MSI Z170A GAMING PRO CARBON 7GPU - page 4.

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Quote from: ilostmyface on April 25, 2017, 07:37:45 PM

I have verified this works for me 3 times now. I only still can say this works on RX cards, I started trying to use AMD Furys when I began this process, but gave up on this mobo and used them on something else.

Did you also tried to run it with 7 rx500 cards?

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I have been working with this MOBO for a build for over a month now, many many hrs of troubleshooting. Everything from X - Y I have tried. I came close a few times but ultimately would be stuck at the black screen when 4G/Crytpo mining mode enabled.

Last night I have seen the light.

If you are having black screen issues, you have to do a clean install of Windows 10 UEFI. Install with only 1GPU connected, once everything is running, chipset, drivers, etc. Shutdown make sure Crytpo mode and GEN 1 are selected before connecting the rest of the cards. Turn her on, they will slowly reconize and drivers will install for the remaining cards.

I have verified this works for me 3 times now. I only still can say this works on RX cards, I started trying to use AMD Furys when I began this process, but gave up on this mobo and used them on something else.

Something with the PCI bus assignment needs to be virgin with W10 and this 7 GPU/Mobo setup.

Now I am moving on to tweaking the cards. Looking to lower power consumption to minimize heat for the summer. All cards have memory timing mod applied.

Thanks creepAs!

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Quote from: creepas on April 24, 2017, 03:29:04 AM

We need to sit down and see the rig together with Teamviewer. Try to exchange riser on last card.

Contact me on skype : cReepas

Hi brother
Yesterday I watched the rig for a long time
Now i have 2 hd that with drivers 16.9.2 and that with 17.4.3
If you like, we can do some tests

Ps., I would call you skype, but I do not know English, I use google translator to write, I speak Italian and French

creepas

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We need to sit down and see the rig together with Teamviewer. Try to exchange riser on last card.

Contact me on skype : cReepas

cris0338

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Hello to all

I have a strange problem,

My configuration
Msi Z170A Gaming Pro Carbon with Bios Mod
I5 6600k
Corsair Dominator Platinum 16gb 3000
7 Sapphire RX 480 Nitro + model 01
PSU Corsair 1200W
Risers 1x to 16x with 6 pin connector
HD Seagate 320 2.5 "

Before formatting:
Drivers 16.9.1 and 16.9.2
Claymore 8.1 and 9.1

Problem with 6 rx 480: GPU3 at 0,000 mh / s and opencl error
I tried with original bios, V3 mod, change cards, change riser, always remains GPU3 (GPU 4 in Afterburner) real slot "6" starting from the processor

With 7 GPU does not work windows with blue page

After formatting
Drivers 17.4.3
Claymore 8.1 and 9.1

installed windows 7 gpu with no active mod

Problem with 7 rx 480: GPU6 at 0,000 Mh / s and opencl error
I tried with original bios, V3 mod, change cards, change riser, always remains GPU6 (GPU 4 in Afterburner) real slot "7" starting from the processor

But now if I remove the GPU 7 it works well with 6

(Another problem with mod I never managed to get to 31, I stop to 29.8, then freezes all)

Do you have an idea or a solution to this?

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Quote from: Gigasnike95 on April 23, 2017, 11:39:11 AM

I have a MSI PRO CARBON Z170A but it works only 5 GPU. Creepas,
can you help me to get them to work 7?

My GPUs are RX 570 Sasphire Pulse

Best regards

Hello,

im working on solving RX 570 issue. Its driver problem not mobo problem. Will create stand alone discussion for that soon.

I do belive i found workaround after i test it i will get the solution here.

cReepas

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Quote from: 666mrga999 on April 23, 2017, 02:16:03 PM

Quote from: Drawde on April 16, 2017, 04:52:28 PM

Anyone ever have the problem where one of your GPU's won't get recognized on a riser? For the life of me one of my Nitro+ RX 470's won't get recognized by the BIOS no matter what I do even with this new BIOS. I changed the riser, changed the PCIe port, installed this custom BIOS and nothing helps. All the other GPU's are fine every time the system reboots but the GPU fans for this one never startup and I can tell immediately that it will not get recognized as soon as the power on switch is pressed. This is the 5th GPU and the other 4 as I said are fine. I'm using Windows 10 home but I don't think that matters since the GPU never starts up although the power light comes on. I've checked and changed all of the power cables too. I thought it was the GPU so I sent it back and this is the replacement so I doubt if it is 2nd bad GPU. I've also not done anything yet with the BIOS on this GPU.

I have exactly the same problem on same pcie port. help pls

I got 5 to work by moving one that I had mounted on the MB to a riser. The MB GPU took 8 PCIe lanes while each riser mounted GPU takes 1 lane and the Z170 is limited in the number of supported PCIe lanes.

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Quote from: Drawde on April 16, 2017, 04:52:28 PM

Anyone ever have the problem where one of your GPU's won't get recognized on a riser? For the life of me one of my Nitro+ RX 470's won't get recognized by the BIOS no matter what I do even with this new BIOS. I changed the riser, changed the PCIe port, installed this custom BIOS and nothing helps. All the other GPU's are fine every time the system reboots but the GPU fans for this one never startup and I can tell immediately that it will not get recognized as soon as the power on switch is pressed. This is the 5th GPU and the other 4 as I said are fine. I'm using Windows 10 home but I don't think that matters since the GPU never starts up although the power light comes on. I've checked and changed all of the power cables too. I thought it was the GPU so I sent it back and this is the replacement so I doubt if it is 2nd bad GPU. I've also not done anything yet with the BIOS on this GPU.

I have exactly the same problem on same pcie port. help pls

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Quote from: creepas on April 23, 2017, 03:27:57 AM

Hello,

even if i dont know Ubuntu at all i do think your problemis that you installed EthOS in legacy not UEFI mode.

What it does is when you turn on cryptorcurrency mining than UEFI mode is automaticaly on. Thats why you have black screen.

Ethos doesn't use UEFI mode at all, it boots off legacy mode. And it's not installed as a regular install, it's rather byte-copied from the file Ethosdistro provides.

So i'm wondering how tharp was able to make it.

Gigasnike95

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I have a MSI PRO CARBON Z170A but it works only 5 GPU. Creepas,
can you help me to get them to work 7?

My GPUs are RX 570 Sasphire Pulse

Best regards

creepas

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Hello,

even if i dont know Ubuntu at all i do think your problemis that you installed EthOS in legacy not UEFI mode.

What it does is when you turn on cryptorcurrency mining than UEFI mode is automaticaly on. Thats why you have black screen.

Olle

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Quote from: tharp on April 18, 2017, 05:16:10 PM

Appreciate the post it helped me to get 8 GPU's mining on EthOS with this motherboard. Pulling 1230watts at the wall and 237MH/s.

Has anyone gotten the M.2 slot to work with a pcie x4 adapter?

Here is the screen shot:
http://i.imgur.com/3cjsrsG.png

I also use EthOS but can't get more than 4 GPUs working. Once I enable "cryptocurrency mode", I get black screen that turns into lined garbage in about 30 seconds -> complete freeze.
If I don't enable cryptocurrency mode, EthOS crashes if more than 4 GPUs attached.
I also have M.2/NGFF->PCIex4 adapter and I'd like to give it a try once I can run at least 7x GPU due to the issue above.

How did you make it work?

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Quote from: 666mrga999 on April 20, 2017, 03:05:40 AM

Quote from: Truthchanter on April 12, 2017, 12:59:50 PM

Quote from: creepas on April 12, 2017, 05:46:52 AM

Quote from: Truthchanter on April 11, 2017, 11:15:34 AM

I installed uefi win10 with rufus. I can't get it too boot with above 4gb decoding enabled with 1 or more gpus plugged in (it will boot with it enabled using onboard gpu) any ideas?

I belive we solved it by skype.

Also screenshot:

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B4y5D_zzH1oeZkhHenB5Tk8zeDA?usp=sharing

From farm where we have multiple servers...

All on MSI Z170A Gaming PRO carbon, all on MSI RX 480 8 GB and all 7 cards each.

if any help is needet just skype me.

cReepas

Yeah it is solved. The custom bios works for 7gpu mining on the mobo in the title

Can I ask you how did you solve it, because I have exact same problem. Thanks =)

I had the same issue when I flashed the BIOS of my RX470. I just got a black screen when starting the computer. What I did to fix it was turn off the crypto option then I added the cards back one at a time and once I had all of the cards installed I turned the crypto option back on in the bios.

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Quote from: Truthchanter on April 12, 2017, 12:59:50 PM

Quote from: creepas on April 12, 2017, 05:46:52 AM

Quote from: Truthchanter on April 11, 2017, 11:15:34 AM

I installed uefi win10 with rufus. I can't get it too boot with above 4gb decoding enabled with 1 or more gpus plugged in (it will boot with it enabled using onboard gpu) any ideas?

I belive we solved it by skype.

Also screenshot:

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B4y5D_zzH1oeZkhHenB5Tk8zeDA?usp=sharing

From farm where we have multiple servers...

All on MSI Z170A Gaming PRO carbon, all on MSI RX 480 8 GB and all 7 cards each.

if any help is needet just skype me.

cReepas

Yeah it is solved. The custom bios works for 7gpu mining on the mobo in the title

Can I ask you how did you solve it, because I have exact same problem. Thanks =)

fuzion1

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I was able to get 7 GPU to work with creepas BIOS. A few tips to get it to work. Flash bios. Install windows in UEFI mode. Install 16.9.2 driver with only 1 graphics card plugged in. Then shutdown and plug in all GPU and turn on the bios cryptocurrency setting. Boot into windows and it should start to recognize all of them.

tharp

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Appreciate the post it helped me to get 8 GPU's mining on EthOS with this motherboard. Pulling 1230watts at the wall and 237MH/s.

Has anyone gotten the M.2 slot to work with a pcie x4 adapter?

Here is the screen shot:
http://i.imgur.com/3cjsrsG.png

DwieDave

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Hello,

I really want to thank creepas for his great help in getting my rig to work,
but not only getting it to work, but also tweaking it to achieve hashrates beyond everything I believed was possible!

He helped me getting 7 cards to work with the MSI Z170A Gaming Pro Carbon (by using the BIOS he posted [ its totally legit and works like a charme ]).
And then he put huge effort in helping me tweaking my cards to 30Mh/s each!

Which resulted in Hashrates of 209Mh/s for this rig (see the attached screenshots)!

So huge thanks and great mining everybody

!
Dave

http://fs5.directupload.net/images/170418/f5andiae.png
http://fs5.directupload.net/images/170418/vpload2z.png

creepas

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Hello,

i did try only 7 cards and i dont see presonaly reason why to have more because of stability issues.

Rig when mining only ETH is taking 950W from wall and dualmining sia 1150W.

Best regards

cReepas

bel123

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cReepas how many Watts your rig "eat"?

Did you try 8 or 9 GPU on that MB?

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To run 7 gpus do I need win 10 with anniversary patch or w/o?

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