Catalyst 13.4 screwed 7970, how to sort out? - page 2.

kjib

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In case it helps, here is what Catalyst reports:

Code:

Driver Packaging Version 9.012-121219a-154961C-ATI
Catalyst Version 13.1
Provider Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
2D Driver Version 8.01.01.1278
2D Driver File Path /REGISTRY/MACHINE/SYSTEM/ControlSet001/Control/CLASS/{4D36E968-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}/0001
Direct3D Version 9.14.10.0945
OpenGL Version 6.14.10.12002
Catalyst Control Center Version 2012.1219.1521.27485
AMD Audio Driver Version 7.12.0.7712

kjib

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Quote from: Zanatos666 on June 18, 2013, 04:14:07 PM

System restore back to before you did the AMD update and see where that takes you.

Good suggestion but you guessed it, no restore to restore from. Shocked

kjib

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Quote from: lbr on June 18, 2013, 04:03:07 PM

give me 2 hours max, some reward and remote access(vnc/teamviewer) to ur pc and u will be hashing again at ur original rate or higher.

Well I have about 50 PPcoins but not in a position to mine anything new now! I can't offer access to the PC as it has work stuff on it & I'd get dragged over hot coals if something got trashed. If you have suggestions I'm happy to try them & if you provide the solution that works for me, give me a PPC address & they're yours.

Zanatos666

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Sometimes man, just sometimes.....

System restore back to before you did the AMD update and see where that takes you.

lbr

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give me 2 hours max, some reward and remote access(vnc/teamviewer) to ur pc and u will be hashing again at ur original rate or higher.

kjib

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Thanks for the suggestion about the SDK but that made no difference. Sad

I did find this crash report, no idea what most of it is all about but it does refer to a module name:

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Faulting Application Path:   C:\cgminer-3.1.0-windows\cgminer.exe

Problem signature
Problem Event Name:   APPCRASH
Application Name:   cgminer.exe
Application Version:   0.0.0.0
Application Timestamp:   517d4469
Fault Module Name:   StackHash_0a9e
Fault Module Version:   0.0.0.0
Fault Module Timestamp:   00000000
Exception Code:   c0000005
Exception Offset:   00000000
OS Version:   6.1.7601.2.1.0.256.1
Locale ID:   2057
Additional Information 1:   0a9e
Additional Information 2:   0a9e372d3b4ad19135b953a78882e789
Additional Information 3:   0a9e
Additional Information 4:   0a9e372d3b4ad19135b953a78882e789

Does that lot shed any light on the problem to anyone?

Cry

Any suggestions welcome... Huh

LordTheron

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I had similar thing and in my case drivers reinstall or change wouldn't do anything but changed APP SDK from 2.8 to 2.6 and I could mine again

, a bit slower than usual so reinstalled 2.8 again and its back to how it was before all problems. Give it a go and see if it works for you.

kjib

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For once I decided to give my 7970 a rest & play a game which informed me that my driver was out of date so without think I just clicked the upgrade.

It seems that Catalyst 13.4 simply blew my VTX HD 7970 bios away, disabled the over clocking and screwed up the custom fan settings. Why the hell don't AMD at least offer you the option to leave this stuff alone!

At this point I could still mine coins but SHA256 lost about 15% and scrypt about 50% with no ability to over clock. Even with the (now) hard wired fan setting the card ramped up the heat really quickly running 10+ degs hotter doing less.

Thinking I could get around this I re-blew the bios myself but I got the wrong rom. Doh! Realising this I blew it again with what I believe to be the correct one.

I also went back to Catalyst 13.1. MS After burner reports the ability to change settings on the card is now back so that's good.

Now as soon as I try to get CGminer to do some mining (scrypt or SHA256) Windows 7 informs me that CGminer has crashed.

One possibility is that I've semi-killed the card but I seem to be able to run Windows the same as usual, just I can't mine any more. I tried upgrading to the latest stable CGminer (3.1) and no joy.

Suggestions to find the solution anyone?

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