Topic: minning rig crashes randomly (Read 1150 times)
Have you chekc the video cards? pull one out, mine for a while and then swap it out and do that same. At least then you will be able to acknowledge the GPUS are good.
For the past few days my computer has been crashing randomly, so i have not been able to mine. I am running windows 7 64 bit
ram: 6 gb ddr3
motherboard: GIGABYTE GA-890FXA-UD5
cpu: amd phenom x6 1090t (was oc, but is know back at stock)
video card: 1 5870 and 1 6950 (flashed to 6970)
the reason for the 2 cards is because I bitcoin mine in this computer so 5870 is for mining only.
PSU: antec 900 watt from there gamer series.
hhd: 1 intel ssd and 3 320 gb hhd
When i boot the computer up i get a boot error code that is continues long beeps. the manual says that the video card is not installed properly, but i have tried running the computer with each card individually, and the computer still beeps. I was getting this error long before my computer started crashing, but it would always post after it gave the error a few times so i didn't think it was a big problem.
When the computer successfully boots it makes it to windows, and then after a while it will just crash. When it crashes sometime it will give a BSOD, but other times the screens will get visual tearing then go black, but the fans are still on. ( none of my fans are plugged into the mobo because i use a fan controller)
I know the ram is good because I ran windows memory diagnosis, and it gave errors so i took a stick of ram out, and then the test returned no errors.
I thought the cpu might be bad, but i was able to get through 3 test of prime95, and then i stopped it, and then a few min later it crashed. If the cpu was the problem i would think it would not have crashed during the test. I figure that if the cpu was bad it would not be able to even run at such a stress level.
Heat is not a problem because during prime the cpu never got over 40 C (its water cooled)
I know windows is not the problem because i booted off a ubunu live usb, and it still crashed.
The 2 things left are the mobo and psu.
I dont think it is the psu because in windows i started bitcoin mining which would pull a huge about of power from the psu, and it crashed. The reason i dont think it is the psu is that even if i dont mine the computer still crashes, and i figure that if the psu can provide enough power to mine even just from a few min it would be able to run the computer just web browsing with no problems, but the computer crashes even if i dont mine.
Does anyone know what the problem is. Is my mobo in fact bad, or is it something else that i have missed. Any help is greatly appreciated. I want to get back to mining
ram: 6 gb ddr3
motherboard: GIGABYTE GA-890FXA-UD5
cpu: amd phenom x6 1090t (was oc, but is know back at stock)
video card: 1 5870 and 1 6950 (flashed to 6970)
the reason for the 2 cards is because I bitcoin mine in this computer so 5870 is for mining only.
PSU: antec 900 watt from there gamer series.
hhd: 1 intel ssd and 3 320 gb hhd
When i boot the computer up i get a boot error code that is continues long beeps. the manual says that the video card is not installed properly, but i have tried running the computer with each card individually, and the computer still beeps. I was getting this error long before my computer started crashing, but it would always post after it gave the error a few times so i didn't think it was a big problem.
When the computer successfully boots it makes it to windows, and then after a while it will just crash. When it crashes sometime it will give a BSOD, but other times the screens will get visual tearing then go black, but the fans are still on. ( none of my fans are plugged into the mobo because i use a fan controller)
I know the ram is good because I ran windows memory diagnosis, and it gave errors so i took a stick of ram out, and then the test returned no errors.
I thought the cpu might be bad, but i was able to get through 3 test of prime95, and then i stopped it, and then a few min later it crashed. If the cpu was the problem i would think it would not have crashed during the test. I figure that if the cpu was bad it would not be able to even run at such a stress level.
Heat is not a problem because during prime the cpu never got over 40 C (its water cooled)
I know windows is not the problem because i booted off a ubunu live usb, and it still crashed.
The 2 things left are the mobo and psu.
I dont think it is the psu because in windows i started bitcoin mining which would pull a huge about of power from the psu, and it crashed. The reason i dont think it is the psu is that even if i dont mine the computer still crashes, and i figure that if the psu can provide enough power to mine even just from a few min it would be able to run the computer just web browsing with no problems, but the computer crashes even if i dont mine.
Does anyone know what the problem is. Is my mobo in fact bad, or is it something else that i have missed. Any help is greatly appreciated. I want to get back to mining
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