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RTX 3060 (v1) rate limiter is switched on mining ERG autolykos and CFX octopus with rest of rig (3070s) dual mining ETH

While mining ETH on the rest of the rig of 3070s, the 3060’s rate limiter seems to kick in while mining ERG autolykos (78 instead of 112 MH/s) and CFX octopus (35 instead of 44 MH/s). If the entire rig mines ERG or CFX, the 3060 is not rate limited. It seems somehow the 3060 lock is switching on from perhaps detecting the ETH mining for the rest of the rig despite the 3060 working for a different miner and algo.

Has anyone else had this problem and found a fix? I searched around but found no other posts about this. Here’s more info:

I have a rig with 7x 3070s and 1x 3060 (v1, non-LHR, which mined ETH at 45MH/s on a Windows PC using the 470.05 unlock drivers).

Until yesterday, the lolminer 3060 unlock was working for the 3060 on the rig running HiveOS with a riser and the 460.39 drivers for the partial ETH unlock of 37 MH/s, while the rest of the rig also mined ETH using T-rex (because for some reason the actual (not reported) hash rates are low using lolminer (56 vs 63 MH/s).

Yesterday, after a HiveOS update and reboot, the 3060 has very low hash rates on lolminer (5 MH/s). I thought it might have been the recent lolminer v1.31 update, but the problem persisted when reverting to v1.30. The lolminer script of detecting the lock and calibrating still appears but the hash rate only increases to about 15 MH/s for 5 seconds before dropping down to 5 MH/s.

I have tried reboots a few times, as well as mining other algos briefly before returning to ETH, all with no luck. The 3060 mines ETH at the expected 25 MH/s on non-lolminer software such as T-Rex

I decided wait for news and a fix to develop over the next few days, and just mine another algo with the 3060 in the meantime while the rest of the rig continues to mine ETH using T-Rex. This is where this new hash rate problem arose regarding mining ETH on the rest of the rig and CFX or ERG on the 3060, which led to this post.

Thanks in advance for your help!

Have you tried reverting to older update of HIveOS?

Thanks for the suggestion, I gave the downgrade a go and it worked.

More details:

I downgraded from v0.6-207@210812 to v0.6-206@210807, and the lolminer 3060 unlock worked normally for ETH (~37 MH/s) and mining other algos like ERG and CFX on the 3060 resulted in a normal hash rate while the rest of the rig mined ETH.

To double check that the OS update was the source of the problem, I re-upgraded to v0.6-207@210812, and observed the repeat problem with the 3060 lolminer unlock. Downgrading once again to v0.6-206@210807 and the problem once again disappeared.

I tried different miner versions with each OS version, and there was no change, so it appears to be an OS upgrade issue.

Hopefully others with a similar problem can try the same downgrade for a fix, until this issue is resolved in an upcoming update.

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What NVIDIA driver are you running?

I just bought another EVGA RTX 3060 [12G-P5-3657-KR] and it is the updated LHR.
It will not boot into HiveOS using driver 460.39

I have older EVGA RTX 3060 [12G-P5-3657-KR] and they will run on driver 460.39 at ~120MH with ERGO.
The newer card will only run at ~70MH with ERGO on driver 460.91.03

460.39 in my original post. Good to know you found drivers that are working for your GPU. Since my last post about the downgrade from v207 to v206 working, I upgraded the OS to v208 when it came out, and the 3060 has worked fine for me mining ERG at 115 MH for a few days.

can u post a screen about your configuration?

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