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I've just about had it trying to figure this out

I have multiple Radeon 5970's I want to setup.

So far the miners I have only utilize either one core or one card.

Tried GUIMINER, phoenix 1 & 2, and Diablominer

so now if someone can help me get at least 600Mhash per card i'll send you 0.25 BTC for your help

THANKS

What driver and SDK do you have installed?

Also, under GUIminer

SS. If image don't load in the forum. Here, https://www.dropbox.com/s/b2hrkwrz688a5ta/Untitled.jpg .
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Select for each new worker "openCL", the device drop down menu. There should be four GPU devices showing. Create a new worker for each ati device.

Create account at one of the BTC mining pools, set your worker/workers.

Use

These can be adjusted
in the flag box.

Start mining.

You have any overclocks done?

Previously 12.1 & 2.1 SDK, was reading on the DiabloMiner thread that 12.2 was best and it had SDK builtin but now miners are saying no OpenCL support
should i go back to 12.1 or just install sdk 2.1 again, i have xp 64 and v2.3 is the last SDK that supports this OS

I'm able to connect to the pools

what does -f 7 flag mean?

GUIMINER only listed two things when i had two GPU's installed. 0-0 Cypress and 1-1 Cypress (plus onboard graphics)

Install the SDK 2.1 if you don't have any problems, then devices should show.

-f means frames. Set to 25 if you use one of the mining gpu's as desktop, and the ones you don't use for desktop, set between 0~10.

Edit:
And for these cards, I think best was "for windows 7" i don't know about xp, 11.12 is best for the 5000 series cards.

guiminer is saying no opencl device found now

Uninstall them all, reboot, use driversweeper to clean any left over stuff, install 12.1ccc & 2.1 SDK, reboot. Start up GUIMiner and see if your GPU devices show.

system restore did the trick

on 0-0 i put f 25 but my system is stopping display and comes back slow when i try to run two workers (same card) opens VPU Recover window "reset your grpahics accelerator it was no longer responding to grpahics driver commands"

board has onboard graphics but coudn't get it to work, it would show in BIOS then when hit OS would always revert to the GPU card

worker 1 showing 320 or so Mhash
worker 2 is erroring it looks, showing 1.5ghash bt no shares

i had gpu-z, apparently system restore actually deleted my files so downloading again

How'd restore fix it when you got

?

Might wanna do


Edit:

How many 5970's you have?

Done

Right now 2x 5970's but I'm about to add a third as soon as i know this will work

I assume CrossFireX should NOT be enabled?

EDIT: now it's back to only showing two Cypress Devices, 0-1 and 1-0 and when i started the 2nd one it took mhash away from the first one and CPU still using 50% utilization, says explorer.exe is using 25% of my dual core

Yes, do not use crossfire.

Try between -f7 and -f10 for the GPU's not used on the desktop. Somewhere between that, should drop your cpu usage down, to barely used, also uncheck all the cpu box's for each worker.

Edit:
If all four GPU devices were showing, 2 of them should not just disappear.  Unless the card is going?

-f 25 and unchecked cpu 0 & 1 affinity still uses a lot of cpu 50% when just running 1 worker 320Mhash thats one core of one GPU, assuming the one that produces my display

Bump. Now offering 0.30 BTC

willing to try any miner that's compatible with win xp x64

Yea, sorry man, ionno. Above is the best to my knowledge that should work, In theory, XP isn't even supported anymore, it was a great OS but as it is all good things come to an end and are born with greater things, Win7.
End of support for XP > April 8, 2014

Windows 7 is worth it in so many ways.

That's what I would suggest, but if you know about linux, you can try it. But if you want to get up and going, use win7, quick n easy.

Most likely it is XP causing the reek havoc. It's just old.

garg. just would rather utilize an OS I spent like $100 on rather than buy a new OS for another $100

Win7 utilizes everything so perfect.

Is your XP even x64?

yes i mentioned that a few times

that may be one detriment because this OS is not common, high compatiblity issues I've seen and guess that software isn't coded well for this anyway

My bad, I see couple posts above now, overlooked it.

Let us know if you do or don't find a solution for your current operating system install. And if you choose Linux/Windows7, let us know how it works out.

Did you try CGMINER?

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=28402.0 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=28402.0)

i'll try, would u like to code for me and if success thats .30 btc for u

I don't even know which download to use for xp x64

Windows binary:
http://ck.kolivas.org/apps/cgminer/cgminer-2.5.0-win32.zip

Download this one. It's the only binary for windows.
Unzip the files and start CGMINER, it will automatically detects the values for your graphic cards.

If it configures all your cards, then you could tweak the settings for best results, but for that i cant help. I'm a new at this things for now.
But if it detects all your cards then ask for help on the CGMINER thread that ckolivas or other member can help you.

opened it, gave error that ADL & OpenCL devices # were different

logged in to pool and it is only mining with ONE core on ONE card. I have two cards each dual core in the system

Sorry, cant help you.  ???

Try to ask some help on the thread.

Just one question.

You want to mine and use the computer or you only want to mine?

If you only want to mine you could use BAMT.

http://bamter.org/ (http://bamter.org/)

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=65915.0 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=65915.0)

just mine

So use BAMT and your problems will go away.

do u know if i can run that off CD instead of USB key

I don't think so because of the configuration.
If your Bios permits you booting from an SD card and you have a SD card reader you cab use it.

already ahead of you, now setting my settings for 5970's, looks like i have to manually set all the core speeds? i set to 725 which is my stock 5970

FINALLY! Both cards with both cores are mining, each core 320Mhash
fans loud so i'm wondering how low % i can set the fans and still be safe. of course at stock that should be quite possible. default is 100% fan

Normally I have to install 11.6 drivers full, then uninstall them, then install 12.1 drivers and then install 2.1 SDK. If not, OpenCL devices aren't detected.

I've found that most of my OpenCL related issues go away when I use SDK 2.5. It's been much more stable for me. And then I use 11.12 because I run CGminer. I need to be on 11.12 because 11.6 doesn't support headless gpu's, and 11.7-11.11 have the 100% cpu usage bug.

what do you mean headless gpu?

Gonna be a long post... I am going to assume you have just 1 5970 in your system.

For this I'm going to just go through the steps I use to set up my miners with a software over/under clock/volt on the Phoenix 2 miner. Things you will need...

11.12 or 12.1 driver. Looks like you are using Windows XP x64.
Here is 11.12 (http://www2.ati.com/drivers/11-12_xp64_dd_ccc_ocl.exe) and 12.1 (http://www2.ati.com/drivers/12-1_xp64_dd_ccc.exe). Take your pick. Both as far as I have seen do not exhibit the CPU bug. You don't need the catalyst control panel, it'll just hog system memory

Both of these come with 2.6 SDK though, which is bad for the Radeon HD 5000 series. You will want the 2.1 SDK. You can install it right along side of the 2.6 SDK without any issues. You can download it Here (http://download2-developer.amd.com/amd/Stream20GA/ati-stream-sdk-v2.1-xp64.exe) but really you don't need this whole package. It comes with samples and helpers and a bunch of other useless junk that you don't need. You can instead just install the required package, which is here (https://dl.dropbox.com/u/9768004/ATIStreamSDK_dev_xp64a.msi). This is hosted on my dropbox, so if you are paranoid about 3rd party, you can get the exact same msi by downloading the Full Package (http://download2-developer.amd.com/amd/Stream20GA/ati-stream-sdk-v2.1-xp64.exe) but instead of installing it, you extract the contents somewhere (It's a self-extracting executable) and navigate to ati-stream-sdk-v2.1-xp64\Packages\Apps\ATIStreamSDK_Dev_xp64a and run ATIStreamSDK_dev.msi to install SDK 2.1.

Next you may want to verify that your SDK's are properly installed. Another handy tool I use is GPU Caps Viewer which you can download Here (http://www.geeks3d.com/20120412/gpu-caps-viewer-1-16-0-geforce-gtx-680-monitoring-opengl-opencl-cuda-utility/). Just scroll down to the Win32 installer to start downloading. After you install and open it, go to the OpenCL tab up top and you will see a dropdown box at the upper right. If you followed this guide word for word, you should have "1: AMD Accelerated Parallel Processing" as the first item and "2: ATI Stream" as the second item. If you only have "1: ATI Stream" this is fine, just note it. If you don't have an "ATI Stream", something went wrong. Try rebooting and seeing if it appears after rebooting.

Next, we'll work on a software-based undervolt and underclock. I think we'll start with something conservative and let you use higher/lower volts/clocks. For this, I like to use Sapphire Trixx 4.3.0. You can get it Here (http://www.sapphiretech.com/archive/drivers/TRIXX_installer_634709517705218181.exe). After you install it, go to the settings portion and make sure "Disaple ULPS" has a checkmark by it, and if "Synchronize cards in Multi-GPU config" has a checkmark by it, get rid of it. You can also set a fan speed for your 5970 under fan control. I personally just use 100% because the noise won't be heard and I don't know any better :P. The main tab of interest is the Overclocking tab of course. Go ahead and adjust GPU clock to 700 and VDDC to 1000 (1v) (It might change to 999 and this is ok). The memory clock may be trickier. We want it to be at 150, but it won't go that far right away. Instead, drag it all the way to the left, and hit apply. Trixx will now allow you go a little lower. Drag it to the left, apply, and repeat until you get 150. The 5970 has 2 GPU's so we'll want to do to the dropdown box and select the other 5970 GPU core, and do the same this. Set GPU Clock to 700, memory clock to 150, and VDDC to 1000 (It might change to 999 and this is ok). Make sure that you applied, then you can close or minize Trixx to the tray.

Finally, the miner itself. I like to use Phoenix 2, mostly because of it's consistent hashrate display, plus it seems to be a little higher than other more popular miners. Go ahead and pick up your copy of Phoenix 2 Here (https://github.com/downloads/phoenix2/phoenix/phoenix-2.0.0.zip). Phoenix 2 uses a config file, compared to Phoenix 1 which uses command line arguments. It is phoenix.cfg and it is in located in the same place as phoenix.exe. Now assuming that everything so far installed correctly and you have a "2: ATI Stream" in GPU Caps Viewer's OpenCL dropdown box, I have a pre-configured config file here in a codeblock. Just open up phoenix.cfg with notepad or your favorite text editor (If it is missing, create the file) and paste the following into file, replacing whatever may be in it. MAKE SURE TO REPLACE THE "backend" WITH YOUR POOL'S FULL URL! THE SAME GOES FOR "backups" iIF YOU HAVE ANY BACKUP POOLS! You may have as many backups as you want. If you DON'T have a backup pool, you may delete the entire "backups = http://user:pass@pooladdress2:port" line.


Save and close your text editor and run phoenix.exe. Voila, you should see about 650 Mhash/sec!

Thanks, I guess I didn't post here that I'm satisfied, using BAMT and thats what I got abouts, 650mhash per card, x3=1950, then I overclocked a little to get an emotionally rewarding 2Ghash :)

Sending you over 0.04BTC for your help (wanted to send .05 but I'm broke :P )

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