one day... you actually hit a block.... and get it all to yourself :P
Title: Re: Becoming Frustrated as a Newbie Miner Post by: cp1 on September 12, 2013, 06:31:05 AM You could solo mine Bitcoins... it would be like playing the lottery.... you could think of it like fun... and maybe one day... you actually hit a block.... and get it all to yourself :P I hit 12.1 million last week. Almost... |