Some of my miners disconnect more often than others.

[timk225]

I have noticed that some of my miners consistently lose their connections more often than others.  I always run all 3 motherboards on the same pool at the same time.  I have 2 Gigabyte 990FXA-UD3 motherboards and an AsRock H61 chipset board.  2 use Windows 7 64 bit, and one of the 990's uses 8.1 64 bit.

It always seems like the 8.1 64 bit 990 MB discons the most often, almost always once a day or more, and usually once a day it just blanks out, and I have to restart it to get it do do anything.  Mouse and keyboard won't wake it up.  It is an unactivated copy of 8.1, because the same call-in tricks don't work to activate Windows 8 that work on 7, Vista, and XP for YEARS for me, and I refuse to pay for a license.  Bill Gates has enough money.

The Windows 7 990 MB is second for disconnects.  Sometiems it does and sometimes it doesn't discon when the other 990 goes down.

The AsRock H61 almost never discons, but it does happen once in a while.

My network is as follows:  The cable modem goes into a standard Netgear 4 port router with wireless.  And from the router, one ethernet cable goes into the mining room to a Cicso 8 port switch, and from there, 3 ethernet cables go to the 3 mining PCs.

So it seems like if one goes down it should affect all three equally.

Could there be certain network settings in the BIOS I should look at on the 990 motherboards?  Or a way to adjust the config file code in sgminer 4.1.0 so it can auto-recover itself more easily and from longer outages?

[erono]

My disconnect that took hours to fix, each subnet might very well decide that it would be too disruptive to submit to a reorg on reconnect. Instead I might change to code to my subnet.

[DrG]

I have noticed that some of my miners consistently lose their connections more often than others.  I always run all 3 motherboards on the same pool at the same time.  I have 2 Gigabyte 990FXA-UD3 motherboards and an AsRock H61 chipset board.  2 use Windows 7 64 bit, and one of the 990's uses 8.1 64 bit.

It always seems like the 8.1 64 bit 990 MB discons the most often, almost always once a day or more, and usually once a day it just blanks out, and I have to restart it to get it do do anything.  Mouse and keyboard won't wake it up.  It is an unactivated copy of 8.1, because the same call-in tricks don't work to activate Windows 8 that work on 7, Vista, and XP for YEARS for me, and I refuse to pay for a license.  Bill Gates has enough money.

The Windows 7 990 MB is second for disconnects.  Sometiems it does and sometimes it doesn't discon when the other 990 goes down.

The AsRock H61 almost never discons, but it does happen once in a while.

My network is as follows:  The cable modem goes into a standard Netgear 4 port router with wireless.  And from the router, one ethernet cable goes into the mining room to a Cicso 8 port switch, and from there, 3 ethernet cables go to the 3 mining PCs.

So it seems like if one goes down it should affect all three equally.

Could there be certain network settings in the BIOS I should look at on the 990 motherboards?  Or a way to adjust the config file code in sgminer 4.1.0 so it can auto-recover itself more easily and from longer outages?

Pirating software and asking for help?  Really?  You can buy Win 7 and Win 8 OEM licenses for $30 or less.

Try a free Linux distro.

[timk225]

I have been mining Cryptcoin for the past week, and it is pissing me off big time.  My Asrock H61 motherboard has almost never disconnected from the stratum.  The two 990 motherboards disconnect in a few minutes to a couple hours, each!

What the hell is going on with these things?  It is the pool?  Is it something in the motherboard networking setup?  Is it something in the miner?

All three are using the same miner code, copied from the same flash drive.  I see no reason why two disconnect all the damn time and one is rock solid.

I changed the Ethernet cables to three other ports on the switch, no change.

How can I make these miners restart on their own when they lose their connections?

[timk225]

I'm going to try switching to a different pool tonight to see if that helps, but it still wouldn't answer the question why one motherboard almost never loses the connection and the other two that are the 990FXA'a lose it constantly.