Launching miner crashes W10. Tried Everything. 1 day of ETH to whoever fixes it

[weinerjf]

So... I've been having the same problem for two weeks. I set up my miner, everything is running great, and then I launch Claymore, it loads for about 15 seconds and then the all hell breaks loose. The fans all turn to 100% and it sounds like a jet engine, then Claymore gives me and error about not being able to read temperature, and then my entire system crashes. Blue screen of "something went wrong. need to restart". Sometimes I get a warning saying "the application claymoreminer.... has been blocked from accessing graphics hardware". I have to reset the rig by holding down the power button. Sometimes when it loads back up I only have 3 graphics cards recognized and I basically have to reinstall windows because I cant get it to re-recognize the cards.

So far, here are a bunch of steps I've taken
PCIE lanes to Gen1
Disable CSM support
Virtual memory size to 24gb
Hi power mode on power settings and system settings
Reinstalled GPU drivers (8-10 times) directly from Nvidia
Turned off windows updates
Turned off windows defender (which is odd because it still blocks my miner when defender is off)
Placed my miner in an exception folder on windows defender
Switched to a different miner (ZCash excavator)
Reinstalled windows (4 times)
Reinstalled graphics cards 1 at a time
Purchased a new motherboard (thought it was the issue)
Turn off all overclocks
Updated motherboard bios

On both motherboards I have had the exact same issue. I think it's related to the nvidia drivers? Anyone PLEASE help.

My setup is
Gigabyte GA-270p-d3 motherboard
G3900 CPU
4gb DDR4
120gb m.2 SSD
x6 Asus gtx 1060 6gb
1000w rosewill power supply

I'm so frustrated I don't even know where to go next. Willing to send a few days worth of mining to whoever can figure this out. I'm desperate

[CjMapope]

enable 4g encoding in your bios if not already
also try gen2 in settings (my Z270A-P needed gen 2)
are you getting "system interrupts" in task manager ?
 

[weinerjf]

Interestingly, this motherboard doesn't have 4g encoding.

Tried gen2. No difference

Can you explain a bit more? not sure what system interrupts are.

[CryptoPlay]

Check if there is an bios update for you....

Just read your message.
"the application claymoreminer.... has been blocked from accessing graphics hardware"

This is not bios related...

That message is common with Vegas. Could be several things. Most common is Windows Defender.... add the file, the folder and if its already there, erase it and add it again. Even if its disable.
Do you have any other anti virus:

[CjMapope]

Interestingly, this motherboard doesn't have 4g encoding.

Tried gen2. No difference

Can you explain a bit more? not sure what system interrupts are.

hmm, interesting, prob not 4g encoding if you boot all cards into windows successfully anyways actually now that i think about it

system interrupts are caused by hardware/driver errors, and they can eat up resources till your PC crashes
if you have a faulty riser, you can get them, but they wont start till you start mining .
you will see in task manager "system interrupts" with high cpu usage
solution for them is update drivers (system drivers not GPU)/replace faulty riser usually

[weinerjf]

Yeah before the crash I can get it to recognize all 6 cards. The problem is once I launch the miner

Ok... now we may be getting somewhere. I tried two tests.

First I launched it with all of the GPUs unplugged except one. On a single 1060 it seems to work just fine. I tested a few other GPUs by themselves and they also will mine perfectly... until a second GPU is plugged in.

Once I plugged in the second one, crash.

I had the task manager open and I noticed before it crashed the CPU load shot up to 80-90%. I also did see a program in there called "system interrupts" but it wasn't accounting for much of the CPU spike according to the task manager

[CjMapope]

ya man, test each card till error appears, replace riser on the faulty one may fix it (hopefully) most risers have a terrible fail rate, sometime right OOB, sometimes after a few weeks.months mining
i run also a free iobit softwear called "driver booster". free and works. it usually finds drivers for "PCI-E" stuff, and have had it help having all those updated
keep in mind you DONT need all the audio drivers for each card installed, as they will just eat up resources

[gsrcrxsi314]

replace all of your risers

do you have any missing device drivers in device manager?

[weinerjf]

replace all of your risers

do you have any missing device drivers in device manager?

ya man, test each card till error appears, replace riser on the faulty one may fix it (hopefully) most risers have a terrible fail rate, sometime right OOB, sometimes after a few weeks.months mining
i run also a free iobit softwear called "driver booster". free and works. it usually finds drivers for "PCI-E" stuff, and have had it help having all those updated
keep in mind you DONT need all the audio drivers for each card installed, as they will just eat up resources

Here's the thing. I plugged GPU 1 and 2 in and it crashes. Then I try GPU 1 by itself and it works. GPU 2 by itself and it works. So it cant be the risers can it? I didn't change the risers, I just unplugged the other ones from the motherboard. Whichever one I leave plugged in will mine just fine.

[CjMapope]

replace all of your risers

do you have any missing device drivers in device manager?

ya man, test each card till error appears, replace riser on the faulty one may fix it (hopefully) most risers have a terrible fail rate, sometime right OOB, sometimes after a few weeks.months mining
i run also a free iobit softwear called "driver booster". free and works. it usually finds drivers for "PCI-E" stuff, and have had it help having all those updated
keep in mind you DONT need all the audio drivers for each card installed, as they will just eat up resources

Here's the thing. I plugged GPU 1 and 2 in and it crashes. Then I try GPU 1 by itself and it works. GPU 2 by itself and it works. So it cant be the risers can it?

haha damn thing, rigs are so finicky sometimes :/   maybe theres a PCI-E port acting up on the MB ? switch around the slots you plug the cards risers into, see what happens make sure no dust in the slots also
just keep trying to isolate it,, maybe you can get it to 5 cards, and go from there
and update your system drivers! it could be windows just confused by all the cards
also: if you get the time, you can try running a linux OS, then you will know if it works fine on there its just windows being a bitch    SMoS, or Hive, NvOS even

[weinerjf]

replace all of your risers

do you have any missing device drivers in device manager?

ya man, test each card till error appears, replace riser on the faulty one may fix it (hopefully) most risers have a terrible fail rate, sometime right OOB, sometimes after a few weeks.months mining
i run also a free iobit softwear called "driver booster". free and works. it usually finds drivers for "PCI-E" stuff, and have had it help having all those updated
keep in mind you DONT need all the audio drivers for each card installed, as they will just eat up resources

Here's the thing. I plugged GPU 1 and 2 in and it crashes. Then I try GPU 1 by itself and it works. GPU 2 by itself and it works. So it cant be the risers can it?

haha damn thing, rigs are so finicky sometimes :/   maybe theres a PCI-E port acting up on the MB ? switch around the slots you plug the cards risers into, see what happens make sure no dust in the slots also
just keep trying to isolate it,, maybe you can get it to 5 cards, and go from there
and update your system drivers! it could be windows just confused by all the cards

OK Update. I think we need to back up. Turns out... even a single card doesn't work. It mines happily for about 5 minutes and then crashes. As opposed to the normal crashing immediately.

So we think the risers are the culprit?

[CjMapope]

replace all of your risers

do you have any missing device drivers in device manager?

ya man, test each card till error appears, replace riser on the faulty one may fix it (hopefully) most risers have a terrible fail rate, sometime right OOB, sometimes after a few weeks.months mining
i run also a free iobit softwear called "driver booster". free and works. it usually finds drivers for "PCI-E" stuff, and have had it help having all those updated
keep in mind you DONT need all the audio drivers for each card installed, as they will just eat up resources

Here's the thing. I plugged GPU 1 and 2 in and it crashes. Then I try GPU 1 by itself and it works. GPU 2 by itself and it works. So it cant be the risers can it?

haha damn thing, rigs are so finicky sometimes :/   maybe theres a PCI-E port acting up on the MB ? switch around the slots you plug the cards risers into, see what happens make sure no dust in the slots also
just keep trying to isolate it,, maybe you can get it to 5 cards, and go from there
and update your system drivers! it could be windows just confused by all the cards

OK Update. I think we need to back up. Turns out... even a single card doesn't work. It mines happily for about 5 minutes and then crashes. As opposed to the normal crashing immediately.

So we think the risers are the culprit?

probably    you may need to see what exact crash it is too, check windows event log, or watch the bottom of the bluescreen for the error
it will say like "watchdog RPC" or "threads" or something that may help
damn thing, ya maybe SMoS is the solution, you would be surprised how insanely stable it is , tho it does take a bit of setting up off the bat

[gsrcrxsi314]

replace all of your risers

do you have any missing device drivers in device manager?

ya man, test each card till error appears, replace riser on the faulty one may fix it (hopefully) most risers have a terrible fail rate, sometime right OOB, sometimes after a few weeks.months mining
i run also a free iobit softwear called "driver booster". free and works. it usually finds drivers for "PCI-E" stuff, and have had it help having all those updated
keep in mind you DONT need all the audio drivers for each card installed, as they will just eat up resources

Here's the thing. I plugged GPU 1 and 2 in and it crashes. Then I try GPU 1 by itself and it works. GPU 2 by itself and it works. So it cant be the risers can it?

haha damn thing, rigs are so finicky sometimes :/   maybe theres a PCI-E port acting up on the MB ? switch around the slots you plug the cards risers into, see what happens make sure no dust in the slots also
just keep trying to isolate it,, maybe you can get it to 5 cards, and go from there
and update your system drivers! it could be windows just confused by all the cards

OK Update. I think we need to back up. Turns out... even a single card doesn't work. It mines happily for about 5 minutes and then crashes. As opposed to the normal crashing immediately.

So we think the risers are the culprit?

that would be my guess right now. what risers are you using?

i had an issue with risers when i built my first rig. it wasnt actually the risers, but the USB cables were bad and caused all kinds of issues. fans acting erratically, blue screens, driver crashes, everything.

test one card at a time, one riser at a time. see if you have any good risers/cables. replace any you confirm are bad. maybe even manipulate and bend the usb cable around with the system running to see if it has a repeatable impact on the system behavior

[stiucsib86]

Few weeks back Asus GTX1070 also have similar issue. Temperature error + BSOD after running for a while.

Found out that the SATA cable melted slightly and became faulty. Replaced with a high quality cable and so far no issue. (Uninstalled and reinstalled Driver Version 388.13).

Note: From my experience, Asus cards tends to draw more power that other brands.

[weinerjf]

Few weeks back Asus GTX1070 also have similar issue. Temperature error + BSOD after running for a while.

Found out that the SATA cable melted slightly and became faulty. Replaced with a high quality cable and so far no issue. (Uninstalled and reinstalled Driver Version 388.13).

Note: From my experience, Asus cards tends to draw more power that other brands.

Sata cable? As in the sata power cable? I thought we aren't supposed to use those to power risers...

[buraz11]

2 gpu per sata  max because gpu mainly draws power from pcie power plug

[theodrim]

Can you check your minidump for reason/caused by name? Also bugcheck will be helpful.
Can you tell exact model name of your rosewill psu?
Which bios are you using MIN.F8a or regular one?

Also you can save lot of time, if you just image your windows install and reinstall it via re-imaging (10 min max on ssd over 100Mb network/external storage).

edit

Interestingly, this motherboard doesn't have 4g encoding.

Yes, it does, you just need to flash mining bios. Just checked with amibcp, and regular one doesn have 4g decoding, while mining one have, so I'm pretty sure you troubles may end there, but still provide above info, but I'm still betting on psu (left is regular, right is mining f8a):
https://image.ibb.co/dgzmcH/image.png

[edwardceng]

can be possible:

1. You can try to change the scheme to powering to/from USB Riser (I assume Riser USB is fine).

2. if you have another PSU with 1000W ++, you can try it.

[Masked_Immortal]

I had this issue in the past and it was faulty psu, any load on system ( lunching miner) caused gpu fan 100% --> system freeze or restarts

[szafa]

Gpu is dead ,buy new card.