Good evening Steemians,
Hopefully everyone is enjoying the beginning of the weekend and I hope everyone is discovering something new and having some fun.
I woke up early this morning in hopes of making a dent into my homework. But I've had a nagging thought in my mind. Can I get all my GPUs mining again. The latest Nvidia drivers are out. Maybe I can get my 2080s hashing away. I've spent most of the day doing trial and error trying to come up with some conclusion why my display drivers keep crashing. A black flash on the screen, fans spin at 100% and I can no longer control my founder's card and on the latest 416.81 driver I've experienced my first blue screen of death with these 2080 cards.
I've tried reinstalling the driver about three times, Precision X1. And using DDU uninstalling graphics completely and going back to original release drivers. I still get crashes.
Odd thing is if I mine with my EVGA 2080 alone it's fine with stock gpu clock, memory, auto fan profile and 75 C Temperature limit linked with power limit of 81% I think. But if I mine with my Founder's edition with similar profile it crashes quickly. Mind you I'm trying to get homework done while I run these many many trials.. but I noticed the crashes tend to happen around 70C. So on my Founder’s Card I brought GPU temp to 65C and linked to power limit that's about 56% it hashes for a long time but it's ridiculous I have to hold back these cards so much to make sure they mine stable on Nicehash. Maybe it's a temperature bug but this is certainly not the fix. I still get crashes. In frustration I disabled static virtual memory and changed my windows settings to best performance and let Nvidia control determine performance based on applications. I installed Nvidia drivers 416.81 and applied my most recent settings.
Noticing the line graphs on MSI Afterburner looks like when mining ethereum there's periodic drops in work or GPU load. I'm starting to wonder if this is too jarring for the GPUs and that's what crashes the drivers. Maybe it is time to explore what else I can mine other Nicehash. I just love the fact I get paid in Bitcoin and it's practically a stable coin now.
I hope you guys that have 2080s are fairing much better. Please let me know of any of your findings.
Take care everyone, have a wonderful evening. Time to hit the books again