Claymore 9 freeze

[awslazlo]

Hello,

my rig freezes because of the new clay with 4 pcs rx480, win10 system.
The cards are not overheating.
Everything is on basic settings no tuning (no undervolting) or bios modding.

Settings (GPU_MAX_ALLOC_PERCENT), virtual memory is ok.
I tried with the older driver as well but it freezes after 15 mins again. I decreased the intensity to 4 but i got the same results.
It works perfectly with the version 8.
Do you guys have any idea what should I do?

Thanks!

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[ocminer]

Is your PSU okay ? I had such problems with an "el-cheapo" PSU which was overloaded once the cards where working optimized and under full load

[awslazlo]

I use this:  CHIEFTEC A80 750W PSU.
One card consumes 120w.

[YIz]

Is your PSU okay ? I had such problems with an "el-cheapo" PSU which was overloaded once the cards where working optimized and under full load

I'm having the same issues with two seperate SeaSonic X-850 units. I guess just an issue with the new version.

[greaterninja]

This is likely due to Version 8.0 had a default intensity of 4. 

Version 9.0 now has a default intensity of 6.

It crashes some of my machines so i set intensity to 5 or 4.

Some I leave at 6.

Keep in mind intensity 6 will draw more power as well.

[awslazlo]

I already tried with the settings below:
-i 4,4,4,4 and it still freezing after 15 mins.
 

[greaterninja]

I never heard of that brand of PSU.
As for the other fellow, I've had Seasonic pci-e plugs melt a few times on the psu modular connectors and on the video card end.
IMO, they don't have the best wire thickness.


Is your Windows 10 a clean install or is it an upgrade over previous OS?  I've found many errors due to this.  I goto recovery, advanced, and download the clean install tool, then reinstall.
I then only install amd driver from 9/16 - 9/20 without the amd management stuff.
Then i install msi afterburner.
Things are so much simpler than wattman now.

One of my  6 x rx 480 -8gb rigs crashes or freezes if i set intensity to 6.  It uses 2 x EVGA 650W gold psu to power the computer + 6 cards.
If I undervolt it too much it also freezes or crashes.  This does not occur on my other 6 rigs.


Its also possible that your have too much power being used by a single rail on the PSU.

What is your miner config?

Mine is

Code:

setx GPU_FORCE_64BIT_PTR 0
setx GPU_MAX_HEAP_SIZE 100
setx GPU_USE_SYNC_OBJECTS 1
setx GPU_MAX_ALLOC_PERCENT 100
setx GPU_SINGLE_ALLOC_PERCENT 100
ZecMiner64.exe -zpool pooladdress.com -worker.480X3 -zpsw x -i 4

If you do -i 3, does your system crash?
I don't think you need to repeat the number if you want to set it for all cards.

[awslazlo]

I use this:  CHIEFTEC A80 750W PSU.
The win10 was a clean install and I use the afterburner too.
At the moment there is two videocard PSU connectors are divided to four so one rail us divided to two way.
I have not tried the "i -3" but I will, thank you for the advice!

My config:
-zpool eu1-zcash.flypool.org:3333
-zwal
-zpsw z
-i 4,4,4,4
-r 1

And settings:
setx GPU_FORCE_64BIT_PTR 0
setx GPU_MAX_HEAP_SIZE 100
setx GPU_USE_SYNC_OBJECTS 1
setx GPU_MAX_ALLOC_PERCENT 100
setx GPU_SINGLE_ALLOC_PERCENT 100

[Claymore]

Try to mine on 2-3 cards as a test. Perhaps it's PSU, if you see that GPU takes 120W, it takes it in average. Peak wattage can be higher and if several cards have a peak at same moment, it can cause such problems.

[navydude]

Not to say they wont shut down but i have 9 rigs running mostly 380x with a few 290 and 390 scattered around and running (i on windows 10 and latest drivers with no issues as of yet. 380x cards are tuned to 850/1500 -50v running @ 166 sol/s and seem to be fine. 290 and 390 are stock. I run Lepa 1600w power supplies on all my rigs. A bit more expensive but shouldn't ever need more power.

[miropp]

The same problem with one my rig - Asrock H61 BTC Pro MB and four Gigabyte R9 280X. PSU best quality Corsair AX860.
V8 no problem, V9 - Win crashed after aprox. 30-60min. Intensity -i 0

[charles2k]

same problem  on all my R9 280x rigs. All rigs freeze after some time in version 9.
GPU Asus, MSI, Gigabyte. MB Asrock H61 and H81 BTC Pro. Win10 Pro
In V8 all ok. All lowest intensity -i 0

[peteycamey]

I have the exact same problem on some of the 79xx and 280X series cards.

[mettalmag]

I just finished upgrade, only 2 rigs out of 94 freezed. I was doing it remotely so I have no idea what happened. I use -i 2 on all rigs, and on V8 both freezed rigs were working perfectly. Farm is 30 mins to drive ao I'll have to get there tomorrow, untill then I'm just guessing whats wrong..

[smaxz]

try with -nofee 1 as your first command line argument.

it leaves out some optimizations that draw extra power and workload from the GPU.

you may well get to keep a higher intensity to make up for lack of features that crash your card anyways.

[Prelude]

V9 is simply a little bit harder on GPUs. You need to find which GPU(s) is crashing and increase it's voltage slightly, or decrease it's clock speed. I had to adjust about 10 card's voltages across my 100+ GPU farm to get V9 stable. V8 had been stable as a rock since it's release. Now V9 is too with slightly increased voltages.

[philipma1957]

Not sure if it is psu CPU ram or voltage settings.

I am now making sure  all my rigs have the same cards no mix and match.

Most are working well. But some of my four card rigs now freeze.

If I pull the fourth card the rig works.

I,can get around this with three cards.

But tomorrow I will take my four,card msi rx 470 rigs and  play with voltage settings

[SeySanych]

Sharing experiences. The system turns off after the run 15m. Remove Antivirus, and after the card overclocking closed window of afterburner. Launched miner and closed the window. After 15 minutes, there is a window of unknown origin, and immediately closes. Mining after there in the normal mode.

[mettalmag]

Morning,
alrady 6 out of 94 crashed, getting my self ready to get to the farm da seen whats wrong

[ol92]

The same problem with one my rig - Asrock H61 BTC Pro MB and four Gigabyte R9 280X. PSU best quality Corsair AX860.
V8 no problem, V9 - Win crashed after aprox. 30-60min. Intensity -i 0

You will have spike far above the average consumption. Your psu is very good and have some limitation on max current available as a security. With the spikes and an highly optimized miner, you will probably go over the limitation and the psu stop.

You need to have a good margin on the psu side, like 30% above the average consumption to be OK. Good psu have some overhead margin too (like 10%): the whole combined should prevent any problems.

Look there : http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/amd-radeon-rx-480-polaris-10,4616-9.html
During a gaming session you may have spikes at nearly 300W for a single card...