Quote from: roy7 on February 09, 2014, 09:26:44 PM

Quote from: KidKB on February 09, 2014, 09:23:12 PM

Decided to try and mine Vertcoin, within 3 minutes of using the settings on page 1 my rig crashed. Now it locks up and crashes indefinitely when trying to mine any altcoin. I had zero problems using cgminer to mine other coins for three weeks straight.

Also, just tried to play a game (BF3) to test it, and the whole rig crashes immediately.

It sounds like you used settings that overclocked your video card too high. Use Saphinre Trixx or some similar program to make sure your clock rates are normal. cgminer doesn't reset the block back down when it exits (except maybe in latest version), and that won't happen if cgminer crashed. If you are too over clocked then you'll keep having problems in video games, mining other things, etc until you move your speeds back down.

I didn't see any cgminer settings on page one so I don't know if they included overclocking or not.

Sorry about that, my mistake- I meant the first page on another thread: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=450310.0

Specifically, these settings: vertminer.exe --scrypt-vert -o stratum+tcp://vertcoinheavyindustries.com:4444 -u xxxx -p xxxxxx -v 1 -w 256 -I 13 -g 2 --lookup-gap 2 --gpu-powertune -20,-20 --temp-overheat 85 --temp-cutoff 90 --gpu-memclock 1500,1500 --gpu-engine 1000,1000 --thread-concurrency 8193

Not sure what happened, those settings are pretty conservative for the tri-x cards.