Why most members here just giving you simple advice? That's because will not be enough one pages to guide you.

Find the information you need, basic knowledge, technical knowledge, and troubleshooting. A tons information on this forum and out there to be your reference. If you have some trouble with your first rig, come back here, and gladly the members here will help you.

You did well.


SATA or Molex was fine to powering a riser, just limit it two riser max for every rail especially for SATA. Relating to the maximum power that those connectors can handle. PCIe connectors safer but will more useful to powering your cards.

It seems you are using AMD cards, sometimes dummy output needed, it makes driver can read temps, fan, etc. Also, it would make sure your card working in a right resolution. Basically, it's just a trick in order to make the card into thinking there is a monitor connected when there really isn't. Some case, Claymore can't read temps and fan (purple lines), and this trick would bring back those purple lines.

Don't forget to turn off power savings. It will make system thinks that the monitor always on. For newest cards likes RX series, one dummy plug each rig is enough, just like xxcsu said above, but in old series (R9) sometimes need more than one dummy plug (I experienced with it).

Glad to hear that. Good Luck! 

Troubleshooting isn't simple. We can't judge for sure, that OP problems caused by the Riser without knowing other factors. How if I didn't ask him for additional detail and he turned out to use a PSUs with a small power or may some cards that need to tweak a registry? Will you say for sure that the problem is Riser?

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Referring to our friend above suggestion, may you need to check your Riser one by one to make sure if one of those Risers causing your problems. You could buy new Riser if one of your Rises didn't work properly.

In my Opinion 
As long as you do auto-switching in an auto-switching pool, it's okay, why? You will always have a Full Share to that mining pool even when they switch to other algorithms, because all of the switching processes handled by that mining pool.

But then, as you said, peoples including auto-switching pool have an almost same variable for counting profitable coins. Current price, Difficulty, Network Hashrate and so on. What does it mean? Peoples will be pointing to the same coin, and it will increase Network Hashrate which will affect the difficulty. And profitability will cut-off.

Some Old-Miner may be doing something different. Sometimes they do a Solo-Mining with new coins, but of course, they have own calculation method with that. Sometimes they mine the solid coins and hold it for a few time. And many more.

Personally, I didn't do auto-switching. I have a few rig for solid coins and the other rig doing high mobility mining (didn't mean I'm the Old Miner. lol)

First, you need to describe more about your devices, such as what type of cards you are using, Motherboard type, PSUs power, etc.

Many factors can be causing your problem, for example.
You PSU didn't have enough power for powering all of your cards.

Motherboard bios setting, if you describe a Motherboard type, may some our friend here can suggesting you some bios setting for those Motherboard type.

GPU Type and series, some cards with certain conditions need an extra trick to make a system can read those card. Ex, RX series with modded bios, require bypassing bios signature.
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Done!

Wooow...did you see all? The effect of this challenge. So glad to be a part of this challenge. Good job Joe!

Sorry, did you said all your card working properly even when one of those card shown as "Microsoft basic adapter" in Device Manager?

Update those card driver manually. Choose "Browse my computer for driver software" then Choose "Let me pick from a list available drivers on my computer" Choose "Have Disk..."  Click browse, (If you are using Blockchain Driver on Win 10) Point it to C:\AMD\Win10-64Bit-Crimson-ReLive-Beta-Blockchain-Workloads-Aug23\Packages\Drivers\Display\WT6A_INF\....You will find Setup Information file, chose it then let the system update your card driver.

Based on my experience, R9 series better using 16.9.2 series.

Don't to worry, most of the participant is whose aware of post quality instead your rewards.

Glad to hear that.


Have you tried other system information utility software? Just to make sure that what shown on HW Info is accurate. If you think what shown in HW info is accurate, you could try this advice.

Are you perform dual mining?
Try to lower the target temperature and increase max fan speed.

For AMD card sometimes needs to plug monitor and or dummy output to make sure driver can read and set temperature and fan.

Please read carefully. OP wants to know possibilities to create a new coin, mining it by himself using rented Hashrate (Nicehash / Mining Rig Rental..etc) and also created own mining pool for that coin. 

Just adding my previous comment
And one more important thing is those coin must be exchangeable to other coins or currency. If you created those coin only for you and didn't release on the market the coin value is zero and what you are doing is nothing.

Good advice buddy.

Miners have a different fashion to maximize their profit. Sometimes hot coins give them more benefit, but as we know, hot coins would invite many of miners to mine it. Major coins mining also didn't have a guarantee to maximizing the profit. But time to time would give Us more experience doing better. We would know when to start, when to stop, when to move. Yes, patience is one of the keys.

In Crypto-Mining Industry, losers refer to a failed miner. Miners that can't improve their mining technical skill and then give up.

It is possible. And so, what would be validated by miner? If on those coin network didn't happen any transaction.

Nicehash or Mining Rig Rental would be good for renting Hashrate at your scheme, just need to configure any difficulty at your own mining pool in accepting rented Hashrate.