Rig kept shutting down, now wont even display

westom

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Quote from: ManyLlamas on June 23, 2017, 01:43:56 PM

So rig kept tripping my surge protector, doesn't matter which on I tried and it kept shutting down.

What trips? Circuit breaker on a power strip? That would be a 15 amp breaker. Nothing larger is permitted or safe. That also means you have hit the limit of what household receptacles can support.

Long before 'fixing' anything, first do some arithmetic. Sum the current or power of every device on that power strip.

What else is tripping in a surge protector ... that is better replaced by a power strip without protector parts.

iamnoobplzhelp

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If your rig was tripping the surge protector, you need a surge protector that can handle more power. Most of them should be able to handle 1800+ watts.

You should be able to get close to 170-180 with 6 Gaming X cards.

1) Firstly, unplug all your cards.
2) Start up, go into bios, and disable 'Above 4G Encoding'
3) See if it boots via the onboard.

If it boots:
4) Use DDU and uninstall drivers
5) Turn off, plug 1 card in, install drivers.
6) Plug 1 card in, reboot
7) After you plug in your 5th card, you should get error 12. Restart and enable "Above 4G Encoding"
Cool

Repeat until all 6 are added.
9) Profit

If it fail to boot after step 3, you might have another issue. This happened to me when my GPU wasn't seated all the way in the riser, or something wasn't plugged in correctly.
If plugging in the card doesn't work, rebuild the entire machine. Take out all the power, plugs, SSD, everything. Plug 1 item in at a time until something fails. This is normal PC troubleshooting.

ManyLlamas

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First off, specs of the rig
6x MSI Gaming X RX 580
ASROCK H81 PRO BTC R2.0
Celeron 1820 (I Think)
8 GB DDR3
EVGA 1300 G2
120 GB Sandisk SSD

So rig kept tripping my surge protector, doesn't matter which on I tried and it kept shutting down. SO I took all the cards off and booted on integrated graphic to try to solve the problem, but now when I lug in a gpu none of the displays work, gpu or integrated. Do you think my motherboard is shot?
Also I was getting 133 megahash, is that bad for the 6 580s?
Thanks in advance!

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