Funny, so I've installed windows on one rig, Win 10 Pro, especialy for Claymore 8 and my 480's and like 10 years go, Win freezes completely on a random basis
Just one of the many reasons serious miners prefer LINUX.
Why, cause "Linux doesn't freeze"?
1) LINUX is infinitely more stable than Windows (which isn't saying much).
I have LINUX machines that have run with no outages (hardware failure, shut down to physically MOVE the machine, and power outages excluded) since before Windows XP
EXISTED - literally.
The only Windows machine I've EVER had go a year without crashing was a NT 3.51 SP5 machine - vs MORE THAN 20 YEARS for some of my LINUX machines that were running the same user programs.
2) If you have a power outage, your miner running under Windows won't restart when power comes back on 'till you LOG IN MANUALLY (I have yet to see any miner program that could be run a a service).
LINUX makes it easy to set up so the miner will restart automatically after a power outage.
IMO the only thing Windows has going for it are that the overclock/fan control programs available for it like Afterburner are a lot better.
So you have 20 years of practice and still haven't learned to use search engines? Or linux aces who never update their machines never update their brain content too?
2) BitMoose and/or built in Task Scheduler
Warning: Enable Automatic logon only if you are the sole user of your computer.Your password helps keep your account secure, no matter what PC you sign in to or what apps, settings, and services you use while you're signed in.
1. Right click on Start and select Run, type Netplwiz and then press Enter key.
2. In the resulting User Accounts dialog, select your user account first and then uncheck the option labelled Users
must enter a user name and password to use this computer. Click Apply button to see Automatically sign in
box.
3. In the Automatically sign in dialog, type your password and then re-enter the password to confirm the same.
4. Click on OK to save the changes.
5. Restart your PC to see your Windows 10 automatically logging into your account without asking you to enter the password.
Put shortcuts for batch files you use to start your miners in this directory : C:\Users\(your user name)\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup
use a timeout command as first line in batch file so windows can get fully loaded and stable before miner is started > like this
timeout 120
setx GPU_FORCE_64BIT_PTR 0
setx GPU_MAX_HEAP_SIZE 100
setx GPU_USE_SYNC_OBJECTS 1
setx GPU_MAX_ALLOC_PERCENT 100
setx GPU_SINGLE_ALLOC_PERCENT 100
ZecMiner64.exe -zpool us1-zcash.flypool.org:3333 -zwal your t address.worker name -zpsw z ( any command variables you use )
this way if windows restarts for any reason it will log in automatically and start mining after the timeout # of seconds
