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December 04, 2012, 04:07:33 AM
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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.
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December 04, 2012, 08:32:20 AM
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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?

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December 04, 2012, 08:43:50 AM
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Drop your clocks to prevent the cards from going dead. Or use a less efficient miner that doesn't drive them as hard.

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December 04, 2012, 10:50:57 AM
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Or use a less efficient miner that doesn't drive them as hard.



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December 04, 2012, 05:08:57 PM
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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
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December 04, 2012, 06:06:29 PM
Last edit: December 04, 2012, 06:38:10 PM by Gatorhex
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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"
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December 04, 2012, 11:49:05 PM
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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 Cheesy

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December 05, 2012, 12:02:10 AM
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i have a python script like that in the mining thread in my sig

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December 05, 2012, 01:03:24 AM
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So I turned down the difficulty still goes dead after a couple hours,
Drop GPU engine overclock, not "difficulty", whatever you mean by that.

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December 06, 2012, 01:42:16 PM
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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.

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December 06, 2012, 07:26:05 PM
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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.
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