I have a vaio laptop that shipped with a docking station which really isn't a docking station. It connects power into the USb and power plug on the laptop. According to sony this little upright slim device houses the more expensive video card. As well as my CD drive. And a bunch more ports for various things.
So when the docking station is connected, you get to take advantage of the GPU.
So I load CGminer with the docking station connected. It starts going ... up to 80 Mh/s ... then kicks up a notch (the fan at least) .... then another notch.... then it does this for about 5 minutes ... the numbers don't change - still at 80Mh/s ... but the fan is incrementally getting louder and louder.... then Boom. The docking station power goes dead. It restarts on its own ... and my laptop is frozen.
This is a brand new fresh install so its not software related. CGMiner is doing something that is clearly burning out the GPU.
Is there some way for me to tell CGMiner to stop at some stage and let the thing just do what its doing?
I know nothing about programming or code or DOS or any of that stuff....
Thanks
So when the docking station is connected, you get to take advantage of the GPU.
So I load CGminer with the docking station connected. It starts going ... up to 80 Mh/s ... then kicks up a notch (the fan at least) .... then another notch.... then it does this for about 5 minutes ... the numbers don't change - still at 80Mh/s ... but the fan is incrementally getting louder and louder.... then Boom. The docking station power goes dead. It restarts on its own ... and my laptop is frozen.
This is a brand new fresh install so its not software related. CGMiner is doing something that is clearly burning out the GPU.
Is there some way for me to tell CGMiner to stop at some stage and let the thing just do what its doing?
I know nothing about programming or code or DOS or any of that stuff....
Thanks
Lower the clocks and intensity. Your docking station fails to provide enough power.
