I had to use one of my Asrock Pro Btc+ boards for non-mining uses a year ago because I needed a spare PC to run a Bytom wallet/node on. So I took one of my mining rigs (which had a Pro Btc+ board and was running on Ubuntu), left it with just 4 gpus, installed the Bytom wallet/node, and set it to run the node sync once a day (with the daily sync taking maybe like a half hour to run iirc). After about 2 weeks the mobo died, wouldn't even POST anymore (all the other components were fine when transferred to another board).
Just speculating, but maybe the Pro Btc+ board has a VRM design which doesn't like having a CPU loaded heavily. Never had a problem with that particular mobo until I used it to do a CPU heavy load (ie. the wallet/node software), prior to that it ran fine as just a mining rig for over a year.
Just speculating, but maybe the Pro Btc+ board has a VRM design which doesn't like having a CPU loaded heavily. Never had a problem with that particular mobo until I used it to do a CPU heavy load (ie. the wallet/node software), prior to that it ran fine as just a mining rig for over a year.
Thanks for sharing. I'll take precautions.
Do you happen to know how the mobo "accepts" the gpu's and which ones work with it? (Accept as if I can connect for example in one of each slot different models of the same brand, Nvidia Amd). I've been looking for that info and so far have found none. I know the config mentioned in my earlier post that's on the manufacturers page but that's it.