Yep success.

Currently up and running mining XMR with 3 GPU, and the CPU.  I need to shut down my rosewell machine and yank the two cards out of it to populate it with 5x.

not an option.  I need to install and have it online for a month or two before I can do a clean install.  This way my hardware profile is present on the activation server for next time.  I have yet to have an issue with a 7->10 upgrade that requires a clean install.


What I did try, and seems like it may be working, is change BIOS primary graphics setting to IGFX; and it booted to windows on the internal graphics with no issues while a card was installed.   I am attempting to install the driver now.  Strangely windows didn't show it as a GTX650;  it called it a basic display adapter.   Uaually it ID's it's model at least.

Anyhow;  I will report back once I get more done.   Hopefully I can get this thing running XMR on my old GPU pile to fully test it's multi-gpu capability in windows 10 tonight.  Hopefully I have enough power left on this circuit to do it safely XD.  These old GPU's pull a lot of juice;  especially the GTX470.

What I did:

used integrated graphics for the start.  i3-6100, 8gb ram, 64gb Msata.
installed 7;  updated to SP1.  Upgraded to 10 free.   Updated 10 all the way to 17xx;  no more updates available.
Used windowsupdate driver search to install the other peripherals (smbus controller, etc)  As well as the onboard intel video driver.

All good so far.    Can't install the crimson blockchain driver cause no device is present.  Can't install the nvidia driver cause no device is present.   Totally normal.  I can run xmr-stak fine on the CPU.... all is good.



Now; This is with a 1000w PSU, and all power plugs on the board populated correctly mind you.

From here:
Simply plug in a GPU;  and onboard graphics no longer POST.  if I plug the HDMI into the video card;  Ill see post there, but then after post nothing but blank screen.  Via the HDD status light on the msata drive;  it looks like its booting into windows.  Can't see anything past that.  If I plug the GPU into slot 2 instead of slot 1, same exact results;  post seen on GPU, but nothing but a black screen past POST.  The monitor does receive a signal of the right dimensions (1366x768); but nothing makes it there from windows.   effin strange.

I tried plugging in anything form a GTX470, 650, 550, 650ti, 550ti to a GTX980.... nothing, same results.

unplug all gpu and hook to onboard HDMI;  works as it did originally.

Im having the strangest of luck.  Maybe its because windows was installed off the integrated GPU?

My onda board works fine.  All PCIE slots respond;  I can see POST display on all of them when tested one at a time;  but once it goes to boot past POST;  its just a black screen.  With any GPU installed;  the onboard graphics do not respond or show a POST at all.

I still need to try a DVI port on the pcie gfx cards to see if that gets response;  but since the display is still lit and blank;  I think its not the case.

If at any time I remove all PCIE graphics and plug back into the built in HDMI port;  it boots up and works as you would expect.


Kind-of annoying....

Anyone else run into this kind of issue with the onda board???

8Gb Ram it's 1.2v.  I went to frys.com and looked up ddr4 sodimms that were in stock;  and made sure in the description it only showed 1.2v.  I ended up buying Patriot Viper 8Gb PC4-21300 2666MHz; and yeah, the i3-6100.  Right now its finally through it's windows 7 install->update-win10 upgrade.   I put a 64Gb mSATA in it.      Works like a champ.

Next is to put a real power supply on it (presently using a pico PSU on a +12 barrel plug; and the onboard gfx port) and populate each slot one at a time, as well as get the nvidia / amd drivers installed onto this drive.    Once everything is verified working; Ill image the drive as a fail-safe clean-reset for my D8P in the future.  
Not sure if others could use it as the windows license may be tied to the drive serial...  They would have to activate windows on their own.  But ill have a base point for a windows 10 image for mining for myself regardless.

I need a case for this thing;  I responded to spotswood's thread, but haven't heard from him.   Id rather have a case like the one [i believe citronick] is using... the enclosed metal case.  There is even a version that has provisions for risers and 4 more GPU.

Right now;  Its running off a pico PSU, and a USB wifi card for internet access.  It's doing XMR on the cpu, maintaining ~50*c....   Until I get GPU's on it (and it in a case), it will probably sit like this after initial setup with drivers.

Im having trouble with figuring out the right driver/combo for AMD to get good hashrates on ETH, XMR and other algos combined in one install.   Making progress...  Just annoying as #@$^ cause it feels like you are going in circles sometimes.

For a short test, Ill be using one of these as a mining and gaming machine at the same time........  Just to see how well it can handle it.

My mSATA and cpu cooler arrived today, so finally time to populate and power this puppy up.

for those of you still chasing XMR profits, I just swapped from claymore to xmr-stak-win64 and am seeing better results; more consistent poolside hashrate reports, etc....

Last night was a long night in downloading a bunch of miner apps and starting to go through them one at a time.  Now that I have a baseline process, this should go pretty quick for me.


Those are some killer PSU deals phil... sadly, i'm saving all my pennies for the new gen hardware release... =)

best to stick to BTC, but I believe BCH is an option.   I'd watch the algo stats page for BCH and see how often it turns red over the next few days to make a definite decision.  Red==not enough to pay the peeps requesting payment in.

frontpage no longer denoted small payouts on sunday...   I am waiting on my payout as well, im sure it will come when its economical for the pool to send a batch of TX

bitmain wants so much for the cryptonight miners;  just because they only realized too late that they will basically become bricks....

Spotswood on this site makes an open-air frame for them....

Yep.

quick google searches my friend.....

Funny thing, as I had my recent support ticket answered because I was straight to the point with what was wrong.... thus why I recommend it.

I wouldn't be quick to dismiss my other comment you so thoughtfully omitted, as its been an issue for others before.

an L3 mines a specific algorythm.  just point it at that port to zpool using a btc address, as well as the correct password c=BTC
you don't pick the coin, the stratum picks the coin.

use a support ticket.

did you send ETH via some sort of smart contract/token that they don't accept?  I have heard of this happening before.

3 hours ago, tx: e0ddadbd98b3194a6580d4d5efb0136deca9048bc5daf7bb48d3247dc0f1ecef

you would need to speak in #support on the discord channel and voice your concern.  see this or the previous page for a reply of mine with instructions to get to the discord page.  if its an auxpow coin;  it will not be removed as its free hash results that would just get discarded otherwise.

Problem is;  the scratchpad on the algo is ~2Mb....   all they need to do is increase the algo to the point where it takes too much processing AND memory;  i think its a win win.  It seems they designed this algo to scale up both issues at once if need be.

I would be interested to see how it looks after.... sure, you can add more memory to a future device, but increasing the computations on the scratchpad, will make it that much harder to compute...

no, this is not how the pool works.  you only pick the algo.

i would love to try one of these cards at least at some point.   If a group buy goes through, and I have the ability to put it, it would be nice to be able to =)

looking at this baikal cryptonight asic coming out;  it makes sense...

It just starts with a keccack hash, and then a rather basic algorythm is done with ~2Mb of memory space.    I was thinking of working with my father to find an FPGA that would fit the bill for all of these operations.   The way its calculated, I can see how it would be such low power with an FPGA.