3K worth of mining equipment did it all fail?

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Quote from: Meatball on May 29, 2011, 10:30:29 PM

To allow for further overclocking with Afterburner you have enable "Unofficial Overclocking" in the afterburner config file. Go into the MSI Afterburner folder in your Program Files (or wherever you installed it) and edit the "MSIAfterburner.cfg" file in notepad or any text editor.

Scroll down and near the bottom you need to make two changes.

Where it says "UnofficialOverclockingEULA =" add the following without the quotes "I confirm that I am aware of unofficial overclocking limitations and fully understand that MSI will not provide me any support on it"

Under that change "Enable Unofficial Overclocking" to "1". Restart Afterburner and you'll have access to a wider range of clock speeds.

Just be very careful, you can easily over/underclock way too high with it.

What do you think is safe for a 6950? and a 6990?

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To allow for further overclocking with Afterburner you have enable "Unofficial Overclocking" in the afterburner config file. Go into the MSI Afterburner folder in your Program Files (or wherever you installed it) and edit the "MSIAfterburner.cfg" file in notepad or any text editor.

Scroll down and near the bottom you need to make two changes.

Where it says "UnofficialOverclockingEULA =" add the following without the quotes "I confirm that I am aware of unofficial overclocking limitations and fully understand that MSI will not provide me any support on it"

Under that change "Enable Unofficial Overclocking" to "1". Restart Afterburner and you'll have access to a wider range of clock speeds.

Just be very careful, you can easily over/underclock way too high with it.

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Quote from: EpicBacon on May 29, 2011, 12:03:55 PM

Quote from: tachi641 on May 29, 2011, 11:50:47 AM

I OC'd all my 6950s now to 840mhz and 20% extra power on the catalyst control center. I wish I can clock them higher, they are stable as a rock, I am getting between 300mhash/s - 325mhash/s per seconds on each card at these settings. Temps are high 60's-c Any way I can push them harder?

I'm assuming 840mhz is the max in Catalyst Control Center?
You can use MSI Afterburner to clock them higher.
http://event.msi.com/vga/afterburner/download.htm

I downloaded the MSI After Burner program you are talking about, it is capping me at 840mhz - I also dropped the mem clock as low as possible.

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Quote from: Fiyasko on May 29, 2011, 03:40:15 PM

Failed on my 5830

I was able to lower the memory clock on my Sapphire 5830 to 300mHz when it was the only card in my rig. I tried with two 5830's and it failed, and also tried two 5850's + one 5830 and it failed.

Weird stuff.

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Uhmmmm i dont know about the 6950's but dropping mem clock on most ATi cards generally reduces heat and increses Mhash.
Failed on my 6870
Failed on my 6990's
Failed on my 5830
Boosted my 5770 by 20mhash and dropped temps by 5°

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Quote from: tachi641 on May 29, 2011, 11:50:47 AM

I OC'd all my 6950s now to 840mhz and 20% extra power on the catalyst control center. I wish I can clock them higher, they are stable as a rock, I am getting between 300mhash/s - 325mhash/s per seconds on each card at these settings. Temps are high 60's-c Any way I can push them harder?

I'm assuming 840mhz is the max in Catalyst Control Center?
You can use MSI Afterburner to clock them higher.
http://event.msi.com/vga/afterburner/download.htm

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Okay, All I wanted to wait a day before I reported back to make sure I had the problem cornered.

So it was indeed window's default power setting. You have to adjust windows powersavings mode to never on all options before you start mining.

With that,

I OC'd all my 6950s now to 840mhz and 20% extra power on the catalyst control center. I wish I can clock them higher, they are stable as a rock, I am getting between 300mhash/s - 325mhash/s per seconds on each card at these settings. Temps are high 60's-c Any way I can push them harder?

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Quote from: Chucksta on May 29, 2011, 01:39:28 AM

Quote from: tachi641 on May 28, 2011, 05:22:32 PM

Quote from: Jaime Frontero on May 28, 2011, 04:48:45 PM

Quote from: tachi641 on May 28, 2011, 04:46:21 PM

Quote from: Jaime Frontero on May 28, 2011, 04:44:47 PM

the implication of your post is that you have more than one rig running, they are identical, and they have the same problem.

so it probably isn't the motherboard, or the cards.

i figure it's either heat or the PSUs are overtaxed.

Well Right now, only 1 rigg has been put together. It is only running 1 card, because I dont have dummy plugs yet, they are coming. Since it's crashing with 1 card I am getting worried.

ahh. an entirely different kettle of fish.

put in a different card. try to duplicate the problem. then, if it duplicates, try a different PSU. etc.

Okay Cool, TY I think, the problem was that power saver mode would kick in every 30 minutes... I just shut that off. I'll report back if it works. Thanks for all the help folks.

He did report back --- POWER SAVE MODE kicking in every 30 mins ... I've been there !

I was thinking it was that as I read this. I knew it could not be the PSU, unless a faulty PSU, as I have an 800w psu with my 2x 6950 cards... that PC is primarily a gaming machine, though.

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Quote from: tachi641 on May 28, 2011, 05:22:32 PM

Quote from: Jaime Frontero on May 28, 2011, 04:48:45 PM

Quote from: tachi641 on May 28, 2011, 04:46:21 PM

Quote from: Jaime Frontero on May 28, 2011, 04:44:47 PM

the implication of your post is that you have more than one rig running, they are identical, and they have the same problem.

so it probably isn't the motherboard, or the cards.

i figure it's either heat or the PSUs are overtaxed.

Well Right now, only 1 rigg has been put together. It is only running 1 card, because I dont have dummy plugs yet, they are coming. Since it's crashing with 1 card I am getting worried.

ahh. an entirely different kettle of fish.

put in a different card. try to duplicate the problem. then, if it duplicates, try a different PSU. etc.

Okay Cool, TY I think, the problem was that power saver mode would kick in every 30 minutes... I just shut that off. I'll report back if it works. Thanks for all the help folks.

He did report back --- POWER SAVE MODE kicking in every 30 mins ... I've been there !

I was thinking it was that as I read this. I knew it could not be the PSU, unless a faulty PSU, as I have an 800w psu with my 2x 6950 cards... that PC is primarily a gaming machine, though.

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Quote from: tachi641 on May 28, 2011, 05:22:32 PM

I'll report back if it works.

Quote from: Fiyasko on May 29, 2011, 01:14:00 AM

Lol guys have you not seen that the problem is already solved?

But he said he would report back and then never said anything...

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Lol guys have you not seen that the problem is already solved?

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Try swapping power supplies and see if you have the same issue. Do the same with the GPU.

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i think power supply problem.

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Quote from: tachi641 on May 28, 2011, 04:34:16 PM

Hi Folks,

I recently spent around 3k on hardware. I have several of these riggs made, and need some rescuing.

Motherboard is MSI 890FXA - it has 5 PCIe X16 Slots. I bought some extensions for them that will come soon.

I have 2 6950s plugged into each rig so far, no cross fire, no dummy plugs. My Riggs will run for about an hour then go into a black screen state and not do anything...

My powersupply is 1k Watt Kingwin,

What seems to be the problem here does anyone know?

From experience I would say the problem is the power supply. Kingwin is OK. Bitcoin mining needs better then OK hardware.

Make sure you have turned off all power conserving settings, no screen savers, sleep, hibernate, drive shutdown etc of course.

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yeah finack : Checking power settings would be a good starting point. Check them all, because defaults sometimes have hard disk turn off after so long, pci-e, and standby.

Have you checked temps in catalyst control center?

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Quote from: tachi641 on May 28, 2011, 04:34:16 PM

My Riggs will run for about an hour then go into a black screen state and not do anything...

I know someone already mentioned this, but I'd be real suspicious that it is going into sleep/standby mode and either isn't making it or isn't waking up properly. Are all the fans running at the same speed or loudness that they are when everything is working? If you move the mouse every 15-30 minutes can you prevent it from happening? Does the video card seem to be pushing the same amount of heat out of the back as when it's all working?

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Quote from: Jaime Frontero on May 28, 2011, 04:48:45 PM

Quote from: tachi641 on May 28, 2011, 04:46:21 PM

Quote from: Jaime Frontero on May 28, 2011, 04:44:47 PM

the implication of your post is that you have more than one rig running, they are identical, and they have the same problem.

so it probably isn't the motherboard, or the cards.

i figure it's either heat or the PSUs are overtaxed.

Well Right now, only 1 rigg has been put together. It is only running 1 card, because I dont have dummy plugs yet, they are coming. Since it's crashing with 1 card I am getting worried.

ahh. an entirely different kettle of fish.

put in a different card. try to duplicate the problem. then, if it duplicates, try a different PSU. etc.

Okay Cool, TY I think, the problem was that power saver mode would kick in every 30 minutes... I just shut that off. I'll report back if it works. Thanks for all the help folks.

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Quote from: tachi641 on May 28, 2011, 04:46:21 PM

Quote from: Jaime Frontero on May 28, 2011, 04:44:47 PM

the implication of your post is that you have more than one rig running, they are identical, and they have the same problem.

so it probably isn't the motherboard, or the cards.

i figure it's either heat or the PSUs are overtaxed.

Well Right now, only 1 rigg has been put together. It is only running 1 card, because I dont have dummy plugs yet, they are coming. Since it's crashing with 1 card I am getting worried.

ahh. an entirely different kettle of fish.

put in a different card. try to duplicate the problem. then, if it duplicates, try a different PSU. etc.

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Quote from: Jaime Frontero on May 28, 2011, 04:44:47 PM

the implication of your post is that you have more than one rig running, they are identical, and they have the same problem.

so it probably isn't the motherboard, or the cards.

i figure it's either heat or the PSUs are overtaxed.

Well Right now, only 1 rigg has been put together. It is only running 1 card, because I dont have dummy plugs yet, they are coming. Since it's crashing with 1 card I am getting worried.

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the implication of your post is that you have more than one rig running, they are identical, and they have the same problem.

so it probably isn't the motherboard, or the cards.

i figure it's either heat or the PSUs are overtaxed.

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