Thanks everyone for the advice on how to get this Nvidia rig to run with ccminer. Last night I tore the rig all down and started from scratch, replaced a bunch of powered risers with versions that I think are better quality. I checked the mobo PCI-E slots with a good GPU to validate that the rig boots and works normally in each of the PCIE slots. Then attempted to plug in each of the GPU's as a single GPU to make sure they booted and worked. Next I tried to plug in each GPU one at a time adding to the previous one to see if there were any issues. The rig seems fine until you plug in that last(6th) GPU then it acts strange...
So I decided the only way to figure out if I have a bad GPU in the bunch is to plug in one GPU and launch the miner and let it run overnight if it will stay up and not crash... So I did that last night, connected a single GPU and ran the miner. No intensity settings are set. It mined fine, stayed up all night. So this morning first thing I connected a second GPU and let it run all day with just 2 GPU's. It ran all day, no issues. This evening I connected a 3rd GPU and will let it run until the morning. I will keep adding GPU's until I start to see the "validate on CPU" errors and crashing.
I thought maybe I was having the issue where the number of GPU's isn't supported, but after digging around today that issue appeared to be related to AMD GPU's, and I didn't see anything about Nvidia gpu's having that issue. But I am starting to wonder what might be going on if I get down to the 6th GPU and the errors return... I don't want to get the cart before the horse here, but it seems kind of strange.
I will have to order some more powered risers. I used the last of my spares last night replacing ones that I suspected might be an issue. Hopefully things will stay stable with ccminer. I am using the affinity 0, cpu priority 0, -C switches to startup the miner, but I left out the intensity and it seems to be working so far. Any other thoughts or inputs would be great. Thanks again...
I am sorry to hear that SP_ is talking about retiring. It must be a great feeling to be ready to retire, but we really do need his talent here... I hope he will reconsider for a little while longer... :-)
no - you dont seem to be doing anything wrong at all mate ...
if you read back quite a few pages - i had the same problem with 6 x gigabyte 980ti g1 / extreme cards ...
after almost two weeks of research and stuffing around - the fix? ...
run 5 cards ...
it seems that the nvidia driver craps itself when 6 cards are placed altogether ... i can assure you that i am no novice to mining - and you will find the same thing on your end ... i have yet to find a 'real' fix for this issue ...
6 x gigabyte 750ti oc lp cards work fine - but the 980ti g1 / extreme cards refuse to and stop functioning at 6 cards ...
i run fedora 23 x64 - with the latest drivers from the repo ( not the manually downloaded and installed nvidia drivers from their site ) and it is the same issue - time and time again ...
when thefarm is in its new home - ill be in a better position to test on different motherboards also - as i honestly believe it is a BIOS allocation issue ... i feel VERY confident that if i placed the cards on a supermicro server board that is built for hpc ( larger BIOS and designed to handle VGA allocation in BIOS ) - it will run fine with these big cards ...
what is the make and model of your motherboard? ...
#crysx