Help Please - Vega 56 Mining Rig Troubleshooting - page 6.

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Quote from: rippermantwo on November 17, 2017, 12:15:45 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..

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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?

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Quote from: ben8jam on November 17, 2017, 12:09:42 PM

Quote from: Tao1123 on November 17, 2017, 11:40:38 AM

Quote from: ben8jam on November 17, 2017, 11:28:11 AM

My rx builds would be plagued with riser issues. And sometimes the riser wasnt even it, it was just a crappy USB cable they sent with it. I learned that from an Amazon review. Swapped the cable and never had a problem again. It gets really tough to trouble shoot when there are like 20 things that can be the issue.

Yeah, no kidding. Let me know how your build goes. Iirc you are getting everything today right?

Vega's arrived last night, along with dual psu's and connector, plus a beefy 20A PDU surge power strip. Today the CPU and H110 arrive. Tomorrow night the Ram arrives, but I'll probably shut one of my ETH rigs down and borrow it's RAM so I can get a head start tomorrow morning.

Pretty much know my entire week will be me sitting in the garage dealing with the same issues... Luckily the kiddo has a ukuele lesson on Saturday so I can get some forced relaxation lol

While waiting on my ram I just purchased some at the local best buy and then returned it (within 30 days) after mine arrived. Good luck and post your progress. Let's see if we can figure this out.

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.

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Quote from: Tao1123 on November 17, 2017, 11:40:38 AM

Quote from: ben8jam on November 17, 2017, 11:28:11 AM

My rx builds would be plagued with riser issues. And sometimes the riser wasnt even it, it was just a crappy USB cable they sent with it. I learned that from an Amazon review. Swapped the cable and never had a problem again. It gets really tough to trouble shoot when there are like 20 things that can be the issue.

Yeah, no kidding. Let me know how your build goes. Iirc you are getting everything today right?

Vega's arrived last night, along with dual psu's and connector, plus a beefy 20A PDU surge power strip. Today the CPU and H110 arrive. Tomorrow night the Ram arrives, but I'll probably shut one of my ETH rigs down and borrow it's RAM so I can get a head start tomorrow morning.

Pretty much know my entire week will be me sitting in the garage dealing with the same issues... Luckily the kiddo has a ukuele lesson on Saturday so I can get some forced relaxation lol

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Quote from: Tao1123 on November 17, 2017, 11:18:43 AM

Quote from: rippermantwo on November 17, 2017, 11:12:12 AM

Quote from: Tao1123 on November 17, 2017, 09:57:15 AM

Update! So I am back to 4 working cards! Made an odd discovery last night. If I run them with the 17.30 driver they tend to be unstable and have serious issues. If I run them with the 17.11.2 driver they work just fine, mind you they are an average of 70 h/s slower on the 17.11.2 driver. I had read somewhere that you can toggle the driver for mining in the global settings but I can't seem to find the option in AMD settings. Tonight I will try to add the 5th card. Also, I am mining using Claymore's AMD GPU miner for Cryptonight. Is there a better miner out there that supports 6 cards?

Thank you,

Been following your progression -or there lack of. I feel your pain. Been running into the same challenges with 6 x Vega 64s and the Asrock Fatality X370 K4 mob. At one point I had 5 gpus running on the AMD blockchain driver at over 2000H/S at around 1250w. When I would try to install the final gpu I would get bsod (blue screen of death) - restart - bsod - restart - advanced options screen where I could then start in safe mode. couldn't get five gpus running after that.

I have done many clean windows installs (15 plus) to no avail. I'm finally running stable on 6 gpus on driver 17.11.2, but my hash rate now sucks at about 1400h/s per card. That's overclocked and undervolted. I want the hashrate of the blockchain drivers, but don't know how to get the 6 cards working with it.

At a loss and following your updates.

I am curious if the drivers are unstable or whats going on. I have read others get them working with the 17.30 blockchain driver so i don't know why it wouldn't work for us. I am talking with someone else on a different community and he seems to believe it could be a riser. Think I might order a couple new risers and see what I can get.

I have all six cards running now under amd driver 17.11.2, which makes me think all of my hardware is good. Again, when I use the amd blockchain driver, all goes to crap.

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Quote from: ben8jam on November 17, 2017, 11:28:11 AM

My rx builds would be plagued with riser issues. And sometimes the riser wasnt even it, it was just a crappy USB cable they sent with it. I learned that from an Amazon review. Swapped the cable and never had a problem again. It gets really tough to trouble shoot when there are like 20 things that can be the issue.

Yeah, no kidding. Let me know how your build goes. Iirc you are getting everything today right?

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My rx builds would be plagued with riser issues. And sometimes the riser wasnt even it, it was just a crappy USB cable they sent with it. I learned that from an Amazon review. Swapped the cable and never had a problem again. It gets really tough to trouble shoot when there are like 20 things that can be the issue.

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Quote from: rippermantwo on November 17, 2017, 11:12:12 AM

Quote from: Tao1123 on November 17, 2017, 09:57:15 AM

Update! So I am back to 4 working cards! Made an odd discovery last night. If I run them with the 17.30 driver they tend to be unstable and have serious issues. If I run them with the 17.11.2 driver they work just fine, mind you they are an average of 70 h/s slower on the 17.11.2 driver. I had read somewhere that you can toggle the driver for mining in the global settings but I can't seem to find the option in AMD settings. Tonight I will try to add the 5th card. Also, I am mining using Claymore's AMD GPU miner for Cryptonight. Is there a better miner out there that supports 6 cards?

Thank you,

Been following your progression -or there lack of. I feel your pain. Been running into the same challenges with 6 x Vega 64s and the Asrock Fatality X370 K4 mob. At one point I had 5 gpus running on the AMD blockchain driver at over 2000H/S at around 1250w. When I would try to install the final gpu I would get bsod (blue screen of death) - restart - bsod - restart - advanced options screen where I could then start in safe mode. couldn't get five gpus running after that.

I have done many clean windows installs (15 plus) to no avail. I'm finally running stable on 6 gpus on driver 17.11.2, but my hash rate now sucks at about 1400h/s per card. That's overclocked and undervolted. I want the hashrate of the blockchain drivers, but don't know how to get the 6 cards working with it.

At a loss and following your updates.

I am curious if the drivers are unstable or whats going on. I have read others get them working with the 17.30 blockchain driver so i don't know why it wouldn't work for us. I am talking with someone else on a different community and he seems to believe it could be a riser. Think I might order a couple new risers and see what I can get.

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Quote from: Tao1123 on November 17, 2017, 09:57:15 AM

Update! So I am back to 4 working cards! Made an odd discovery last night. If I run them with the 17.30 driver they tend to be unstable and have serious issues. If I run them with the 17.11.2 driver they work just fine, mind you they are an average of 70 h/s slower on the 17.11.2 driver. I had read somewhere that you can toggle the driver for mining in the global settings but I can't seem to find the option in AMD settings. Tonight I will try to add the 5th card. Also, I am mining using Claymore's AMD GPU miner for Cryptonight. Is there a better miner out there that supports 6 cards?

Thank you,

Been following your progression -or there lack of. I feel your pain. Been running into the same challenges with 6 x Vega 64s and the Asrock Fatality X370 K4 mob. At one point I had 5 gpus running on the AMD blockchain driver at over 2000H/S at around 1250w. When I would try to install the final gpu I would get bsod (blue screen of death) - restart - bsod - restart - advanced options screen where I could then start in safe mode. couldn't get five gpus running after that.

I have done many clean windows installs (15 plus) to no avail. I'm finally running stable on 6 gpus on driver 17.11.2, but my hash rate now sucks at about 1400h/s per card. That's overclocked and undervolted. I want the hashrate of the blockchain drivers, but don't know how to get the 6 cards working with it.

At a loss and following your updates.

Tao1123

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Update! So I am back to 4 working cards! Made an odd discovery last night. If I run them with the 17.30 driver they tend to be unstable and have serious issues. If I run them with the 17.11.2 driver they work just fine, mind you they are an average of 70 h/s slower on the 17.11.2 driver. I had read somewhere that you can toggle the driver for mining in the global settings but I can't seem to find the option in AMD settings. Tonight I will try to add the 5th card. Also, I am mining using Claymore's AMD GPU miner for Cryptonight. Is there a better miner out there that supports 6 cards?

Thank you,

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God Damnit. Fresh install of Windows card 1 plugged into motherboard. Works fine. Card 2 plugged into motherboard. Driver auto updates and then I benchmark and get static on screen. Then the screen goes black with no signal input. Coukd it be because I forgot to restart before attempting to benchmark?

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Should you turn off ULPS for mining?

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Quote from: ben8jam on November 16, 2017, 02:32:25 PM

Quote from: Tao1123 on November 16, 2017, 01:38:38 PM

I don't have Newegg prime and so its slow shipping. You're right I canceled the order from Newegg and ordered with Amazon Prime.

Newegg can be a pain to return to - I'd rather pay a few extra dollars to Amazon because I know I can pretty much return anything.

I already have a return shipping label and everything for my current board. Mind you they are charging me $20+ to return it which makes me think I will be ordering mainly from amazon now...

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Quote from: Tao1123 on November 16, 2017, 01:38:38 PM

I don't have Newegg prime and so its slow shipping. You're right I canceled the order from Newegg and ordered with Amazon Prime.

Newegg can be a pain to return to - I'd rather pay a few extra dollars to Amazon because I know I can pretty much return anything.

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Quote from: ben8jam on November 16, 2017, 01:06:04 PM

Quote from: Tao1123 on November 16, 2017, 12:36:51 PM

Ram is cheap do you know have a computer parts store anywhere near you? I am trying to build mine with 8 GB of ram. Also, I am so frustrated now I even did a fresh install of windows last night to try and start over but I keep getting artifacts in slot 1 and slot 3 of the motherboard. I won't have my h110 for a week or so but I still plan to play around with the board I have until it arrives. I chalk a lot of my problems up to me being a complete novice at building computers. Again, if you could post your process for building I would really appreciate it.

I plan to do another install of windows tonight and repeat my earlier process to see if I can at least get back to 4 working cards.

RAM used to be cheap. I got Corsair 4gb DDR4 for $25 this summer off Amazon no problem. Now it's $50 and trickling in. Some same day just showed up on Amazon so I bought one so it'll be here in time again.

And why does it take so long to get the board from NewEgg? It's only $10 more on amazon right now (and that's because it's not coming from Amazon INC) but that's well worth getting it next day for free as opposed to waiting a week and losing out the mined coin....

I don't have Newegg prime and so its slow shipping. You're right I canceled the order from Newegg and ordered with Amazon Prime.

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Quote from: Tao1123 on November 16, 2017, 12:36:51 PM

Ram is cheap do you know have a computer parts store anywhere near you? I am trying to build mine with 8 GB of ram. Also, I am so frustrated now I even did a fresh install of windows last night to try and start over but I keep getting artifacts in slot 1 and slot 3 of the motherboard. I won't have my h110 for a week or so but I still plan to play around with the board I have until it arrives. I chalk a lot of my problems up to me being a complete novice at building computers. Again, if you could post your process for building I would really appreciate it.

I plan to do another install of windows tonight and repeat my earlier process to see if I can at least get back to 4 working cards.

RAM used to be cheap. I got Corsair 4gb DDR4 for $25 this summer off Amazon no problem. Now it's $50 and trickling in. Some same day just showed up on Amazon so I bought one so it'll be here in time again.

And why does it take so long to get the board from NewEgg? It's only $10 more on amazon right now (and that's because it's not coming from Amazon INC) but that's well worth getting it next day for free as opposed to waiting a week and losing out the mined coin....

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Ram is cheap do you know have a computer parts store anywhere near you? I am trying to build mine with 8 GB of ram. Also, I am so frustrated now I even did a fresh install of windows last night to try and start over but I keep getting artifacts in slot 1 and slot 3 of the motherboard. I won't have my h110 for a week or so but I still plan to play around with the board I have until it arrives. I chalk a lot of my problems up to me being a complete novice at building computers. Again, if you could post your process for building I would really appreciate it.

I plan to do another install of windows tonight and repeat my earlier process to see if I can at least get back to 4 working cards.

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Quote from: Tao1123 on November 16, 2017, 12:26:44 PM

Quote from: ben8jam on November 16, 2017, 12:17:32 PM

Quote from: Tao1123 on November 16, 2017, 10:41:04 AM

Ah to hell with it I ordered an Asrock H110 BTC+ board. I am hoping that at this point its all my board and this will fix it.

I've got that board and four 56's coming today/tomorrow. Though I got a Skylake CPU to go with it - not Kaby - still think worth double/triple checking that. My two MSI boards also use Skylake. Though I have NO idea why. Kaby is newer and supposedly better at everything....

I looked online and supposedly the h110 supports the kaby lake cpus

I checked it too. And they all seem to support both. I'm a little concerned now I should have actually got a Kaby. Won't be able to build till this weekend. And have to shut down one of my Eth rigs to borrow the 4gig of ram cause all 4gig chips were sold out on Amazon! Of all the things to not be able to get timely.....

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Quote from: Tao1123 on November 16, 2017, 12:26:44 PM

Quote from: ben8jam on November 16, 2017, 12:17:32 PM

Quote from: Tao1123 on November 16, 2017, 10:41:04 AM

Ah to hell with it I ordered an Asrock H110 BTC+ board. I am hoping that at this point its all my board and this will fix it.

I've got that board and four 56's coming today/tomorrow. Though I got a Skylake CPU to go with it - not Kaby - still think worth double/triple checking that. My two MSI boards also use Skylake. Though I have NO idea why. Kaby is newer and supposedly better at everything....

I looked online and supposedly the h110 supports the kaby lake cpus

Once you have it running please let me know how your build went so I can emulate it

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Quote from: ben8jam on November 16, 2017, 12:17:32 PM

Quote from: Tao1123 on November 16, 2017, 10:41:04 AM

Ah to hell with it I ordered an Asrock H110 BTC+ board. I am hoping that at this point its all my board and this will fix it.

I've got that board and four 56's coming today/tomorrow. Though I got a Skylake CPU to go with it - not Kaby - still think worth double/triple checking that. My two MSI boards also use Skylake. Though I have NO idea why. Kaby is newer and supposedly better at everything....

I looked online and supposedly the h110 supports the kaby lake cpus

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