You not only should do as @sebastien1234 suggested but you should also upgrade to the latest core- https://github.com/syscoin/syscoin2/releases/tag/2.1.2. Click the zip link if you're on windows, DMG link if you're on Mac.

Looks like you're running some older version of SYS, current core version is 0.13.2 and if you run "getinfo" from console you should see Syscoin version 2.1.2. If you join us in slack we can provide more direct assistance  

Shockingly this was the solution. Re-installed the recommended 15.12 AMD driver and it fixed the issue; all the cards came to life running a full 20 mh/s+ on every card. Thank you very much to all who replied. Closing this thread for future reference.

Thanks everyone for the replies, did some more diagnostics and here are teh results:


Assuming that GPUn in claymore's mh/s stats match GPUn in claymore heat/fan speed stats then using the above test method I deduced GPU0 to surprisingly actually be 0 as labeled in the OP pics.  GPU4 is 2 as labeled in the OP pics. This is weird because GPU4 is also reporting a hashrate of 20 mh/s but somehow doing it without a fan? Something is odd but those are the results

Using that info, and the fact GPU0 was reporting 0 mh/s I cycled through 3 different cards none which yielded higher than 2mh/s. 


These PCI slots and cards were all working fine before, so its not like MB defaults changed turning off a slot, also claymore recognizes the card it just doesn't make the hashes it should and it is limited to the same PCI0 slot it seems. Could the actual MB slot just be bad somehow? Not the riser, the MB connection itself?

Its a windows 10 OS running pretty bare bones, I have auto updates turned off. Even if it was a driver thing that would impact all cards I think, not just 1. I thoroughly air-cleaned the thing so its not dust imo.

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I'm going to try swapping #5 and #0 and see if I still end up with 0 mh/s on GPU0 or if it moves to GPU5. Also seeing the card from slot 0 in slot 5 and producing hash would add more evidence to the investigation. Thanks for any additional help or insights!

I'm hoping someone can help me, I bought a fully assembled ETH miner with 6x AMD 290/380 4GB gfx cards. The rig was happily mining at a steady 120mh/s for a year and then things started acting up. First thing that happened was one of the cards suddenly started reported ~2.x mh/s rather than the normal 20mh/s, knocking the power down to a total ~100mh/s. I wasn't too worried about this, so i just let it keep hashing away. It was when a second card failed, this time reporting 0 mh/s that I decided it was time to fix things.

So I picked up 3 matching gently used 290/380 4GB cards for a decent price and swapped out the 2 cards that were producing <20mh/s with new cards. This did nothing to solve the problem. I asked around on slack and some people suggested I swap out the cheap "ribbon risers" with "proper risers" so I did that, also did nothing to solve the problem.

So now I'm here seeing if some pros can help me out. The weird twist to this situation is that with all 6 cards in the rig, including the one that is under-hashing, I can get a total ~104mh/s. I don't know if these operate in pairs or something but if I disconnect the 1 card that is under-hashing, the entire rig drops down to 80mh/s with a DIFFERENT card now under-hashing- I'm completely baffled by this; put back the "slow" card and its back to an almost-full-power ~104mh/s.

So I now have 9 of these higher-end gfx cards but for the life of me can't figure out why I can't get that last 20mh/s of power back. Is it possible the PCI port labeled #1 in the pics is just like... dead or something? Is there anyway to test that? Any help or guidance at all would be appreciated, TIA!

Top view of rig, you can see the "under-hashing" card as the fans don't need to be running often at 2mh/s!


Bottom view of the rig, shows the USBs connected to the "better risers". Red indicates connection to the "under-hashing" card.


Mining console, using Claymore dual miner in ETH-only mode. Changing the mining software has ZERO impact on the hashing results. Note GPU0!?


The "extra gear" I've gone thru/blown $$ on trying to get that 20mh/s back!


Thanks again in advance for any help, really stumped here and tired of wasting time+$$$ on things that don't work!  

Yep, and if you care to follow along - https://github.com/syscoin/syscoin2/issues/130 

Sorry you're having issues - we've had reports of this before on small resolutions- what is your resolution? Also try right-clicking on the Syscoin icon in the taskbar and see if you can access the "Maximize" context menu option- if you can, click it and see if that gets you access to the main GUI.

F2Pool is the primary merge mining pool for Syscoin w the most hashrate and has a signup page at https://www.f2pool.com/user/signup. I believe that GMC (give-me-coins) is also merge mining Syscoin under their SHA256 pool their website copy is just out of date. The team's pool at http://pool.syscoin.org will be back on mainnet shortly we had to move it to testnet for a bit to test some things with Segwit related to SYS 2.1.2. Let us know if those options for pools don't work out for ya.

We are really excited for what's coming in the next weeks/months. Five new currencies and who knows how many new peg options coming in just a few days when the Price Peg Server code is publicly released! I'm trying to make it super easy to configure the server so that all the operator of the peg needs to do is edit a JSON config file with the currencies they want to provide to merchants as options and then the server does the rest. The only limit to how many currencies a single peg can support is the size limitation on the Alias public data field. Because Syscoin's service fees are also controlled by the peg this has the potential to a create a "fee market" of its own with aggressively-priced service fees for faster transaction processing when the network is busy and higher arbiter fees to incentivize arbiters.

Which we will be releasing soon btw, will have a post up on that when the time is right, almost there.

Other small updates:
- added whitepaper links to website
- added service providers and new explorer/faucet (coinpayments) to website
- added same new services to BCT OP, and update latest news to point to whitepaper

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We're also working on open sourcing the code we use to run our team price peg, something that will allow other users to stand up their own automatically-maintained pegs that may run different fee rates or different coin options. At the moment I'm working on adding support for additional ALT coins to the default team peg before we open source, should help to expose Syscoin to an ever-larger community.

Thanks to everyone who has helped support and make 2016 Syscoin's best year yet. We could not do this without this community. The Syscoin Team's best wishes go out to all those in the SYS community and hope everyone has a rockin new year. We're going to blow the lid of 2017- will be our best year yet!

OP updated to reflect current state of evolution! 

I just updated the OP with Tux exchange and some article i found about SYS and Blockchain Foundry/Blockmarket from late August. Syscoin 2.1 is going to be a milestone release for us and I think people will really be impressed with what it allows us to do and the things we build on top of it - like Blockmarket and the new desktop wallet experience.

We also have been working to advance initiatives related to Blockchain Foundry like the Microsoft Product Certification so we have a lot of positive things in the pipeline.

Syscoin is moving up the voting rank on https://www.coinpayments.net/vote  we're currently #1 with 500 votes needed for addition, if the community can help get us across the line that would be a big addition to the Syscoin ecosystem and just ahead of the Dec 18th 2.1 public release date, let's do this!

Coinpayments opens up Syscoin to being used to pay for goods and services across hundreds of traditional merchant websites- exposing Syscoin to a whole new audience and increasing the use cases for Syscoin at the same time.

We're still targeting the release of both Syscoin 2.1, and Blockmarket M1 within Q4 2016. We've been adding more features to Syscoin 2.1 (like BTC escrow, amongst many others) which is why things got delayed a bit, as these would be forking changes it made sense to add them now rather than wait and incur the overhead of an additional hard fork/mandatory update.

We may be including a surprise in the Blockmarket M1 release geared toward making it an even larger success for both merchants and buyers. I'm not going to go into any more detail than that as I'm not trying to create hype just explaining why some things have taken longer. These changes, along with forming a company (BlockchainFoundry) and working on our MS Certification took a bit more time than projected. We're still on track for delivering within Q4 2016.

As has been mentioned by other team members we are constantly working on this project, every day, trying to get to a release point as soon as possible. We take the development of Syscoin and our software development in general seriously and aren't going to release a half-baked product. We've got some key improvements and massive experience upgrades coming in this next release. We'll continue to keep the community updated as we have always done both here on in our Slack channel.

I think the latest move in price is - yes, in anticipation of a news release we have coming on Monday but also because we've started making some major progress in connecting with the Chinese community (thanks to a recent addition to the team, willyk!). We have a LOT of stuff being released over the coming months including at least two software releases (Syscoin 2.1 and Blockmarket M1). We're really working hard, just look at the github commits on syscoin2- and that's only half the picture.

We're trying a new marketing strategy with this release, one that will reach a much larger audience than strategies used in previous releases!

Dranster your post has been removed, please do not post on this thread anymore or we will request a bitcointalk ban.

True  . We are waiting to complete BM (Blockmarket) M1 (milestone 1) before we really start pushing promotion hard. We appreciate that you only get one shot at first impressions and we're more and more moving to a delivery model that you'd see in business moreso than in an open source project. Its not something that happens overnight but its something we're very well down the path on.

That being the case once BM M1 is out you will see a LOT of promotion in regards to Syscoin Marketplace / Blockmarket- what it can do, how you can use it, why you should use it. The website will be updated as well to reflect a more consumer-toned message whereas today's website is dated and more technical.

You won't see us talking about blockchain so much in these promotions because that's the whole point of Blockmarket- a product that gives you all the benefits of the blockchain without even having to know what blockchain means / is / does. As far as most end users of Blockmarket will know its just a global marketplace that can never be taken down, can be accessed anywhere in the world, on any device, is extremely cheap (almost free) to list items on, and exposes the items you have for sale to a HUGE global audience. Using features like reselling you can even further increase the reach of your items.

Blockmarket is planned to be a consumer-grade experience- we want your mom or your grandma to be able to double click the icon and immediately get to buying/selling/messaging/morefeatureswehaven'tdisclosedyet.

I mentioned when Syscoin 2.0 launched that "this is just the beginning", and I meant that! Blockmarket M1 and some of the prerequisite steps we've already completed and will be sharing more information about next week will really be what takes Syscoin to the next level. We're a small team (6 now! but only 2 devs :/ ) but we are burning the candle at both ends every day to get these initiatives and products out into the public's hands as soon as possible while still making sure they are polished, thoroughly tested, and secure. We've been working on Syscoin going on 3 years now. This is a serious project and has scaled larger than I think even we thought it would when it all began three years ago. I know some of that sounds enigmatic but it'll all be made clear in next week's post/news.

If you didn't catch it on twitter we'll be sharing a quick update on the status of Syscoin 2.1 and a new (major) feature that was added after speaking with some investors (non-crypto investors) who placed a large deal of value on this feature being present, so now it is  

I think the important thing in regards to SYS and escrow options is that we listen to the market. Right now arbitrated escrow (AE for future ref) is the only option, and that's technically what you're getting in a dark market scenario as well even tho that's not our target market. IF the market shows a large enough demand, we are completely open to adding DDE ~or~ AE options. I'm not going to debate DDE v AE here, as there is an entire thread dedicated to that topic elsewhere, I'll just say we build what people want.

Our next big milestone is really Blockmarket, once that is out and people are able to setup web stores showing only their items, hosted wherever they like, in a user-friendly ecommerce experience I think we will start to see more of the market asking for DDE if that need really exists- if this happens we'll act as needed to address the market need, just as we did with Syscoin 2.1- which includes bug fixes but also a large number of features directly requested by the market in reaction to the initial Syscoin 2.0 launch.

If the people of the community feel strongly about adding DDE to SYS its very easy to make your voices heard- create a new issue on Syscoin github request "Optional Double Deposit Escrow". Post a link to the issue here in this thread, if the issue gets a lot of activity, we'll implement it!

No RISE devs in RISE slack. Sigh. 

Slack invite link: https://slack.rise.vision/

I think its more that people expected some level of profressionalism but this feels like 2014 all over again.

For those curious about a Block Explorer, they're "working on it" ...

https://twitter.com/CryptoPioneer/status/747818880647725057

Over a million dollars (1700BTC) later and this clone of LISK can't even get a block explorer together for launch. This isn't FUD, unfortunately its facts.


Just for good measure as the dev support here is non-existent.

Yep I'm having issues here too. My funds are currently MIA, "withdrawn" to an address and never arrived. I filed a ticket. I'm trying to be patient but this is all pretty amateur (no block explorer, slow to respond to tickets, if they respond, multiple people having issues with the site, on top of taking forever to actually release the tokens in the first place) and after raising 1700BTC?

These guys need to get their act together. Price reflects this.