Nvidia GPU Mining Problems

[tbearhere]

This is the problem with installing more than one GPU type per system:

You'd have to do a nvidia driver "clean install" for the device's specific driver to fix that issue.....  Which would remove the other versions of the driver for the other cards........

Any chance on getting the 2 970's in their own box by themselves to test this?

No  but the driver I use is made for all cards JK.
I think we got the problem down to 2 issues now.
One windows 8.1 can only handle so many high end cards like someone I know tried to put 6 980ti on his rig...it can't be done. He got 5 but with lunix I think.
So if I had that many cards and did windows 8.1 the max maybe 4 cards...but it maybe msi afterburner seeing only 4 cards.
2nd I'm working on right now is the clocks are most definitely wrong on the 970's.
Going to set clocks to 1178 like their suppose to be with 2 970 in the system and see if that works.
If not going to delete all monitor app and try again.

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[tbearhere]

Also:   Any special edition cards such as "OC" or "SSC" should never be overclocked.   The manufacturers have already done the legwork for us for the max reliability/stability on their card build.   Keep this well in mind.....   I never overclock a SSC or OC edition card.

This card      http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814125684
and something is oc'ing it   an app IDK
So this maybe one of the main problems. Clocks are at 1393 right now. p2 state.

[tbearhere]

For a reference before I change clocks.

[tbearhere]

Adding the 2nd 970
Msi afterburner doesn't recognized it on graphics monitor but does on the control panel.

Mining for 2 minutes  then crashes with the 2nd image below.
Now going to set the clocks.

[klondike_bar_recovery]

Adding the 2nd 970
Msi afterburner doesn't recognized it on graphics monitor but does on the control panel.

Mining for 2 minutes  then crashes with the 2nd image below.
Now going to set the clocks.

maybe you are pushing just a bit too hard? also whats your cpu/ram combo? I found that running lbry and ethereum side by side (i mixed amd and nvidia cards) can take up a lot of the system resources, including ~3GB of ram.

[tbearhere]

Adding the 2nd 970
Msi afterburner doesn't recognized it on graphics monitor but does on the control panel.

Mining for 2 minutes  then crashes with the 2nd image below.
Now going to set the clocks.

maybe you are pushing just a bit too hard? also whats your cpu/ram combo? I found that running lbry and ethereum side by side (i mixed amd and nvidia cards) can take up a lot of the system resources, including ~3GB of ram.

Thx  but no I'm not pushing the clocks higher ... something else is.
I'm now setting the clocks to normal 1064 for the 980ti's and 1178 for the 970's.
I wonder if ccminer is doing this?

[tbearhere]

Found out that the 2x  980ti's and the 2x  970's are in gaming mode ... they have dual bios.
I may have to use OC GURU  to get them into over clock mode.
Can someone plz check to see what mode your 970 gtx is in plz.

[tbearhere]

Ok after setting the clocks to 1178 the 970's mined at 1417mhz core clock still.  
Something is setting or alternating  the core clocks.
And the cards are in the gaming mode... going to change them to oc mode.

[tbearhere]

Here is a post I found on another site and I'm unable to uninstall all the files from oc guru it says one file needs to be updated first before I can uninstall. Is it part of the problem?... maybe..maybe not.
And my cards are in gaming mode.

>Gigabyte's OC Guru Cause Of My Annoyance! Finally after trying all the various fixes I have found the solution to not being able to play the game without it crashing. It turns out it was the Gigabyte OC Guru program running in the background that was conflicting with the game.
After closing this program (which I don't even use anyway!), I was able to get past the intro movie, past the birthing scene and into the main game and play perfectly fine with no crashes at all.

I urge anyone with a Gigabyte graphics card to check if you have the OC Guru program running in the background. Check your hidden icons and look for it there and then close it. Better still, check your startup programs in msconfig and disable it (OS_GURU).

Going back through my posts it was fellow forum-er ajw5105 who first alerted me to the fact that my overclocking software was causing the problem but I think I just skimmed past the message. Thanks to you ajw and also to thefrench author of this thread: http://forums.steamgames.com/forums/...4#post24574174 which explained exactly what to do.

I hope this helps those of you who are still having issues running the game no matter what fixes you try. It could be that you don't have a Gigabyte GPU but a similar piece of software is what's causing the problem.

The next time your game crashes before you just exit it, click on the little dropdown more information arrow and take note of what the Fault Module Name is. It's likely to be a DLL file (in my case it was GvKm.dll) and then Google that filename and see what program it corresponds to. Then either disable that program or uninstall it if you're not using it.

Sorry for the long post but I think there are a lot of people out there who are driving themselves mad trying to get this game to work.<

[tbearhere]

After installing oc guru and found it didn't have the things needed.. I uninstalled it and run into the problem on my last post above. I then reinstalled it to try to get that last file uninstalled.
Rebooted and took 2 reboots for the extra 970 to be recognized.
Then using msi afterburner I tried mining again. And afterburner only displays 4 cards but controls 5.
The 970 clocks are at 1417mhz but been mining now without a crash for 20 minutes .. first time in 2 months. First time period.
See how long it lasts.
1 hour so far. One algo only too.
EDIT: Wow 12 hours now .. still mining in the p2 state.

[JaredKaragen]

nice.

Yeah;  IDK how you ended up with a driver that encompasses all models;  Because I have the 980 driver installed on my machine, but I had to go to nvidia.com to download the nearly 300Mb package to install the 960 driver alongside with my 980 before miners would see it......

I haven't had any crashing issues yet on all stock drivers/settings and the two mixed cards.

[tbearhere]

nice.

Yeah;  IDK how you ended up with a driver that encompasses all models;  Because I have the 980 driver installed on my machine, but I had to go to nvidia.com to download the nearly 300Mb package to install the 960 driver alongside with my 980 before miners would see it......

I haven't had any crashing issues yet on all stock drivers/settings and the two mixed cards.

I did wonder if I should do drivers for each series card but I didn't need to.

Here you go JK

http://www.nvidia.com/download/driverResults.aspx/105033/en-us

12 hrs and rig still running.

[JaredKaragen]

im running 10, so that link wont work for me XD

Anyways... I am happy to have my 960 alongside the 980.  It surprised me with the card size difference when seeing them next to each other:



The fact that the 960 only takes an 8 pin plug is kind-of nice as well.   I've been hashing solid on LBRY for the past few days.  No OC utilities used.  I might use the EVGA k-boost tool to lock it into P0 settings throughout all P-state changes.... but its been pretty stable as-is, and while mining lbry, I am able to mine at full intensity and play 3d games at the same time.

I am working on a mod to my batch to allow selecting specific gpu's per batch instance... this way you can trim intensity per card, and have one connection per device to have more individual information provided on the zpool web interface.

[tbearhere]

im running 10, so that link wont work for me XD

Anyways... I am happy to have my 960 alongside the 980.  It surprised me with the card size difference when seeing them next to each other:



The fact that the 960 only takes an 8 pin plug is kind-of nice as well.   I've been hashing solid on LBRY for the past few days.  No OC utilities used.  I might use the EVGA k-boost tool to lock it into P0 settings throughout all P-state changes.... but its been pretty stable as-is, and while mining lbry, I am able to mine at full intensity and play 3d games at the same time.

I am working on a mod to my batch to allow selecting specific gpu's per batch instance... this way you can trim intensity per card, and have one connection per device to have more individual information provided on the zpool web interface.

Very nice JK
EVGA k-boost tool .. I never heard of that and to "keep" cards at the p0 state throughout all P-state changes  fantastic ..very nice do you have a link plz  
One connection per device is great too. Very nice.
I see you have a cooler too.
ps my cards are in the p2 state now except the 750ti of course.
Thx
EDIT:I didn't know kboost would do that.. I don't understand how that would keep them in the p0 state.

[JaredKaragen]

Have you ever used steam? :  Http://www.steampowered.com

Just go to library/store and search for EVGA PrecisionX   That's how you download a copy.

It's just a i7 920;  nothing super special....  But the case is HUGE and heavy.  Holy cow.  Seriously.  Huge.  Ill either be adding a 3rd video card to this unit in the future, or ill be adding my FTA-PCIE adapter

Next to it is a Dell Precision 690 with 2x X5365 Xeons and 24Gb of ECC Reg ram, as well as the upgraded 1000W power supply.  With an optional riser card you can install 2 16x PCIE cards, but when I ran two, I just jimmied one of the risers into a 1x slot.  That machine is a good reliable number pounder that I am looking to sell finally.  I have a 20 core machine to replace it which presently mining for me up in SF.

Ive been running all my cards in P2 as well.  I have kboost disabled for now.  The older ones like GTX 550, 650, 750, etc... seem to run in P0 on their own... My watercooled GTX 480 would run in P0 @ 75-80*c when mining and not thermal throttle surprisingly.... and that same single width mini radiator would cool the GPU and the i7-920 while mining Neoscrypt.


We just got our LBRY block.   for a 10.2% share reward, I got 0.011 BTC.  Now that I am where I belong at a little over 30% share presently..... that's a nice return if we get lucky again soon!   I am in it for the long haul on that algo for now.

Very nice JK
EVGA k-boost tool .. I never heard of that and to "keep" cards at the p0 state throughout all P-state changes  fantastic ..very nice do you have a link plz 
One connection per device is great too. Very nice.
I see you have a cooler too.
ps my cards are in the p2 state now except the 750ti of course.
Thx
EDIT:I didn't know kboost would do that.. I don't understand how that would keep them in the p0 state.

The card may sit in P2 state, but voltage, clocks, and etc are all set to P0 settings.  no matter what the power state table it reads from, the table is the P0 table.  This is how I understand how it works.

I did see a % increase of hashrates when enabling it.

[tbearhere]

Note crashed this morning ... zpool  lbry algo
Cant stabilize it... trying something.
Note after all this time now I cant get all cards to mine and sometimes on reboot the 980ti drops out too and sometimes on reboot both 970 drop out.. not recognized.
Code 43.
Crash boom bang
Unplugging it for 2 minutes

OK running again must go into the asrock bios and change from fast boot to normal boot.. this may help for code 43.
crash

Getting System Interrupts running cpu at 100% looking for solution
Edit: it does that when the drivers aren't fully installed ...after a crash.

[tbearhere]

Took the 970 out . till I have time to look further.

[tbearhere]

Now the one 970 isn't hashing i think the fix is to throw them away.. garbage cards. oc'ing themselves to 1417  wtf
I'll never buy gigabyte again.

[Amph]

throw away that relic, buy a 1070 really worth the invest imho, it's a great card very stable no problem i can let the rig run for days

also very high profit right now with lbry ive already mined 1 btc(actually a bit more...) in 15 days, with 7 gpu....

[tbearhere]

throw away that relic, buy a 1070 really worth the invest imho, it's a great card very stable no problem i can let the rig run for days

also very high profit right now with lbry ive already mined 1 btc(actually a bit more...) in 15 days, with 7 gpu....

Thx Amph  I'm going to call gigabyte and see if I can trade them for a 1070. those cards are bad 970 i have.

Amph what controller do you use again  afterburner only supports 4 cards like precision x garbage.
thx
Is that afterburner Amp your using ? does it recognized all 6 cards?