Z170 Z170A BIOS setting 7 GPU mining success

firebird631

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Recently got two of those chipset, and now I know its a bad idea. I've another H110 working perfectly with the 6 gpus.
I'm able on an ASROCK Z170 Extreme 4 to set 5 GPUs but I'm using a PCI-E card splitter 1x to 4 PCI-E. I explain :

- 2 GPUs on the first and last 1x slots
- 1 GPU on the last 16x slot
- the extending card on the 2th 1x slot and plug the 2 remaining GPUs onto

It works no latency, no instabilities. If I try to plug the 6th GPU I've got a 5D error and then forced to clear CMOS, cannot reboot.
And if I plug a GPU on the first or second 16x then slow down of the GPUs on the 16x, instabilities and finally lost one or two GPUs, reboot...

And on a MSI Z170-A Pro, the maximum I've success is 3. But maybe I could do more investigations on that model. Just bored of wasting my time on these Z170 MBs.

About the BIOS I've tested anything possible, GEN 1,2,3,Auto, 4G (only on the MSI), TOLUD 2.5 (only on the ASROCK), disabling any non used features, tried anything we can found over the Web.

The BIOS are updated to the latest version.

If you have a suggestion ? For the next I will use H87 or H110 only.

miningfirst

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Quote from: jimmykl on March 06, 2018, 10:41:34 PM

Quote from: miningfirst on March 06, 2018, 07:00:39 PM

Hello everyone,

I have a rig with the following..
- Z170A GAMING M5 (MS-7977)
- Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU G3930 @2.90GHz
- 1000W PSU
- GPU: RADEON RX 560 4GB
- using simple mining (linix)

I have 7 GPUs and when i got the rig, it was working at 1/3 card capacity - 100 sol/sec per card. The error stated that I need more RAM for 4GB was not sufficient. I upgraded the RAM to 16 GB DDR4 and the rig stopped working. I was mining ZENCASH. The then had taken the rig to a tech to trouble shoot it. He thought it was the power supply, so I got a new one. I added the new power supply but it still does the same thing. Everything seems to be on but the Simple Mining is not coming up on the screen and the rig is not mining. The mining pool states that the rig is off. I switched back to the 4GB RAM and I tried to adjust the bios but that did nothing and the rig is still not working. (BIOS adjustment: . Enable above 4g decoding).

Could someone please help?

You need to be methodical with your troubleshooting. Remove as many factors as possible. Take out all the 560s. Unless you are a linux guru I'd recommend plugging in another ssd and install windows from scratch. Make sure the machine runs ok with just the motherboard, ram, ssd and no video cards. Then add the cards one by one and check each one can be recognised and mines. Even if you intend to use SMOS in the end this will let you check all the components are functional.

Ok, thank you for the help.
I rechecked everything and found that the BIOS switched the IGD to the the PEG. I switch it and now it is running with the new RAM (I.E. 16 GB). It does not give an error anymore that it is running at 1/3 capacity but it . I still seems to be running at about 100sol/sec per card. I am using SMOS. Is there any resolution to this? I should be getting about 1800sol/sec and not 700sol/sec.

jimmykl

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Quote from: miningfirst on March 06, 2018, 07:00:39 PM

Hello everyone,

I have a rig with the following..
- Z170A GAMING M5 (MS-7977)
- Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU G3930 @2.90GHz
- 1000W PSU
- GPU: RADEON RX 560 4GB
- using simple mining (linix)

I have 7 GPUs and when i got the rig, it was working at 1/3 card capacity - 100 sol/sec per card. The error stated that I need more RAM for 4GB was not sufficient. I upgraded the RAM to 16 GB DDR4 and the rig stopped working. I was mining ZENCASH. The then had taken the rig to a tech to trouble shoot it. He thought it was the power supply, so I got a new one. I added the new power supply but it still does the same thing. Everything seems to be on but the Simple Mining is not coming up on the screen and the rig is not mining. The mining pool states that the rig is off. I switched back to the 4GB RAM and I tried to adjust the bios but that did nothing and the rig is still not working. (BIOS adjustment: . Enable above 4g decoding).

Could someone please help?

You need to be methodical with your troubleshooting. Remove as many factors as possible. Take out all the 560s. Unless you are a linux guru I'd recommend plugging in another ssd and install windows from scratch. Make sure the machine runs ok with just the motherboard, ram, ssd and no video cards. Then add the cards one by one and check each one can be recognised and mines. Even if you intend to use SMOS in the end this will let you check all the components are functional.

miningfirst

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Hello everyone,

I have a rig with the following..
- Z170A GAMING M5 (MS-7977)
- Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU G3930 @2.90GHz
- 1000W PSU
- GPU: RADEON RX 560 4GB
- using simple mining (linix)

I have 7 GPUs and when i got the rig, it was working at 1/3 card capacity - 100 sol/sec per card. The error stated that I need more RAM for 4GB was not sufficient. I upgraded the RAM to 16 GB DDR4 and the rig stopped working. I was mining ZENCASH. The then had taken the rig to a tech to trouble shoot it. He thought it was the power supply, so I got a new one. I added the new power supply but it still does the same thing. Everything seems to be on but the Simple Mining is not coming up on the screen and the rig is not mining. The mining pool states that the rig is off. I switched back to the 4GB RAM and I tried to adjust the bios but that did nothing and the rig is still not working. (BIOS adjustment: . Enable above 4g decoding).

Could someone please help?

parentibule

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Hi all,

Up this thread because when I want to use IGP for display, not a GPU. But if I choose IGP, even if all my GPUs are detected in Windows, none of them is detected in mining software (ccminer, nicehash).

Is there something to do?

Thanks.

KryptoNinja007

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Quote from: bobbywalker on July 04, 2017, 05:40:28 PM

I have a z170 pro and had tried all the suggestions from this thread
but no matter what i did i could only get it to detect 5 gtx 1060's

What i ended up doing to get the 6th card to show up was put the
display setting back to auto, then plug up one of the cards to my
monitor

That disabled the intel onboard graphics gpu in the chip and allowed
the 6th card to show up

What I'm now confused about is the motherboard has 7 slots but it
appears you can only detect 6 cards max if you disable the onboard
graphics

If anyone else has this board and have 7 nvidia cards running please
share what you did to get all 7 slots to work

Anyway I wanted to post this in case someone else was having this
same issue and couldn't get the 6th card to work

Cheers!

Hi. I am pretty new on here. Just built my first rig using the asus z170 pro mobo. I was having all of the same problems as everyone else here, so I was reading your guys posts to get some ideas on how to fix the issue. I was having trouble getting my rig to notice all 6 cards. Let me tell you what worked for me. All my bios settings were correct, but there is a little trick to getting the mobo to read your cards. The pcie slots are numbered (3 large slots and 4 small slots) They go in order from top to bottom 1-3 and 1-4. So you have to plug your usb risers in the correct order. The 4th small pcie slot at the bottom should be left empty, so the second to last slot will not have anything plugged into it. After this my pc recognized all cards after loading them up. I restarted my pc after all cards were recognized and now am hashing away. If anyone needs more details please let me know. I will be happy to share my settings. Happy Hashings!

swellcoins

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I have a rig with 6 AMD RX470, Asus Prime Z270-A Motherboard and Windows Pro 10 (64). I am gettin 19.8 Mh/s per card mining ethereum. My other RX470 rig gets 21.9 Mh/s. Same cards, same brand, different hash rates.

There is something wrong with the 19.8 Mh/s rig, because Claymore does not report the temperature and fan velocity of the cards. Also sometimes the pc freezes and MSI Afterburner does not work.Can't figure out where is the problem. Card driver is 171.1024. The rig with 21.9 Mh/z hashrate has Driver 162.4

Can the problem be in the card driver? If so, how do I uninstall and install the correct driver?

swellcoins

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I have Asus Prime Z270-A with 7 GTX 1070 running fine

bobbywalker

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I have a z170 pro and had tried all the suggestions from this thread
but no matter what i did i could only get it to detect 5 gtx 1060's

What i ended up doing to get the 6th card to show up was put the
display setting back to auto, then plug up one of the cards to my
monitor

That disabled the intel onboard graphics gpu in the chip and allowed
the 6th card to show up

What I'm now confused about is the motherboard has 7 slots but it
appears you can only detect 6 cards max if you disable the onboard
graphics

If anyone else has this board and have 7 nvidia cards running please
share what you did to get all 7 slots to work

Anyway I wanted to post this in case someone else was having this
same issue and couldn't get the 6th card to work

Cheers!

steezmatic

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I am using a z170a sli plus mobo running 6 xfx rx480's and either one or two of the gpus will stop mining. This also happens when I have 4 plugged in. Also, I am using a Corsair hx1200 psu. Do you happen to have the bios settings that worked for you? I couldn't use your links since they are broken Sad

chondo

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on your z270 setup could you share if you're running...

- out of the box BIOS
- win10 / Linux / ethOS
- any settings that everyone is missing

...and...

what GPU cards you're running.

Nice work btw!!!

Kainzo

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Quote from: mining-hardware on February 28, 2017, 04:37:45 AM

Quote from: ccccccc7 on February 28, 2017, 04:22:16 AM

In your pictures you have plugged the PCIEx1 Riser into the PCIEx16 slot.

Does that work??? I never thought of that.

Yes , that all 7 Riser is work .
Do you have plug power cable into USB Riser

I have two power type slot USB Riser,it must plugged power cable~
http://imgur.com/a/eIXIh

So which kind of riser do you get? MOLEX or SATA?

roliejitsuSS

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Quote from: jeremyf327 on May 30, 2017, 11:15:34 AM

Finally got all six cards working!

@jeremyf327 what did you change to get it to work?
I'm still running into the issue to where when I turn on 4g decoding my screen will turn black after the BIOS screen.

Tarcisio

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Personally, I have asrock z170 extreme 3, but I do not think in bios the deconding 4g, someone please could help, I do not know what to do, I recognize 5 gpus, but after 12 minutes of mining, one of the gpus stops working and Blocks mining.

jeremyf327

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Finally got all six cards working!

jeremyf327

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I am struggling getting Windows 10 to install all the drivers on this Z170a (Pro Carbon). I have (6) RX 580's 8gb. Only three of them take to the drivers. The other three are recognized by Windows but don't install the drivers. With that said, I cannot enable 4G encoding without getting that backlit black screen. Any ideas to get Windows to load all drivers? I've tried 16.9.1, 17.4.1, and 17.5.1. I do have the latest BIOS.

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noobminer001

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Hello,

System:

Intel G4400
MSI Z170a gaming M5 (updated BIOS to 1.D)
7x RX470 4GB
120GB SSD (UEFI)
Win10 Pro
8Gb Ram

I've been able to get 7 RX470 GPUs to work using MSI z170a gaming m5 however I ran into some issues.

I needed to first disable 4G, install only one card and load drivers. Then shutown, install all 7 GPUs, enable 4G and reset

However, with 4G enabled and PCIe set to GEN1, my system would not boot - would keep getting a black screen. To get around this, there's an option for Win8.1/10 optimization in the BIOS that I enabled. I have no idea what this actually does to the system. I haven't tried disabling this and rebooting to see if windows loads again or not now that the system recognized the cards. Does anyone here know what this BIOS config does? Has anyone been able to get 7 GPUs to work on this MB without enabling this option?

Also, what drivers are you running in general? I'm currently running the latest (17.5.2) and I have had issues before with older drivers causing the system to boot with a black screen.

Cheers

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Hi Sir! Can you please help me. Why does my bios doesnt have setting enable 4g? Even i updated to the latest version as of now. Please. Thank you!
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You need to change from EZ Bios settings to > Advanced BIOS.

Then choose the menu. There you will find the 'ENABLE 4G' option.

Enable 4G is *not* under the OR OR

menus.

It is under .

Turn enable 4G on, disable unused SATA/USB ports. Set speed for PCIe to Gen1.

Then 7 cards will work fine.

BeastMinero

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