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Device#2 skipped and Temp-Abort /retain-temp - AccountNr777 - 01-22-2019

Hello everybody,

First of all, a huge praise has to be made to hashcat's developers and to the entire community. The tool is just unique, so extensive, i love it.
Unfortunately, I have not used hashcat for too long. At the moment I'm learning hashacat and I'm getting to know all the functions.

Now to my actual problem:
As you can see in picture that 2 devices are detected, but only device # 1 is used. How can I solve the problem that both devices are used to crack the hashes?
I run hashcat on windows 10

My second problem is that I would like to let Hashcat run for a longer period of time, several days, possibly weeks at a time, without interruption.
The CPU temperatures are very high once hashcat is started.
For this reason, I would very much like to activate the watchdog functions. but --temp-abort = 100 commands do not work, or just ignored.
In addition, I would like to activate the function "retain-temperature", but unfortunately I do not know how.

Many thanks for any attempt to help me with my problem.


RE: Device#2 skipped and Temp-Abort /retain-temp - AccountNr777 - 01-22-2019

Short update:

Problem one is solved, how you can see in the picture... 
Hardware. Mon # 3 is also on.
So I assume that in hardware. Mon. # 3 now the command "--gpu-temp-abort = 100" works.
But why is hardware. Mon # 1 not enabled and how can I fix this?

Thank you again for every effort to help me


RE: Device#2 skipped and Temp-Abort /retain-temp - undeath - 01-22-2019

device #1 is your onboard gpu, device #2 your cpu. I guess the onboard gpu simply doesn't have a dedicated temp sensor.


RE: Device#2 skipped and Temp-Abort /retain-temp - AccountNr777 - 01-22-2019

Thank you undeath.

I have two more question. after these i will be quiet for a while Smile

after hashcat run 56 minutes, it was aborted due to high GPU temperatures.
Is it possible to install a command to set up a checkpoint as soon as the temperatures are too high?
so you do not always have to start over.

 Does the command "--gpu-temp-retain = 80" still exist in the current version?



"nvmlDeviceGetFanSpeed(): Not Supported"   it has to do with the ventilation system ??

Any idea how i can solve that problem too ?


RE: Device#2 skipped and Temp-Abort /retain-temp - undeath - 01-22-2019

gpu-temp-retain was removed quite a while ago. You can always check --help if you want to know what options are available.

You can restore hashcat sessions using the --restore option. See https://hashcat.net/wiki/doku.php?id=restore

If you're cracking on a laptop, that's not recommended and may cause permanent damage to your device. Those things are not built for running on full load all the time.


RE: Device#2 skipped and Temp-Abort /retain-temp - AccountNr777 - 01-22-2019

Thank you for your words.

because the laptop is relatively new, I also wanted to use the --gpu-temp-retain =. ...
then I have to start slowly and wait until a normal pc comes here Smile