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401  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Mining (Altcoins) / Re: Anyone want to do a Baikal Groupbuy? on: April 08, 2017, 01:57:56 PM
The website says, "DC 12V 10A Power Adapter with Ø2.5*5.5 DC Plug (Not included) is recommended as a power supply."

It looks like it has a 6 pin PCIe jack but the quoted text sounds like it says you need to use a barrel adapter.

I'm a bit confused.
402  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Mining (Altcoins) / Re: Need to Pasword Protect My Windows Mining Rig on: April 04, 2017, 06:39:27 PM
Claymore does pretty well, as well as sgminer. This is not a matter of which miner, its more which software u are using to create a service.

Well, what is the name of "the software for creating service", because with windows task scheduler I did not have success in creating services with GPU miners?

Never tried this with a GPU miner but I have used this to setup a service for an exe.

https://nssm.cc/
403  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Pools (Altcoins) / Re: [ANN][POOL] Mining Pool Hub - Multipool. Multialgo, Auto Exchange to any coin. on: April 03, 2017, 02:21:05 AM
Hooray!  XMR pool looks like everything is working again.  Unconfirmed went through, miners all showing connected, vardiff working. 
404  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Mining (Altcoins) / Re: Need to Pasword Protect My Windows Mining Rig on: April 03, 2017, 02:13:17 AM
Assuming you already have the computer setup with a password and autologin what you need is to lock it.  So set a scheduled task to run a couple minutes after startup to run a batch file.  The batch file runs a visual basic script.

 
Code:
Start cscript LockComputer.vbs

This vbs script will lock the computer.

Code:
Set objShell = CreateObject("Wscript.Shell")
objShell.Run "%windir%\System32\rundll32.exe user32.dll,LockWorkStation"

I haven't tested this but theoretically as long as you started the miner program first then it should still run on the locked workstation.
405  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Mining (Altcoins) / Re: Question for Mining Rig Construction? 4 RX 470 with old Motherboard. on: April 01, 2017, 04:49:37 PM
In my experience old mobo's are kind of hit or miss with the 1x PCIe slots using risers.  Sometimes they work, sometimes they don't work, and sometimes they work with a lot of finickiness, so you have to deal with crashes and freezes and things that occur much less often with more modern mobo's.  For me though I have ready access to old PC's so making rigs with old PC's that run a single GPU is easy and cheap for me.  I try and use risers where they cooperate but as I say, it is kind of hit or miss with old boards.
406  Other / Meta / Re: Hundreds of thousand of bitcointalk accounts hacked on: April 01, 2017, 12:46:10 AM
So when was this data breach?  I think I changed my password like a year ago or so, do I need to change it again?
407  Other / Meta / Re: New Badges on: April 01, 2017, 12:15:03 AM
just randomly assigned then?
408  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Mining (Altcoins) / Re: BAIKAL - WHAT IS GOING ON? on: March 31, 2017, 11:09:54 PM
Dash mining power was upto 5 TH/s today.  Never seen it so high.  Difficulty has rose a lot because of this causing drop in profits. 

I wonder where this extra 2 TH/s has come from?

Where are you seeing this?  I don't see it on the charts I can find with google.
409  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: Jaxx wallet is not working for Dash deposits on: March 31, 2017, 11:03:56 PM
Yep did that.  They recommended I try the 1.2 wallet version which is not out yet for windows.  I did check it out in the chrome extension and indeed my missing deposits are showing there.  So looks like this is a problem with versions previous to 1.2. 
410  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: Jaxx wallet is not working for Dash deposits on: March 31, 2017, 05:55:42 PM
same for me  Angry

I am surprised I can't find more posts about this with google.  Are people not using jaxx for DASH?
411  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Pools (Altcoins) / Re: [ANN][POOL] Mining Pool Hub - Multipool. Multialgo, Auto Exchange to any coin. on: March 30, 2017, 03:24:28 PM
Is there an issue with the monero pool at the moment, I have several workers which keep getting socket closed errors and they are showing as inactive on the workers page (even though they do seem to be reconnecting and submitting eventually).

There were some connectivity issues for some miners due to overloaded users at monero pool.
Sorry about it. It's all resolved now.

I believe this kind of issue will not happen anymore.

I am still having issues.  About half of my miners are showing inactive on the pool side.  Dashboard hashrate is also showing about half of what it should be.  The miners themselves seem to be connected and working however.

Same here

I believe the problem is that the difficulty is very high for all workers and vardiff does not seem to be enabled.  So when a worker does not find a share for a long time it shows as not active.  All of my workers show a difficulty of 200,000 in the web interface.
412  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Pools (Altcoins) / Re: [ANN][POOL] Mining Pool Hub - Multipool. Multialgo, Auto Exchange to any coin. on: March 30, 2017, 11:42:33 AM
Is there an issue with the monero pool at the moment, I have several workers which keep getting socket closed errors and they are showing as inactive on the workers page (even though they do seem to be reconnecting and submitting eventually).

There were some connectivity issues for some miners due to overloaded users at monero pool.
Sorry about it. It's all resolved now.

I believe this kind of issue will not happen anymore.

I am still having issues.  About half of my miners are showing inactive on the pool side.  Dashboard hashrate is also showing about half of what it should be.  The miners themselves seem to be connected and working however.
413  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Mining (Altcoins) / Re: How to reboot a rig if it stops mining? on: March 29, 2017, 09:42:39 PM
I have a DIY solution for this that I made up that you can use.  Basically I made a powershell script that checks GPU usage percentage and based on results it reboots the computer, although you can modify that to restart the mining program as well.  I also have something I use to restart the mining program instead of reboot the computer since sometimes that is enough.

The difficulty with restarting the mining app is shutting it down.  I use something called closeprog.exe to shut down the mining application.  I set a scheduled task that runs a script when the video driver crashes.  That script uses closeprog.exe to kill the mining app and then rerun it.  I can't remember where I got this closeprog.exe, I have had it for years and used it for various scripted things.  You can probably figure out how to use taskkill to do that also.

To monitor GPU usage and reboot when a specific GPU drops out I use openhardwaremonitor.  You can get that here: http://openhardwaremonitor.org/
That thing basically exposes the GPU sensor stats to windows management instrumentation which powershell can work with.  The powershell script runs from a scheduled task every 10 minutes.  It cycles through all of the GPU's looking for low usage results.  If it gets 9 low results in a row it reboots the whole rig.  The reason I do 9 results is because if a driver crash causes the other scheduled task to restart the mining application while this script is testing GPU usage then I can sometimes wind up with some low readings while things are being restarted by the other task.  Also the GPU usage will dip normally during certain work restarts from the pool.  So I want to be sure I am really seeing a consistent low result before I reboot.  The PS script is this:

Code:
$Log = "LogFile.log"
$Date = Get-Date
$TestValue = 0

#Test if openhardwaremonitor is running and if not, start it
$ProcessName = "openhardwaremonitor"

    if((get-process $ProcessName -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue) -eq $Null)
    { Start-Process -FilePath ".\OpenHardwareMonitor\OpenHardwareMonitor.exe" -WindowStyle Minimized}
else
    { echo "Process is already running" }

#if the computer just started it will get zeros while the miner is still getting the dag file ready so we wait
Start-Sleep 120

#Check GPU load

$FirstGPULoads = Get-WmiObject -namespace root\openhardwaremonitor -class sensor | Where-Object {$_.SensorType -Match "load" -and $_.Identifier -like "*gpu*"}

ForEach($GPU In $FirstGPULoads)
     {if($GPU.value -lt 10)
        {$FirstGPULoadValue = $GPU.value
        Write-Host $FirstGPULoadValue "seems low"
        #"$Date - Low result obtained $FirstGPULoadValue" >> $Log
        $TestValue = $TestValue + 1                                      
        }
      else
        {$FirstGPULoadValue = $GPU.value
        Write-Host $FirstGPULoadValue "seems fine"  
        }
     }

#if we have bad timing on a driver crash (and recovery) or work restarts we may get low results so we wait between tests
Start-Sleep 20

$SecondGPULoads = Get-WmiObject -namespace root\openhardwaremonitor -class sensor | Where-Object {$_.SensorType -Match "load" -and $_.Identifier -like "*gpu*"}

ForEach($GPU In $SecondGPULoads)
     {if($GPU.value -lt 10)
        {$SecondGPULoadValue = $GPU.value
        Write-Host $SecondGPULoadValue "seems low"
        #"$Date - Low result obtained $SecondGPULoadValue" >> $Log
        $TestValue = $TestValue + 1                                      
        }
      else
        {$SecondGPULoadValue = $GPU.value
        Write-Host $SecondGPULoadValue "seems fine"  
        }
     }

#if we have bad timing on a driver crash (and recovery) or work restarts we may get low results so we wait between tests
Start-Sleep 20


$ThirdGPULoads = Get-WmiObject -namespace root\openhardwaremonitor -class sensor | Where-Object {$_.SensorType -Match "load" -and $_.Identifier -like "*gpu*"}

ForEach($GPU In $ThirdGPULoads)
     {if($GPU.value -lt 10)
        {$ThirdGPULoadValue = $GPU.value
        Write-Host $ThirdGPULoadValue "seems low"
        #"$Date - Low result obtained $ThirdGPULoadValue" >> $Log
        $TestValue = $TestValue + 1                                      
        }
      else
        {$ThirdGPULoadValue = $GPU.value
        Write-Host $ThirdGPULoadValue "seems fine"  
        }
     }


#if we have bad timing on a driver crash (and recovery) or work restarts we may get low results so we wait between tests
Start-Sleep 20


$FourthGPULoads = Get-WmiObject -namespace root\openhardwaremonitor -class sensor | Where-Object {$_.SensorType -Match "load" -and $_.Identifier -like "*gpu*"}

ForEach($GPU In $FourthGPULoads)
     {if($GPU.value -lt 10)
        {$FourthGPULoadValue = $GPU.value
        Write-Host $FourthGPULoadValue "seems low"
        #"$Date - Low result obtained $FourthGPULoadValue" >> $Log
        $TestValue = $TestValue + 1                                      
        }
      else
        {$FourthGPULoadValue = $GPU.value
        Write-Host $FourthGPULoadValue "seems fine"  
        }
     }


#if we have bad timing on a driver crash (and recovery) or work restarts we may get low results so we wait between tests
Start-Sleep 20


$FifthGPULoads = Get-WmiObject -namespace root\openhardwaremonitor -class sensor | Where-Object {$_.SensorType -Match "load" -and $_.Identifier -like "*gpu*"}

ForEach($GPU In $FifthGPULoads)
     {if($GPU.value -lt 10)
        {$FifthGPULoadValue = $GPU.value
        Write-Host $FifthGPULoadValue "seems low"
        #"$Date - Low result obtained $FifthGPULoadValue" >> $Log
        $TestValue = $TestValue + 1                                      
        }
      else
        {$FifthGPULoadValue = $GPU.value
        Write-Host $FifthGPULoadValue "seems fine"  
        }
     }


#if we have bad timing on a driver crash (and recovery) or work restarts we may get low results so we wait between tests
Start-Sleep 20


$SixthGPULoads = Get-WmiObject -namespace root\openhardwaremonitor -class sensor | Where-Object {$_.SensorType -Match "load" -and $_.Identifier -like "*gpu*"}

ForEach($GPU In $SixthGPULoads)
     {if($GPU.value -lt 10)
        {$SixthGPULoadValue = $GPU.value
        Write-Host $SixthGPULoadValue "seems low"
        #"$Date - Low result obtained $SixthGPULoadValue" >> $Log
        $TestValue = $TestValue + 1                                      
        }
      else
        {$SixthGPULoadValue = $GPU.value
        Write-Host $SixthGPULoadValue "seems fine"  
        }
     }


#if we have bad timing on a driver crash (and recovery) or work restarts we may get low results so we wait between tests
Start-Sleep 20


$SeventhGPULoads = Get-WmiObject -namespace root\openhardwaremonitor -class sensor | Where-Object {$_.SensorType -Match "load" -and $_.Identifier -like "*gpu*"}

ForEach($GPU In $SeventhGPULoads)
     {if($GPU.value -lt 10)
        {$SeventhGPULoadValue = $GPU.value
        Write-Host $SeventhGPULoadValue "seems low"
        #"$Date - Low result obtained $SeventhGPULoadValue" >> $Log
        $TestValue = $TestValue + 1                                      
        }
      else
        {$SeventhGPULoadValue = $GPU.value
        Write-Host $SeventhGPULoadValue "seems fine"  
        }
     }


#if we have bad timing on a driver crash (and recovery) or work restarts we may get low results so we wait between tests
Start-Sleep 20


$EightthGPULoads = Get-WmiObject -namespace root\openhardwaremonitor -class sensor | Where-Object {$_.SensorType -Match "load" -and $_.Identifier -like "*gpu*"}

ForEach($GPU In $EightthGPULoads)
     {if($GPU.value -lt 10)
        {$EightthGPULoadValue = $GPU.value
        Write-Host $EightthGPULoadValue "seems low"
        #"$Date - Low result obtained $EightthGPULoadValue" >> $Log
        $TestValue = $TestValue + 1                                      
        }
      else
        {$EightthGPULoadValue = $GPU.value
        Write-Host $EightthGPULoadValue "seems fine"  
        }
     }


#if we have bad timing on a driver crash (and recovery) or work restarts we may get low results so we wait between tests
Start-Sleep 20


$NinthGPULoads = Get-WmiObject -namespace root\openhardwaremonitor -class sensor | Where-Object {$_.SensorType -Match "load" -and $_.Identifier -like "*gpu*"}

ForEach($GPU In $NinthGPULoads)
     {if($GPU.value -lt 10)
        {$NinthGPULoadValue = $GPU.value
        Write-Host $NinthGPULoadValue "seems low"
        #"$Date - Low result obtained $NinthGPULoadValue" >> $Log
        $TestValue = $TestValue + 1                                      
        }
      else
        {$NinthGPULoadValue = $GPU.value
        Write-Host $NinthGPULoadValue "seems fine"  
        }
     }

#all nine tests have to get a low result restart
if($TestValue -gt 8)
     {"$Date - Obtained $TestValue low results - Seems dead - restarting" >> $Log
      Restart-Computer -force
     }
else
     {"$Date - Obtained $TestValue low results - Seems ok" >> $Log}
        

Each of the nine GPU tests will test all GPU's and if any of them gives a result less than 10% it increments the TestValue variable.  If the TestValue variable gets a value of nine at the end that means each of the nine tests resulted in at least one GPU reporting a usage of under 10%.  Since there are also pauses while it waits in between tests that works pretty well for me in terms of only doing a reboot when a GPU has well and truly crashed.  The openhardwaremonitor app has to be in a subdirectory called openhardwaremonitor underneath where this powershell script runs (or you need to change the path).  First it checks if that app is running and if it isn't it runs it.  That way you never have to bother with actually making sure the openhardwaremonitor app is running.  The script also has a long pause in the beginning so that if the computer did get rebooted and it runs right after reboot it waits a minute for the miner apps to get started (because you have those start automatically at boot right?)

To run a powershell script from a scheduled task I use a batch file to run the PS script (I know convoluted but it works).  The batch file that runs the PS script is in the same directory as the PS script and it looks like this:
powershell.exe .\GPU_Monitor.ps1

EDIT: I was just looking over my log file for this and I see that it actually increments the TestValue variable for every single low reading so if you have 6 GPU's (I don't) then it could actually hit 9 low results quite easily if the test was run at an inopportune moment (like during a video driver crash).  You can change the value in the line towards the end to determine how many low results you need to initiate a reboot.  The line that determines that is
Code:
if($TestValue -gt 8)
just change 8 to whatever.  You can comment out the restart also by putting a # in front of it.  I ran this for a couple days with the restart command commented out to be sure it was really only going to restart when I wanted it to.  When I was satisfied that it wasn't going to cause a lot of unnecessary reboots I removed the comment on that line so it could restart the rig.  But looking at my log for the past few days it looks like the script could use some refinement.
414  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Mining (Altcoins) / Re: PC Shutting down HELP on: March 28, 2017, 08:28:07 PM
Well is it a shutdown or a crash?  Do you see it happen?  Did you look in the event logs?  Eventvwr.msc at the command line.  Expand windows logs, look in system and application.  Scroll down and see what was logged just before it restarted or crashed or whatever it did.  Also when looking in the logs look for the red or yellow marked ones.

Additionally, if you have an overheating problem you will get shutoffs that look exactly like if you pulled the power plug.  Just off.  Make sure your CPU fan is working but also verify other fans are working like case fans (if any) and PSU fan.
415  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Mining (Altcoins) / Re: Problems adjusting GPU clocks (and more) on Windows 10 miner on: March 26, 2017, 06:36:50 PM
Sounds like it doesn't matter for you anymore but what I do is have the HDMI plug in the primary GPU (PCIe slot one on the mobo) and use afterburner for all OC.  I just run claymore plain vanilla, meaning without any switches for clocks.  Teamviewer for access allows you to run afterburner and have it work normally, the HDMI plug in the primary GPU should let you set a reasonable resolution on the remote screen, and keeping claymore from trying to set clocks makes everything work fine for me.
416  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Marketplace (Altcoins) / Re: WTS 1 Ethereum for Paypal on: March 25, 2017, 06:24:45 PM
So wait you want to be paid 10% more than cex.io says it is worth?
417  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Mining (Altcoins) / Re: Ethereum end of POW phase estimation on: March 25, 2017, 04:54:50 PM

It is just a bluff to hold off asics.  It is never going leave POW and go to POS



I hope you are wrong, but if that is the case it seems to have worked.  I always wanted a DASH masternode and I had acquired 300 DASH towards that end but the price of DASH has made it an impossibility that I will ever acquire 1000.  I don't know what the staking scheme would be on ETH but I am still hopeful that whatever it is I will have enough to partake of it if it does go POS.
418  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Speculation (Altcoins) / Re: [XMR] Monero Speculation on: March 25, 2017, 11:58:38 AM
It's been remarkably quiet in here lately, given the price action.  Everyone glued to BTC drama?
I'm very glad I diversified into alts in 2014, otherwise I'd be very uncomfortable right now.

BTC purists are slagging off the alts and spouting various implausible conspiracy theories, so there is real pain for them - it's not just discomfort...

However, it is just common sense to have a balanced portfolio in crypto. At times like this, it is quite obvious why.

That said, the rise of alts has been huge these past few months with BTC down to 66.3% of the overall crypto market.   Yep, down to under two thirds.  It is true that we are in an alt bubble, so if someone waves a magic wand and ends the civil war, I would expect a sea of red, but the crypto space does have serious contenders now and BTC is never going to be over 90% of the market again.

The only thing to watch out for is that a total collapse in the price of BTC to (say) under $500 will depress the entire market.  Some capital will leave and some exchanges and miners may even be in trouble.   If we are heading for 2014 all over again, it will not be easy no matter what you are holding. 



I have been of the opinion for many years that sooner or later some other crypto would replace BTC.  The reason is simple, there are literally hundreds of cryptocurrencies that are technically superior to BTC.  In the past when I pointed out that BTC block time is not realistic if the intent is to replace cash, I was told that BTC could just change the block time, so these upstart alts with shorter block times don't even matter.  But the truth is that BTC will never, and can never, change the block time; and the reason I feel confident in saying so is that it has now literally been years without a consensus on a scaling solution.  If they can't find consensus on a block size issue in years, they will never, ever, be able to agree on a block time change (although that too would help address the scaling issue).  No, the block time, and reward for BTC are set in stone and no consensus on change would ever arise, which means BTC will never be a viable replacement for cash.  Even if the block size dispute is settled such that I can get a small transaction in the very next block every single time with a tiny fee, waiting 10 minutes on average is too long for a substitute for cash.

BTC has been benefiting from the network effect of having been first.  I have always considered it a matter of time until some replacement asserts itself.  I will admit I did not even suspect monero though until the past 6 months or so.  I have been moving the majority of my BTC into a handful of promising alts for more than a year and this past six months or so (but especially the past two months) has been insanely profitable for me.  Of the top 5 cryptos by market cap I have been accumulating all of them except for ripple (because who needs a centralized cryptocurrency anyway?) so the transfer away from BTC to alts has been very welcome to me. 

But I agree, a full on floundering for BTC would be bad for everything.  I would rather see a slow and steady decline for BTC while it was replaced by alts.
419  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Mining (Altcoins) / Re: Ethereum end of POW phase estimation on: March 25, 2017, 11:36:20 AM
I don't know why eth have to switch to PoS , does anyone know the answer , is it something technical or it's just the dev. want to switch it , i can't understand this point

Because PoW is a waste of electricity.

which no one minds as per the current ROI rates for the rx480s i own..

It's better for the world and the environment.  But also, if the value remains high, and there is no reason to suspect it would crash very low, then sooner or later ASIC's will come along.  And ASIC's would probably mean consolidation of mining power in China.  I'm not knocking China, but consolidation in a single region or country is not a good thing for any cryptocurrency and certainly isn't helping BTC at all.  POS should also mean an increase in ETH value if DASH is any indication.  The incentive to hold lowers the supply on the market.  Now is a good time to start hording ETH.  I sure am.
420  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Pools (Altcoins) / Re: [ANN][POOL] Mining Pool Hub - Multipool. Multialgo, Auto Exchange to any coin. on: March 19, 2017, 10:25:08 PM
Why for the webpages no es loading for me?   Cry
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