Nvidia GPU Mining Problems

[tbearhere]

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.

How does FTA-PCIE adapter work? I dont see where you add a card to it. and how it would work. thx

[Amph]

yeah just msi afterbuner last version, windows has a problem at first when i plugged all the card, in recognizing the last one, but after a couple of restart everything went well

maybe do not plug them all at once, i have  abetter hash now, peak was 1510

[JaredKaragen]

[tbearhere]

 
What is that app? Driving me nuts.

[Amph]

antivirus? i think you need maybe a format c with a clean install, maybe install only the necessary things for mining in a separate machine if you have one

[tbearhere]

Its been mining now for 3 days no problems.
Its not the antivirus but something in windows on reboot not sure.
My next thing to do is take it off fast boot to normal boot.
That type of crash report is the drivers not installing all the way.
I dare not turn it off right now.. lost a lot of btc but another heat wave coming and I'll have to shut it down for 4 hours a day for 7 days... then I'll change the bios to slow boot.
It has 20,000 accepts so far.
But that is only one of the crash problems.. the other is why are they clocked at 1417 way out of range causing a ccminer crash? Bad cards? IDK
Maybe be doing an rma on both cards.

[tbearhere]

Ok trying  some things now.


Did an upgrade on bios not long ago.
I have intel drivers doing the mb hd video.
I dont know how to turn it off.
Totally deleted afterburner.
Setting bios to to reboot normal speed.
And then going to try it out.

[tbearhere]

Nope...... it does mine for 7 minutes .... then ccminer was stopped by an app.  

Problem maybe heat related.

[tbearhere]

ccminer1.8.2.exe  -a lbry  --cpu-priority 0 -o stratum+tcp://yiimp.ccminer.org:3334  -u  -p   -d 0,1,2,3,4  -i 23,0,17,17,23
A little low on the settings .. but its working so far.
Finally one problem solved... needed intensity setting for each card.... the 750ti I left at stock setting.

[JaredKaragen]

ccminer1.8.2.exe  -a lbry  --cpu-priority 0 -o stratum+tcp://yiimp.ccminer.org:3334  -u  -p   -d 0,2,3,4  -i 23,17,17,23

Look at the edit I made to your string.    I suggest not polling the card with ccminer if you don't plan on hashing with it  Take one more thing out of the equation....   I mean;  I see results for your 750Ti; 50 Mh... but you are putting intensity to zero?   Maybe I am confused after looking at it once more...


But I have found that some cards will take different max intensity settings between them as well.  Some have better cooling for their positioning in the casings, etc.  Lots of variables... but it looks like you are figuring out the stability issues.

[tbearhere]

ccminer1.8.2.exe  -a lbry  --cpu-priority 0 -o stratum+tcp://yiimp.ccminer.org:3334  -u  -p   -d 0,2,3,4  -i 23,17,17,23

Look at the edit I made to your string.    I suggest not polling the card with ccminer if you don't plan on hashing with it  Take one more thing out of the equation....   I mean;  I see results for your 750Ti; 50 Mh... but you are putting intensity to zero?   Maybe I am confused after looking at it once more...


But I have found that some cards will take different max intensity settings between them as well.  Some have better cooling for their positioning in the casings, etc.  Lots of variables... but it looks like you are figuring out the stability issues.

Thx JK ..... yes I think 0 means default intensity... something in the back of my mine says to do this for the 750ti.
Wait I see now.. with your bat file, it wont mine with the 750ti... need that command. It goes in the order the -d calls.
Next will see if it can mine at 10 degrees above room temperature.  
It's 62f or 16.6 c in that room and was mining at normal room temperature. Closed the windows ... see what temperature goes up to.
EDIT: Starting to crash at 74f. With no external fan.

[tbearhere]

I have an intel 1150 socket 2.9ghz g1850 2 core cpu on the rig.
Would it help oc'ing this a little? In fact I would like to try this...but only a little.
At 95 Degrees Fahrenheit = 35 Celsius summer temperatures ..it runs at most 45c.. so it runs cool for the summer heat.
Now it is room temperature outside and inside as winter is coming.
The specs on the miner are on the front page.
Should I try for 3ghz ?

Any help plz as I have never done this before. 

Thank you

[tbearhere]

ccminer1.8.2.exe  -a lbry  --cpu-priority 0 -o stratum+tcp://yiimp.ccminer.org:3334  -u  -p   -d 0,2,3,4  -i 23,17,17,23

Look at the edit I made to your string.    I suggest not polling the card with ccminer if you don't plan on hashing with it  Take one more thing out of the equation....   I mean;  I see results for your 750Ti; 50 Mh... but you are putting intensity to zero?   Maybe I am confused after looking at it once more...


But I have found that some cards will take different max intensity settings between them as well.  Some have better cooling for their positioning in the casings, etc.  Lots of variables... but it looks like you are figuring out the stability issues.

Thx JK ..... yes I think 0 means default intensity... something in the back of my mine says to do this for the 750ti.
Wait I see now.. with your bat file, it wont mine with the 750ti... need that command. It goes in the order the -d calls.
Next will see if it can mine at 10 degrees above room temperature.  
It's 62f or 16.6 c in that room and was mining at normal room temperature. Closed the windows ... see what temperature goes up to.
EDIT: Starting to crash at 74f. With no external fan.

Now I get this on crash. I think I'll name this crash rig 2.

[tbearhere]

Yesterday I tried something that would definitely crash the rig...its been mining now for 24 hours with this bat file.
Amazing. I just don't get it. The only thing that changed is it is cooler and using no fan control or oc'ing software.
ccminer1.8.2.exe  -a lbry --cpu-priority 3 -o stratum+tcp://yiimp.ccminer.org:3334  -u   -p     -d 0,1,2,3,4  -i 24,0,19,19,24

EDIT: I did turn off the on-board hd graphics.

[tbearhere]

I wish there was a program to test everything on the computer.

[sp_]

ccminer1.8.2.exe  -a lbry  --cpu-priority 0 -o stratum+tcp://yiimp.ccminer.org:3334  -u  -p   -d 0,1,2,3,4  -i 23,0,17,17,23
A little low on the settings .. but its working so far.
Finally one problem solved... needed intensity setting for each card.... the 750ti I left at stock setting.

Your scores are low. With the lbry sp-mod #4 you can get 190mhash on the 970, 290mhash on the 980ti easily...

[tbearhere]

ccminer1.8.2.exe  -a lbry  --cpu-priority 0 -o stratum+tcp://yiimp.ccminer.org:3334  -u  -p   -d 0,1,2,3,4  -i 23,0,17,17,23
A little low on the settings .. but its working so far.
Finally one problem solved... needed intensity setting for each card.... the 750ti I left at stock setting.

Your scores are low. With the lbry sp-mod #4 you can get 190mhash on the 970, 290mhash on the 980ti easily...

Here's the problem with that sp it may crash... see the intensity setting for the 970...if increase it ..it may crash.
I should be getting 150mh right now, but lowered the intensity to keep it stable.

[Nikolaj]

ccminer1.8.2.exe  -a lbry  --cpu-priority 0 -o stratum+tcp://yiimp.ccminer.org:3334  -u  -p   -d 0,1,2,3,4  -i 23,0,17,17,23
A little low on the settings .. but its working so far.
Finally one problem solved... needed intensity setting for each card.... the 750ti I left at stock setting.

Your scores are low. With the lbry sp-mod #4 you can get 190mhash on the 970, 290mhash on the 980ti easily...

It's pretty interesting that you keep promoting the #4 when you don't send it to who paid you, like me for example.

Btw with #3 it was 170MH/s (minus 3.3/3.5% = 160/164)

Yesterday I tried something that would definitely crash the rig...its been mining now for 24 hours with this bat file.
Amazing. I just don't get it. The only thing that changed is it is cooler and using no fan control or oc'ing software.
ccminer1.8.2.exe  -a lbry --cpu-priority 3 -o stratum+tcp://yiimp.ccminer.org:3334  -u   -p     -d 0,1,2,3,4  -i 24,0,19,19,24

EDIT: I did turn off the on-board hd graphics.

Hi

I would suggest you to make separate rigs, with just a single type of VGA. It's better this way, trust me

ps: oc'ing your platform won't make any difference, don't bother

[tbearhere]

ccminer1.8.2.exe  -a lbry  --cpu-priority 0 -o stratum+tcp://yiimp.ccminer.org:3334  -u  -p   -d 0,1,2,3,4  -i 23,0,17,17,23
A little low on the settings .. but its working so far.
Finally one problem solved... needed intensity setting for each card.... the 750ti I left at stock setting.

Your scores are low. With the lbry sp-mod #4 you can get 190mhash on the 970, 290mhash on the 980ti easily...

It's pretty interesting that you keep promoting the #4 when you don't send it to who paid you, like me for example.

Btw with #3 it was 170MH/s (minus 3.3/3.5% = 160/164)

Yesterday I tried something that would definitely crash the rig...its been mining now for 24 hours with this bat file.
Amazing. I just don't get it. The only thing that changed is it is cooler and using no fan control or oc'ing software.
ccminer1.8.2.exe  -a lbry --cpu-priority 3 -o stratum+tcp://yiimp.ccminer.org:3334  -u   -p     -d 0,1,2,3,4  -i 24,0,19,19,24

EDIT: I did turn off the on-board hd graphics.

Hi

I would suggest you to make separate rigs, with just a single type of VGA. It's better this way, trust me

ps: oc'ing your platform won't make any difference, don't bother

Thx...yes oc'ing won't do anything.
I built this rig to hold 2 mb 2 psus 12 980ti's ect but got interupted financialy.. so I put what I could on there.
Yes all the same cards is the way to do it like my 750ti rig.
Now that its been running for 2 days stright .. I'm going to try -i 18 on the 970's see what happens.
Thx

[tbearhere]

That's more like it.  ccminer1.8.2.exe  -a lbry --cpu-priority 3 -o stratum+tcp://yiimp.ccminer.org:3334  -u   -p     -d 0,1,2,3,4  -i 23,0,21,21,23