OFFICIAL CGMINER mining software thread for linux/win/osx/mips/arm/r-pi 4.11.0 - page 574.

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Quote from: Inaba on May 13, 2012, 01:02:12 PM

Ok, so I'm at stumped, maybe someone has an idea:

I have a W7 x64 box that I reloaded recently. I loaded the ATI drivers and the SDK... firing up CGMiner, it mines just fine. However, when I q out of CGminer, W7 will BSOD with a SYSTEM_SERVICE_EXCEPTION in atikmdag.sys. I've Googled the hell out of it and tried all the suggestions and nothing seems to work. I've uninstalled and reinstalled several different drivers versions, including 11.2 which I know worked with v2.4, v2.5 and v2.6 of the SDK. Nothing changes the behavior.

I realize it's not directly a CGMiner problem and something is wrong somewhere in the system, but bugger all if I can figure out what it is. Does anyone have any ideas? I've tried Driver Sweeper and reinstalled the drivers from scratch, but nothing works.

The system operates fine, I can play games, etc... and CGMiner mines fine. The only time there is a problem is when I quit CGMiner, otherwise zero problems at all. I'm completely stumped.

PS - this is mining with a pair of 6990's.

Anyone?

Maybe some other things in your BIOS/drivers are interfering with ATI.

Did you try a clean machine (formatted re-install of OS) with 12.2 and SDK 2.6? 12.2 or 12.3 has been the most stable in my experience.

Inaba

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Quote from: os2sam on May 13, 2012, 02:14:27 PM

Quote from: Inaba on May 13, 2012, 01:02:12 PM

Ok, so I'm at stumped, maybe someone has an idea:

I have a W7 x64 box that I reloaded recently. I loaded the ATI drivers and the SDK... firing up CGMiner, it mines just fine. However, when I q out of CGminer, W7 will BSOD with a SYSTEM_SERVICE_EXCEPTION in atikmdag.sys. I've Googled the hell out of it and tried all the suggestions and nothing seems to work.

Anyone?

Did you find this article?

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/hardware/ff558949%28v=vs.85%29.aspx

I would run Spinrite on the drive.
Sam

It's a 480 GB SSD, I don't think Spinrite will help

The box is a fairly recent reload, I'm not keen on doing it again. I was hoping someone might have a magic bullet.

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Quote from: -ck on May 13, 2012, 07:22:56 PM

Quote from: ddd1 on May 13, 2012, 07:07:25 PM

I know that there is a built in function to stop mining incase of temperature too high.

Edit---> For disabling CGminer do I need to put in a value or it the default 95c activated?

So if GPU reaches 95c will the CGminer disable or would I need to add it into config file?
I'm on windows 7 64bit.

If you enable the --auto-gpu option, it turns on the auto-disable feature using the default values (95). It will also re-enable them if the temperature falls below the target temperature (75) unless you add the --no-restart option.

If I type in --temp-cutoff 60

would this mean that if a gpu core reaches 60c then CGminer turns off?
Right now my GPU core never goes above 52c, the VRM however reached 65c.

So unless pump fails I will never reach more then 52c if that makes sense.

edit---> I found this in my cgminer.cfg
"temp-cutoff" : "95", This I put 65
"temp-overheat" : "85", This I put 64
"temp-target" : "75", This I put 64
^^^^^^^ There is no fans controlled by GPU, it's radiator with fans.

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I got this :

Code:

ADL found less devices than opencl!
There is possibly more than one display attached to a GPU
...

Failed to initiate GPU thread 0, diabling device 0
Failed to initiate GPU thread 1, diabling device 0
Failed to initiate GPU thread 2, diabling device 1
Failed to initiate GPU thread 3, diabling device 1

Situation: Running Z68 board + 2x 5850s + Windows7. Using IntelHD for display, AMD GPUs are not connected to any monitors. AMD GPUs driver is installed and recognized by windows. I want to use IntelGPU for desktop as its a workstation, and mining the AMD GPUs

What should i be looking at?

-ck

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Quote from: ddd1 on May 13, 2012, 07:07:25 PM

I know that there is a built in function to stop mining incase of temperature too high.

Edit---> For disabling CGminer do I need to put in a value or it the default 95c activated?

So if GPU reaches 95c will the CGminer disable or would I need to add it into config file?
I'm on windows 7 64bit.

If you enable the --auto-gpu option, it turns on the auto-disable feature using the default values (95). It will also re-enable them if the temperature falls below the target temperature (75) unless you add the --no-restart option.

kano

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Quote from: ddd1 on May 13, 2012, 07:07:25 PM

I know that there is a built in function to stop mining incase of temperature too high.

But is there a option to turn off PC?
...

No.

The API will of course allow you to identify a whole lot of info about the state of your miner.

ddd1

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I know that there is a built in function to stop mining incase of temperature too high.

But is there a option to turn off PC?

I have waterpump and incase pump failure, so if temperatures reach 60c I want to force PC shutdown.

Edit---> For disabling CGminer do I need to put in a value or it the default 95c activated?

So if GPU reaches 95c will the CGminer disable or would I need to add it into config file?
I'm on windows 7 64bit.

Krak

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Quote from: SgtSpike on May 13, 2012, 05:24:58 PM

Question: Is there a way to mine on multiple pools at the same time with CGMiner? In other words, if I have 2 BFL miners, and want to point one to one pool, and another to another pool, how would I go about setting that up?

The --load-balance flag will basically do that for you.

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Question: Is there a way to mine on multiple pools at the same time with CGMiner? In other words, if I have 2 BFL miners, and want to point one to one pool, and another to another pool, how would I go about setting that up?

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Quote from: hack_slash on May 13, 2012, 03:00:48 PM

I'm seeing some odd behavior if I use load-balance for the pool strategy under 2.4.1.

I'm mining on EMC and Ozcoin. If I use the default failover pool management strategy, I get a rejection rate of 0.4% or lower with either EMC or Ozcoin as the primary. If I use load-balance, my rejection rate goes up to around 4 or 5%.

I believe this, at least partially, because of Merged Mining. You get allot of Namecoin Long Poll's. On Ozco you can disable NMC LP's, don't know about EMC but I would check and see if disabling NMC LP's helps.

Sam

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I'm seeing some odd behavior if I use load-balance for the pool strategy under 2.4.1.

I'm mining on EMC and Ozcoin. If I use the default failover pool management strategy, I get a rejection rate of 0.4% or lower with either EMC or Ozcoin as the primary. If I use load-balance, my rejection rate goes up to around 4 or 5%. I can see in the logs that, when a longpoll indicates a new block, cgminer will submit 1 or 2 rejected/stale shares for pool 0, and then subsequent pool 0 shares are accepted. For pool 1, however, cgminer continues to submit stale shares for a couple minutes. I'm not sure if this is new behavior or not, as I haven't tried to use load-balance prior to 2.4.1.

os2sam

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Quote from: Inaba on May 13, 2012, 01:02:12 PM

Ok, so I'm at stumped, maybe someone has an idea:

I have a W7 x64 box that I reloaded recently. I loaded the ATI drivers and the SDK... firing up CGMiner, it mines just fine. However, when I q out of CGminer, W7 will BSOD with a SYSTEM_SERVICE_EXCEPTION in atikmdag.sys. I've Googled the hell out of it and tried all the suggestions and nothing seems to work.

Anyone?

Did you find this article?

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/hardware/ff558949%28v=vs.85%29.aspx

I would run Spinrite on the drive.
Sam

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Quote from: ModusPwnd on May 12, 2012, 09:51:33 PM

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I'm having the same issue. Did you ever figure out a fix?

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.886474

Inaba

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Ok, so I'm at stumped, maybe someone has an idea:

I have a W7 x64 box that I reloaded recently. I loaded the ATI drivers and the SDK... firing up CGMiner, it mines just fine. However, when I q out of CGminer, W7 will BSOD with a SYSTEM_SERVICE_EXCEPTION in atikmdag.sys. I've Googled the hell out of it and tried all the suggestions and nothing seems to work. I've uninstalled and reinstalled several different drivers versions, including 11.2 which I know worked with v2.4, v2.5 and v2.6 of the SDK. Nothing changes the behavior.

I realize it's not directly a CGMiner problem and something is wrong somewhere in the system, but bugger all if I can figure out what it is. Does anyone have any ideas? I've tried Driver Sweeper and reinstalled the drivers from scratch, but nothing works.

The system operates fine, I can play games, etc... and CGMiner mines fine. The only time there is a problem is when I quit CGMiner, otherwise zero problems at all. I'm completely stumped.

PS - this is mining with a pair of 6990's.

Anyone?

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Quote from: kano on May 11, 2012, 08:53:49 PM

Quote from: ddd1 on May 11, 2012, 07:14:04 PM

I used cgminer pool and it told me that the pool I'm on has 2.3% rejected.

Is this normal or should I look into my PC or change pool?

Just a little more information might be helpful Cheesy

Edit: OK from browsing around the forum, you are using EMC and have around 1.4GH/s
The reject number is high if it is long term.
How long were you mining to get that number?
What are your long term numbers from cgminer?
Basically the output of the top of the screen (everything down to the "Accepted" lines) or if you have the API enabled, as much info as possible from the commands: config, summary, devs and pools.

Edit2: also the non-standard API 'stats' would be interesting if someone else using EMC would post theirs also

I got it down to ~~1.7% R~~ 1.4% R with the eclipseMC EU server(I'm in europe).

I recently started to mine on bonuspool, it's not the standard 8332 port, do I manually need to change it to the correct port in cgminer?

It seems to be working but I need to check website if it indeed does.

Edit--> Sorry I forgot mention it is long term and when switching to EU server eclipsemc it now is 1.4% instead of 2.3%.
So is there anything else I can do to improve Rejected shares?

Also I switched to bonuspool so new pool and server now

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Quote from: Askit2 on May 07, 2012, 03:37:35 AM

For some reason 2.4.0 and 2.4.1 will not properly save the configuration file for me. On restart after saving and having everything working I get this.

Code:


 [2012-05-07 02:24:42] Started cgminer 2.4.1
 [2012-05-07 02:24:42] Started cgminer 2.4.1
 [2012-05-07 02:24:42] Loaded configuration file cgminer.conf
 [2012-05-07 02:24:42] Fatal JSON error in configuration file.
 [2012-05-07 02:24:42] Configuration file could not be used.
 [2012-05-07 02:24:42] Icarus Detect: Failed to open bitforce:COM3
 [2012-05-07 02:24:43] Found 0 ztex board(s)
 [2012-05-07 02:24:43] Need to specify at least one pool server.
Input server details.
URL:

This isn't a tragedy per se but it makes it very hard to restart to try to reset my averages or change placement.

I'm having the same issue. Did you ever figure out a fix?

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This is not OK.

Something else to look into:

Since upping one of my BFLs to the 864 firmware, it seems to stop working (not the CGminer issue - I don't think). the 'status' reports 'Thread got zero hashes' and the 'dev' command reports enabled 'N', how ever it still says the dev status as 'Alive'. Not so sure it should be alive, trying to re-enable it remains disabled.

Edit: restarting CGminer will kick it back into action (for a while, anyway) so maybe some re-init code should be sent when re-enabling.

Edit2: It would seem it never recovers when it throttles

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Quote from: ddd1 on May 11, 2012, 07:14:04 PM

I used cgminer pool and it told me that the pool I'm on has 2.3% rejected.

Is this normal or should I look into my PC or change pool?

Just a little more information might be helpful Cheesy

Edit: OK from browsing around the forum, you are using EMC and have around 1.4GH/s
The reject number is high if it is long term.
How long were you mining to get that number?
What are your long term numbers from cgminer?
Basically the output of the top of the screen (everything down to the "Accepted" lines) or if you have the API enabled, as much info as possible from the commands: config, summary, devs and pools.

Edit2: also the non-standard API 'stats' would be interesting if someone else using EMC would post theirs also

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Ckolivas:

this is a funny message generated by CGMiner (on all my miners) !:

Code:

 cgminer version 2.4.1 - Started: [2012-05-12 03:29:42]
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 (5s):312.0 (avg):311.9 Mh/s | Q:193  A:83  R:4  HW:0  E:43%  U:4.4/m
 TQ: 2  ST: 5  SS: 0  DW: 11  NB: 2  LW: 139  GF: 0  RF: 0
 Connected to http://pool.bonuspool.co.cc:80 with LP as user 
 Block: 00000263027422ab47efedc55dcc2dc4...  Started: [03:47:03]
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 [P]ool management [G]PU management [S]ettings [D]isplay options [Q]uit
 GPU 0:  73.5C 2287RPM | 312.4/311.9Mh/s | A:84 R:4 HW:0 U:4.50/m I: 6
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

 [2012-05-12 03:45:47] Accepted 65beb547.b86069e7 GPU 0 pool 0
 [2012-05-12 03:45:53] Accepted 3acd4866.8076a92d GPU 0 pool 0
 [2012-05-12 03:45:54] Accepted ff3aae97.f1bf6754 GPU 0 pool 0
 [2012-05-12 03:46:59] Accepted 0df92b7c.be02982a GPU 0 pool 0
 [2012-05-12 03:47:03] [font=Verdana][b]LONGPOLL from pool 4 detected new block[/b][/font]
 [2012-05-12 03:47:31] Rejected 9d002557.57674fb4 GPU 0 pool 0
 [2012-05-12 03:47:34] Rejected 751cb3f6.be3a7a7b GPU 0 pool 0
 [2012-05-12 03:47:53] Rejected b102aecc.98c97f4d GPU 0 pool 0
 [2012-05-12 03:47:59] Rejected 49048041.99b08d57 GPU 0 pool 0
 [2012-05-12 03:48:04] Accepted 460ba46d.385763c2 GPU 0 pool 1
 [2012-05-12 03:48:16] Accepted cde0f3d9.bd62e648 GPU 0 pool 0
 [2012-05-12 03:48:19] Accepted 7c523153.1d02f184 GPU 0 pool 0
 [2012-05-12 03:48:26] Accepted 9522afd5.ca52eaaf GPU 0 pool 0

I only have 3 pools !!! My main pool (pool 0) and 2 backup pools !!!

Pool 4 does not exist !!!

Lols Grin

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I used cgminer pool and it told me that the pool I'm on has 2.3% rejected.

Is this normal or should I look into my PC or change pool?

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