Help Please - Vega 56 Mining Rig Troubleshooting - page 5.

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Quote from: Tao1123 on November 20, 2017, 01:24:25 AM

Quote from: ben8jam on November 19, 2017, 11:21:06 PM

I just started and following the blogspot walkthrough. Just did the software reg edit.

About to install the XMR miner Stak - any reason to use another?

Only have 3 of four cards setup right now - I somehow just realized I have a fourth I need to add in. Nerves!! Lol

Quote from: R0mi on November 19, 2017, 08:48:17 PM

There isn't any need for pain.

Here is a very decent overview guide, but it is tailored towards XMR-STAK. With minimal tweaks to the "StartMining" .bat file, you can get the same automated setup to run with Cast.

https://vegamining.blogspot.co.uk/

And here are some screen shots I took which may or may not help your setup:

https://imgur.com/a/fuXns

One of my Vega rigs is on a MSI X370 and I am simultaneously mining away with the Ryzen cpu using XMR-STAK-cpu. The other build is Intel using an older MSI Z97a board that I had.

Both are very stable at this point.

My experience: install all the Vega cards at once before installing the driver.

Go online to Microsoft and download the Fall Creators Update, which is free. I was stuck at 3 cards until I did this update. Working well for me, YMMV.

Do set a very large System page file.

The softpowerplat is only for flashed vega 56s right? What uf mine are not flashed will the regedit still work?

yes, should still work.

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Quote from: ben8jam on November 19, 2017, 11:21:06 PM

I just started and following the blogspot walkthrough. Just did the software reg edit.

About to install the XMR miner Stak - any reason to use another?

Only have 3 of four cards setup right now - I somehow just realized I have a fourth I need to add in. Nerves!! Lol

Quote from: R0mi on November 19, 2017, 08:48:17 PM

There isn't any need for pain.

Here is a very decent overview guide, but it is tailored towards XMR-STAK. With minimal tweaks to the "StartMining" .bat file, you can get the same automated setup to run with Cast.

https://vegamining.blogspot.co.uk/

And here are some screen shots I took which may or may not help your setup:

https://imgur.com/a/fuXns

One of my Vega rigs is on a MSI X370 and I am simultaneously mining away with the Ryzen cpu using XMR-STAK-cpu. The other build is Intel using an older MSI Z97a board that I had.

Both are very stable at this point.

My experience: install all the Vega cards at once before installing the driver.

Go online to Microsoft and download the Fall Creators Update, which is free. I was stuck at 3 cards until I did this update. Working well for me, YMMV.

Do set a very large System page file.

The softpowerplat is only for flashed vega 56s right? What uf mine are not flashed will the regedit still work?

ben8jam

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I just started and following the blogspot walkthrough. Just did the software reg edit.

About to install the XMR miner Stak - any reason to use another?

Only have 3 of four cards setup right now - I somehow just realized I have a fourth I need to add in. Nerves!! Lol

Quote from: R0mi on November 19, 2017, 08:48:17 PM

There isn't any need for pain.

Here is a very decent overview guide, but it is tailored towards XMR-STAK. With minimal tweaks to the "StartMining" .bat file, you can get the same automated setup to run with Cast.

https://vegamining.blogspot.co.uk/

And here are some screen shots I took which may or may not help your setup:

https://imgur.com/a/fuXns

One of my Vega rigs is on a MSI X370 and I am simultaneously mining away with the Ryzen cpu using XMR-STAK-cpu. The other build is Intel using an older MSI Z97a board that I had.

Both are very stable at this point.

My experience: install all the Vega cards at once before installing the driver.

Go online to Microsoft and download the Fall Creators Update, which is free. I was stuck at 3 cards until I did this update. Working well for me, YMMV.

Do set a very large System page file.

Tao1123

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Quote from: R0mi on November 19, 2017, 08:48:17 PM

There isn't any need for pain.

Here is a very decent overview guide, but it is tailored towards XMR-STAK. With minimal tweaks to the "StartMining" .bat file, you can get the same automated setup to run with Cast.

https://vegamining.blogspot.co.uk/

And here are some screen shots I took which may or may not help your setup:

https://imgur.com/a/fuXns

One of my Vega rigs is on a MSI X370 and I am simultaneously mining away with the Ryzen cpu using XMR-STAK-cpu. The other build is Intel using an older MSI Z97a board that I had.

Both are very stable at this point.

My experience: install all the Vega cards at once before installing the driver.

Go online to Microsoft and download the Fall Creators Update, which is free. I was stuck at 3 cards until I did this update. Working well for me, YMMV.

Do set a very large System page file.

I was looking at your guide and every time I disable and reenable card 4 it shows back up with a code 43 error. Oddly enough card 5 also shows up with a code 43 error when I disable and renewable card 4.

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I have managed to get 4 working no artifacts. 1 card is erroring out telling me I do not have enough free resources to run it.. Not sure what that means and the last is giving me artifacts.

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Quote from: ben8jam on November 18, 2017, 01:07:53 PM

Quote from: rippermantwo on November 18, 2017, 11:05:16 AM

It seems to be risers that were making things difficult. I was about to order some new ones and then I remembered someone saying they just switched them around and got them working. Here's what I did:

1. clean install of windows in UFEI bios mode with all 6-cards plugged in
2. updated windows and all components including gpu drivers
3. paused windows update
4. used amd cleanup utility
5. used DD clean in safe mode
6. installed blockchain driver one card at a time in 16xpcie slot (two restarts per card)
a. if a card did not behave, this is where I tried another pcie riser until the card worked.
b. i then used what i thought was a faulty riser board with another card and all worked just fine (can't make heads or tails of this, but it is what it is)
7. I then plugged in each card, let it install and rebooted a couple of times.
a. this worked up to five cards. when installing the 6th and final card i get the BSOD.

It was stable running Cast-xmr and xmr-cpu, both overclocked and undervolted overnight. I shut it down this morning to work on card six.

Geez... is everyone having to go through these same hoops? I'm just about to install windows. Was going to do as much as I could with the VEGAs not connected (in the comfort of my living room) but if I need to install with all four vegas connected, I need to up and move to the garage...

There isn't any need for pain.

Here is a very decent overview guide, but it is tailored towards XMR-STAK. With minimal tweaks to the "StartMining" .bat file, you can get the same automated setup to run with Cast.

https://vegamining.blogspot.co.uk/

And here are some screen shots I took which may or may not help your setup:

https://imgur.com/a/fuXns

One of my Vega rigs is on a MSI X370 and I am simultaneously mining away with the Ryzen cpu using XMR-STAK-cpu. The other build is Intel using an older MSI Z97a board that I had.

Both are very stable at this point.

My experience: install all the Vega cards at once before installing the driver.

Go online to Microsoft and download the Fall Creators Update, which is free. I was stuck at 3 cards until I did this update. Working well for me, YMMV.

Do set a very large System page file.

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I'm about to start my reinstall of 17.30. Wish me luck

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Quote from: Tao1123 on November 17, 2017, 01:59:06 PM

Wattman is the radeon tool. I would much prefer to use afterburner but apparently it doesn't work with the Vegas. I can get the overdriventool i guess.

Afterburner 4.4 DOES work with Vega on the Blockchain drivers.

THANK GOODNESS - I hate that "wattman" piece of garbage.

In fact, when you install the drivers ONLY let it install the drivers themselves not the 3 extra "addon" pieces of worthlessness.

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Quote from: Tao1123 on November 16, 2017, 10:18:25 PM

Should you turn off ULPS for mining?

Yes. DEFINITELY yes.

Otherwise any card that does not have an actual monitor (or possibly a dummy plug) will tend to go into "low performance" mode after a while.

Sometimes WITH a monitor or a dummy plug too.

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Quote from: N2DCRYPT on November 18, 2017, 12:15:29 PM

Finally got my 8x Vega 56 rig up and running. Feel your pain... ran into a lot of the issues you described. Am having some stability issues, had to bring the recommended clocks down a little.

Windows 10? Fall Creators Update or an earlier version?

What motherboard?

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Quote from: ben8jam on November 18, 2017, 01:07:53 PM

Quote from: rippermantwo on November 18, 2017, 11:05:16 AM

It seems to be risers that were making things difficult. I was about to order some new ones and then I remembered someone saying they just switched them around and got them working. Here's what I did:

1. clean install of windows in UFEI bios mode with all 6-cards plugged in
2. updated windows and all components including gpu drivers
3. paused windows update
4. used amd cleanup utility
5. used DD clean in safe mode
6. installed blockchain driver one card at a time in 16xpcie slot (two restarts per card)
   a. if a card did not behave, this is where I tried another pcie riser until the card worked.
   b. i then used what i thought was a faulty riser board with another card and all worked just fine (can't make heads or tails of this, but it is what it is)
7. I then plugged in each card, let it install and rebooted a couple of times.
   a. this worked up to five cards. when installing the 6th and final card i get the BSOD.

It was stable running Cast-xmr and xmr-cpu, both overclocked and undervolted overnight. I shut it down this morning to work on card six.

Geez... is everyone having to go through these same hoops? I'm just about to install windows. Was going to do as much as I could with the VEGAs not connected (in the comfort of my living room) but if I need to install with all four vegas connected, I need to up and move to the garage...

Not sure if that is the only way to do it, but it worked for me. I also installed the video drivers only under custom install.

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Quote from: rippermantwo on November 18, 2017, 11:05:16 AM

It seems to be risers that were making things difficult. I was about to order some new ones and then I remembered someone saying they just switched them around and got them working. Here's what I did:

1. clean install of windows in UFEI bios mode with all 6-cards plugged in
2. updated windows and all components including gpu drivers
3. paused windows update
4. used amd cleanup utility
5. used DD clean in safe mode
6. installed blockchain driver one card at a time in 16xpcie slot (two restarts per card)
a. if a card did not behave, this is where I tried another pcie riser until the card worked.
b. i then used what i thought was a faulty riser board with another card and all worked just fine (can't make heads or tails of this, but it is what it is)
7. I then plugged in each card, let it install and rebooted a couple of times.
a. this worked up to five cards. when installing the 6th and final card i get the BSOD.

It was stable running Cast-xmr and xmr-cpu, both overclocked and undervolted overnight. I shut it down this morning to work on card six.

Geez... is everyone having to go through these same hoops? I'm just about to install windows. Was going to do as much as I could with the VEGAs not connected (in the comfort of my living room) but if I need to install with all four vegas connected, I need to up and move to the garage...

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Finally got my 8x Vega 56 rig up and running. Feel your pain... ran into a lot of the issues you described. Am having some stability issues, had to bring the recommended clocks down a little.

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Quote from: Tao1123 on November 18, 2017, 12:38:21 AM

Quote from: rippermantwo on November 18, 2017, 12:27:13 AM

Quote from: Tao1123 on November 17, 2017, 02:25:53 PM

Quote from: einherjar on November 17, 2017, 02:12:02 PM

Quote from: Tao1123 on November 17, 2017, 01:44:16 PM

I am currently trying to overclock my cards, doing this from work on teamviewer lol. I am confused as to why it only lets me drop my GPU frequency to -4% on wattman? Doesn't make any sense to me as the post I am following says to drop it to -30%. Also I dropped my Power Limit to -30% but only saw a 20w reduction... not sure if its because I set my fan at minimum 3000 RPM or whats going on. I have my memory up to 950 right now.

Also, I am only able to set about 20gb of virtual memory because I only have a 60 gb ssd. If I plug in a second oldschool HDD into sata slot 2 and set the virtual memory on that drive to say 60 GB would that work or does it all have to be on the same drive?

I had the same problem when i tried a "normal" driver release, i could only underclock -4% , installed the official amd compute workload driver 23aug and there was the -30% underclock!
I find it alot better and stable to undervolt and set clocks with softpowerplay, OverdriveNTool 0.2.1 has a built in editor.
Have 2 vega rigs working with this settings for some days now, it looks quite stable except 1 card needs 910-920mV or it crashes sooner or later.
https://imgur.com/a/KxdIw

Thats the problem though is it seems line 17.30 is unstable for me for some reason. On 17.11.2 I am atleast stable with 4 cards.

Have five running steady now on 17.30 with 9977 h/s at 1300w. For some reason some of the cards didn't like certian risers. Had to switch them around until I found a match.

I tried mining with 17.11.2 and couldn't get over 1300 a card. I'm over 2k on each card now. I'm making more on five cards now then when running 6 cards on the new driver update.

So you got 17.30 stable? And it was risers that were your issue? I might order some new risers then

It seems to be risers that were making things difficult. I was about to order some new ones and then I remembered someone saying they just switched them around and got them working. Here's what I did:

1. clean install of windows in UFEI bios mode with all 6-cards plugged in
2. updated windows and all components including gpu drivers
3. paused windows update
4. used amd cleanup utility
5. used DD clean in safe mode
6. installed blockchain driver one card at a time in 16xpcie slot (two restarts per card)
a. if a card did not behave, this is where I tried another pcie riser until the card worked.
b. i then used what i thought was a faulty riser board with another card and all worked just fine (can't make heads or tails of this, but it is what it is)
7. I then plugged in each card, let it install and rebooted a couple of times.
a. this worked up to five cards. when installing the 6th and final card i get the BSOD.

It was stable running Cast-xmr and xmr-cpu, both overclocked and undervolted overnight. I shut it down this morning to work on card six.

Tao1123

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Quote from: rippermantwo on November 18, 2017, 12:27:13 AM

Quote from: Tao1123 on November 17, 2017, 02:25:53 PM

Quote from: einherjar on November 17, 2017, 02:12:02 PM

Quote from: Tao1123 on November 17, 2017, 01:44:16 PM

I am currently trying to overclock my cards, doing this from work on teamviewer lol. I am confused as to why it only lets me drop my GPU frequency to -4% on wattman? Doesn't make any sense to me as the post I am following says to drop it to -30%. Also I dropped my Power Limit to -30% but only saw a 20w reduction... not sure if its because I set my fan at minimum 3000 RPM or whats going on. I have my memory up to 950 right now.

Also, I am only able to set about 20gb of virtual memory because I only have a 60 gb ssd. If I plug in a second oldschool HDD into sata slot 2 and set the virtual memory on that drive to say 60 GB would that work or does it all have to be on the same drive?

I had the same problem when i tried a "normal" driver release, i could only underclock -4% , installed the official amd compute workload driver 23aug and there was the -30% underclock!
I find it alot better and stable to undervolt and set clocks with softpowerplay, OverdriveNTool 0.2.1 has a built in editor.
Have 2 vega rigs working with this settings for some days now, it looks quite stable except 1 card needs 910-920mV or it crashes sooner or later.
https://imgur.com/a/KxdIw

Thats the problem though is it seems line 17.30 is unstable for me for some reason. On 17.11.2 I am atleast stable with 4 cards.

Have five running steady now on 17.30 with 9977 h/s at 1300w. For some reason some of the cards didn't like certian risers. Had to switch them around until I found a match.

I tried mining with 17.11.2 and couldn't get over 1300 a card. I'm over 2k on each card now. I'm making more on five cards now then when running 6 cards on the new driver update.

So you got 17.30 stable? And it was risers that were your issue? I might order some new risers then

rippermantwo

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Quote from: Tao1123 on November 17, 2017, 02:25:53 PM

Quote from: einherjar on November 17, 2017, 02:12:02 PM

Quote from: Tao1123 on November 17, 2017, 01:44:16 PM

I am currently trying to overclock my cards, doing this from work on teamviewer lol. I am confused as to why it only lets me drop my GPU frequency to -4% on wattman? Doesn't make any sense to me as the post I am following says to drop it to -30%. Also I dropped my Power Limit to -30% but only saw a 20w reduction... not sure if its because I set my fan at minimum 3000 RPM or whats going on. I have my memory up to 950 right now.

Also, I am only able to set about 20gb of virtual memory because I only have a 60 gb ssd. If I plug in a second oldschool HDD into sata slot 2 and set the virtual memory on that drive to say 60 GB would that work or does it all have to be on the same drive?

I had the same problem when i tried a "normal" driver release, i could only underclock -4% , installed the official amd compute workload driver 23aug and there was the -30% underclock!
I find it alot better and stable to undervolt and set clocks with softpowerplay, OverdriveNTool 0.2.1 has a built in editor.
Have 2 vega rigs working with this settings for some days now, it looks quite stable except 1 card needs 910-920mV or it crashes sooner or later.
https://imgur.com/a/KxdIw

Thats the problem though is it seems line 17.30 is unstable for me for some reason. On 17.11.2 I am atleast stable with 4 cards.

Have five running steady now on 17.30 with 9977 h/s at 1300w. For some reason some of the cards didn't like certian risers. Had to switch them around until I found a match.

I tried mining with 17.11.2 and couldn't get over 1300 a card. I'm over 2k on each card now. I'm making more on five cards now then when running 6 cards on the new driver update.

Tao1123

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Quote from: einherjar on November 17, 2017, 02:12:02 PM

Quote from: Tao1123 on November 17, 2017, 01:44:16 PM

I am currently trying to overclock my cards, doing this from work on teamviewer lol. I am confused as to why it only lets me drop my GPU frequency to -4% on wattman? Doesn't make any sense to me as the post I am following says to drop it to -30%. Also I dropped my Power Limit to -30% but only saw a 20w reduction... not sure if its because I set my fan at minimum 3000 RPM or whats going on. I have my memory up to 950 right now.

Also, I am only able to set about 20gb of virtual memory because I only have a 60 gb ssd. If I plug in a second oldschool HDD into sata slot 2 and set the virtual memory on that drive to say 60 GB would that work or does it all have to be on the same drive?

I had the same problem when i tried a "normal" driver release, i could only underclock -4% , installed the official amd compute workload driver 23aug and there was the -30% underclock!
I find it alot better and stable to undervolt and set clocks with softpowerplay, OverdriveNTool 0.2.1 has a built in editor.
Have 2 vega rigs working with this settings for some days now, it looks quite stable except 1 card needs 910-920mV or it crashes sooner or later.
https://imgur.com/a/KxdIw

Thats the problem though is it seems line 17.30 is unstable for me for some reason. On 17.11.2 I am atleast stable with 4 cards.

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Quote from: Tao1123 on November 17, 2017, 01:44:16 PM

I am currently trying to overclock my cards, doing this from work on teamviewer lol. I am confused as to why it only lets me drop my GPU frequency to -4% on wattman? Doesn't make any sense to me as the post I am following says to drop it to -30%. Also I dropped my Power Limit to -30% but only saw a 20w reduction... not sure if its because I set my fan at minimum 3000 RPM or whats going on. I have my memory up to 950 right now.

Also, I am only able to set about 20gb of virtual memory because I only have a 60 gb ssd. If I plug in a second oldschool HDD into sata slot 2 and set the virtual memory on that drive to say 60 GB would that work or does it all have to be on the same drive?

I had the same problem when i tried a "normal" driver release, i could only underclock -4% , installed the official amd compute workload driver 23aug and there was the -30% underclock!
I find it alot better and stable to undervolt and set clocks with softpowerplay, OverdriveNTool 0.2.1 has a built in editor.
Have 2 vega rigs working with this settings for some days now, it looks quite stable except 1 card needs 910-920mV or it crashes sooner or later.
https://imgur.com/a/KxdIw

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Wattman is the radeon tool. I would much prefer to use afterburner but apparently it doesn't work with the Vegas. I can get the overdriventool i guess.

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Quote from: ben8jam on November 17, 2017, 01:48:40 PM

Quote from: rippermantwo on November 17, 2017, 01:15:45 PM

I'm doing another fresh windows install now. Going to then try to install the blockchain driver again. This time one card at a time and then will add them back in one at a time to see if I can get all six going. I'm also not going to install wattman this time (really buggy). Will use overdriventool instaead.

Is Wattman that Radeon tool? I remember using that when I was figuring out my BIOS's for the RX470/570s. That thing was a NIGHTMARE. It made no sense. It would change settings, and cache settings. I lost weeks of time trying to work with that thing. I tihnk I only used Afterburner while monitoring memory leaks in GPUz or was it the other one, HWinfo..

man i am soooooo looking forward to doing this all over again! not.

Kinda bummed I can't run Ubuntu for the Vegas. Linux is just so nice and carefree..

Yes, it's the Radeon tool bundled with the drivers. It's more stable with the 17.11.2 update, but I haven't tried using that version with blockchain. Anyway, overdriventool provides more flex and it's fast to set up all the cards once dialed in.

I tried Ubuntu with the Vegas just to see if I could defy pros, but no luck. Will have to wait on AMD to update their drivers.

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