Power issue? What do you think could cause this

[joshuajones02]

Trying to set up this rig, have had issues the last week.. anyways, I noticed this strange variation in power usage what could cause this? There were no errors or anything in EventViewer at the time of it.. It didn't crash and is running Equihash - Zcash

https://imgur.com/a/IOcDd

Thanks

[blackhorse7]

I had the same issue. It appears, whe you use afterburner (sure 100%) or for example new nicehash with power monitoring (had issues too, but not 100% sure). A problem is caused by afterburner's hardware check probes procedure - it is written wrong and hanging on check, then afterburner waits for answer long time, then send next question for hardware status, and it cummulates = driver crash.
After you set clocks immediately close afterburner - clocks will stay set, only fan control will be turned off.
Now I am using another program to overclock - nvidiaInspector 1.9.7.8, is has commandline options. I have a few shortcuts on desktop for setting for different algos and click on my choice. Additionaly for GTX1060 cards which have blocked by driver P0 state (nicehash enabled dont enables P0 for them), I use program nvidiaProfileInspector 2.1.3.6. It has option to "disable force P0 state for cuda" or similar. After that you should revise your memory overclocking limits, because it will be not memclock decrease by 200MHz when you will start any miner.
For monitoring clocks and temps I suggest use GPU-Z, it not crashes a driver

[joshuajones02]

Thank you, I'll check out nvidia inspector and GPUZ

[leonix007]

what I see is that, at the power drop time miner encountered issues, such as probably pool connection problem and the likes,

try to check your miner Logs, well it depends on what miner you're using, check timings on when it drop and check logs what happen on your miner at that moments event.

Mining power will obviously dropped when it does not mine or mining and will resume upon recovery.

[joshuajones02]

what I see is that, at the power drop time miner encountered issues, such as probably pool connection problem and the likes,

try to check your miner Logs, well it depends on what miner you're using, check timings on when it drop and check logs what happen on your miner at that moments event.

Mining power will obviously dropped when it does not mine or mining and will resume upon recovery.

Rgr, I was thinking about the worse case scenario - as it in having to deal with my hardware/software. Didn't think about miner/pool. Thanks

[dave4925]

monitor the 12 volt voltage from your power supply.  You might be overloading your power supply when the power peaks.  Graphics cards can use double their average current for a few milliseconds or so, and this might cause voltage to sag below 11.88 which can cause the problems you are experiencing intermittently.  This is one of the reasons I aim for using 50% average power supply wattage.

[makomako]

looks like your video output is connected to your videocard. that's normal  because when you do a remote on it. of course it'll use/process  the image thru your video card plugged in.

That's normal and wouldn't hurt your rig

[Dlugina23]

Check your psu.

[joshuajones02]

Check your psu.

Yeah not sure, ran test on both of them they are fine. Haven't noticed anything since the original time it did this, thank you for the responses guys

[joshuajones02]

looks like your video output is connected to your videocard. that's normal  because when you do a remote on it. of course it'll use/process  the image thru your video card plugged in.

That's normal and wouldn't hurt your rig

No I use IGD for video output