Help Please - Vega 56 Mining Rig Troubleshooting - page 7.

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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....

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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.

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Quote from: ben8jam on November 16, 2017, 09:39:41 AM

You might want to try a new mobo?

That was my thought exactly. I ordered the Mobo off newegg so I will request a replacement. If the replacement doesn't work I will start looking at getting an H110 BTC+.

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You might want to try a new mobo?

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Well in my attempt to diagnose the Pcie slot issue and get a 5th card running I apparently pissed off the mining gods as all progress has been lost. Currently running a single card... Oh well guess I'll start from scratch tomorrow.

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Quote from: Tao1123 on November 15, 2017, 04:50:41 PM

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Quote from: Tao1123 on November 15, 2017, 03:21:16 PM

I didn't really do much checking as far as GPU and board compatibility as I am new to this whole building PCs thing and just assumed that as long as board has PCIE slots it can use any GPU. I did make sure the CPU and ram are compatible with the board since I know they dont always play nice together.

Looks like you're okay with Kaby Lake processor...

I saw earlier you were able to get it to recognize the 5 cards, where are you left at now?

I can get it to recognize 5 but when I benchmark with Nicehash card #5 causes the screen to blink then turn to static. I know which card it is on the rig so I am going to try to move it to a different riser and see if I can get it working in a different riser at which point I just need to replace the riser. The other 4 I have in mine with no issues at least on Nicehash. When I insert card 6 the whole system fails to boot and it just displays a black screen with a white cursor at the top.

I switched cards and put a good one In the riser. Still getting artifacts. I then switched the Pcie connection cords and ran it again. Riser #3 worked in pcie slot 2 But I got artifacts from the card now in Pcie slot 3. I'm going to say that's good enough to declare that slot bad for some reason. Any ideas as to why that might be the case?

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Quote from: ben8jam on November 15, 2017, 04:11:43 PM

Quote from: Tao1123 on November 15, 2017, 03:21:16 PM

I didn't really do much checking as far as GPU and board compatibility as I am new to this whole building PCs thing and just assumed that as long as board has PCIE slots it can use any GPU. I did make sure the CPU and ram are compatible with the board since I know they dont always play nice together.

Looks like you're okay with Kaby Lake processor...

I saw earlier you were able to get it to recognize the 5 cards, where are you left at now?

I can get it to recognize 5 but when I benchmark with Nicehash card #5 causes the screen to blink then turn to static. I know which card it is on the rig so I am going to try to move it to a different riser and see if I can get it working in a different riser at which point I just need to replace the riser. The other 4 I have in mine with no issues at least on Nicehash. When I insert card 6 the whole system fails to boot and it just displays a black screen with a white cursor at the top.

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Quote from: Tao1123 on November 15, 2017, 03:21:16 PM

I didn't really do much checking as far as GPU and board compatibility as I am new to this whole building PCs thing and just assumed that as long as board has PCIE slots it can use any GPU. I did make sure the CPU and ram are compatible with the board since I know they dont always play nice together.

Looks like you're okay with Kaby Lake processor...

I saw earlier you were able to get it to recognize the 5 cards, where are you left at now?

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I didn't really do much checking as far as GPU and board compatibility as I am new to this whole building PCs thing and just assumed that as long as board has PCIE slots it can use any GPU. I did make sure the CPU and ram are compatible with the board since I know they dont always play nice together.

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I don't know if this is helpful or not, but I remember when I setup my Rx470 rx570 rigs - The Mobo I used, MSI Game Z170A, required a Skylake CPU and people who tried to use Kaby Lake had a huge amount of problems.

I'm not familar with the Fatality board, but have you done any double checking that your Kaby CPU is the right one? Also, might it be the board itself? Seems like some people say the VEGAs are super finicky.

I went with the asrock h110 pro btc+ after a lot of people saying it played nice with Vega.

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Also, I tried to install Claymore Cryptonote miner but it crashes every time I run it. It sets all the parameters then closes.

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Quote from: boggle on November 15, 2017, 01:35:08 PM

the lighting up on bios is a good sign, sometimes i get one card that doesnt light. a quick reboot and its back.

check you risers - these were the main cause of my problems

have u installed the chipset drivers for the mother board?

PITA - Pain In The Arse

The board came with UEFI v 2.0. I haven't touched drivers for the board yet. In fact I completely forgot about the fact that motherboards use drivers I was so preoccupied with my GPU drivers lol. I'll check that tonight.

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the lighting up on bios is a good sign, sometimes i get one card that doesnt light. a quick reboot and its back.

check you risers - these were the main cause of my problems

have u installed the chipset drivers for the mother board?

PITA - Pain In The Arse

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Quote from: boggle on November 15, 2017, 01:13:21 PM

do the cards light up (single red light) when the bios screen loads???
you are using on-board graphics? and have disabled crossfire?

nice hash I find a PITA.. you might need to add opencl 1 option..
I would swap cards and risers about and see of the problem follows the swapping.
To test i use cast-xmr, you can run one instance per card. option --gpu then the card number

if your Vegas are all the same windows shouldnt need to install the drivers again when you swap about..

keep us posted

Will do. I was planning on moving that card to another riser to see what happens. As for lighting up yes all the cards light up when the computer kicks on. What does PITA mean?

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do the cards light up (single red light) when the bios screen loads???
you are using on-board graphics? and have disabled crossfire?

nice hash I find a PITA.. you might need to add opencl 1 option..
I would swap cards and risers about and see of the problem follows the swapping.
To test i use cast-xmr, you can run one instance per card. option --gpu then the card number

if your Vegas are all the same windows shouldnt need to install the drivers again when you swap about..

keep us posted

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Man... I'm slowly starting to regret having ordered 4 Vega 56's....

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Alright so heres the situtation. I can get the computer and Nicehash to recognize that there are 5 gpus available. However, when I benchmark the GPU designated as GPU 5 in Nicehash the screen blinks and comes back on as static then eventually terminates and will not mine. As far as placement on the rig this is card 3 in slot 3. What is this indicative of? Also, would it be advisable to try to troubleshoot that card first before trying to add card 6 or tweak my other cards that are working for maximum efficiency? Basically, what should be my next step in this and whats wrong with card 3 and card 6?

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Progress! I can officially get 5 gpis running now. However, when I plug in the 6th the machine boots up but only the 1 gpu still plugged directly into the motherboard comes online. I get a black screen with a white flashing cursor at the top. Anyone run into this before?

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Quote from: fanatic26 on November 14, 2017, 07:14:18 PM

Tao I run literally hundreds of your motherboards. They are one of the best 'gaming' boards I have found for mining. Only difference I run linux on mine. Windows is dogshit for mining. Driver problems, stability problems, etc with windows that all go away with a good linux install.

I run two Ubuntu rigs running 470/570s. Love linux. Except the Windows machines can undervolt where I have not been able to do so on Linux. BIOS mods don't seem to take affect

And as for VEGAS, do you run Vegas on Linux? Heard it's really hard, and again, power consumption is much worse because no access to power control.

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Quote from: boggle on November 14, 2017, 05:24:34 PM

i would start by getting one then two cards setup and plugged into the motherboard not by risers and then add the others one by one

60gb will start windows. you will need more space for the virtual memory
on a 6 vega and 1 rx480 rig, system information shows 50gb virtual memory is being used out of 120gb available

the risers i binned have a light blue pcie connector ver 002

do the cards light on system start or when there first detected by windows?

So get 2 cards running actually in the board then add using risers correct? Once thats running then move the 2 in the board to risers?

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