Hi,

Now that everything is working and fresh in my mind I wanted to go through step by step installation from beginning to end:

1. Install just motherboard. it means CPU, memory, SSD, NO wires NO adapters NO GPUS

2. Plug motherboard into power not forgetting power to 8 pin CPU

3. Power up make sure first of all the thing works and you can access the bios. (forget about all the tutorial videos where they build the thing from beginning to end and it just works, that shit don't work!)

4. Once you can access the bios, update it to the latest version. There are instructions online and in the motherboard manual. It's really not that scary.

5. set up your bios ready for the next steps:
 a) DMI/OPI  is gen 2
 b) PEG Port is gen 2
 c) 4G decoding - enable (I find there is no harm in enabling 4G early even before you have multiple GPUS but if you have issues do it later after 3rd GPU)
4. PCH / PCIe config is gen 2
5. Onboard devices M.2_1 config is auto (M.2_2 setup options are not found as this is set to PCI-e by default it should just work)
There are other settings for making things more convenient but these are not critical to setup

6. After setup install windows

7. setup all your risers but NO GPUS yet!
POWER TIPS:
- make sure if you are using a daisy chain SATA or Molex power that you don't put more than 2 or 3 risers per connection to PSU. It might not take the load and give you errors.
- I also burnt 2 motherboards in early setups connecting adapter to adapter - don't do it! take the original psu power cable and connect each end (if daisy chain you will have multiple) to ONE chinese splitter. don't connect one splitter to another splitter. I use the molex one male to two female adapter works fine.
- Make sure non of the cable touch the metal body of your GPU those get very hot and melt the cables.
-don't share cables between PSUs corsair and Antec and EVGA they are all wired up differently and don't share you could burn up your setup
-there are MANY things that can go wrong with power. each Riser would need about 75W on it's own so 850W supply might just be enough for 8 risers and M/b. If you use heavy power GPUS like 8 x R9 390 you will need at least another 2 PSUs as these will draw at least 200W each. AT LEAST!

8. Install the two m.2 adapters m.2_1 and m.2_2 make sure you follow asus recommendations I followed the instructions carefully, FIRST screwing in the m.2 card and THEN bending it into place. VERY SCARY!! I felt like I was going to snap the card in 2 or snap the motherboard or snap my fingers, bending those shits is hard!!!

9. start up the PC after each step just to make sure nothing was messed up in between steps

10. So each PCIE riser is powered now and you can connect just ONE PCIE riser to ONE m.2 connector. NO NEED TO CONNECT m.2 adapter to power as PCIE your riser is already powered.

11. update windows

12. download all latest drivers from asus website, chipset, LAN and Video  ALSO download latest driver from AMD website but DON'T yet install the AMD video driver.

13. disconnect Internet. uplug it. shut down

14. Install 1 GPU inside the first PCIE riser (the one you connected to m.2_1) Power up should boot fine.

15. In windows open device manager make sure your 1 GPU is detected as some generic video adapter.

16. shut down. Install second GPU in PCIE riser connected to m.2_2. boot up, at this point both m.2 converted to PCIe should be detected by windows as generic display adapters. good.

17. Keep adding 1 GPU at a time and booting up and making sure detected by windows between each addition. (after 3 GPUS make sure your bios is setup for 4G decoding). sometimes it may take a few minutes for device manager in windows to detect new GPU, wait patiently. by the end of this you should see 8 GPUs detected by windows.

18. shut down. Unplug all your PCIE risers from motherboard (no need to physically pull out GPUs from risers)

19. plug in just one PCIE-riser to motherboard and boot up into windows

20. install latest AMD graphics driver that you downloaded before.

21. Driver should install successfully detecting the 1 GPU you have connected.

22. shut down, connect second riser, reboot make sure it's detected not as generic

23. repeat process connect one PCIE riser with 1 GPU at each reboot, check and repeat

Hopefully by the end of it all you will have 8 gpus detected.

If I left anything out please comment and I will ammend

GOOD LUCK!

Kudos
Eth 0x26eD97293A6F31E2bE3a7122D52aC151B97138Cd

PS sometimes GPUs are not detected on first reboot. reboot 2 or 3 times with same settings to ensure you really have a problem

OMG!!!! I got it to work!

the problems was with the gold connectors of the shitty chinese m.2 adapter

wiggling it around and pushing it in didn't help at all!!!

what did help was following Asus recommendations on installation of m.2 cards but not from the Z270-p manual, those are not there! I looked by chance at the Z170 manual.

I followed the instructions carefully, FIRST screwing in the m.2 card and THEN bending it into place. VERY SCARY!! I felt like I was going to snap the card in 2 or snap the motherboard or snap my fingers, bending those shits is hard!!!

finally it's done!

both cards recognised

here is where to download the manual https://www.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/GA-Z170-Gaming-K3-rev-10#support-manual it's page 15, (I couldn't find how to attach photo here)

ENJOY!!!

Hi thanks for the reply.

Iv'e watched both these videos before,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cd1qoTAHmA&t=20s


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DR-FkpU2KfI&t=309s

 it's for 270-A not 270-P but similar enought just the P hasn't go as many options.

To sum up he recommends:
1. DMI/OPI gen 2
2. PEG Port gen 2
3. 4G decoding enable
4. PCH / PCIe config  gen 2
5. Onboard devices M.2_1 config - auto

which do not work for me. anyway I tried all different combinations already I think and not working.

Can someone send photos of their actual bios page by page or tell me what I'm missing

thanks

PS. I'm just trying now to get 2 GPUs only to work from the m.2_1 slot (not working) and m.2_2 slot (already working)
that's all, not multi gpu complex problem
Please help will reward $

Hi,

I'm having problems getting m.2_1 to detect pci-e, there is no problem with the hardware as it all works on m.2_2

Would you please share your bios settings,
1. DMI/OPI (gen 1, gen 2, gen 3 or auto) ?
2. PEG Port (gen 1, gen 2, gen 3 or auto) ?
3. 4G decoding (enable / disable) ?
4. PCH / PCIe config (gen 1, gen 2, gen 3 or auto) ?
5. Onboard devices M.2_1 config (auto or PCIe) ?

Are the m.2 adapters powered or unpowered?

If anyone else has a working Z270-P with both m.2 detected as PCIe please share the above settings in your bios.

There is a lot of conflicting advice on every single point everyone has a different opinion as to what works. I've already tried all options/ combinations to get the m.2_1 to be detected as pcie but no...

PLEASE HELP! WILL REWARD!! $

I'm desperate 

If it's possible to ask the moderator to change the subject of his thread from "My bank account was frozen" to "my bank account was blocked" or add the word "blocked" in the title. I think it would help some people find it.
I'm still interested to hear from people who had specific experience with their UK bank account being blocked.
I'm sure there are many victims

Yes! I would absolutely want to make a police complaint about this guy unfortunately I just don't believe that my complaint would make a difference. I did ask my bank that should I prove myself innocent and it would mean I am actually the victim of fraud here would they persue this criminal charges against the fraudster and I got a vague response. Seems not.
It is a shame there isn't a process by which if multiple users were defrauded by the same user on localbitcoins.com that they could all share information and work together to bring that fraudster to justice.
Unfortunately at the moment reviews are anonymous ​ and localbitcoins themselves aren't actively pursuing fraudsters. I wrote to lcb and all they told me was that if they were contacted by the bank or police they would fully cooperate. I think there should be more tools on the site to combat fraud.

And by the way to all those who post information about big transactions this isn't the case. The total was £1000 only and still if someone complains about you that you took their money and gave them nothing in return they are basically accusing you of committing fraud in which case they will most likely freeze your account and send back the money to the buyer unless you can prove that you did everything correctly and the fraud allegations are false.
The same applies for cash deposits, even that I read in places the person who deposits the money can attempt to get it back with claims he was forced to do it or was cheated etc.
Seems nothing is truly irreversible except cash and Bitcoin

Thanks for the reassurances. I'm unable to get into the branch until next Friday but I have spoken to their fraud department and I was lucky the last time I tried a really nice representative took the call and really tried to help me. But I'll still need to go into the branch and show my localbitcoins.com activity and prove that the bitcoins were given to the buyer.
I will update you on the results. In the meantime any more practical advice would be appreciated especially from anyone who has faced such a situation with a UK bank before.

Hi thanks for the reply
In my case I found out that the buyer complained that I had scammed him by taking his money and giving him nothing. Now I will have to prove my innocense to the bank by going to the branch with all the evidence that he did in fact receive bitcoin in return for his payment

Hi friends,

It's been a few months since the last post on this thread but this is exactly my problem at the moment.
I'm from the UK. Yesterday I sold some bitcoin on localbitcoins to a new user with 0 feedback. I suppose I should've know better than that but his ID was verified with lcb and I made sure the funds came from an account in his name.
A few hours following the trade I discovered that I was unable to perform any transactions on my bank account (HALIFAX) when I contacted the bank I was told my account was being investigated due to fraud and I must report in person in a branch with identification.
I contacted localbitcoins and they refuse to release any details about the buyer ID that might help me prove my innocence to the bank. All I have is a record of the transactions on lbc and you can see that the buyer's real name is verified and that's the name that matches up with the bank transfer that he paid me for the bitcoins.
I've been really stressed all day and I can't sleep.. I feel so helpless. I saw there some really good people writing on this forum and contributing their opinion and experience. Please if anyone reads this and can give advice what am I supposed to do? I am totally innocent.
Will my bank Halifax accept the proof when I show them my localbitcoins account? Will they understand that of course there was no fraud since the buyer received the bitcoin in exchange for his payment as they were held and then released from escrow. There is actually no way he didn't receive them.
Will the bank accept that this person ID was verified by lbc and therefor of course it was him making he payment that came from an account in his name.. who is going to believe that some one stole someone's ID documents AND managed to steal access to their bank account... Now way! Of course it was him and now he's just trying to scam me after having received the bitcoins knowing full well what kind of trouble banks can cause.
Please tell me what to do... I'm so stressed. Will I lose all my money? Will I lose some of my money? What am I to do?

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