CGWatcher/Miner starts, CPU voltage drops??? Why???

[peonminer]

http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/M5A97_R20/ M5A97 REV 2.90

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103888 AMD SEMPRON 145 2.8GHZ OVERCLOCKED TO 3.6GHZ

4X GIGABYTE 7950

POWERED RISERS FOR 16X

NON POWERED FOR 1X

OPEN CRATE CASE

NO PROBLEMS UNTIL YESTERDAY

Any idea as to why my CPU voltage is dropping from 2.992V to 2.900V when CGWatcher starts now?

powertune -20

-I 18

GPU clock 1000, mem 1100

cards flashed with Robnitro's bios, running at 1.056V each.

Usually runs smooth, now since problem she will shut down after running for about 10 minutes or less. Can anyone tell my why my voltage might be dropping?

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[kuusj98]

Maybe that the power supply/Motherbord can't really provide percise power at load?

[peonminer]

Maybe that the power supply/Motherbord can't really provide percise power at load?

I'm using an 80+ Gold 1250W Seasonic. I haven't had this issue until just recently. The rig has ran with all cards @ 1.25V and -I 20 without this problem. Now with less Voltage to the cards it's robbing my CPU voltage? I might have to wipe the BIOS and take the over clock off the CPU and see if that helps.

[kuusj98]

Maybe that the power supply/Motherbord can't really provide percise power at load?

I'm using an 80+ Gold 1250W Seasonic. I haven't had this issue until just recently. The rig has ran with all cards @ 1.25V and -I 20 without this problem. Now with less Voltage to the cards it's robbing my CPU voltage? I might have to wipe the BIOS and take the over clock off the CPU and see if that helps.

Hmm, the cards do wear, and I suggest lowering the volts 0.01 on each card, and try to run 1 card on -I 19

Edit: BTW, a cpu on 2.992V?!?! Is it me or is that pretty steep? My Phenom ii x4 965BE is running at 1.536V and that is considered high...

[peonminer]

Maybe that the power supply/Motherbord can't really provide percise power at load?

I'm using an 80+ Gold 1250W Seasonic. I haven't had this issue until just recently. The rig has ran with all cards @ 1.25V and -I 20 without this problem. Now with less Voltage to the cards it's robbing my CPU voltage? I might have to wipe the BIOS and take the over clock off the CPU and see if that helps.

Hmm, the cards do wear, and I suggest lowering the volts 0.01 on each card, and try to run 1 card on -I 19

Edit: BTW, a cpu on 2.992V?!?! Is it me or is that pretty steep? My Phenom ii x4 965BE is running at 1.536V and that is considered high...

Main Voltage is at 1.385 lol sorry forgot to mention that... I can't remember off the top of my head which voltage is supposed to be at 3.3+ and it's at 2.9XX. The settings are safe (presumably due to the Auto OC function of the MB TPU).

Good idea on lowering the card voltage. I'll give it a go before wiping my BIOS and stock clocking my CPU.

[kuusj98]

Maybe that the power supply/Motherbord can't really provide percise power at load?

I'm using an 80+ Gold 1250W Seasonic. I haven't had this issue until just recently. The rig has ran with all cards @ 1.25V and -I 20 without this problem. Now with less Voltage to the cards it's robbing my CPU voltage? I might have to wipe the BIOS and take the over clock off the CPU and see if that helps.

Hmm, the cards do wear, and I suggest lowering the volts 0.01 on each card, and try to run 1 card on -I 19

Edit: BTW, a cpu on 2.992V?!?! Is it me or is that pretty steep? My Phenom ii x4 965BE is running at 1.536V and that is considered high...

Main Voltage is at 1.385 lol sorry forgot to mention that... I can't remember off the top of my head which voltage is supposed to be at 3.3+ and it's at 2.9XX. The settings are safe (presumably due to the Auto OC function of the MB TPU).

Good idea on lowering the card voltage. I'll give it a go before wiping my BIOS and stock clocking my CPU.

Okay.

[ssateneth]

If you are feeding 3v into a modern day CPU, it will instantly be fried.

3.3 volt rail is only used for very few integrated circuits, nothing of major consequence. Only 12v is used largely. 5v is used to power some things like hard drive/cd drive motors, usb ports, etc.

Honestly, I would not be worried if your 3.3v is drooping like that unless it's causing problems. If it's not broken, don't fix it.

[peonminer]

If you are feeding 3v into a modern day CPU, it will instantly be fried.

3.3 volt rail is only used for very few integrated circuits, nothing of major consequence. Only 12v is used largely. 5v is used to power some things like hard drive/cd drive motors, usb ports, etc.

Honestly, I would not be worried if your 3.3v is drooping like that unless it's causing problems. If it's not broken, don't fix it.

its causing the rig to randomly shut down. Might have to do a fresh install :/

[peonminer]

Bios reset success

[superfastkyle]

shutting down after about 10 min tells me the power supply is borderline not powerful enough, its possible you could disable things on your motherboard and underclock cpu to get it to work but i still wouldn't recommend it as you don't want to run your psu at 100%. the power usage on the cards is creeping up when they reach operating temperature and also the psu heating up will cause the maximum power available to decrease

[kuusj98]

shutting down after about 10 min tells me the power supply is borderline not powerful enough, its possible you could disable things on your motherboard and underclock cpu to get it to work but i still wouldn't recommend it as you don't want to run your psu at 100%. the power usage on the cards is creeping up when they reach operating temperature and also the psu heating up will cause the maximum power available to decrease

120% true
Here it stats at 320W, but after an hours she hangs on 360W, combined with wear and heat, the maximum power that the thing can deliver goes down, and you DON'T want an PS running 100%, keep 80% as the max.

And for the love of god don't OC a CPU in a mining only rig...

[GenTarkin]

Its normal for a CPU to go to slightly slower voltage when its being highly utilized. If cgminer is throwing a core to 100% while mining, this is why the voltage is lowering(given you have no other hardware issues).
This is known as vdroop...
This happens even moreso when overclocking.
In the bios there are vdroop correction settings you can enable / disable.

But, if this never happened before while mining and it just started. Its possible w/e configuration you had before never caused cgminer to use high cpu, OR other hardware issues have surfaced.

[peonminer]

Its normal for a CPU to go to slightly slower voltage when its being highly utilized. If cgminer is throwing a core to 100% while mining, this is why the voltage is lowering(given you have no other hardware issues).
This is known as vdroop...
This happens even moreso when overclocking.
In the bios there are vdroop correction settings you can enable / disable.

But, if this never happened before while mining and it just started. Its possible w/e configuration you had before never caused cgminer to use high cpu, OR other hardware issues have surfaced.

Thanks for the intel everyone! I shut her down for a bit, cleaned and dusted all equipment(hasn't been cleaned in 2 months), popped the BIOS battery out for a minute. Then put it back in, booted to BIOS, made sure all was reset, changed my basic functions to my liking, no problems since!

I OC' due to my gaming itch, but decided BTC was more important