So I placed an order for 3 today and sent payment immediately. The website shows unpaid and expired for the order. How do I get assistance for this?

Order ID: 00120140317164528225mI9hv4WL069A

But most of them have an 8 pin pcie which is rated to supply 150 watts. For example in my farm I have mostly 7950 gpu's that have 1 8pin and 1 6pin pci. They get 150 watts + 75 watts which allows 225 from the PCIE connectors - then they can also pull another 75ish watts direct from the motherboard.

I guess I'm trying to understand how much wattage can safely be pulled from a 6 pin pcie if it is only rated for 75 watts.

It is my understanding that a 6 pin pcie is only rated to supply 75 watts of power, or a total of 150W for two connections. Please help me understand - how does this work if these devices are pulling ~400 watts?

Sent PM about bulk order.

It takes all of 2 minutes to post a quick update.

Completely agree, a little communication goes a long way.

Which version of the card do you have, the one with 6+6 power or the one with 8+6 power connectors. If you have the OC edition that has the 6+8 power connectors with the double fans I will take all 6 of the 7950 graphics cards from you for $180 each.

Is the MSI 7950 the OC edition? Does it have 8+6 power or 6+6 power?

I know I'm breaking your "firm" price, but I can offer 9 BTC for this.

Everytime I discover this has happened I reboot the rig and start it all fresh. I start up cgwatcher as admin and it runs happily for a day or two. I then get notification that a rig is down and when I'm able to remote in is when I see all the cgminer windows open. 10 seconds remoting in all the cgminer windows go away and things start working properly again. I'm not sure I can go to the tests tab and click a create debug report while the issue is happening.

I imaged 4 rigs with the same OS image and set them all up the same, yet I'm only having this problem on one.

Some log exerpts for previous post:


[9/20/2013 3:21:00 PM]   [d] CGMiner running and API initialized on port 4028, process matched to profile Default.
[9/20/2013 3:21:00 PM]   [d] Finish wait for miner to start, process is 2352 (alive).
[9/20/2013 3:21:00 PM]       CGMiner started successfully.
[9/20/2013 3:51:19 PM]       The computer is now idle (30 min, 7 sec since last activity, 30 min requirement).
[9/20/2013 4:49:07 PM]       GPU2 (AMD Radeon HD 7900 Series) is SICK! Attempting to restart CGMiner...
[9/20/2013 4:49:07 PM]   [d] Miner.Restart begin.
[9/20/2013 4:49:07 PM]       Restart CGMiner was requested, preparing to stop then start the miner to make sure its configuration settings are reloaded...
[9/20/2013 4:49:07 PM]   [d] Miner.PerformStopStartRestart called. (Profile=Default;Miner=C:\Go\cgminer\cgminer.exe;HasFullAPIAccess=True;Initiator=Monitor;Reason=#NAME# was successfully restarted.)
[9/20/2013 4:49:07 PM]   [d] Miner.StopMining called: Miner=C:\Go\cgminer\cgminer.exe;ProcessID=2352 (True);BatchProcessID=0 (False);Config=C:\Go\CGWatcher\temp.conf;Arguments=--config C:\Go\cgminer\cgminer.conf;HasFullAPIAccess=True;KillOnReadOnlyAccess=True;IsBatCmdFile=False;ProcessID=2352;.
[9/20/2013 4:49:25 PM]       CGMiner failed to close completely within 15 seconds of quit command. Attempting to kill...
[9/20/2013 4:49:25 PM]   [d] Miner.Kill Exception: Access is denied (KillProcessID=2352)
[9/20/2013 4:49:26 PM]   [d] Miner.Kill Exception: Access is denied (KillProcessID=2352)
[9/20/2013 4:49:27 PM]   [d] Miner.Kill Exception: Access is denied (KillProcessID=2352)
[9/20/2013 4:49:28 PM]   [d] Miner.Kill Exception: Access is denied (KillProcessID=2352)
[9/20/2013 4:49:29 PM]   [d] Miner.Kill Exception: Access is denied (KillProcessID=2352)
[9/20/2013 4:49:30 PM]   [d] Miner.Kill Exception: Access is denied (KillProcessID=2352)
[9/20/2013 4:49:31 PM]   [d] Miner.Kill Exception: Access is denied (KillProcessID=2352)
[9/20/2013 4:49:32 PM]   [d] Miner.Kill Exception: Access is denied (KillProcessID=2352)
[9/20/2013 4:49:33 PM]   [d] Miner.Kill Exception: Access is denied (KillProcessID=2352)
[9/20/2013 4:49:34 PM]   [d] Miner.Kill Exception: Access is denied (KillProcessID=2352)
[9/20/2013 4:49:35 PM]   [d] Miner.Kill Exception: Access is denied (KillProcessID=2352)
[9/20/2013 4:49:37 PM]   [d] Miner.Kill Exception: Access is denied (KillProcessID=2352)
[9/20/2013 4:49:38 PM]   [d] Miner.Kill Exception: Access is denied (KillProcessID=2352)
[9/20/2013 4:49:39 PM]   [d] Miner.Kill Exception: Access is denied (KillProcessID=2352)
[9/20/2013 4:49:40 PM]   [d] Miner.Kill Exception: Access is denied (KillProcessID=2352)
[9/20/2013 4:49:41 PM]   [d] Miner.Kill Exception: Access is denied (KillProcessID=2352)
[9/20/2013 4:49:42 PM]       CGMiner failed to close completely after being sent the quit command, then failed to be killed. Giving up.
[9/20/2013 4:49:42 PM]       CGMiner restart unsuccessful because miner failed to stop and close completely. Ensure the miner is closed in order to resume mining.
[9/20/2013 4:49:42 PM]   [d] Miner.Restart end.
[9/20/2013 4:49:52 PM]       The miner is closed outside of CGWatcher and you've requested for me to ensure it stays running. Attempting to start...
[9/20/2013 4:49:52 PM]   [d] Miner.IsProcessAlive(2352) returns True. [First try, process has exited. First try, process has exited.] (CPID0/CMPID=0/CBPID=0)
[9/20/2013 4:49:52 PM]   [d] Miner.Kill Exception: Access is denied (KillProcessID=2352)
[9/20/2013 4:49:52 PM]   [d] Miner.StartMining called. [Profile=Default;MinerFile=C:\Go\cgminer\cgminer.exe;MinerFileUsed=C:\Go\cgminer\cgminer.exe;MinerExecutable=C:\Go\cgminer\cgminer.exe;Config=C:\Go\CGWatcher\temp.conf (C:\Go\cgminer\cgminer.conf);Arguments=--config C:\Go\CGWatcher\temp.conf;Anticipated Port=4028;Used Port=4028;IsBatCmd=False;BatCmdPath=C:\Go\cgminer\cgminer.exe (C:\Go\cgminer\cgminer.exe);LastKnownInstanceCount=0/0]
[9/20/2013 4:49:53 PM]   [d] Miner.IsProcessAlive(152) returns True. [First try, process is alive.] (CPID152/CMPID=152/CBPID=0)
[9/20/2013 4:49:53 PM]   [d] Waiting for CGMiner to initialize API. Process 152 alive=True, minerid=152.
[9/20/2013 4:49:54 PM]   [d] Watch for miner, expected process is 152 (alive).
[9/20/2013 4:49:54 PM]   [d] CGMiner process is running using ProcessID 152, expecting port 4028.
[9/20/2013 4:50:53 PM]   [d] Finish wait for miner to start, process is 0 (not alive).
[9/20/2013 4:50:53 PM]   [d] CGMiner process 0 not alive at Miner.StartMining exit.
[9/20/2013 4:50:53 PM]       Start miner failed on 1st attempt. Killing any remaining processes and trying again.
[9/20/2013 4:50:53 PM]   [d] Miner.IsProcessAlive(152) returns True. [First try, process is alive.] (CPID0/CMPID=0/CBPID=0)
[9/20/2013 4:50:54 PM]   [d] 1 miner instances found, 1 ignored.
[9/20/2013 4:50:56 PM]   [d] Process 152 ignored: Unable to match to a profile or communicate with on port 4028.
[9/20/2013 4:50:56 PM]   [d] Miner.StartMining called. [Profile=Default;MinerFile=C:\Go\cgminer\cgminer.exe;MinerFileUsed=C:\Go\cgminer\cgminer.exe;MinerExecutable=C:\Go\cgminer\cgminer.exe;Config=C:\Go\CGWatcher\temp.conf (C:\Go\cgminer\cgminer.conf);Arguments=--config C:\Go\CGWatcher\temp.conf;Anticipated Port=4028;Used Port=4028;IsBatCmd=False;BatCmdPath=C:\Go\cgminer\cgminer.exe (C:\Go\cgminer\cgminer.exe);LastKnownInstanceCount=0/1]
[9/20/2013 4:50:57 PM]   [d] Miner.IsProcessAlive(1984) returns True. [First try, process is alive.] (CPID1984/CMPID=1984/CBPID=0)
[9/20/2013 4:50:57 PM]   [d] Waiting for CGMiner to initialize API. Process 1984 alive=True, minerid=1984.
[9/20/2013 4:50:58 PM]   [d] Watch for miner, expected process is 1984 (alive).
[9/20/2013 4:50:58 PM]   [d] CGMiner process is running using ProcessID 1984, expecting port 4028.
[9/20/2013 4:51:57 PM]   [d] Finish wait for miner to start, process is 0 (not alive).
[9/20/2013 4:51:57 PM]   [d] CGMiner process 0 not alive at Miner.StartMining exit.
[9/20/2013 4:51:57 PM]       Start miner failed on 2nd attempt. Killing any remaining processes and trying again.
[9/20/2013 4:51:57 PM]   [d] Miner.IsProcessAlive(1984) returns True. [First try, process is alive.] (CPID0/CMPID=0/CBPID=0)
[9/20/2013 4:51:58 PM]   [d] 2 miner instances found, 2 ignored.
[9/20/2013 4:52:00 PM]       1 running miner(s) detected but I am unable to communicate with any of them!
[9/20/2013 4:52:00 PM]   [d] Miner.StartMining called. [Profile=Default;MinerFile=C:\Go\cgminer\cgminer.exe;MinerFileUsed=C:\Go\cgminer\cgminer.exe;MinerExecutable=C:\Go\cgminer\cgminer.exe;Config=C:\Go\CGWatcher\temp.conf (C:\Go\cgminer\cgminer.conf);Arguments=--config C:\Go\CGWatcher\temp.conf;Anticipated Port=4028;Used Port=4028;IsBatCmd=False;BatCmdPath=C:\Go\cgminer\cgminer.exe (C:\Go\cgminer\cgminer.exe);LastKnownInstanceCount=0/2]
[9/20/2013 4:52:01 PM]   [d] Miner.IsProcessAlive(2724) returns True. [First try, process is alive.] (CPID2724/CMPID=2724/CBPID=0)
[9/20/2013 4:52:01 PM]   [d] Waiting for CGMiner to initialize API. Process 2724 alive=True, minerid=2724.
[9/20/2013 4:52:02 PM]   [d] Watch for miner, expected process is 2724 (alive).
[9/20/2013 4:52:02 PM]   [d] CGMiner process is running using ProcessID 2724, expecting port 4028.
[9/20/2013 4:53:01 PM]   [d] Finish wait for miner to start, process is 0 (not alive).
[9/20/2013 4:53:01 PM]   [d] CGMiner process 0 not alive at Miner.StartMining exit.
[9/20/2013 4:53:01 PM]       Start miner failed on 3rd attempt. Killing any remaining processes.
[9/20/2013 4:53:01 PM]   [d] Miner.IsProcessAlive(2724) returns True. [First try, process is alive.] (CPID0/CMPID=0/CBPID=0)
[9/20/2013 4:53:13 PM]   [d] 3 miner instances found, 3 ignored.



Also, I'm right clicking cgwatcher and running as administrator every time.

I'm having a problem on 1 of my 6 litecoin rigs. At some point one of my cards gets sick so cgwatcher tries to restart cgminer. Something about this process doesn't go quite right and the program waits a while and then tries to start cgminer again and again and again. By the time I see what is going on and remote into the PC there are many cgminer screens filling up the desktop. After 10 seconds or so they all go away except one, which then successfully starts mining.

I have the monitoring setup so that cgwatcher restarts cgminer in the event of a sick card, accepted shares not changing after 10 mins, hashrate below a certain threshold, and if api access can't be obtained.

What other details do I need to post to help troubleshoot this? I'm running the latest version.

Only for scrypt mining.

Bitmit doesn't appear to allow bidding on this item for some reason. I'll offer 6BTC for this item, offer valid for 24 hours.

17BTC

Hi Trongersoll, welcome to BMA (bitcoin miners anonymous)

So funny, I had the exact same thought for a split second.

I have 5 of the Sapphire 3L's I'm looking to part ways with. Been used about a month doing scrypt mining, running 72-74 celsius in a server room. Still have the original boxes (minus some UPC codes).

NewEgg link is: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814202026&Tpk=sapphire%203l%207950

Sorry, this is only for scrypt mining. Altcoin mining is still profitable, especially with my free electricity.

Just installed v1.2.9 this past weekend. I'm getting the below error in my event log after CGWatcher has periodically crashed. Usually happens within 60 seconds of cgminer crashing. Any ideas?




Log Name:      Application
Source:        .NET Runtime
Date:          8/26/2013 11:30:39 PM
Event ID:      1026
Task Category: None
Level:         Error
Keywords:      Classic
User:          N/A
Computer:      rig1
Description:
Application: CGWatcher.exe
Framework Version: v4.0.30319
Description: The process was terminated due to an unhandled exception.
Exception Info: System.AccessViolationException
Stack:
   at PInvokeDelegateFactoryInternalWrapperType4.ADL_Adapter_ID_Get(Int32, Int32 ByRef)
   at PInvokeDelegateFactoryInternalWrapperType4.ADL_Adapter_ID_Get(Int32, Int32 ByRef)
   at OpenHardwareMonitor.Hardware.ATI.ADL.ADL_Adapter_ID_Get(Int32, Int32 ByRef)
   at OpenHardwareMonitor.Hardware.ATI.ATIGroup..ctor(OpenHardwareMonitor.Hardware.ISettings)
   at OpenHardwareMonitor.Hardware.Computer.Open()
   at CGWatcher.Hardware.HardwareModule.Open()
   at CGWatcher.Hardware.HardwareModule.Refresh()
   at CGWatcher.frmMain.workerHardware_DoWork(System.Object, System.ComponentModel.DoWorkEventArgs)
   at System.ComponentModel.BackgroundWorker.WorkerThreadStart(System.Object)
   at System.Runtime.Remoting.Messaging.StackBuilderSink._PrivateProcessMessage(IntPtr, System.Object[], System.Object, System.Object[] ByRef)
   at System.Runtime.Remoting.Messaging.StackBuilderSink.AsyncProcessMessage(System.Runtime.Remoting.Messaging.IMessage, System.Runtime.Remoting.Messaging.IMessageSink)
   at System.Threading.ExecutionContext.RunInternal(System.Threading.ExecutionContext, System.Threading.ContextCallback, System.Object, Boolean)
   at System.Threading.ExecutionContext.Run(System.Threading.ExecutionContext, System.Threading.ContextCallback, System.Object, Boolean)
   at System.Threading.QueueUserWorkItemCallback.System.Threading.IThreadPoolWorkItem .ExecuteWorkItem()
   at System.Threading.ThreadPoolWorkQueue.Dispatch()

Event Xml:
<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
  <System>
    <Provider Name=".NET Runtime" />
    <EventID Qualifiers="0">1026</EventID>
    <Level>2</Level>
    <Task>0</Task>
    <Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords>
    <TimeCreated SystemTime="2013-08-27T06:30:39.000000000Z" />
    <EventRecordID>287</EventRecordID>
    <Channel>Application</Channel>
    <Computer>rig1</Computer>
    <Security />
  </System>
  <EventData>
    <Data>Application: CGWatcher.exe
Framework Version: v4.0.30319
Description: The process was terminated due to an unhandled exception.
Exception Info: System.AccessViolationException
Stack:
   at PInvokeDelegateFactoryInternalWrapperType4.ADL_Adapter_ID_Get(Int32, Int32 ByRef)
   at PInvokeDelegateFactoryInternalWrapperType4.ADL_Adapter_ID_Get(Int32, Int32 ByRef)
   at OpenHardwareMonitor.Hardware.ATI.ADL.ADL_Adapter_ID_Get(Int32, Int32 ByRef)
   at OpenHardwareMonitor.Hardware.ATI.ATIGroup..ctor(OpenHardwareMonitor.Hardware.ISettings)
   at OpenHardwareMonitor.Hardware.Computer.Open()
   at CGWatcher.Hardware.HardwareModule.Open()
   at CGWatcher.Hardware.HardwareModule.Refresh()
   at CGWatcher.frmMain.workerHardware_DoWork(System.Object, System.ComponentModel.DoWorkEventArgs)
   at System.ComponentModel.BackgroundWorker.WorkerThreadStart(System.Object)
   at System.Runtime.Remoting.Messaging.StackBuilderSink._PrivateProcessMessage(IntPtr, System.Object[], System.Object, System.Object[] ByRef)
   at System.Runtime.Remoting.Messaging.StackBuilderSink.AsyncProcessMessage(System.Runtime.Remoting.Messaging.IMessage, System.Runtime.Remoting.Messaging.IMessageSink)
   at System.Threading.ExecutionContext.RunInternal(System.Threading.ExecutionContext, System.Threading.ContextCallback, System.Object, Boolean)
   at System.Threading.ExecutionContext.Run(System.Threading.ExecutionContext, System.Threading.ContextCallback, System.Object, Boolean)
   at System.Threading.QueueUserWorkItemCallback.System.Threading.IThreadPoolWorkItem .ExecuteWorkItem()
   at System.Threading.ThreadPoolWorkQueue.Dispatch()
</Data>
  </EventData>
</Event>