Ethereum mining Windows 10 Stability issue

[twofreckles]

I am just wondering how stability looks under Windows.

Currently I have 2 rigs (both with 6 GPU's) running under ubuntu, GPUs with flashed bioses:

1st rig - over a month without a single crash or restart
2nd rig - the same amount of time, froze once.


Results as above are awesome for me, however there is bigger power draw from wall using ubuntu when it comes to Rx 470 and Rx 480. So considering switching OS.

The only concern for me is stability. Do I have to expect more crashes? Please share your experience. How often do you have to check rigs, or maybe there is no bigger problem and under windows rigs can work for months as well? Thx in advance.

[Eyedol-X]

I am just wondering how stability looks under Windows.

Currently I have 2 rigs (both with 6 GPU's) running under ubuntu, GPUs with flashed bioses:

1st rig - over a month without a single crash or restart
2nd rig - the same amount of time, froze once.


Results as above are awesome for me, however there is bigger power draw from wall using ubuntu when it comes to Rx 470 and Rx 480. So considering switching OS.

The only concern for me is stability. Do I have to expect more crashes? Please share your experience. How often do you have to check rigs, or maybe there is no bigger problem and under windows rigs can work for months as well? Thx in advance.

With Windows, I don't really have so much an issue with crashes as I do Windows Updates forcing reboots. I have multiple rigs on Windows 10 and the most common cause of my rigs going down is Windows Updates.

I need to be able to remotely manage my systems securely over the web from anywhere in the world, I'd rather be on linux but the remote management options I know of for this platform are lacking when compared to a product like Logmein Pro.

[UberMakedonische]

I am just wondering how stability looks under Windows.

Currently I have 2 rigs (both with 6 GPU's) running under ubuntu, GPUs with flashed bioses:

1st rig - over a month without a single crash or restart
2nd rig - the same amount of time, froze once.


Results as above are awesome for me, however there is bigger power draw from wall using ubuntu when it comes to Rx 470 and Rx 480. So considering switching OS.

The only concern for me is stability. Do I have to expect more crashes? Please share your experience. How often do you have to check rigs, or maybe there is no bigger problem and under windows rigs can work for months as well? Thx in advance.

Windows 10 is Ok for mining. Just set up High performance in power options and disable this two services:
Background Intelligent Transfer Service
Windows Update

[Za1n]

I am just wondering how stability looks under Windows.

Currently I have 2 rigs (both with 6 GPU's) running under ubuntu, GPUs with flashed bioses:

1st rig - over a month without a single crash or restart
2nd rig - the same amount of time, froze once.


Results as above are awesome for me, however there is bigger power draw from wall using ubuntu when it comes to Rx 470 and Rx 480. So considering switching OS.

The only concern for me is stability. Do I have to expect more crashes? Please share your experience. How often do you have to check rigs, or maybe there is no bigger problem and under windows rigs can work for months as well? Thx in advance.

Windows 10 is pretty rock solid IMHO when it comes to mining. Like the the other posters suggested, your biggest headache is Windows itself. Disabling the power saving features, especially sleep, and also disabling (or setting to deferred) Windows updates are the two biggies.

I also disable the hibernate feature to free up some SDD space which I use to increase the swap file size. Claymore recommends 16 GB with his miner, which I have never witness this much being used, but for the most part once your rig is setup and running there is not a lot of need for the extra SDD space anyway.

I have had Windows 10 rigs running constantly for well over 2 or 3 months at a time with no issues. I believe they would easily go much longer, but I find myself rebooting them once in awhile, mainly due to updating mining software or drivers. You probably don't need to reboot them as often as I do, but this also gives me a chance to give them a quick once over for cleaning. As my rig count becomes greater I find myself obsessing over things such as dust build-up and heat.

[twofreckles]

About windows 10 auto updates I have read somewhere that there is a work around, it is enough to put internet connection as meter one,  then windows won't auto downloads and install those updates... (not sure if that works tho).

Let me ask another thing then. Is there some tool which allows to manage all rigs from one webpage?

[Za1n]

About windows 10 auto updates I have read somewhere that there is a work around, it is enough to put internet connection as meter one,  then windows won't auto downloads and install those updates... (not sure if that works tho).

Let me ask another thing then. Is there some tool which allows to manage all rigs from one webpage?

Yes, setting your Ethernet connection as Metered is supposedly one way to do it.

You can also try to disable the Windows Update service (run services.msc snap in) and set it to not run at startup.

Finally you can edit group policy (this is what I do) to turn it off. Run gpedit.msc and navigate to Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Windows Update. Look for the Configure Automatic Updates option and choose which action you want. I use 2: “Notify for download and notify for install”.

If you use Claymore's mining software he has a EthMan program located in the Remote Manager folder you can use as a crude multi-rig monitor that does some basic management as well. This tool will run a web-server where you can monitor your rigs from a webpage, unfortunately any management must be still done from the EthMan GUI.

[philipma1957]

Windows 7 pro unlike  windows 10 you can block updates with ease.
All my rigs are running windows 7 pro.

I must say Linux is better in terms of running constantly I have run  stick miners for 150 days in a row.

And a power outage was the stopper.

My windows 7 gpu rigs have done 35 days

[vapourminer]

About windows 10 auto updates I have read somewhere that there is a work around, it is enough to put internet connection as meter one,  then windows won't auto downloads and install those updates... (not sure if that works tho).

it does. got the wifes win 10 notebook set to that, it hasnt done any updates for months, although it does complain once in a while.

I must say Linux is better in terms of running constantly I have run  stick miners for 150 days in a row.

my ubuntu 15.10 basement miner has not needed a reboot for months now. set to never update for any reason. i just install newer versions of claymores dual miner as needed.