i am using GUIminer i get a message from the miner saying "connection problems". I lose connection for only a few seconds.
i can open the website.
i dont know how to ping pit.deepbit.net.
If your using Windoze Click on Start>Run then type in cmd and click ok and that will open a DOS Box. In that type in "ping pit.deepbit.net -t" and press enter. Use CTRL-C to stop it. Alternatively press the Windows key on the left side of the keyboard and the R key at the same time to get the run dialog. Sam |
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Found the problem... When using VNC instead of RDP, everything works just fine... I see temperatures and RPMs now ;-) Thanks for all the help.
Ah, the little details  . But that kept your GPU fans at 30%? That seems odd? Sam |
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What's the ADL and how do I install it under Windows 7 64bit?
By installing a recent enough version of the Catalyst drivers that has that support. That's why I asked what version you had. I know that Catalyst 11.6 has that support because that is what I'm using. And I'm using 11.6 because it doesn't have the 100% CPU utilization bug. So what version are you using? Sam Edit: ADL is the ATI display library used for monitoring and setting GPU parameters. Catalyst 11.9 That version should work fine. Do you get any error messages when starting CG Miner? No, no error message at all. Cgminer just doesn't show RPM and temperature etc... When you go into the GPU menu do you have the options to change the clocks and such? I put your command lines into my miner and it all works fine. But I'm using WinXP and Win7 32 bit and different GPU's of course. Dunno, Sam |
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What's the ADL and how do I install it under Windows 7 64bit?
By installing a recent enough version of the Catalyst drivers that has that support. That's why I asked what version you had. I know that Catalyst 11.6 has that support because that is what I'm using. And I'm using 11.6 because it doesn't have the 100% CPU utilization bug. So what version are you using? Sam Edit: ADL is the ATI display library used for monitoring and setting GPU parameters. Catalyst 11.9 That version should work fine. Do you get any error messages when starting CG Miner? Sam |
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Good news guys. I just tried upgrading to the ATI 11.11 driver on linux and the CPU usage bug is finally fixed, AND it works with newer xorg 1.11 (in case you're on a very recent distribution, like Archlinux).
Has anyone tried this on Windoze yet? Thanks, Sam |
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What's the ADL and how do I install it under Windows 7 64bit?
By installing a recent enough version of the Catalyst drivers that has that support. That's why I asked what version you had. I know that Catalyst 11.6 has that support because that is what I'm using. And I'm using 11.6 because it doesn't have the 100% CPU utilization bug. So what version are you using? Sam Edit: ADL is the ATI display library used for monitoring and setting GPU parameters. |
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Hello, I'm running cgminer 2.0.8 on Windows 7 64 bit with 4 ATI 6990 cards. cgminer is started with "cgminer.exe --intensity 9 --gpu-powertune 20 --gpu-engine 900 --gpu-memclock 800 --auto-fan --auto-gpu -v 2 -w 128 -o xxx -u xxx -p xxx" However, can it be that "--auto-fan" is not working? When I monitor my cards with GPU-Z, the fan speed is always 30%, it doesn't change at all... Previously under GUI Miner, it changed automatically... Also, when I go into GPU Management, I only get: Last initialised: [2011-11-15 22:58:40]
Intensity: 9
Thread 3: 176.3 Mh/s Enabled ALIVE
Thread 11: 190.4 Mh/s Enabled ALIVE
GPU 4: 376.0 / 373.9 Mh/s | A:68 R:0 HW:0 U:4.76/m I:9
Last initialised: [2011-11-15 22:58:41]
Intensity: 9
Thread 4: 191.1 Mh/s Enabled ALIVE
Thread 12: 184.7 Mh/s Enabled ALIVE
GPU 5: 376.0 / 373.5 Mh/s | A:84 R:0 HW:0 U:5.88/m I:9
Last initialised: [2011-11-15 22:58:42]
Intensity: 9
Thread 5: 186.8 Mh/s Enabled ALIVE
Thread 13: 189.3 Mh/s Enabled ALIVE
GPU 6: 377.0 / 374.4 Mh/s | A:68 R:0 HW:0 U:4.76/m I:9
Last initialised: [2011-11-15 22:58:43]
Intensity: 9
Thread 6: 198.7 Mh/s Enabled ALIVE
Thread 14: 177.8 Mh/s Enabled ALIVE
GPU 7: 405.9 / 402.2 Mh/s | A:95 R:0 HW:0 U:6.66/m I:9
Last initialised: [2011-11-15 22:58:44]
Intensity: 9
Thread 7: 201.6 Mh/s Enabled ALIVE
Thread 15: 204.4 Mh/s Enabled ALIVE
[E]nable [D]isable [I]ntensity [R]estart GPU
Or press any other key to continue
So I lose the output of the first 4 GPUs. Is there a way to scroll up? Also, why do I not see the fan speed, rpm, etc? I created a .bat file and then a shortcut to point to that .bat file. On the shortcut properties you can change the layout properties to increase the height and maybe see more of your GPU's in that screen Also it looks like you don't have ADL support. What version of Catalyst are you using? I'm using 11.6 an have the additional line that shows the GPU Temp, Fan speeds, GPU Clock, Mem Clock, voltage and GPU utilization. When I had an older version of the Catalyst driver set installed I didn't get that line either. And CG Miner wouldn't manipulate the clocks and fans. Sam |
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I had a similar issue. Supposedly it's because there are trojans which hijack your computer to mine bitcoins, and they use some cgminer code to mine, so Avast decided to ban cgminer.
So you could ignore the warning (shut off antivirus, start cgminer, start antivirus. Or make an exception or something), or use a different miner, Diablominer for example.
Ufasoft and CG Miner are flagged as virus's in most AV suites. There are probably other mining programs that are flagged as well but I only know about those two since they are the ones I use. It won't be long before most or all mining programs are flagged as virus's. This is a problem that is/has been discussed at ad nauseam in the miner program threads. So I would recommend going to the CG Miner thread and search the issue and read the replies. If you then still have any questions then post it in the appropriate miner thread. Sam |
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All I can guess is some kind of routing issue. I'm connecting from California, and I've been testing out poclbm for NMC stale rates. The most my logs show are a single comm error that sometimes shows up a second before a longpoll, never has to do more than 1 retry.
Did one restart just to see if anything changes for the few people having issues.
I'm still getting allot of error's. But my hashrate and shares per minute are still good so I'm not really worried about it. I'm just reporting information. The web site is very intermittent too. Thanks for checking, Sam Sounds like you're having a routing issue, 100%. On my end (and I'm halfway across the country, so it's not a local test), I've yet to have errors and the website has been loading instantly. Nothing I can really do about that. Could be local on your end, could be your ISP, or could be a random router between you and the server acting up. Well, I took my own advice and ran DNS Benchmark and found some better performing DNS servers and updated them in my firewall/gateway. Now I'm not getting the connection errors. I would have thought that once the miner had the IP address of it's destination that it wouldn't do another query unless it got an error? Not sure if that was the problem or just a coincidence. But things are running more smoothly now. Thanks, Sam |
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All I can guess is some kind of routing issue. I'm connecting from California, and I've been testing out poclbm for NMC stale rates. The most my logs show are a single comm error that sometimes shows up a second before a longpoll, never has to do more than 1 retry.
Did one restart just to see if anything changes for the few people having issues.
I'm still getting allot of error's. But my hashrate and shares per minute are still good so I'm not really worried about it. I'm just reporting information. The web site is very intermittent too. Thanks for checking, Sam |
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miner speeds are all zero  I just switched back and I'm mining OK. But I'm still getting comm fails one second and resuming the the next second it is repeating this every two or three shares. I have also noticed, when I could get to the web site, that the overall pool hash rate has been fluctuating from 750 Ghs to 1 THs. So something looks weird. But that's the great thing about CG Miner, the failover options. Sam |
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pool down again ?
Pool running fine all night based on my miners logs. Something has been going on for me too. CGMiner had communications error's and I'm having allot of trouble getting to the web site. Sam |
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Edit
Wait is it -a? I think im going to try setting that to a lower number than the default 15
Didn't see that last night. That's the getwork request time. I had found that "-a 60" worked best for me when I was using Ufasoft for my GPU's. Sam |
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FML something just fried and good. There was a loud pop then it shutdown (probably a capacitor). I waited several minutes and tried to restart (2 more loud pops). My motherboard is rated for mil spec and has a 5 year warranty. There is also the clear smell of burnt electronics. Either my GFX card or power supply went I figure. I am hoping it was only power supply as i have been thinking of upgrading and its 5 years old or so. Either way this really sucks. A risk you take when overclocking.
Update
Just did the sniff test. I believe its the power supply. I removed the card and there were no signs of the smell of burnt electronics. Someone at work luckily just bought a 750 or 850W modular power supply and is selling it for 30 less than he paid. There are no signs of burning around the cpu and I am extra glad i got a mobo with surge protection. I just hope I didnt fry all my hard drives lol. Also the smell from the psu smells like burnt electronics furhter leading me to believe my 600watt psu finally gave up.
Wow, sounds like an eventful night. Did you still have the cover on your case? I have two GPU's in my system and had put the case cover back on, but it was really hot so I have been running with the cover off and everything is running much cooler now. I have a 5830 and a 5770 both running on a 600 Watt P/S. Your story makes me wonder if that is enough power? Sam |
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Do you get a reliable continuous ping to pit.deepbit.net, f1.deepbit.net and f2.deepbit.net? f1 and f2 aliases are long time since not used anymore. Really? I fired up my old ufasoft miner last night as a test and it started at pit and switched to f1 and mined. I use CG Miner now but haven't really paid attention to what it does. Sam |
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As I mentioned earlier since I am in Canada and we do not have net neutrailty I believe for whatever reason Rogers DPI boxes are dropping my requests for work from deepbit. I am sure my command line is correct now
bitcoin-miner.exe -u username -p password -o http:\\pit.deepbit.net:8332 -g no -t 6
Guiminer usually takes several attempts to connect before it can successfully. The retry interval for Ufasoft appears to be set about 30 seconds and for guiminer (polcbm only) its about 5 seconds and it alternates servers. If I could increase the retry attempt to 5 seconds I might have some more luck but I did not see a flag for that. Thanks for the help though.
I guess the next step/test would be to go through TOR. Sam |
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I tried CGminer too but even at my lower clock speeds it would run great at first and then the performance would drop by about 50% after 10 minutes or so. Then something isn't right. You shouldn't see a 50% drop after 10 minutes or 10 days. I got a rig which just hit 62 days of uptime (come on powergrid no blackouts) and it is within 1% of starting hashrate. I would check your load. In cgminer if you hit G it will be listed as A:97% (that means card is at 97% of peak load). My guess is something is throttling the card back. Either another app or issues w/ VRM being pushed too hard (and overheating). If you use GPU-Z go to setting tab and take a look at load and VRM temps. This was at the stock settings and nothing tweaked at that point. It does not happen with other miners really too. polcbm has since jumped up to a stable 383 Mhash/s. My motherboard has 10 phase VRM and in theory should be great for overclocking (Sabertooth 990FX). I suspect that was likely due to a lack or work available from the server and Guiminer has comparable performance. I launched GUIminer right after and got the expected performance numbers immediately. I did buy the card secondhand though and I suspect the previous owner used it for bitcoin mining when prices were higher (card was originally bought June 9th). My CPU never goes full load but if I could mine that at 100% in addition to the GPU it would be nice. I have a 1090T 6 core processor running at a stable OC of 3.6Ghz/core with a Corsair A50 and it has a hard time ever breaking 50C, even with prime95. I figure that this cpu should be good for a few Mhash. Please note electricity costs are irrelevant to me as I live in an apartment and my landlord is an a-hole who charges more to me than new tenants. I think D&T is talking about the VRMs on your GPU. If you want to CPU mine I would definitely use the ufasoft miner in conjunction with the miner you have working. Just make user you use the "-g no" to disable if from trying to use your GPU too. Ufasoft 0.19 and up work fine with Deepbit and its the best CPU miner out there. Sam Well I hope the GPU isnt damaged but I guess thats a risk when you buy it used. I am trying to run UFAsoft with 6 cpu threads right now. After leaving it running for a minute I see my problem before was that it was not connecting. "Error 80072EFD: A connection with the server could not be established". I will see if it connects soon and if it does I will update this post with what I am getting Well don't know what to say. If your GUI miner works but Ufasoft doesn't I would check your command line syntax. I just fired up my Ufasoft miner version 0.19 and it just connected to Deepbit just fine. I'm out of ideas at the moment. Good Luck, Sam |
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I tried CGminer too but even at my lower clock speeds it would run great at first and then the performance would drop by about 50% after 10 minutes or so. Then something isn't right. You shouldn't see a 50% drop after 10 minutes or 10 days. I got a rig which just hit 62 days of uptime (come on powergrid no blackouts) and it is within 1% of starting hashrate. I would check your load. In cgminer if you hit G it will be listed as A:97% (that means card is at 97% of peak load). My guess is something is throttling the card back. Either another app or issues w/ VRM being pushed too hard (and overheating). If you use GPU-Z go to setting tab and take a look at load and VRM temps. This was at the stock settings and nothing tweaked at that point. It does not happen with other miners really too. polcbm has since jumped up to a stable 383 Mhash/s. My motherboard has 10 phase VRM and in theory should be great for overclocking (Sabertooth 990FX). I suspect that was likely due to a lack or work available from the server and Guiminer has comparable performance. I launched GUIminer right after and got the expected performance numbers immediately. I did buy the card secondhand though and I suspect the previous owner used it for bitcoin mining when prices were higher (card was originally bought June 9th). My CPU never goes full load but if I could mine that at 100% in addition to the GPU it would be nice. I have a 1090T 6 core processor running at a stable OC of 3.6Ghz/core with a Corsair A50 and it has a hard time ever breaking 50C, even with prime95. I figure that this cpu should be good for a few Mhash. Please note electricity costs are irrelevant to me as I live in an apartment and my landlord is an a-hole who charges more to me than new tenants. I think D&T is talking about the VRMs on your GPU. If you want to CPU mine I would definitely use the ufasoft miner in conjunction with the miner you have working. Just make user you use the "-g no" to disable if from trying to use your GPU too. Ufasoft 0.19 and up work fine with Deepbit and its the best CPU miner out there. Sam |
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Edit
Just tried Ufasoft and since the login for deepbit is your email (with @) I think it is confusing my email with the server address and I am getting 0 Mhash. So much for that idea.
The worker name goes after the -u in the ufasoft miner and the url goes after the -o. So the miner program shouldn't get them confused. At least it never did for me. Deepbit's main page has command line suggestions for some common miners, you might want to verify the syntax. Sam My comptuer crashed while running the DNSBenchmark but it could have been duie to my OC settings. I have since been able to connect with GUIMiner to deepbit. There were some servers I saw that DNS Benchmark was unable to connect to and I am hoping that the crash was due to poor coding of the program and not the OC of my card. I will run overnight to confirm. At least I am mining for deepbit again. Deepbit speeds are about 374 compared to 388 but that is probably just the innefficiency of polcbm over phoenix. Its livable though considering without any flags and at default clocks I was getting 300. I seriously doubt that Steve Gibson's assembly language coding is poor . But its a good program and should find you the best performing DNS servers. But your problem doesn't sound like DNS name resolution problems to me. Have you tried CG Miner? Sounds like you have tried every other miner. I would give that one a shot. Sam |
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Edit
Just tried Ufasoft and since the login for deepbit is your email (with @) I think it is confusing my email with the server address and I am getting 0 Mhash. So much for that idea.
The worker name goes after the -u in the ufasoft miner and the url goes after the -o. So the miner program shouldn't get them confused. At least it never did for me. Deepbit's main page has command line suggestions for some common miners, you might want to verify the syntax. Sam |
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