New to Mining - Issue with random shutdowns
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RAM @ 25% Load, CPU @ 25% load & 60 C.
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What Kind of powersupply do you have? I had a simmilar issue with my gaming PC. It was operating fine for quite some time. Then I started to have power surges during intense sessions.
Your PSU might have suffered from your mining Operation, and if there was not enough headroom in Terms of Amps, it might now not be capable of Holding the voltages up.
you can try and use a Utility (like MSI Afterburner. Doesn’t matter your Card is not an MSI) to lower your power target for the GPU. Usually this makes it more Power-Efficient as well (If you devide the Hashrate/Wattage). Sure the Hasrate will go down, but you Need less Power to create each Hash. Best Thing is to lower the Powerlimit in 10% steps and leave the miner running you some Minute. Do the Hash/Watt calc and repeat until you find the max.
The most reliable scource for you wattage is a meter to plug in between your PC and the outlet. Depending on you Board, you might get some good info from the Tool “HWInfo”
Hope this helps!
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Thanks, I have a 500w PSU, it is 6 years old at this point though. I set the max power to 70% last evening, no effect. At this point I think it’s probably worth building a new gaming PC then turning my old one in to a dedicated mining rig with a new MoBo, PSU, and GPUs.
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This is the right way to go. U can choose Board with a very low power chipset (like the H-Version for the 1151 Socket) and a small Celron CPU. The CPU is “slow” but you wont use it for mining as much (i hope :smile: )
in the end you should aim to reduce the power which is used in idle. This is the amount the system will (at least) put on to of you GPU consumption.Keep in mind, that there are very efficient PSUs. It is worth etimating the required consumption and have a look at the specs of the PSU. It will have a peak efficiency in a certain area.
This way you can cut down the running costs and decrease the ROI
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Once my new Gaming PC is built I’ll try to re-purpose my old PC.
I’m going to get a platinum rated 850w GPU but probably keep my MoBo and CPU - It’s an old i7 - 2600K so I’ll probably under-clock it. Grab 2 GTX 1060 6 GBs, and do a fresh Windows 7 install. If that does not clear it up I’ll grab a new MoBo and CPU. I can get that all done for ~$800 if I don’t need to swap out the chip set.
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in my experience a system “randomly” shutting down usually means it’s either trying to save it’s self (eg. cpu cooling not seated correctly…computer will shutdown to protect it’s self from over heating)
If you can power it on and do stuff but it only shuts down when it’s mining, the card is drawing too much power for the PSU. For mining you want a really reliable PSU :slight_smile:
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Brand new system with an 850W power supply and a 1070 TI capped at 80% TPU and it is still happening.
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weirdly I’m experiencing this problem with one of my rigs.
I’ve tested all my parts so changing the CMOS battery on the mobo is my next step
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I’m glad it’s not just me then. I’m getting around the issue for now by looping the BAT file but it was very disconcerting to have the same issue on a 100% brand new system that I was seeing on my old setup.
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The new NSGMiner release seems to have corrected the issue. I’ve been running now for over 24 hours with no crashes.
