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Zanatos666

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Sometimes man, just sometimes.....

Quote from: batman, not crabman on May 02, 2013, 06:18:41 AM

Ok it seems that it's the graphics cards - if I only have one plugged in (at x16) it boots fine.

Windows has been stable for almost 24h now, so I may not need BAMT after all.

If I ever go back to BAMT I'll try booting with 1 card, running the updates then booting with more cards.

Thanks for the suggestions.

That would do it too. If you have a bad GPU, it could cause loading issues. Or if you have a bad PCI-E slot that could do it as well. Could be a power issue. It could be a number of things. All the fun that comes with running these things. Good luck.

batman, not crabman

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Ok it seems that it's the graphics cards - if I only have one plugged in (at x16) it boots fine.

Windows has been stable for almost 24h now, so I may not need BAMT after all.

If I ever go back to BAMT I'll try booting with 1 card, running the updates then booting with more cards.

Thanks for the suggestions.

Zanatos666

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Sometimes man, just sometimes.....

Just a suggestion, because I know my BAMT installation on one of my systems got a little hosed when first attempting to update CGMiner, but why not just try a clean install and start from the beginning?

batman, not crabman

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Installed to hdd using clonezilla live cd, exactly the same problem. It gets half way through booting then goes blank.
Same problem with plop bootloader on a separate USB key. Plop loads fine.

AAAHHH!!!!! Roll Eyes

mitak64

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BAMT is known to have problems booting on GB mainboards.
There is a workaround using another USB stick with a bootloader, it has been posted in the BAMT support thread:
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/bamt-easy-persistent-usb-key-based-linux-for-dedicated-minersmining-farms-28967

What I did was, clone the USB stick to a HDD using Ghost, but make sure to go in Options - Image/Tape - use "Image All"
Works fine on my GB boards.

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So I'm having issues with Windows 7 (https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.1984541) and want to run BAMT. I have had it working before when I only had 2 cards, but switched back to Windows as I couldn't get the hash rates up.
Now when I insert the BAMT USB for the first time the launch menu comes up and it starts to boot but when it is gets to just past the .../ssh bit when the boot text comes up, then the screen goes black and it stops responding. I can't read what loads after ssh causing it to crash as it's too quick. I have tried several USB keys, including the one that used to work a few weeks ago.

I'm using BAMT 0.5c and Win32 Disk Imager. I have 4 6950s and a GB 990 FXA UD3.

I am aware there are boot issues with the GB boards, but I think my issue is slightly different. As I understand it most of them wouldn't boot BAMT at all (not even the launch menu)

Thanks

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