Thanks to dragonmike I got my first Onda D1800 running; turns out that v2.00 of the boards does, indeed, expect you to plug a VGA (yes, as in the port) monitor into the mobo if you want to actually see what you are doing. That is the exact opposite of what the Aliexpress listing said to do (namely, use one of the GPUs to drive the monitor).
Unfortunately, Windows 10 being the bitch that it is I am still updating the cursed thing so haven't gotten any mining done with it. I can tell you all one thing about this board, though - that Untel Celery processor is slow as shit. I suspect an abacus would give it the sweats...
Just wait until Creator's update 1709 is on and you'll truly see how slow it is...
Fortunately it'll have no impact on mining speed!
Unless you need the updates in order to use the latest drivers you can just block windows updates with a third party app. It's much less worry and hassle that way imo.
i've always highly advised everyone to just go and disable the winupdate
I've also made my own stripped down version removing everything using - can't say enough about being able to clean install Win10 with no Cortana, no WinDefender and none of the app packages. It's a beautiful thing. I also added in nVidia drivers to the install but it's not totally needed, on the same USB I use to install I also have a folder with all the mining software I use, so .bat files, Afterburner, Miners, Misc Drivers etc etc.
Get rigs up and running in no time.
Going to fiddle if I can somehow slipstream in after burner and those programs to be installed by default it would be amazing.
Also if anyone is interested this is my PowerShell script for Power settings, Virtual Memory and PCI Link state:
# PowerShell Script to set the size of pagefile.sys
$computersys = Get-WmiObject Win32_ComputerSystem -EnableAllPrivileges;
$computersys.AutomaticManagedPagefile = $False;
$computersys.Put();
$pagefile = Get-WmiObject -Query "Select * From Win32_PageFileSetting Where Name like '%pagefile.sys'";
$pagefile.InitialSize = 32000;
$pagefile.MaximumSize = 64000;
$pagefile.Put();
# Change Power Settings No Timeouts
powercfg -change -monitor-timeout-ac 0
powercfg -change -standby-timeout-ac 0
powercfg -change -hibernate-timeout-ac 0
powercfg -change -disk-timeout-ac 0
powercfg -hibernate OFF
powercfg -setacvalueindex 8c5e7fda-e8bf-4a96-9a85-a6e23a8c635c 501a4d13-42af-4429-9fd1-a8218c268e20 ee12f906-d277-404b-b6da-e5fa1a576df5 0
# set the Windows Update service to "disabled"
sc.exe config wuauserv start=disabled
# display the status of the service
sc.exe query wuauserv
# stop the service, in case it is running
sc.exe stop wuauserv
# display the status again, because we're paranoid
sc.exe query wuauserv
# double check it's REALLY disabled - Start value should be 0x4
REG.exe QUERY HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\wuauserv /v Start
