There are many reasons for the network hash rate to have increased, but IMO, a Bitmain ASIC conspiracy ain't one. Daily media hype towards the end of last year, $20K BTC and $1300 ETH, which on a yearly basis outperformed BTC by almost 10000% a the end of last year and beginning of this year brought in lot's of new miners at a peak, as it always does. Another factor that limited the network hash rate was the ETH ICE AGE MAY-OCT artificially increased block times and difficulty. Once the Byzantium fork happened in the middle of OCT it ended the ICE AGE and profitability increased right around the time Crypto started the end of the year bull run, which brought miners back to ETH. The most recent hash rate increase is from Vega miners switching to ETH after a collapse in Cryptonight profitability.

I can try that, but what will I learn?  The system runs stable for 24+ hours if I don't modify the GPU settings or if I modify the settings using Afterburner.  But putting those same settings in the Claymore config causes a crash on startup.  

Doesn't the fact that I can run stable with no GPU modifiers (or modifying GPU with Afterburner) indicate that hardware and drivers are working correctly?
 - Dave

if anybody can help what is the best miner and best pool to mine zec ?

I'm having a problem with a crash or lockup when starting.  I've tried 11.3, 11.4 and 11.5.  All exhibit the same issue.

Claymore runs great when I don't set any GPU parameters in the config file.  However, as soon as I add any clock or voltage adjustments to the GPUs, one of 3 things happens when I start the software:
1. BSOD with Thread Stuck in Device Driver error
2. System just locks up (no mouse movement or num lock), requiring a hard power cycle
3. It starts properly but eventually exhibits failure 1 or 2 after an hour or two.

When I say the problem happens with any GPU parameters, I've tested this by using all stock settings (the same that the GPUs default to when I don't set anything in the config), but I still have the problem.  So, the problem is not settings outside of a stable operating range.

The crashes usually occur after "POOL/SOLO Version", but not all the time.

I checked the logs but nothing stands out.  The logs look normal then just stop when the crash happens. 

I'm running a rig with 3xRX570 and 3xRX580 using the blockchain driver on Win10.

I've tried running -oldkernels 1, but that actually made it worse.  I couldn't start mining at all.  I always get OpenCL errors, even with no clock or voltage adjustments.

I tried -gser1 and -gser 2, but neither of those helped.

Is there something else I should be looking at?
 - Dave

I would minining eth on minergate with claymore, i have rx560 but i have a problem with command, what i must put in the .bat?

I figured it would be better to start with a small GPU mining setup since I still need to figure out and learn almost everything there is to know with mining.

Can anyone at least recommend a good source of up-to-date information on mining?

The miner has been working for a week without problems but the last two days that this happens every 2 or 3 hours, some solution?

2018-03-15 3:27:04|gpu_id 2 76 0 an illegal instruction was encountered
2018-03-15 3:27:04|gpu 2 unresponsive - check overclocking
2018-03-15 3:27:04|cudaMemcpy 1 failed

Thanks!

Hey guys so I've finally had the time to try and fix the issue and I got into the BIOS but when I'm in there my mouse and keyboard both DONT WORK?! grrr this is frustrating haha. Does anyone know why that is happening? I'm going to contact ASrock later today.

I have a usb keyboard, it's not working before boot on my system. I am aware that some BIOS disable usb to speed boot along

Your keyboards probably are working, if you have the usb options enabled in your bios.
However, for some reason, the F2, and in fact all the F buttons, do not work during post. Most of you are pressing F2 when offered the choice of F2 or Del, and so assume your usb keyboard doesn't work in POST, and plug in your old ps2, to make your bios adjustments.
I know all of this because it happened to me.
There are two ways to 'fix' it:
Hit del instead of F2, or
You probably have a FN button on your KB. Press that at the same time as F2.

how to set in claymore to start up with windows on restart ?

Hello everyone! it's probably too late, but I still decided to ask this question about my problem: my video card 1070 gave 0.2 zek per month, but since February it has become 0.15 zek. The schedule on the nanopool has not changed, the sol in the EWBF Miner window has not changed, the settings have not changed, but for some reason the balance began to be earned slowly than before. Im sorry if this problem has long been passed by someone, maybe I just dont know something and the problem is not mine, but the problem on the server. Explain please what is this? (sorry for my bad english)

Hi. With Claymore 11.5 i often recieve "socket was closed by pool". This is miner problem or my interner connection issue?

Hi, since a few days ago when the claymore is connected the word unsecure appears in the ip of the pool, in the following way:

ETH: Stratum - connecting to 'us1.ethermine.org' <18.219.59.155> port 4444 (unsecure)

Is there a problem? I did not have that before, how can I solve it? Thank you.

Hey man Im getting this error, any ideas?

Faulting application name: EthDcrMiner64.exe, version: 0.0.0.0, time stamp: 0x5aa91985
Faulting module name: igdrclneo64.dll, version: 0.0.0.0, time stamp: 0x5a96b19b
Exception code: 0xc0000005
Fault offset: 0x0000000000030819
Faulting process id: 0x704
Faulting application start time: 0x01d3bd2dcce86dee
Faulting application path: C:\Users\Max\Downloads\Claymore's Dual Ethereum+Decred_Siacoin_Lbry_Pascal_Blake2s_Keccak AMD+NVIDIA GPU Miner v11.5\EthDcrMiner64.exe
Faulting module path: C:\WINDOWS\System32\DriverStore\FileRepository\igdlh64.inf_amd64_250db833a1cd577e\igdrclneo64.dll
Report Id: f06b3f20-a28a-4664-8cce-8a58b561b034
Faulting package full name:
Faulting package-relative application ID:

Yap, When talking about stability, something that been tried with a ton of test would be better (it's called standard and vendor do a ton of test, I say for sure), that's the point.
I can't judge something "wrong" or "right" just because I do that. Same as you, all of my Polaris card been modded and seems stable but wouldn't so stable as stock with a bit tune-up on it. For honest, I do that for hashing speed.

I also modified my Polaris cards but didn't give OP a personal view. So RX series with modded, actually, pushing default condition, different from with R9 and kinds. Mod bios would change default strap that has been calculated by a vendor in a safe zone, and they give a range to increase a few elements on it.That's why I give technical view to OP because of whatever when we push something to its limit, for sure will be something a bit different.

I think Bitmain is buying the chips from TSMC so they are probably getting good deals on those and I would assume they have higher profits that Nvidia does.

--ypsi