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Title: Computer crashes when I stop mining Post by: xarchangelzerox on May 05, 2011, 03:58:16 AM I've just recently added a second 5850 into my computer to mine with. Before I had crossfire, I never had any stability issues with mining. I'm using GUI miner to mine with both of my GPUs. Starting mining and actually mining are fine, but as soon as I click stop on either of my workers, the display freezes, a few moments later I get a message (sometimes) saying my display drivers crashed but recovered, and then I blue screen.
Anyone know how to fix this? Title: Re: Computer crashes when I stop mining Post by: shivansps on May 05, 2011, 04:27:00 AM I have this problem too... it seems to be some kind of bug with the drivers, since i dint had it until i "upgraded" to cat 11.4 WHQL, with Stream APP 2.4.595.10... as far i can tell, Stream APP 2.4.595.5 was working fine.
i cant go back now because my stream app install got bugged, now i can inly reemplace it with a higher version. The only workaround i found is to stop the miners in order, 1st the miner on device 0, then the one on device 1, etc. Title: Re: Computer crashes when I stop mining Post by: gigabytecoin on May 06, 2011, 08:09:32 AM A blue screen... I assume you're running windows?! Try ubuntu, never witnessed that on linux.
Title: Re: Computer crashes when I stop mining Post by: chungenhung on May 06, 2011, 04:38:36 PM I have similar problem when running multiple GPUs.
After I quit the miner, the screen will continue working for a few seconds, then the computer locks up completely. Have to reset after that. Will try the quite worker 1, then 2, then 3 method. Title: Re: Computer crashes when I stop mining Post by: gigabytecoin on May 06, 2011, 07:42:36 PM I have similar problem when running multiple GPUs. After I quit the miner, the screen will continue working for a few seconds, then the computer locks up completely. Have to reset after that. Will try the quite worker 1, then 2, then 3 method. Yes, please do and report back! Title: Re: Computer crashes when I stop mining Post by: xarchangelzerox on May 06, 2011, 08:57:40 PM It was my driver version. I spent a few hours wrestling with them the other night, I'm on 11.2 drivers now with SDK 2.1. I noticed that even though it no longer crashes when I stop mining, one of my two GPUs never quite reaches 100%. Granted, I have crossfire enabled, but I'm pretty sure that (once I have time) upgrading to 11.3 drivers will fix the performance deficit in my second card. Independently they both run full speed.
Also, regarding Ubuntu, I spent quite a long time last night trying to get it all set up. I'm pretty sure everything is almost set up...I was following this guide http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3359.0 to set it up, as I've never touched Linux in my life. I just need to overclock my GPUs in Ubuntu (somehow) and make a dummy plug for my second card and I should be good to go. Ubuntu is kinda scary though, haha. It seems nice and stable, but I have absolutely no idea how to fix anything myself if I mess something up....I was literally just following instructions word for word with only a little bit of comprehension of what I was doing. I can't wait to see how much faster it is mining in Ubuntu though =D Title: Re: Computer crashes when I stop mining Post by: Seraphim401 on May 09, 2011, 02:26:45 AM Hi I joined the forum just now,because of this same problem.
Every thing was just fine until I upgraded from ccc 11.3 to 11.4. I'm running 2 HD 5770's in cf.Hope the 11.5 drivers will fix this :-[. Title: Re: Computer crashes when I stop mining Post by: xarchangelzerox on May 09, 2011, 11:50:38 PM Go back to 11.3!
Saved me so much trouble =D Title: Re: Computer crashes when I stop mining Post by: Seraphim401 on May 10, 2011, 01:40:08 AM Just wanted you all to know that the 11.5a drivers solves this problem.
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