Gentle Typhoons have weak static pressure and are basically useless in mining rigs.
Uhh...no they're not. |
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Reaper is the memory hog. That program loves it's system RAM...
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You sure you have the opencl sdk? My machine is also my workstation, and I need Windows. It worked before on Win7 - it's why it now doesn't that's making my mind boggle.
Surely if I didn't have the SDK, it wouldn't run at all? I've never needed to install anything other than the drivers in the past. It runs for a few minutes at high CPU, then the machine locks up solid. Yet it'll run Furmark for hours with no issues... I'm going to blow this 7 install away and stick 8 on, see if that helps. |
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My machine is also my workstation, and I need Windows. It worked before on Win7 - it's why it now doesn't that's making my mind boggle.
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Why would you run 12.8 when 13.4 works perfectly fine?
cgminer just crashes under 13.4 - I've wiped and reinstalled Windows a couple of times trying this. 12.10 is the same. 13.2 is the same. 12.8 is the only one I can (could) get to run reliably. With anything but 12.8 cgminer craps out on initial start (about then it builds the .bin files). I must be missing something - I'm running a fresh 7x64 install, Windows updated, ATI drivers, cgminer. Nothing else. Board is an Asus P8B WS (C206 chipset), i5-3350P@defualt speed, 12GB DDR3-1600 RAM, Asus HD7850, Gigabyte HD7950, Sapphire HD6970. These three cards worked OK on a SABERTOOTH 990FX with a FX8320@4.4GHz, but I changed to bring power consumption down (the AMD chip and board were using ~100W more at the wall than the Intel setup). If I can't get this working I think I'll have to go back to the AMD. But I want to see if there's something strange with cgminer, and maybe help bug hunt before I nuke this install? |
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3.1.1 and 3.2.1 are running my i5-3350P at 80% CPU. 3 GPUs (7850, 7950, 6970). Eventually locks up the machine, solid. Was OK with 2.11.4. Running 7x64 with 12.8 drivers.
That's driver and sdk related, nothing to do with cgminer - it caches bin files generated the first time you run it and will run the same ever more on that cgminer even if you change drivers, so you almost certainly changed drivers between cgminer versions. It's a fresh install yesterday. Fresh install of drivers, Windows updated. Just copied my cgminer.conf in to a freshly extracted cgminer archive. New .bins are generated. Do you still think it's drivers? The 12.8 drivers worked OK before reinstall (was running an AMD chip before). |
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3.1.1 and 3.2.1 are running my i5-3350P at 80% CPU. 3 GPUs (7850, 7950, 6970). Eventually locks up the machine, solid. Was OK with 2.11.4. Running 7x64 with 12.8 drivers.
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The three fan gigabytes are very quiet even at full fan speed. Though this is just my personal experience through owning several different kinds of 7950s. I dont have any figures to back it up.
This. My 3-fan Gigabyte 7950 is quieter than the Asus 7850 with 2 fans. |
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goto home depot and get a new breaker with next greater amps rating.
THIS IS THE WORSE POSSIBLE ADVICE - DO NOT DO THIS.  Breakers are there to stop the wires in your wall going on fire. Replacing a breaker with a higher rated one leaves you at risk of burning your house to the ground. |
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I forgot to mention, I pulled the 5870 and replaced with a 6970. The 5870 ran at 90C+ the 6970 which should run warmer sits at a happy 74C at 85% fan. The 5870 was at 92C with 100% fan. Both units use the same single-fan Powercolor heat sink.
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I paid 25.9 BTC for it; best offer over 26 BTC before 16:00 UTC Sunday, 9 June gets it.
Usually second-hand stuff sells for less than the original price...  |
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I might round up some stuff in the next week and give you a shout. I've a heap of stuff here, and selling on eBay isn't very profitable once the seller fees come out. Plus there's always the morons who buy stuff and don't know how to use it.  |
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I am using Avast, but it seems to be detecting the program as a virus, does it matter?
Well, AVAST sucks for a start. Use Microsoft Security Essentials. Second, as long as you downloaded cgminer from the correct place, it won't be a virus. Use only the links in the first post on this thread. I've seen cgminer packages hosted on Rapidshare and the likes, and they have had a virus in them. |
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Well if you have to physically hit it, then there's obviously a break in a connection somewhere.
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As I said in another thread, my 5870 finally gave up yesterday. It was an old, used Powercolor I got cheap off eBay. I had to replace the TIM on it when I got it, as the person who owned it before had used some crap "silver" compound that basically ran off when it was heated.
After about 4 months of solid mining, I noticed the temp going up to 92C. Checked the video output and it was suffering massive corruption. Recleaned the TIM, made sure everything was 100%, but it still went to 92C almost instantly. When cgminer stopped mining, temps dropped quickly, proving the heat sink was working OK.
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My 5870 has died in a similar way. Mines for a little while, hits 92C, dies. Won't mine again until it's cold. Heat sink is fine, fan is working. When I run it as the only GPU in the machine, I can see artifacts all over the screen, so the memory must be stuffed. It's just knackered.  |
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To the comment...
"Buy a brand name"... They are all "brand names", thus, the NAME...
That is the most useless info you can give someone. Especially since "Brand names" are "OEM", and "Generic" PSU's manufactured by someone-else without a name.
Pedantic. Don't worry, the new 12v only PSU's are coming. No more crappy 3.5v and 5v and -12v rails... Just 12v rails and an 11v (stand-by power). That is where you will see a major gain and reduced PSU size/heat/losses.
The new Fujitsu machines I got at work have PSUs that only give out 12v. The PSU plugs in to the board, and the SATA drives are run off another socket on the board. The board produces the 3.3v and 5v needed for the SATA drives. |
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Dummy plugs aren't needed. I don't know why people keep on rhyming on about them. YOU DON'T NEED DUMMY PLUGS.*cough* Now I've got that out - which version of drivers are you using? I tend to stick to 12.10 drivers - I've had some weird stuff happen with the 13.x drivers. I'm running a Gigabyte 7950, an Asus 7850 and a Sapphire 6970 all in the same machine, running Win7x64 with 12.10 drivers. With the 13.x drivers I had the same problem, CGMINER just crapped out immediately on run "CGMINER.EXE has stopped working". With 13.x all I could get to run was Reaper for LTC mining. cgminer wouldn't run at all... 2GB RAM should be plenty. I'd try cleaning out all the drivers, and try a minimal install of 12.10 - just the driver and the SDK runtime - nothing else. |
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Maybe people would take you more seriously if you could:
a) learn to spell
b) use capitalization
c) use punctuation
d) didn't delete posts, making your thread make no sense.
Just putting it out there, you know?
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