Miners/folders etc. do you (dare) leave your PC on unattended for days on end?

[wand3r3r]

I'm debating leaving my PC on (mining) for a potentially longer period. If I do I would probably turn the intensity down a hair to prevent potential driver crashes etc. I haven't been mining much just started again with the dogecoin craze and thought I should let it run over the holidays when I'm gone.

What are your thoughts?

 

[thilanliyan]

I left mine going unattended for 3 weeks while on vacation and all was fine. I have the miners start at bootup so if there's a power outage it will start right back up (just make sure in BIOS that it is a full power on if there is a power loss). And the stability has been tested over a long period of time so I'm confident in that, and I have backup pools set as well. If you're mining as a hobby, don't let it ruin your normal life.

I would turn the fans up a bit if you're going to be out of the house for a while. Keep temps low and hopefully that will help with stability as well.

If you're that worried about it, use a remote desktop program to check your comp once in a while from wherever you are.

 

[24601]

If you were crashing before you're doing it wrong anyways.

 

[wand3r3r]

Sorry, it's just until now I had thought that dogecoin was another Reddit in-joke. Didn't realise it was a real thing I'll shut up about it now though.

Dialing back the clocks a bit would seem sensible. What sort of system do you have, and how robust is the cooling?

Yeah it basically was or is. I don't care if you think it's a scam, feel free to say so but one liners like the first post are a waste of a post. I feel the odds are against it, but it's profitable to mine so why note.

If you were crashing before you're doing it wrong anyways.

I don't have crashing. Sometimes it's not connecting to pools but it doesn't crash much if at all.

 

[wand3r3r]

I left mine going unattended for 3 weeks while on vacation and all was fine. I have the miners start at bootup so if there's a power outage it will start right back up (just make sure in BIOS that it is a full power on if there is a power loss). And the stability has been tested over a long period of time so I'm confident in that, and I have backup pools set as well. If you're mining as a hobby, don't let it ruin your normal life.

I would turn the fans up a bit if you're going to be out of the house for a while. Keep temps low and hopefully that will help with stability as well.

If you're that worried about it, use a remote desktop program to check your comp once in a while from wherever you are.

Yeah it isn't likely to disrupt my life, it's just feeling like why not let a machine work while I'm away. I doubt I'll bother making it restart, if it shuts off I'd just let it be off. The backup pools is necessary as it seems like they are unable to connect quite often. Good points anyway. :thumbsup:

Do you use a remote monitoring program (which one if so)?

 

[IEC]

My five mining rigs all run 24/7 except for maintenance when I tweak settings. The central heat has not turned on since I started running them... and at 75C each I think the cards are fine long term.

 

[BallaTheFeared]

I ran my 7950s unattended (though I did have to restart every few days) for two months, I wouldn't worry about it just check their status every few hours.

 

[wand3r3r]

I ran my 7950s unattended (though I did have to restart every few days) for two months, I wouldn't worry about it just check their status every few hours.

What did you use to manage them remotely? I guess I can check the status on the various pools, but that doesn't suffice to control anything.

 

[BallaTheFeared]

What did you use to manage them remotely? I guess I can check the status on the various pools, but that doesn't suffice to control anything.

Remote Desktop Connection, but only rarely did I ever log in.

What are you needing to manage?

You should have them setup so they're stable at a high hash rate with minimal downtime.

I used to leave mine for days on end in the garage without ever physically checking on them.

 

[Squeetard]

You can set the bios to shut down in the event of an overtemp or fan failure too.

 

[x3sphere]

I leave mine running in the garage with minimal monitoring, sometimes I remote in using RealVNC to switch to a different coin but that's it. Yo should try playing around with different settings if the cards are crashing, my 7970s have gone for weeks with no restart.

 

[wand3r3r]

My main concerns are probably if the PC is going to start on fire or something, and then if my mining client quits, or the pools go down, or possibly if whatever I am mining drops to 0 value (a valid concern with a meme coin).

Ideally I could get into my PC from the internet and change stuff but I don't know if that's possible through this modem/router combo.

 

[hawtdawg]

i had 4 rigs full of 6950's sitting in a closet with all GPU's running 90C+ with 100% fan for a little over 2 years. had a couple of fans go out, systems just locked up.

 

[birthdaymonkey]

My main concerns are probably if the PC is going to start on fire or something, and then if my mining client quits, or the pools go down, or possibly if whatever I am mining drops to 0 value (a valid concern with a meme coin).

Ideally I could get into my PC from the internet and change stuff but I don't know if that's possible through this modem/router combo.

Logmein.com should allow you to easily log in from anywhere with a web browser. I doubt that the computer bursting into flame will be an issue.

 

[n0x1ous]

My main concerns are probably if the PC is going to start on fire or something, and then if my mining client quits, or the pools go down, or possibly if whatever I am mining drops to 0 value (a valid concern with a meme coin).

Ideally I could get into my PC from the internet and change stuff but I don't know if that's possible through this modem/router combo.

I can second the logmein vote. Its free for up to 10 host machines and is very reliable. they even have smartphone/tablet apps for it so you wouldnt even need a PC to check on it remotely.

 

[Bateluer]

I leave one tower mining 24/7, worst thats happened is GUIMiner crashed. Card fan is locked at 100% and I can check the miner status from WemineLTC's dashboard so I know if its down or not.

 

[jimhsu]

Teamviewer is a admin's/miner's/hacker's best friend. Remote desktop without worrying about window versions, ports, firewalls, etc.

 

[stahlhart]

Continue discussing this in the mining thread we already have. We didn't need multiple Mantle threads, and we're not having multiple mining ones, either.
-- stahlhart