Hey all,
I am facing an issue with my rig running 5.6d on Win 10.
My cards are 2xRX580, a 1660, a 3060 and finally an RX5700 GT.
I am using afterburner to set voltages, clocks etc. as setting through AMD catalyst had been causing voltages for the RX580 cards to reset and them to run very hot.
However, the RX5700 keeps crashing the amd driver. I have first tried running the rig with that card disabled for hours on different configurations (I will describe them bellow) and everything was fine so the issue has been isolated and seems to lie with that card. My assumption was that catalyst/afterburner are conficting again, causing the card to change clock/voltage settings which in return causes it to crash.
I have tried with 21.5.1, 21.4.1, 21.3.2 which are supported on 5.6d and an older drive (do not recall version) which I was using with 5.6c. The driver uninstalls are done with DDU and I have tried installing driver only (no catalyst suit) when that option was available or deleting catalyst folder when it was not (could not find an way to uninstall catalyst only). I should note that with the previous way of running things, i.e. configure AMD cards from Catalyst and Nvidia cards from afterburner was rather stable.
Any ideas what is going on here or of a way to firmly lock power/clock settings for the cards? If you believe this is not the issue, could you please suggest any other things to troubleshoot and/or a known stable driver for RX5700 GT? I should note the card itself is fine, tried working with it (connect to it with DP) and it was working without issues.
Hi,
From what you said, it looks to me you have 1 or more cards overclocked too much, causing Wattman to reset the driver to default settings.
For me running Afterburner all the time for mining leads to more instability of the system. I do set the overclocking settings for my rigs in a config file directly in the miner. See the example below but change the settings for your configuration:
# -powlim 0,0,75,0,0,0,0,0
-tt 65
-ttj 80
-ttmem 83
-mt 0,1,2,2,0,0,1,1,1
-vmr 25,25,70,70,0,15,25,35,25
-straps 1,1,3,3,1,1,1,1,1
# -vmt1 25
# -vmt2 20
# -vmt3 0
# -rxboost 1
-cclock 1100,1100,1100,1100,1100,1100,1100,1300,1100
-cvddc 850,800,900,850,850,850,800,1000,850
-mclock 2100,2050,2150,2150,2025,2025,2050,1950,2075
-mvddc 750,800,750,750,0,750,800,800,750
You can read the Readme file in the miner's directory to how to set these parameters.
To find which card is overclocked too much look for invalid shares or look in the log file which card is not mining before the drivers get reset to default.