Hi there ,

So I tried the two solutions you provided and everything seemed to be working fine until the rig crashed again and shut down automatically.  (Thank you Vann for trying to help)

It mined for over an hour and half then shut down.

I received these error messages from Claymore:

NVML: cannot get current temperature, error 999 (an internal driver error occurred)
WATCHDOG: GPU 0 Hangs in OpenCL call, you need to restart miner 
WATCHDOG: GPU 0 Hangs in OpenCL call, you need to restart miner 
ETH: No new jobs were received for 10 mins - something is wrong with pool


Also when I put in the IP address for Stratum to  connect to the US east server , all the IP's lead to US west servers (not that it would be a problem but it seems weird since I put in IP addresses for east coast)

It seems to me (perhaps I am wrong) that claymore or nanopool is having some issues..

Would anyone reccommend dumping claymore/nanopool and going to another miner/pool ?

Does anyone have a fix for this issue? Please help anyone!   

Yes perfectly feasible so long as the CPU is not especially weak, anything modern will be fine.   I use a Haswell Xeon chip which was cheap because its locked to stock clocks, however its also 70w TDP also.   8 cores and 16 threads means I can mine XMR at the same time as any other function required.    

I've not heard of IOTA being especially intensive but sounds feasible, so long as there is no chokepoints in any part of the system.