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Quote from: halker2010 on November 28, 2017, 12:51:23 AM

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Quote from: xxcsu on October 06, 2017, 01:15:37 PM

Overclock your mem's / underclock your GPU's , with proper undervolting , and enjoy mining with full speed Wink

Would you like to share your settings with us? What does "proper undervolting" mean?

With proper undervolting he means that you should not only decrease the power to 80 or 70% but that you should the decrease the voltage from the GPU from 1 to 0.95 for instance.

I highly suggest you to find a decent clock and voltage for your gpu and then use polaris bios editor to edit fan speeds and clocks , then apply them to your entire rig.

And what driver would you use with your custom bios mod? The AMD mining driver/blockchain drivers?

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Quote from: Lumining on November 28, 2017, 12:02:59 AM

Quote from: Rabinovitch on November 25, 2017, 05:07:58 AM

Quote from: xxcsu on October 06, 2017, 01:15:37 PM

Overclock your mem's / underclock your GPU's , with proper undervolting , and enjoy mining with full speed Wink

Would you like to share your settings with us? What does "proper undervolting" mean?

With proper undervolting he means that you should not only decrease the power to 80 or 70% but that you should the decrease the voltage from the GPU from 1 to 0.95 for instance.

I highly suggest you to find a decent clock and voltage for your gpu and then use polaris bios editor to edit fan speeds and clocks , then apply them to your entire rig.

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Quote from: Rabinovitch on November 25, 2017, 05:07:58 AM

Quote from: xxcsu on October 06, 2017, 01:15:37 PM

Overclock your mem's / underclock your GPU's , with proper undervolting , and enjoy mining with full speed Wink

Would you like to share your settings with us? What does "proper undervolting" mean?

With proper undervolting he means that you should not only decrease the power to 80 or 70% but that you should the decrease the voltage from the GPU from 1 to 0.95 for instance.

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Quote from: xxcsu on October 06, 2017, 01:15:37 PM

Overclock your mem's / underclock your GPU's , with proper undervolting , and enjoy mining with full speed Wink

Would you like to share your settings with us? What does "proper undervolting" mean?

Lumining

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Bios settings are fine, I had 6 cards running perfectly fine until I started messing with the mining drivers.
I have 5 cards up and running now on mining drivers but they have a very low hashrate of 23,5 each with a slight overclock and Bios mod and the sixth card is somewhere in Nirvana, no clue why the PC doesn't recognize it anymore.

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Hardware:
The 6 GPUs are:
2 XFX RX480 GTR 8GB
4 Powercolor RX480 Red Devil 8GB
Motherboard: AsRock H81 BTC Pro Gen1
GPU G3460
120GB SSD Sandisk
8GB DDR3

Software
Bios settings for PCIE2 Link Speed is GEN 1.
Because I made a fresh installation of windows 10 x64 and the cards are not working fine I did not run Claymore yet with the new mining drivers, therfore I can't tell you the wattage yet.
Currently, the PC recognizes 5 RX480 with driver version 22.19.662.4 and all 5 with error 43. It also regognizes 1 Intel(R) HD Graphics.

I made some settings:
Increase virtual memory (Min 1879 Max 16000)
Power plan --> High performance
Windows 10 registry tweaks for mining
Disabled windows update

Then I ran DDU in safe mode and it still only recognized 5 devices. Now I switched PCIE5 and PCIE6 and magically the PC sees 6 cards.
Now I have 6 Microsoft Basic Display Adapters in device manager and all of them show error 31:
This device is not working properly because Windows cannot load the drivers required for this device. (Code 31)
The driver trying to start is not the same as the driver for the POSTed display adapter.
How should I proceed from this point?

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Can you give us a full system spec please ?
what motherboard you have ? Bios settings for pcie ? GEN 1 / GEN 2 /GEN 3 Huh

what is your psu wattage rating ?
with the new drivers your cards might pulling much more power than before...

Quote from: xxcsu on October 08, 2017, 01:51:44 PM

Are you sure you let driver installation gone through ? if all cards plugged in during driver install , Its sometimes take 10-15-20 minutes with black screen , flickering screen , sometimes computer unresponsive for 2-3 minutes ... during that time you can not log in with teamviewer , if monitor connected you get a black unresponsive screen ...
Did you had to hard reboot the computer ? during/after amd driver installation ?
Did you turned off the on board graphics in the bios ? ( make sure you can not see in windows device manager )
Do you need riva tuner ? Why you installed ?

Try one more times ... this time dont install any tune software , dont install Afterburner , wait at least 20-30 min after you started the driver installation ...

- Uninstall all drivers with DDU
- Download and Install AMD Block Chain Driver from official AMD site - wait at least 20-30 min after you started the driver installation if all 6 cards pluggen in during install
- Run AMD/ATI Pixel Clock Patcher
- Reboot Your Rig
- ~~Download , install~~ ~~MSI Afterburner 4.4.0 Beta 18~~
- Start your mining software , let see what happening

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Quote from: Farstdury on October 09, 2017, 02:18:47 PM

Quote from: Bakhtra on October 08, 2017, 09:17:26 AM

Is your OS Windows 7? After everything I have try, until now I cant get Blockchain Driver works on Windows 7, thats why I change to Windows 10, and it works perfectly.

How many GPU does Windows 10 support?

Up to 8 as far as I know.

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Quote from: Bakhtra on October 08, 2017, 09:17:26 AM

Is your OS Windows 7? After everything I have try, until now I cant get Blockchain Driver works on Windows 7, thats why I change to Windows 10, and it works perfectly.

How many GPU does Windows 10 support?

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I reinstalled windows and wiped everything that was installed.
THen I downloaded the Blockchain drivers, teamviewer and ati patcher.
I did this with the mining drivers on my GPU's and the screen was lagging, I checked in device manager and only 5 cards showed up. To find if the error is in the hardware or software, I installed the latest AMD driver for my GPU and the PC recognized 6 cards. Afterwards I reinstalled the blockchain drivers (with AMD uninstaller, not DDU) and the PC regognized only 5 cards anymore and 1 Intel HD Graphics. Do I need to turn these Intel HD graphics off in the mobo bios settings?

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Quote from: Lumining on October 08, 2017, 08:44:52 AM

This is the error message and the file that causes the problem. Should I delete the old files and only keep the 2 newer ones?

Are you sure you let driver installation gone through ? if all cards plugged in during driver install , Its sometimes take 10-15-20 minutes with black screen , flickering screen , sometimes computer unresponsive for 2-3 minutes ... during that time you can not log in with teamviewer , if monitor connected you get a black unresponsive screen ...
Did you had to hard reboot the computer ? during/after amd driver installation ?
Did you turned off the on board graphics in the bios ? ( make sure you can not see in windows device manager )
Do you need riva tuner ? Why you installed ?

Try one more times ... this time dont install any tune software , dont install Afterburner , wait at least 20-30 min after you started the driver installation ...

- Uninstall all drivers with DDU
- Download and Install AMD Block Chain Driver from official AMD site - wait at least 20-30 min after you started the driver installation if all 6 cards pluggen in during install
- Run AMD/ATI Pixel Clock Patcher
- Reboot Your Rig
- ~~Download , install~~ ~~MSI Afterburner 4.4.0 Beta 18~~
- Start your mining software , let see what happening

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Quote from: Lumining on October 08, 2017, 09:31:15 AM

Quote from: Bakhtra on October 08, 2017, 09:17:26 AM

Is your OS Windows 7? After everything I have try, until now I cant get Blockchain Driver works on Windows 7, thats why I change to Windows 10, and it works perfectly.

Yes I'm on Windows 10. Currently I have some serious problems to get my rig started, it takes ages to start. If I can't fix that, I'll reinstall Windows 10 and start from the beginning I guess.

Harddisk problem maybe? If corrupt windows, fresh install will fix it.

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Quote from: Basmic on October 08, 2017, 09:46:17 AM

I am advocating to use for the extraction of old equipment for 4 GPU. This gives substantial savings when buying a motherboard CPU and power supply. Two sets for 4 GPU will cost less than one set for 6 GPU. You can use any OS. Also you share the risks from the fact that your equipment will fail. In case of any problems with the equipment you will be half of the GPU or all 6 GPU will not work. Which option is better?

The rig has been working fine for over 6 months, I'm not going to spend more money when I already know that it can work fine.

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I am advocating to use for the extraction of old equipment for 4 GPU. This gives substantial savings when buying a motherboard CPU and power supply. Two sets for 4 GPU will cost less than one set for 6 GPU. You can use any OS. Also you share the risks from the fact that your equipment will fail. In case of any problems with the equipment you will be half of the GPU or all 6 GPU will not work. Which option is better?

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Quote from: Bakhtra on October 08, 2017, 09:17:26 AM

Is your OS Windows 7? After everything I have try, until now I cant get Blockchain Driver works on Windows 7, thats why I change to Windows 10, and it works perfectly.

Yes I'm on Windows 10. Currently I have some serious problems to get my rig started, it takes ages to start. If I can't fix that, I'll reinstall Windows 10 and start from the beginning I guess.

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Is your OS Windows 7? After everything I have try, until now I cant get Blockchain Driver works on Windows 7, thats why I change to Windows 10, and it works perfectly.

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Quote from: xxcsu on October 06, 2017, 01:15:37 PM

- Uninstall all drivers with DDU
- Download and Install AMD Block Chain Driver from official AMD site
- Run AMD/ATI Pixel Clock Patcher
- Reboot Your Rig
- Download , install MSI Afterburner 4.4.0 Beta 18
Overclock your mem's / underclock your GPU's , with proper undervolting , and enjoy mining with full speed Wink

I installed the mining drivers and I've run Pixelpatcher. All 6 GPU's show up fine in device manager.

Afterwards I installed Afterburner 4.4.0 beta and RivaTuner.
I run Afterburner but the program froze immediately, no way to end it. I restarted the rig to close the program and tried to run Claymore Miner v10.
It gave me an error message that something's wrong with my screen settings.(I had plugged my monitor in the motherboard HDMI to update the drivers) so I put my HDMI dummy plug in the GPU that's connected to the x16 slot on my mobo.
Then, Teamviewer didn't start anymore and I found out, that my screen and my hdmi dummy plug don't work anymore when plugged in the GPU and when plugged in the mobo, only the screen works, not the hdmi dummy plug.
Any fix for that?

This is the error message and the file that causes the problem. Should I delete the old files and only keep the 2 newer ones?

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Quote from: mirny on October 06, 2017, 01:24:35 PM

Quote from: xxcsu on October 06, 2017, 01:15:37 PM

- Uninstall all drivers with DDU
- Download and Install AMD Block Chain Driver from official AMD site
- Run AMD/ATI Pixel Clock Patcher
- Reboot Your Rig
- Download , install MSI Afterburner 4.4.0 Beta 18
Overclock your mem's / underclock your GPU's , with proper undervolting , and enjoy mining with full speed Wink

Is this your guide working on any Windows build?
I mean Is it working only on Windows 10, or can I use it on Window 7 too?
cheers.

To be honest with you , i don't have much experience mining with win 7 rigs , i give up win 7 last year when i tried to get 6-7-8 vga cards working on win 7 , and i was not able to build a stable running rig at all. Then i switched to win 10 and linux ...
So i know for sure its working on windows 10 , im not sure about any of the other windows version.
Someone with more win 7 experience might join to this topic and can tell you more about this.

From official AMD driver dowload page :

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Compatible Operating Systems
Radeon Software Crimson ReLive Edition Beta for Blockchain Compute is designed to support the following Microsoft® Windows® platforms. Operating System support may vary depending on your specific AMD Radeon product.
Windows® 10 (64-bit version)
Windows 7 (64-bit version with SP1 or higher)

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Quote from: xxcsu on October 06, 2017, 01:15:37 PM

- Uninstall all drivers with DDU
- Download and Install AMD Block Chain Driver from official AMD site
- Run AMD/ATI Pixel Clock Patcher
- Reboot Your Rig
- Download , install MSI Afterburner 4.4.0 Beta 18
Overclock your mem's / underclock your GPU's , with proper undervolting , and enjoy mining with full speed Wink

Is this your guide working on any Windows build?
I mean Is it working only on Windows 10, or can I use it on Window 7 too?
cheers.

xxcsu

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- Uninstall all drivers with DDU
- Download and Install AMD Block Chain Driver from official AMD site
- Run AMD/ATI Pixel Clock Patcher
- Reboot Your Rig
- Download , install MSI Afterburner 4.4.0 Beta 18
Overclock your mem's / underclock your GPU's , with proper undervolting , and enjoy mining with full speed Wink

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