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Topic: PC crashes when mining zcash 3GPU, ETH mining is fine. Power surge msg in bios (Read 51 times)
December 28, 2017, 01:19:35 PM
December 28, 2017, 01:14:38 PM
I am mining with 1x1080ti and 2x1070's. I mine etherum using claymore miner for weeks with no problems. I switched to mining zcash using (EWBF)cuda miner and as soon as i start the bat file my pc crashes and restarts with a bios message stating there was a power surge. I have a 760 watt PSU and hero maximus 8 MOBO. While mining ETH with the 3 GPU's i use 580-600 watts of power and it never crashes. Any idea why its crashing "power surge" when I mine zcash with 3 gpu's?
I tested mining zcash with (EWBF)cuda miner with 1 gpu and that seemed to be stable. If i add the other 2 gpus it has a power surge and crashes.
I know the bios says power surge but why would 3gpus work fine when i mine ethereum?
For zcash i tried different miners and different versions
PCI E setting in bios is set to GEN1 (i tried gen 2 and gen 3 same result)
I set gpus to factory clock settings and same issue when mining zcash only.
Thanks.
I tested mining zcash with (EWBF)cuda miner with 1 gpu and that seemed to be stable. If i add the other 2 gpus it has a power surge and crashes.
I know the bios says power surge but why would 3gpus work fine when i mine ethereum?
For zcash i tried different miners and different versions
PCI E setting in bios is set to GEN1 (i tried gen 2 and gen 3 same result)
I set gpus to factory clock settings and same issue when mining zcash only.
Thanks.
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