Cgminer Dead Card

[lepenguin]

Ive got a card that keeps going dead every couple hours about 4 hours or so. I was looking to see if there is any basic script to restart cgminer every 4 hours to fix the issues.

[DobZombie]

there is a couple of scripts for if your card fails, but I can't seem to find em.

My machine with 4x 5970s kept falling over every day or two.  I've changed from cgminer to bfgminer and I haven't had a fall over since.

You could also look at your temps and see in you're getting a spike. 

maybe change the intensity down to 8?

[-ck]

Drop your clocks to prevent the cards from going dead. Or use a less efficient miner that doesn't drive them as hard.

[DobZombie]

Or use a less efficient miner that doesn't drive them as hard.

[lepenguin]

So I turned down the difficulty still goes dead after a couple hours, Does anyone have any ideas about the script though, I just need the card to last another month or so till BFL comes out

[Gatorhex]

So I turned down the difficulty still goes dead after a couple hours, Does anyone have any ideas about the script though, I just need the card to last another month or so till BFL comes out

Try blowing the dust out of the heatsink with a can of compressed air, but anyway, to answer your question...

If you're running on windows just click... Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Task Scheduler > Create Task

on Gnome GUI Linux its..
sudo apt-get install gnome-schedule
Applications > System Tools > Schedule Tasks.

or from linux command line search google for info on "crontab"

[MinorMiner]

Try blowing the dust out of the heatsink with a can of compressed air, but anyway, to answer your question...

I did this once with a compressed air line ... cleaned it REALLY well, until it shattered.. oops. I'm more careful now

[tacotime]

i have a python script like that in the mining thread in my sig

[-ck]

So I turned down the difficulty still goes dead after a couple hours,

Drop GPU engine overclock, not "difficulty", whatever you mean by that.

[DobZombie]

So I turned down the difficulty still goes dead after a couple hours,

Drop GPU engine overclock, not "difficulty", whatever you mean by that.

I'm guessing he means intensity.

[chewie]

In addition to dropping your GPU clock, you might want to think about dropping your mem clock by -100 to -150.  Not only will your gpu run more efficiently, you it might thank you in the long run by lasting longer for you.