I'd also like to join, thanks!

I saw that too, yet the price is not adjusted automatically. It is my understanding that the current main exchange does not provide API-data anymore due to a DDOS attack and the switch to cloudflare. Good for miners for the time being!

Once BTCZ is on the whattomine mainpage i will lose my spot on the richlist quickly  https://btczexplorer.blockhub.info/richlist

Hey guys, any ideas for me? Thanks a lot :-)

Hey guys, got two more questions:

1. On windows i was able to turn off the LEDs on my cards using either the terrible MSI Gaming App or the MSI LED tool. Is there some way to turn off the GPUs' lights using nvOC?

2. The telegram notifications do not work at all, i have created a bot, got the API, figured out the Chat-ID and can see the conversations with the bot on a webbrowser. Yet nvOC never sends anything. Guake has the AUTO_GRAM tab and announces "New telegram in 1800 seconds" but has not been sending anything so far

Thank you for your help!

Thanks a lot for your reply, that makes sense. I will have a look but am kinda scared  So no more 1060s for me i suppose

Ohhh thanks, that was easy I tried that before, but didn't realize im in the telegram tab and that there is another one. Got it now, thanks again!

Hey guys,

After installing the current version and having no experience with Linux at all, I'm having 2 issues, can you help?

1. I cannot view the miner, typing in "screen -r miner" in the terminal and pressing enter does nothing. Is that the correct place?

2. I switched over to nvOC because i have a rig of 1060s 3GB (MSI Gaming X) and windows does not allow me to go below 100W per card. Even though the cards are close to 300 Sol/s they are very inefficient and my power is expensive. Setting the wattage to a number below 100W on nvOC leads to an error message along the lines of "this wattage will be ignored, values for this GPU needs to be between 100W and 200W". Is there some way for me to bypass this? I saw one card running once on windows with 60W and 240 Sol/s for around 3 minutes, i'd be very glad with a limit of 80 or 75W.

Thank you very much for your help, the OS was really easy to set up and runs fine, very impressed!

Hey, thanks for uploading, i will check out your newest version.

Would it be fairly easy for you to change the frequenzy of the telegram status updates? Hourly is just too much for me, every 6 hours would be great. I have 3 rigs and can't deal with 72 Messages every 24 hours  I love the idea of regular updates though!

Thank you very much for that post. I will do the same today or tomorrow. What are your power settings on those air-cooled 1080 TIs? What is the wattage of your PSU?

I have noticed your setup including the server room in another thread already, great to see people who are willing to share and think in bigger pictures, including solar power. Keep up the good work!

bump for the US crowd, any ideas? Thank you 

Hey Acrefawn,

I will try the newest Version tonight, love your work! One question though: I have moved my rigs to another location with terrible Internet. What exactly does "disable Internet connectivity check" do? The basic EWBF function is still going to work, correct?

I have noted that your script waits for 12 minutes whenever the connection is lost, in this new location this is too long for me. Should i disable the connectivity check?

Thank you for your help and thanks again for this amazing script. I will let it the rigs run for a while towards your address when upgrading!


Hey, read the first post in this thread   This script does that and much more

Hey guys,

I have built a rig that is giving me some trouble. The rig consists of the following parts:

1200w Platinum PSU
3x - 5x 1080 TI Sea Hawk X (this one: https://www.msi.com/Graphics-card/GeForce-GTX-1080-Ti-SEA-HAWK-X.html#hero-overview)
5x Powered Risers PCIe X1
H270 M3 Gaming
Celeron 2.8 GHZ Dual
4GB RAM DDR4
60 GB SSD

EWBF 03.4.b solving equihash

Afterburner: 75% power, around +170 Core and +780 MEM but stable for 3 cards (these are watercooled after all). 3 cards have Micron Memory, i have not yet checked the other 2 but they also handle these settings so far.

Issue 1:

Observation after 6 weeks: When running the rig with 3 TIs the rig tends to be unstable: After booting, occasionally Windows does not recognize all 3 GPUs, other times the mining program does not recognize all 3 GPUs. On average, around 40% of starts are successfull as in "Windows and miner recognize 3 GPUS". The CPU usage is around 50% at all times, 45% goes straight to afterburner. Once running it works like a charm and is stable, longest run until i restarted manually was 10 days 24/7.

Is there something at fault here? Am i short on CPU, RAM or hard drive?

Issue 2:
Oberservation after 1 day: I tried to run 5 TIs, then 4 TIs, but the PSU is just not strong enough. In theory it should be as i am undervolting the cards to 190w and the usage 5 cards should be less than 1200w (3 cards run below 700w). I have accepted that the TIs "pull hard" in the first split second of mining, leading to the PSU just surrendering, therefore i have ordered another 1200w PSU (exactly the same model). All 5 cards work and all PCIe slots and risers work until i run more than 3 GPUs at once.

Are there any known limitations of running more than 3 or more than 4 TIs on a rig with my specs? Do i need more CPU Speed, RAM or another Mobo? If needed i will order new parts, just want to make sure that my rig "should run" with 5 1080 TIs and 2x 1200w.

Thank you very much for your help, it is much appreciated!

Hey Acrefawn,

I'm running your script on two rigs and am very happy with the results so far. I used sverox' script before, which was helped me a lot, too.

Two questions:

1. Could you elaborate a bit what you have improved and changed in the latest version? Than it is easier to decide if i should upgrade. I use the entire package including telegram.
2. Have you considered adding a donation-feature for yourself, which we as users can adjust? I don't mine or have any ZEC and would rather like to give some hashes every once in a while  I'd happily use a 0.25% - 0.5% option.

Thank you again for your hard work, it is very much appreciated!

Hey sverox,
you are right of course, i looked into it again. So your script has prevented every error (there was no 0 sol incident during the time), but i have noticed something else, which happened on both rigs individually.

So it starts like this: I look into the pool page and see that 1 rig does not contribute as much as it should. I access the rig and notice that the mining program is doing absolutely nothing and the last share submitted was some time ago (5-10 minutes). There is no error, the power usage on the wall stays the same and the mining program appears to be running, but is not producing shares. If i open a 2nd miner instance it works properly, but with only half the regular speed (which is what you would expect).

However, if you click on the mining program that is not working properly and press "spacebar" the program wakes up and tells that a Devfee share was rejected, essentially blocking the entire miner without an error message, and resulting in many further rejected shares. I was able to capture it on screen: the yellow arrow shows where the miner stopped, after i pressed spacebar the following lines below the arrow were shown. Please also note how the Devfee share line starts with "Temp" instead of "Info" and how the "Temp" line has an earlier time stamp than the share before. The following lines have stamps +5 minutes, indicating the time when i pressed space.

edit: And after all the rejected shares are sent anyway the miner works properly again

So long story short Would it be possible for you to include some code in your script that "presses spacebar" everytime your script checks the miner? I would be thankful forever! Your support is very much appreciated!



edit2: it happened again

In theory, yes. But i do not have access to my rigs constantly as I do not live where i work (2.5 hours of driving, separate appartments). They may run for 7 days straight, then have hiccups, other times they manage only 2 days. My GPUs are heavily overclocked and underpowered (because my power is very expensive) and i cannot expect EWBF-software to work constantly under those circumstances. I have lowered the overclocking on 1 of the rigs by 5 percent again, so far both are running fine. For me this is an investment (not necessarily short term) but the rigs need to run somehow.


I can help you with that, one rig needed that too :-) You need to create a .bat file and copy the following:

-------
@echo off
echo The programm will wait for 60 seconds until EWBF miner is being started
timeout 60
start "EWBF-0.3.4b" NAME_OF_THE_PROGRAMM_YOU_WANT_TO_START
-------

"timeout 60" specifies the waiting time in seconds, "NAME_OF_THE_PROGRAMM_YOU_WANT_TO_START" needs to be adjusted by you, depending on the name of your batch file. If you use config it should be "Miner.exe".

Please note that this batch file needs to be in the same location as your miner. If it does what you like you can include a link to in your startup menu (windows + r --> shell:startup). Happy mining  

Thanks for the quick reply and your support, much appreciated! I have added another condition by copying and replacing:

IF %varForc% EQU 3 (
...
with

IF %varRuns% EQU 5 (
...

No other parameters are needed, right? Beer sent in e22451af6eb8165c08c5b02759b52797a088c688bb9951b60042dc9b7ed7677e, thanks again!

Unfortunately i did not work and one rig went to 0 Sol/s (the miner did not exit) and another time the miner lost connection and did not attempt to reconnect 


Thanks for your work, got it running on both rigs and looking good so far. Would it be possible to also include a line saying "if the miner has been restarted ("%varForc%") 3 times reboot the pc? You got beer money coming to your ZEC wallet either way

Thanks for the tip, all set up and running for both rigs. Now it's time to wait and see!

Thanks for your advice. Im trying to, but get nowhere. My 3 1080 TIs trouble me, had them running for 7 days straight, now in the last 3 days they have stopped 5 times without me having changed anything (except your afterburner hint come to think of it, but that can't be it). It kinda sucks to wake up to idling machines...

Hey guys, is this safe to use? I need something like this very much but have not seen any validations so far. If it's legit i'll let it run with dev's address for some time. Thanks