RX 480 rig is throwing VIDEO_TDR_ERROR bluescreen among other weird things

[lilscryptkiddie]

This is the hardware I'm using:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Pentium G3220T (Purchased For $79.99)
Motherboard: Biostar Hi-Fi H81S2 ATX LGA1150 Motherboard  ($65.60 @ Amazon)
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws Series 4GB (2 x 2GB) DDR3-1600 Memory  ($30.87 @ Newegg Marketplace)
Storage: 64GB KingSpec 2.5-inch PATA/IDE SSD Solid State Disk (Purchased For $51.75)
Video Card: MSI Radeon RX 480 8GB ARMOR Video Card  ($244.98 @ Newegg)
Power Supply: EVGA SuperNOVA 1300 G2 1300W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply  ($179.99 @ Newegg)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 Pro OEM 64-bit  ($129.95 @ B&H)
Other: PCIE Micro PCI Express 16X Riser Card Flexible Cable Extension Cable  ($6.92 @ Amazon)
Other: PCI-E PCI Express 16X to 1X Riser Card Adapter Extender Flex Flexible Extension Cable  ($15.61 @ Amazon)

For some reason the GPUs are giving me a lot of troubles  . I upgraded the rig from 4 R9 280s to 3 RX 480s and as soon as I swapped the cards everything started crashing. I am trying to run Nicehash miner on it but the whole thing is very unstable.

What's wrong:

• The cards only work in x1 slots, the x16 slot doesn't even give an output
• Windows says the x16 slot has an device error 12, I looked it up and it seems the device is conflicting with the onboard audio, but the conflict persists despite my disabling the audio device in windows
• The GPUs throw a VIDEO_TDR_ERROR bluescreen regularly when run in the x1 slots
• The miners (normally Claymore's ZCash Miner) crash with the error "GPUx Hangs on OpenCL Call, exiting" or "GPU x,  GpuMiner kx(x) failed -36"

What I've tried:

• Turning it off and back on
• Reinstalling drivers, currently running latest AMD drivers
• Reinstalling Windows
• Running Linux (still got GPU errors)
• Testing each GPU individually (did have a bad one which is why I currently have 3, but still getting errors)
• Testing with different risers
• Windows device troubleshooting

I'm not sure what to try next. Anybody know what could be causing this?    

[m1n1ngP4d4w4n]

This is the hardware I'm using:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Pentium G3220T (Purchased For $79.99)
Motherboard: Biostar Hi-Fi H81S2 ATX LGA1150 Motherboard  ($65.60 @ Amazon)
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws Series 4GB (2 x 2GB) DDR3-1600 Memory  ($30.87 @ Newegg Marketplace)
Storage: 64GB KingSpec 2.5-inch PATA/IDE SSD Solid State Disk (Purchased For $51.75)
Video Card: MSI Radeon RX 480 8GB ARMOR Video Card  ($244.98 @ Newegg)
Power Supply: EVGA SuperNOVA 1300 G2 1300W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply  ($179.99 @ Newegg)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 Pro OEM 64-bit  ($129.95 @ B&H)
Other: PCIE Micro PCI Express 16X Riser Card Flexible Cable Extension Cable  ($6.92 @ Amazon)
Other: PCI-E PCI Express 16X to 1X Riser Card Adapter Extender Flex Flexible Extension Cable  ($15.61 @ Amazon)

For some reason the GPUs are giving me a lot of troubles  . I upgraded the rig from 4 R9 280s to 3 RX 480s and as soon as I swapped the cards everything started crashing. I am trying to run Nicehash miner on it but the whole thing is very unstable.

What's wrong:

• The cards only work in x1 slots, the x16 slot doesn't even give an output
• Windows says the x16 slot has an device error 12, I looked it up and it seems the device is conflicting with the onboard audio, but the conflict persists despite my disabling the audio device in windows
• The GPUs throw a VIDEO_TDR_ERROR bluescreen regularly when run in the x1 slots
• The miners (normally Claymore's ZCash Miner) crash with the error "GPUx Hangs on OpenCL Call, exiting" or "GPU x,  GpuMiner kx(x) failed -36"

What I've tried:

• Turning it off and back on
• Reinstalling drivers, currently running latest AMD drivers
• Reinstalling Windows
• Running Linux (still got GPU errors)
• Testing each GPU individually (did have a bad one which is why I currently have 3, but still getting errors)
• Testing with different risers
• Windows device troubleshooting

I'm not sure what to try next. Anybody know what could be causing this?    

You should use USB powered risers, the sort you use are reputed to be rather unstable. Have you tried each GPU directly into the 16x slot ? (no riser used)

[m1n1ngP4d4w4n]

You should use USB powered risers, the sort you use are reputed to be rather unstable.

Could you link to me what you mean by "USB powered risers"? Is that a riser powered from a USB port or a riser that works through USB. I haven't ever seen either.

Have you tried each GPU directly into the 16x slot ? (no riser used)

I have not tried that yet but I suppose I probably should have. I'll see what that does.

Something like this http://a.co/23cch0u

those types of risers are reputed to be very stable, this is what i use on my rigs and no problems @ all, good luck with the tests.

[m1n1ngP4d4w4n]

Sorry for late reply, internet has been out. I tested each card individually and they all worked when directly connected to the x16 riser. I found a solution while working.

So to anyone who looks at this thread looking for answers, I believe I have (most of) one. The risers m1n1ngP4d4w4n suggested worked. Solved the issue of the overall unstable system and now I have four working graphics cards. I then, though, had issues with the NiceHash miner itself. It seems that it is not an issue with my hardware, but an issue with NiceHash's software as stated (not exactly but mostly) here. Since NiceHash doesn't have a working miner, I am now using Claymore's ZCash AMD GPU Miner and Claymore's Dual Ethereum+Decred AMD+NVIDIA GPU Miner (switching between them manually as profitability changes according to WhatToMine).

Seems problem solved for now. Just waiting for NiceHash. Thank you m1n1ngP4d4w4n  .

Hey, good you got it working

don't thanks me, thx the good people on this forum that post good stuff like this