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Ethash is more memory intensive than Equihash, so yes, it draws more power.
Easy way to test if it’s a power issue or not is to remove one or two cards from the system and see if ethash then runs okay.
Good god why haven't i thought of this. |
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It's funny you are getting this issue. Because on my main PC with 2 GPUs I've tried mining ETH and very randomly the system would just freeze. Either once a day or once a week.
Tried ZEC mining and never had this issue.
I think it's maybe the higher memory clock that makes the system unstable from time to time. Only solution I can think of.
Yeah its annoying isn't it. Funny thing is, even with NO overclock... ETH still crashes it You got to live like this with AMD cards until you find their sweet spot. Even if you have no overclock settings, one possible cause of crashes would be an incorrect BIOS mod. Try the polaris bios editor with the one click patch thingy. If it still doesn't work try changing your risers! Good luck matey Thanks for the info, I'll look int it. But the 1060 is a Nvidia card not AMD? If the profitability wasn't so different I would just mine ZEC and be happy, but damn its like $2/day difference |
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It's funny you are getting this issue. Because on my main PC with 2 GPUs I've tried mining ETH and very randomly the system would just freeze. Either once a day or once a week.
Tried ZEC mining and never had this issue.
I think it's maybe the higher memory clock that makes the system unstable from time to time. Only solution I can think of.
Yeah its annoying isn't it. Funny thing is, even with NO overclock... ETH still crashes it |
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Now you have your answer psu,anyway new ryzen2 architecture ryzen+ is coming April 19.
Sorry I'll have to ask you to clarify. You DO think that it's the PSU? Does mining ETH take significantly more power than mining ZEC? Also I'm totally lost on the last part of your post with the ryzen2 architecture and such. What does that mean for me? |
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Just an unrelated question tho. Why would you want to mine Ethhash? Equihash would be alot more profitable with your current rig. I guess you could do it just for fun, but i really see no point in getting it to work.
I'd mine ZEC all day if it was more profitable. Right now I get around 1,600 sols on ZEC and 138 mh/s on ETH. Whattomine tells me I'd be making a few bucks more per day on ETHash. You'd make my day if I'm wrong here, and I'm still kinda new to mining. Do those numbers not sound right? OC settings are 75%/-100/+500. I messed around a little with the OC and nothing changed too much so i left it. |
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So I've been having a nightmare with my miner. I have six 1060s (6gb) and for the last few weeks I've been trying to get claymore up and running. I've gotten it down to where now it will run claymore for 5 minutes or so and then it randomly restarts. The event viewer tells me its a Kernel-Power 41 error.
However I just tried excavator (ZEC) on a whim and its been running for an hour with no problem.
My initial thought was that it's my power supply (1000w bronze)... but I hesitate because 1) I don't understand why it would mine ZEC but not ETH on that power supply and 2) When I plugged it into my KillaWatt it said its only drawing about 600w from the wall.
What could cause ZEC to mine fine but not ETH?
Virtual memory is set to 16-24gb
Reinstalled drivers
Reinstalled windows
Bought new risers
Bought new motherboard
Set pcie to Gen2 in bios
Tried Genoil instead of Claymore
Put the ETH miner in a exemption folder on windows defender
High performance power mode
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Welp everyone, after a lot of trial and error, I have my first successful launch. Looks like one of the GPU Risers may have been bad. I swear I tested all of these... but I guess one of them died pretty quick. Anyways, I'm gonna let it run while I go to sleep and will check in the morning. Hopefully this fixes everything.
Lesson learned. It's always the damn risers. Even when you swear it isn't.
ahh nice man, hope it holds up  ya these current market risers are pieces of shit, its crazy how big of an industry this is and we can't even get "brand name" risers yet  sometimes they will work off the bat, then catch a piece of dust or static in a few hours and short out and you wont even know till this happens  Update. New risers game in... same thing. So either some of the new risers are bad as well or that's not the problem. It started giving the the "claymoremienr... has been blocked from accessing graphics hardware" and then it crashes, goes to the internal video as the main display, and 3 of my 6 graphics cards go unrecognized. Over 2 weeks now and still not working :/ I guess I'm going to try my 3rd motherboard now (biostar) and see if it's a gigabyte thing. |
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Welp everyone, after a lot of trial and error, I have my first successful launch. Looks like one of the GPU Risers may have been bad. I swear I tested all of these... but I guess one of them died pretty quick. Anyways, I'm gonna let it run while I go to sleep and will check in the morning. Hopefully this fixes everything.
Lesson learned. It's always the damn risers. Even when you swear it isn't.
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Few weeks back Asus GTX1070 also have similar issue. Temperature error + BSOD after running for a while.
Found out that the SATA cable melted slightly and became faulty. Replaced with a high quality cable and so far no issue. (Uninstalled and reinstalled Driver Version 388.13).
Note: From my experience, Asus cards tends to draw more power that other brands.
Sata cable? As in the sata power cable? I thought we aren't supposed to use those to power risers... |
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replace all of your risers
do you have any missing device drivers in device manager?
ya man, test each card till error appears, replace riser on the faulty one may fix it (hopefully) most risers have a terrible fail rate, sometime right OOB, sometimes after a few weeks.months mining i run also a free iobit softwear called "driver booster". free and works. it usually finds drivers for "PCI-E" stuff, and have had it help having all those updated keep in mind you DONT need all the audio drivers for each card installed, as they will just eat up resources Here's the thing. I plugged GPU 1 and 2 in and it crashes. Then I try GPU 1 by itself and it works. GPU 2 by itself and it works. So it cant be the risers can it? haha damn thing, rigs are so finicky sometimes :/ maybe theres a PCI-E port acting up on the MB ? switch around the slots you plug the cards risers into, see what happens make sure no dust in the slots also just keep trying to isolate it,, maybe you can get it to 5 cards, and go from there and update your system drivers! it could be windows just confused by all the cards OK Update. I think we need to back up. Turns out... even a single card doesn't work. It mines happily for about 5 minutes and then crashes. As opposed to the normal crashing immediately. So we think the risers are the culprit? |
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replace all of your risers
do you have any missing device drivers in device manager?
ya man, test each card till error appears, replace riser on the faulty one may fix it (hopefully) most risers have a terrible fail rate, sometime right OOB, sometimes after a few weeks.months mining i run also a free iobit softwear called "driver booster". free and works. it usually finds drivers for "PCI-E" stuff, and have had it help having all those updated keep in mind you DONT need all the audio drivers for each card installed, as they will just eat up resources Here's the thing. I plugged GPU 1 and 2 in and it crashes. Then I try GPU 1 by itself and it works. GPU 2 by itself and it works. So it cant be the risers can it? I didn't change the risers, I just unplugged the other ones from the motherboard. Whichever one I leave plugged in will mine just fine. |
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Yeah before the crash I can get it to recognize all 6 cards. The problem is once I launch the miner
Ok... now we may be getting somewhere. I tried two tests.
First I launched it with all of the GPUs unplugged except one. On a single 1060 it seems to work just fine. I tested a few other GPUs by themselves and they also will mine perfectly... until a second GPU is plugged in.
Once I plugged in the second one, crash.
I had the task manager open and I noticed before it crashed the CPU load shot up to 80-90%. I also did see a program in there called "system interrupts" but it wasn't accounting for much of the CPU spike according to the task manager
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Interestingly, this motherboard doesn't have 4g encoding.
Tried gen2. No difference
Can you explain a bit more? not sure what system interrupts are.
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So... I've been having the same problem for two weeks. I set up my miner, everything is running great, and then I launch Claymore, it loads for about 15 seconds and then the all hell breaks loose. The fans all turn to 100% and it sounds like a jet engine, then Claymore gives me and error about not being able to read temperature, and then my entire system crashes. Blue screen of "something went wrong. need to restart". Sometimes I get a warning saying "the application claymoreminer.... has been blocked from accessing graphics hardware". I have to reset the rig by holding down the power button. Sometimes when it loads back up I only have 3 graphics cards recognized and I basically have to reinstall windows because I cant get it to re-recognize the cards.
So far, here are a bunch of steps I've taken
PCIE lanes to Gen1
Disable CSM support
Virtual memory size to 24gb
Hi power mode on power settings and system settings
Reinstalled GPU drivers (8-10 times) directly from Nvidia
Turned off windows updates
Turned off windows defender (which is odd because it still blocks my miner when defender is off)
Placed my miner in an exception folder on windows defender
Switched to a different miner (ZCash excavator)
Reinstalled windows (4 times)
Reinstalled graphics cards 1 at a time
Purchased a new motherboard (thought it was the issue)
Turn off all overclocks
Updated motherboard bios
On both motherboards I have had the exact same issue. I think it's related to the nvidia drivers? Anyone PLEASE help.
My setup is
Gigabyte GA-270p-d3 motherboard
G3900 CPU
4gb DDR4
120gb m.2 SSD
x6 Asus gtx 1060 6gb
1000w rosewill power supply
I'm so frustrated I don't even know where to go next. Willing to send a few days worth of mining to whoever can figure this out. I'm desperate
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Figured it out. I was entering it as a new line in the .bat file instead of adding it to the end. Thanks a ton
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Holy cow you are my hero.
For the fellow noobs out there, don't type -eres 0 into a new line. Add it to the end of the existing one
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Sorry for the dumb question, but when you say "use" what do you mean? Is that a command or something I enter into my bat file?
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Has anyone else noticed 3gb 1060s not working with Claymore ETH miner? I'm reading about it being a recent windows update, but I can't find a fix for it. I have 10 graphics cards mining nicehash right now because I cant get them to work on claymore. (I've already set virtual memory to 16gb)
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So I'm building my first rig (two 1060s and a 1070). I have been researching the pcie risers and I understand that we don't NEED the full pcie x16 for mining, which is why the risers are only x16 on one end. However, i've also heard that the powered risers are one of the biggest problem areas for mining rigs (and safety) and it looks like a mess to have to run power to them.
So, other than being a bit more expensive... is there any reason why someone shouldn't just buy the pcie x16 ribbon risers that don't require external power? I feel like it would be easier, cleaner, and less likely to malfunction/ burn up
Thanks
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