Claymore's Dual Ethereum AMD+NVIDIA GPU Miner v15.0 (Windows/Linux)

[fittsy]

Ensure that its the USB3 version (white USB cable) - humble lessons learnt from me.

http://www.aliexpress.com/item/10pcs-lot-PCI-E-PCI-E-Express-1X-to-16X-Riser-Card-USB-3-0-Extender/1679698470.html

Can you tell us more about the problem you had? I thought the problem with slower hashrates wasn't the USB but the miner. (Cuda miner)

[qqqq]

Why it crashed everytime while DAG's generating in ETH SOLO\SIA Pool mode ? Can't make it work on two of my Farm.

Code:

00:12:08:501	44dc	DUAL MINING MODE ENABLED: ETHEREUM+SIACOIN

00:12:08:506	44dc	ETH: HTTP SOLO mode
00:12:08:506	f94	Setting DAG epoch #62...
00:12:08:508	255c	 SC - connecting to sia-eu1.nanopool.org:9980/miner/header?address=e325c219e6acb9e57b8f5adf5c60def3028ecb12f9b25a0c78cbf59ba97e4104c2ad1c5183fb
00:12:08:522	255c	http send request: 
00:12:08:523	44dc	Ethereum HTTP requests time (-etht) is set to 200 ms

00:12:08:528	44dc	Watchdog enabled
00:12:08:532	44dc	Remote management is enabled on port 3333
00:12:08:537	44dc	

00:12:08:689	255c	http got answer: 0000000015fd7fe17964955fdef1ed34a2a73ae91e5fe71947db5116127c069e0000000000000362170123931ced3ee9259ff6ee8fac2da4adaa998211ac248000000000000000008c5d855700000000e37c71cb3294135a70e7ed13f45204947c1b0dd295c0efdd549717c41866509b
00:12:08:713	255c	 SC: Connected (sia-eu1.nanopool.org:9980/miner/header?address=e325c219e6acb9e57b8f5adf5c60def3028ecb12f9b25a0c78cbf59ba97e4104c2ad1c5183fb)
00:12:08:714	255c	SIA job updated

[uncaer9]

Anybody worried about this ? It's from an online virus scanning site of the lastest v5.0:

https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/001d46762cb177e5bce9df7ed6fae27acaa210e6c65874fbe5e4f5a461e19209/analysis/

3/51 rate this file as unsafe:

AegisLab   Troj.W32.Siscos.lThw
Baidu   Win32.Trojan.WisdomEyes.151026.9950.9975
Ikarus   Trojan.Win64.CoinMiner

Im waiting confirmation from Charloz24 befre update my claymore.

[qqqq]

ver 5.0 can't work even with ETH\DCR mode which is working in previous versions (v4.7 v4.5), just copied the .bat

Code:

DUAL MINING MODE ENABLED: ETHEREUM+DECRED
ETH: HTTP SOLO mode
Ethereum HTTP requests time (-etht) is set to 200 ms
Watchdog enabled
Remote management is enabled on port 3333

Setting DAG epoch #62...
 DCR: Stratum - connecting to 'dcr.pool.mn' <136.243.50.159> port 4800

And than it crashed.

[un4given]

does any1 also have problems in ETH/SIA Mode? SIA shares arent being submitted to nanopool eventhough the job is done and shown done in miner

i've got ethermine.org/nanopool combination any1 out there with the same who can post their bat file?

thx in advance

[citronick]

Which Pcie Riser is better?



http://www.aliexpress.com/item/PCI-e-X1-TO-X16-Adapter-PCIe-1X-TO-16X-risers-card-with-1m-USB3-0/32614044969.html?spm=2114.30010308.3.122.lUDoYl&ws_ab_test=searchweb201556_10,searchweb201602_5_10017_405_404_407_406_10040,searchweb201603_7&btsid=8abc1a8d-e054-43fd-94dd-9f97c801e506

Much better. 60 CM USB cable is about 23.6 inches.   Plenty of length so you can spread your GPUs apart. They'll get better airflow.

Not to mention those ribbon cables are shady. They're put together poorly. The USB riser cards are more robust.

And you didn't ask but there is a cheaper USB riser on the bottom left in the similar product section. It's the $4.09. It is version 1.  The one you are linking to is version 1.4 (you can actually see it written on the x16 board.)  Version 1 only has 2 capacitors.  Version 1.4 has 3 capacitors.  Version 1 has the USB on one side and power on the other. Version 1.4 has them side by side on a wider circuit board. This makes the bottom flat so you can support the back of the gpu with a piece of wood.  I think the one you've linked to is the right one for several reasons. Definitely worth an extra 20 cents each. Don't try to save the money.

Ensure that its the USB3 version (white USB cable) - humble lessons learnt from me.

http://www.aliexpress.com/item/10pcs-lot-PCI-E-PCI-E-Express-1X-to-16X-Riser-Card-USB-3-0-Extender/1679698470.html

It says USB 3.0 on the former auction as well. Cable is also marked as 3.0 on pictures.
Any other reason to go for the ones with green board and white cable?

I have tried several types of risers (USB3 only) and the best (ie. works 100%) is the one with white cable USB3.
I use them for my 390s, Nanos and 480s - so far no issues.
I have tried some with black USB3 cable and out of 10 cables, 2 defects.
You may get lucky with a good batch.
Just sharing my own experience and save you some trouble (and white hair) 

[fredeq]

I have tried several types of risers (USB3 only) and the best (ie. works 100%) is the one with white cable USB3.
I use them for my 390s, Nanos and 480s - so far no issues.
I have tried some with black USB3 cable and out of 10 cables, 2 defects.
You may get lucky with a good batch.
Just sharing my own experience and save you some trouble (and white hair)  

Thanks for the clearup Anyone with experience with those USB risers with blue cables?

http://www.aliexpress.com/item/PCI-e-X1-TO-X16-Adapter-PCIe-1X-TO-16X-risers-card-with-1m-USB3-0/32614044969.html?spm=2114.30010308.3.122.lUDoYl&ws_ab_test=searchweb201556_10,searchweb201602_5_10017_405_404_407_406_10040,searchweb201603_7&btsid=8abc1a8d-e054-43fd-94dd-9f97c801e506

[Ajeto]

Any idea why this happens every time after several minutes of opened app? Is the huge number of rigs a problem (350)? I have to kill process with Task Manager every time. Other groups with less rigs don't have this problem..

Wait.. 350 Rigs ?   

Real question is not how many rigs, it's how many GPU's. I can turn my (1) 6 gpu rig, into a (6) rig but with 1 gpu each =).

For all we know, it could be 2 gpu per rig, or 1 gpu per rig, but regardless anyway, even if that's 1 gpu per rig, that is minimum 350 gpu's, still awesome. Best case scenario, 2100 gpu's, super awesome.

lol

Real question is: is it crashing because of 350 units
And it's 3-6 gpu setup.
And I was posting on a behalf of friend of mine, those are not mine...

The app crashes in approx 2hrs after started. Other groups with 50 rigs for example are working fine..

[Q_R_V]

Thanks for the clearup Anyone with experience with those USB risers with blue cables?

http://www.aliexpress.com/item/PCI-e-X1-TO-X16-Adapter-PCIe-1X-TO-16X-risers-card-with-1m-USB3-0/32614044969.html?spm=2114.30010308.3.122.lUDoYl&ws_ab_test=searchweb201556_10,searchweb201602_5_10017_405_404_407_406_10040,searchweb201603_7&btsid=8abc1a8d-e054-43fd-94dd-9f97c801e506

I have exact same risers, they are working fine, but that foam on the bottom doesn't stick well to the board, it fell off.

[IncludeBeer]

Hey Claymore,

I'm trying to get my rigs under a sleep schedule as my electricity provider is charging extra $$ during peak hours of the day (for summer months).  So, I've got a couple scripts that run using the Task Scheduler on Windows.  I need to be able to close the miner before it sleeps the rig, so that when the task to wake the rig up and start the miner executes later, I won't have >1 instance of the miner running.  I've tried the following:

Code:

C:\Users\Miner>taskkill /IM EthDcrMiner64.exe
ERROR: The process "EthDcrMiner64.exe" with PID 7216 could not be terminated.
Reason: This process can only be terminated forcefully (with /F option).

...which made me do this:

Code:

C:\Users\Miner>taskkill /IM EthDcrMiner64.exe /F
ERROR: The process "EthDcrMiner64.exe" with PID 7216 could not be terminated.
Reason: Access is denied.

Can you tell me a good way to gracefully exit your miner via cmd?

Bump!  Can anyone help me out here?

[bellodox]

Hey Claymore,

I'm trying to get my rigs under a sleep schedule as my electricity provider is charging extra $$ during peak hours of the day (for summer months).  So, I've got a couple scripts that run using the Task Scheduler on Windows.  I need to be able to close the miner before it sleeps the rig, so that when the task to wake the rig up and start the miner executes later, I won't have >1 instance of the miner running.  I've tried the following:

Code:

C:\Users\Miner>taskkill /IM EthDcrMiner64.exe
ERROR: The process "EthDcrMiner64.exe" with PID 7216 could not be terminated.
Reason: This process can only be terminated forcefully (with /F option).

...which made me do this:

Code:

C:\Users\Miner>taskkill /IM EthDcrMiner64.exe /F
ERROR: The process "EthDcrMiner64.exe" with PID 7216 could not be terminated.
Reason: Access is denied.

Can you tell me a good way to gracefully exit your miner via cmd?

Bump!  Can anyone help me out here?

taskkill /F /IM EthDcrMiner64.exe /T >nul
Used to work for me.. And try using "runas /user:administrator C:\data\mybatchfile.bat"

EDIT: BTW are you trying to close the BAT file window itself with miner started in it?

Here it is the whole BAT file of mine:

Code:

@echo off
setx GPU_FORCE_64BIT_PTR 0 >nul
setx GPU_MAX_HEAP_SIZE 100 >nul
setx GPU_USE_SYNC_OBJECTS 1 >nul
setx GPU_MAX_ALLOC_PERCENT 100 >nul
set /a num=%random% %%2
echo %num%
:start
timeout -t 180 /nobreak
if %num% == 0 start /min EthDcrMiner64.exe -r 1 -tt 75 -dbg -1 -epool exp-eu.dwarfpool.com:8018 -ewal 0xxxx -epsw x -eworker bittrex -allcoins -1 -ethi 12 -dpool stratum+tcp://dcr.coinmine.pl:2222 -dwal xxx.xxx -dpsw xls -dcri 60 -dcrt 8
if %num% == 1 start /min EthDcrMiner64.exe -r 1 -tt 75 -dbg -1 -epool eu1.ethermine.org:4444 -esm 1 -ewal 0xxxx -epsw xxx@gmail.com -eworker xxx -ethi 12 -dpool stratum+tcp://dcr.coinmine.pl:2222 -dwal xxx.xxx -dpsw xls -dcri 43 -dcrt 8
::if %num% == 1 start /min EthDcrMiner64.exe -r 1 -tt 75 -dbg -1 -epool eu1.ethermine.org:4444 -esm 1 -ewal 0xxxx -epsw xxx@gmail.com -eworker xxx -ethi 12 -dpool stratum+tcp://dcr.suprnova.cc:2252 -dwal xxx.xxx -dpsw xls -dcri 43 -dcrt 8
:: pause
if %num% == 0 echo 0. Mining Exps..
if %num% == 1 echo 1. Mining Eths..
if %num% == 0 timeout -t 21600 /nobreak
if %num% == 1 timeout -t 64800 /nobreak
taskkill /F /IM EthDcrMiner64.exe /T >nul
echo Just killed the miner!
if %num% == 0  ( 
set num=1
goto start )
if %num% == 1 ( 
set num=0
goto start )

There's some neat stuff like random start of mining eth or clones, timeout after rebooting and rotating mining of the alt coins after given period..

EDIT: Forgot to add EXP row.

[Claymore]

Hi!
Is some way to mix Sia and Decres pools in dpools.txt? Cannot find answer...
Thank you!

No.

ver 5.0 can't work even with ETH\DCR mode which is working in previous versions (v4.7 v4.5), just copied the .bat

Code:

DUAL MINING MODE ENABLED: ETHEREUM+DECRED
ETH: HTTP SOLO mode
Ethereum HTTP requests time (-etht) is set to 200 ms
Watchdog enabled
Remote management is enabled on port 3333

Setting DAG epoch #62...
 DCR: Stratum - connecting to 'dcr.pool.mn' <136.243.50.159> port 4800

And than it crashed.

ETH-only mode was not changed at all in v5.0.

[Balbec]

Why it crashed everytime while DAG's generating in ETH SOLO\SIA Pool mode ? Can't make it work on two of my Farm.

Code:

00:12:08:501	44dc	DUAL MINING MODE ENABLED: ETHEREUM+SIACOIN

00:12:08:506	44dc	ETH: HTTP SOLO mode
00:12:08:506	f94	Setting DAG epoch #62...
00:12:08:508	255c	 SC - connecting to sia-eu1.nanopool.org:9980/miner/header?address=e325c219e6acb9e57b8f5adf5c60def3028ecb12f9b25a0c78cbf59ba97e4104c2ad1c5183fb
00:12:08:522	255c	http send request: 
00:12:08:523	44dc	Ethereum HTTP requests time (-etht) is set to 200 ms

00:12:08:528	44dc	Watchdog enabled
00:12:08:532	44dc	Remote management is enabled on port 3333
00:12:08:537	44dc	

00:12:08:689	255c	http got answer: 0000000015fd7fe17964955fdef1ed34a2a73ae91e5fe71947db5116127c069e0000000000000362170123931ced3ee9259ff6ee8fac2da4adaa998211ac248000000000000000008c5d855700000000e37c71cb3294135a70e7ed13f45204947c1b0dd295c0efdd549717c41866509b
00:12:08:713	255c	 SC: Connected (sia-eu1.nanopool.org:9980/miner/header?address=e325c219e6acb9e57b8f5adf5c60def3028ecb12f9b25a0c78cbf59ba97e4104c2ad1c5183fb)
00:12:08:714	255c	SIA job updated

I have the same issue as qqqq. Solo Eth + pool Sia. Miner crashes on DAG applying. Pool + pool works fine. No positive results when turn off onboard VGA. Serialization useless too (-gser parameter). Win 7 ultimate, 8G RAM, 16G swap, environment variables set as necessary. SDK 2.2. Crimson 15.12. Cards are 280x.

[Claymore]

Finally I confirmed issue with ETH SOLO mining, today I will release an update to fix it.

[fittsy]

I have tried several types of risers (USB3 only) and the best (ie. works 100%) is the one with white cable USB3.
I use them for my 390s, Nanos and 480s - so far no issues.
I have tried some with black USB3 cable and out of 10 cables, 2 defects.
You may get lucky with a good batch.
Just sharing my own experience and save you some trouble (and white hair)  

Thanks for the clearup Anyone with experience with those USB risers with blue cables?

http://www.aliexpress.com/item/PCI-e-X1-TO-X16-Adapter-PCIe-1X-TO-16X-risers-card-with-1m-USB3-0/32614044969.html?spm=2114.30010308.3.122.lUDoYl&ws_ab_test=searchweb201556_10,searchweb201602_5_10017_405_404_407_406_10040,searchweb201603_7&btsid=8abc1a8d-e054-43fd-94dd-9f97c801e506

The color of the cable doesn't matter. It's just a color.  It may help identify some from a bad batch, but I'd rather investigate the supplier. Look at the info on the circuit board etc.
@Citronick might want to try connecting some different cables to see if it was a flaw in the cable or with the card.

As far as USB PCI-e risers go you can use any USB cable you want. We can easily buy USB cables here (Or even make your own.) What most of us can't do is make the 1x to 16x riser card that the cable connects too.  This makes it possible to add longer cables as well.

USB 3.0 is a standard. That's one reason why people prefer the USB risers.

[osnwt]

USB 3.0 is a standard. That's one reason why people prefer the USB risers.

You may be surprised, but those "USB" risers have nothing common with USB 3.0 standard as well as with USB at all. The only common is that they use USB 3.0 connectors and USB 3.0 cables (more pins and wires comparing to USB 2.0 and below). They only extend PCI-e wires using high-quality cables normally used for USB 3.0. Also due to limited number of wires in USB cable they do not supply 3.3 PCI-e voltage to GPU and need 5V separate power apart from 12V (both supplied with Molex connector).

So I would not expect that even cables from different "USB" riser manufacturers will work swapped (even if they should work being pin to pin wired).

[spyshagg]

iv'e been running solo since the beginning with no problems.

What were the issues again?

[dannygroove]

Finally I confirmed issue with ETH SOLO mining, today I will release an update to fix it.

ETH is slower in ver 5.0 for Tonga..

[Claymore]

v5.1:

- fixed issue with crash in Ethereum solo mode.
- fixed issue in Linux version when http server does not respond.
- increased timeout to detect bad pool state when no jobs are received for a long time.
- added FAQ section to Readme.

[fittsy]

USB 3.0 is a standard. That's one reason why people prefer the USB risers.

You may be surprised, but those "USB" risers have nothing common with USB 3.0 standard as well as with USB at all. The only common is that they use USB 3.0 connectors and USB 3.0 cables (more pins and wires comparing to USB 2.0 and below). They only extend PCI-e wires using high-quality cables normally used for USB 3.0. Also due to limited number of wires in USB cable they do not supply 3.3 PCI-e voltage to GPU and need 5V separate power apart from 12V (both supplied with Molex connector).

So I would not expect that even cables from different "USB" riser manufacturers will work swapped (even if they should work being pin to pin wired).

That's good to know. I would have expected it to be more of a standardized configuration.

I don't really imagine that buying one riser because it is a white cable is the best way to go about it. I imagine we need to figure out the manufacturer?  Or at least the vendor that is selling it to make sure we get the right vendor since they're likely to source from the same place every time?