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I watched the client on stats mode for awhile, it turns out I am getting speeds above 350MH/s. It goes up to about 600Mh/s for about 1 second then a red light appears on the speedometer and the hash rate drops down to 320MH/s before returning to 350MH/s, stays at 350MH/s for the next 5 minutes then repeats the cycle. Why?
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Got a question... a friend who is running Bitminter ran into trouble after his power supply died. He replaced the power supply, Windows ran checkdisk upon startup, and then BitMinter would fail to start, just stuck at this screen: I downloaded a fresh copy of the "launch" app from Bitminter, no change. I installed the latest java (7.11) overtop the version that was installed (7.10). No change. I uninstalled java and installed the latest version, no change. What else should I try?
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January 22, 2013, 05:01:50 PM |
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I watched the client on stats mode for awhile, it turns out I am getting speeds above 350MH/s. It goes up to about 600Mh/s for about 1 second then a red light appears on the speedometer and the hash rate drops down to 320MH/s before returning to 350MH/s, stays at 350MH/s for the next 5 minutes then repeats the cycle. Why? Is this on GPU or FPGA? The red light just flashes when your hashrate goes more than 10% above the hashrate expected from the particular device. Nothing to worry about (except burning out the GPU if you overclock too much). Got a question... a friend who is running Bitminter ran into trouble after his power supply died. He replaced the power supply, Windows ran checkdisk upon startup, and then BitMinter would fail to start, just stuck at this screen:
It's usually one of two things causing this problem. Upgrading Java, at least from version 6 to version 7, sometimes breaks something and you need to clear out the java temporary files. The next time you start the app after that it will download everything anew and it works. How to clear java temporary files: http://www.java.com/en/download/help/plugin_cache.xmlThe other frequent cause of this is antivirus software. Sometimes they like to inspect file transfers. Sometimes they do that and accidentally break file transfers so that Java web start isn't able to finish downloading the files. I think this is usually AVG antivirus. But it may be that other antivirus programs can do this too. Try whitelisting the javaws.exe program or turning off file transfer inspection. Consider the security implications of what solution you use. Turning antivirus completely off on a Windows computer is not recommended.
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January 22, 2013, 09:01:46 PM |
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I'm using a Radeon HD 5850. Yes, I'm overclocking, but I'm not really worried about burning the card out. Is it possible to exceed 350MH/s?
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January 22, 2013, 10:33:56 PM |
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I watched the client on stats mode for awhile, it turns out I am getting speeds above 350MH/s. It goes up to about 600Mh/s for about 1 second then a red light appears on the speedometer and the hash rate drops down to 320MH/s before returning to 350MH/s, stays at 350MH/s for the next 5 minutes then repeats the cycle. Why? Is this on GPU or FPGA? The red light just flashes when your hashrate goes more than 10% above the hashrate expected from the particular device. Nothing to worry about (except burning out the GPU if you overclock too much). Got a question... a friend who is running Bitminter ran into trouble after his power supply died. He replaced the power supply, Windows ran checkdisk upon startup, and then BitMinter would fail to start, just stuck at this screen:
It's usually one of two things causing this problem. Upgrading Java, at least from version 6 to version 7, sometimes breaks something and you need to clear out the java temporary files. The next time you start the app after that it will download everything anew and it works. How to clear java temporary files: http://www.java.com/en/download/help/plugin_cache.xmlThe other frequent cause of this is antivirus software. Sometimes they like to inspect file transfers. Sometimes they do that and accidentally break file transfers so that Java web start isn't able to finish downloading the files. I think this is usually AVG antivirus. But it may be that other antivirus programs can do this too. Try whitelisting the javaws.exe program or turning off file transfer inspection. Consider the security implications of what solution you use. Turning antivirus completely off on a Windows computer is not recommended. Thanks - we'll try those things out!
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January 27, 2013, 09:33:30 AM |
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I'm using a Radeon HD 5850. Yes, I'm overclocking, but I'm not really worried about burning the card out. Is it possible to exceed 350MH/s? I have a 7970 but this should work on yours too. Using afterburner make a custom fan profile which is more aggressive than stock to keep temps below what you want. My profile keeps my card 73-74c w/ 59% fan mining full time; If it goes above 77c the fan exponentially increases power until at 84C it is 100%. This negates the possibility of overheating to a large extent. Then lower your RAM clock to minimum and raise your chip clock in increments(I did 50MHz increments but use your judgement) until you get screen artifacts. I use a benchmarking tool to put heavy load on it but mining should do it as well after some time. Then I lowered my clock by 25 MHz. Gives me about 640 MH/s on my 7970 @ 1100 MHz. I also reduced power limit by 20% without any throttling but did not screw with core voltage as I was happy with the result Here is a thread I found on OCed 5850's https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=printpage;topic=24949.0
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January 27, 2013, 09:44:55 AM |
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CGminer runs at about 512MH/s on my 5850, the clocks are 925MHz and 500MHz, but the GPU stops responding after about 20mins and CGminer declares it sick, then dead. The cooling is handled by an aftermarket GPU cooler, not the stock XFX one.
Bitminter yields a more reliable hashrate staying consistently at 350MH/s at the exact same clocks going to about 400MH/s for about 10 seconds then comes back down to 350MH/s about every 5 minutes.
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January 30, 2013, 08:49:52 PM |
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BitMinter client version 1.3.1 is out. Thanks to everyone who helped test the beta releases! Just a small bugfix release this time. Changes from 1.3.0 to 1.3.1: - Adjust 'Approx. mint speed' (BTC per day) display according to reward halving
- Lower CPU usage when mining on FPGA
- Add workaround for SecurityException bug in some releases of Java 7
- Fixed window being visible in taskbar when starting minimized in systray
- Suppress spammy "batch acquisition of 0 triggers" log messages
- Recognize GTX 670 and 680 GPUs
- Recognize more CPUs
Try it out: If you have issues with 1.3.1 then you can still get the previous release (1.3.0) at http://bitminter.com/client/1.3.0/bitminter.jnlp
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January 31, 2013, 01:26:22 PM |
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Update appears to have removed support for my device: Quadro FX 880M.
nvm, updated Java from version 6 to version 7, removed Bitminter client and reinstalled and it works fine now.
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February 09, 2013, 11:50:36 PM |
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There seems to be an intermittent OpenCL issue on Mac OS X. If you get the error below, try rebooting your Mac, that should fix it. Device [GeForce GT 650M (#1)] unable to start: Failed to create command queue (code -30 = CL_INVALID_VALUE) on GeForce GT 650M (#1)
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March 09, 2013, 04:53:48 AM |
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I watched the client on stats mode for awhile, it turns out I am getting speeds above 350MH/s. It goes up to about 600Mh/s for about 1 second then a red light appears on the speedometer and the hash rate drops down to 320MH/s before returning to 350MH/s, stays at 350MH/s for the next 5 minutes then repeats the cycle. Why? Is this on GPU or FPGA? The red light just flashes when your hashrate goes more than 10% above the hashrate expected from the particular device. Nothing to worry about (except burning out the GPU if you overclock too much). Got a question... a friend who is running Bitminter ran into trouble after his power supply died. He replaced the power supply, Windows ran checkdisk upon startup, and then BitMinter would fail to start, just stuck at this screen:
It's usually one of two things causing this problem. Upgrading Java, at least from version 6 to version 7, sometimes breaks something and you need to clear out the java temporary files. The next time you start the app after that it will download everything anew and it works. How to clear java temporary files: http://www.java.com/en/download/help/plugin_cache.xmlThe other frequent cause of this is antivirus software. Sometimes they like to inspect file transfers. Sometimes they do that and accidentally break file transfers so that Java web start isn't able to finish downloading the files. I think this is usually AVG antivirus. But it may be that other antivirus programs can do this too. Try whitelisting the javaws.exe program or turning off file transfer inspection. Consider the security implications of what solution you use. Turning antivirus completely off on a Windows computer is not recommended. Thanks - we'll try those things out! So, it randomly started working again before we tried much of this out last time... but now it's not working again. We tried the following: - Restarting the computer - Clearing java cache - Downloading the latest BitMinter from the website - Uninstalling Java (6.x and 7.9 were installed) - Reinstalling Java (7.19) x86 - Reinstalling Java (7.19) x64 - Clearing the java cache again Honestly, I'm kind of out of ideas at this point... do you have any other suggestions to try?
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March 09, 2013, 07:03:11 AM |
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So, it randomly started working again before we tried much of this out last time... but now it's not working again. We tried the following: - Restarting the computer - Clearing java cache - Downloading the latest BitMinter from the website - Uninstalling Java (6.x and 7.9 were installed) - Reinstalling Java (7.19) x86 - Reinstalling Java (7.19) x64 - Clearing the java cache again
Honestly, I'm kind of out of ideas at this point... do you have any other suggestions to try?
Is it stuck downloading, with the progress bar stopping just before completion? You're sure it's not the anti-virus or firewall interfering?
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March 09, 2013, 08:10:18 PM |
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That's most likely due to buggy AMD graphics drivers. Which Catalyst version do you have installed?
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March 09, 2013, 08:20:05 PM |
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So, it randomly started working again before we tried much of this out last time... but now it's not working again. We tried the following: - Restarting the computer - Clearing java cache - Downloading the latest BitMinter from the website - Uninstalling Java (6.x and 7.9 were installed) - Reinstalling Java (7.19) x86 - Reinstalling Java (7.19) x64 - Clearing the java cache again
Honestly, I'm kind of out of ideas at this point... do you have any other suggestions to try?
Is it stuck downloading, with the progress bar stopping just before completion? You're sure it's not the anti-virus or firewall interfering? Yes, the progress bar is stopping just before completion. Yes, we tried disabling both the antivirus and the firewall to test.
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March 09, 2013, 09:12:06 PM |
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That's most likely due to buggy AMD graphics drivers. Which Catalyst version do you have installed? Latest, 13.1
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March 09, 2013, 10:06:59 PM |
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So, it randomly started working again before we tried much of this out last time... but now it's not working again. We tried the following: - Restarting the computer - Clearing java cache - Downloading the latest BitMinter from the website - Uninstalling Java (6.x and 7.9 were installed) - Reinstalling Java (7.19) x86 - Reinstalling Java (7.19) x64 - Clearing the java cache again
Honestly, I'm kind of out of ideas at this point... do you have any other suggestions to try?
Is it stuck downloading, with the progress bar stopping just before completion? You're sure it's not the anti-virus or firewall interfering? Yes, the progress bar is stopping just before completion. Yes, we tried disabling both the antivirus and the firewall to test. Would like to note, we uninstalled AVG and installed Microsoft Security Essentials instead, it is working well now!
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March 09, 2013, 11:01:53 PM |
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That's most likely due to buggy AMD graphics drivers. Which Catalyst version do you have installed? Latest, 13.1 I've upgraded to the Catalyst 13.2 beta and now works fine... Thank you for the help!
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March 13, 2013, 07:22:41 PM |
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Would like to note, we uninstalled AVG and installed Microsoft Security Essentials instead, it is working well now!
A lot of people had problems running the miner with AVG. Good that you got things working again I've upgraded to the Catalyst 13.2 beta and now works fine...
Many had problems with Catalyst 13.2 beta and had to go back to 13.1. Maybe there is a new beta that works, though, I don't know.
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March 14, 2013, 10:03:31 AM |
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I've upgraded to the Catalyst 13.2 beta and now works fine...
Many had problems with Catalyst 13.2 beta and had to go back to 13.1. Maybe there is a new beta that works, though, I don't know. Actually it was the other way around. 13.1 was a steaming pile breaking stuff all over the place whereas 13.2beta+ started working again.
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