MSI Z170A GAMING M5 - 7 GPU [SOLVED]

[hcwh]

Hi, I would like to say that is not true about CPU.
I have Intel Celeron G3930 - it's Kaby Lake and I run on 7gpus (rx480-8g).

Hey can you confirm you got this working on this board (gaming m5) with Celeron G3930?

I have this CPU and I have just had a different board cancelled on me so was thinking about this as a replacement, but a lot of people seem to have trouble with it especially with Kabylake processors.

Thanks in advance!
Chris

I cant confirm it will be working on gaming m5 mobo, i have MSI Z170A GAMING PRO CARBON and second mobo is ASUS PRIME Z270-P where this CPU working fine.

I have gaming M5 mb and G3930 won't boot with the crypto currency option enabled. Just get a blank screen. I've tried the latest two BIOS versions (1E and 1D). It sounds like I'll need to get a Skylake for this mb and use that G3930 in a different mb.

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[Super Z]

Please anyone advice me should I get this motherboard MSi Z270 GAMING M5 will it run 6 gpus without any problem? currently using Maximus viii hero and when I add 5th gpu it does not recognize it and when enable ABOVE 4G DECODING option it hangs on startup I think it does not support 6 gpus?

[xaadhoom76]

I have the same issue. Intel i3-6100 3 rx 470 and 1 rx480 if I add 1 more Card it do not work.
I enable decode 4g and it stop booting.
I have the last bios from MSI

[tomduk]

Hi,

I have just set up my first rig... However I have a problem.

My Setup:
MSI Z170A SLI Plus motherboard
Intel Pentium Skylake 3.3Ghz G4400 CPU
6x EVGA GeForce Nvidia GTX 1070 FTW
EVGA 1600w Platinum PSU
Windows 10 Home 64 Bit
120G OCZ Vertex SSD
2x 4Gb Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 2666MHz Memory

Right, the problem is I have tried Centos 7, Ubuntu, Windows 7 Enterprise and also Windows 10.

I can see all 6 GPU in all OS, but in Linux it lists them fine and claims they are all active, but claymore will only run on 3.

Anyway, I have now settled on Windows 10 Home 64bit, I can put all 6 cards in but can only get 4 to work as the other two cards just have code 12 saying not enough resources.

I have literally tried everything, but can only get 4 cards running.

I have tried G4 enabled and set to Gen 1, 2 and 3 and auto, Ive disabled absolutely everything possible inc USB ports, lpt and parallel etc etc, seriously I am ha big a melt down here.

Ive tried increasing the latency all the way in stages to 248 and still no joy.

At the minute Ive got £800 of graphics and want to use them, I'd like them all in one rig but may have to set another up.

Any help would be very much appreciated thank you.

[whitrzac]

There are exact guides on what you need to do to get 7gpus to work on MSI motherboards. It took a few hrs of playing with it, but it's not rocket surgery.


I initially had issues with 7 cards vs 6 and it turned out to be a bad riser.

[tomduk]

Ive tried everything and am on the very latest bios too...

Can you give me a clue please.

[Elder III]

Your motherboard is not the same as the one that this thread was started for, so the steps that others have taken in this thread might not work for you. Unless it's a motherboard that was specifically designed for mining there's no guarantee that it will work with more then 3-4 GPUs.

[tomduk]

Is it the Z170 M5 I need then as will go and buy one.

Thanks

[car1999]

msi z170a gaming m5 has 7pcie and 1 m.2 slot, is there any body use the m.2 slot to create A 8 card rig?

[hcwh]

Haven't tried using the M.2, but may at some point.  Not sure whether to try that first or the PCIe splitter.  First, I need to replace Kaby Lake processor with Skylake and verify that this will fix the problem with the 4GB cryptocurrency BIOS option not working (blank screen on boot).  Walk first, then run.

[car1999]

I got this mobo and run 7 cards successfully, I will try 8 cards.

[f5alcon]

msi z170a gaming m5 has 7pcie and 1 m.2 slot, is there any body use the m.2 slot to create A 8 card rig?

when I get two more cards next week I am going to try. I have the m.2 adapter and it works fine

[waxin_poetic]

I posted this in another forum and I wanted to see if anyone has any tips on assisting with my first rig...

I'm having an issue with the same board and Geforce 1070 GTX GPU combination...I can't get any of the GPU's to show up without having them plugged directly into the board. They're not under Device Manager; rather, they're a generic System Device.

I updated the BIOS to the latest version 1.7, performed a clean installation of Windows 10 in UEFI, as well as followed the instructions above regarding 4G encoding and setting PEG0 and PEG1 to Gen1. I've also made sure that I am using HDMI and NOT the onboard Intel GPU.

After the clean install, I wanted to see if I could directly plug them in and Windows recognized two. I couldn't get past two, even with the USB-powered risers. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated! I have been scouring the net for days without any progress...

MSI Z170A
Intel i3-6100T processor @ 3.2GHz
8GB Crucial DDR4
6x PCI-E1X TO 16X USB Risers
6x EVGA Nvidia GeForce 1070 GTX FTW GPU
1500W Enermax MaxREVO PSU

I used DDU to remove the onboard Intel graphics, however, that didn't work either.

[iamnewhere]

Why disable internal GPU - shouldn't be an issue to use it.

Did you try to change PCI Latency Timer to 64?

[eisy]

Hi everyone, newbie here I have a strange symptom with my new build. Starting with only one card, on the MSI Z170 gaming M5 mother board with a skylake i5-6400, I can not get the AMD RX 480 video card to work (no display, not detected, not showing in system manager, as if it does not exist at all) on the primary PCI-E 16X slot, it some how works if I place it in the secondary PCI-E 16X slot (only runs at 8X) or the third one (only runs at 4X).
On the other hand, with another nvidia GTX 1060 3GB video card, it works fine on the primary PCI-E 16X slot.
I have already updated to the latest 1E BIOS and driver for windows 10 64bit. Played around with all the tweaks mentioned in this thread, including changing PCIE Gen 1/2/3/auto, enable/disable 4G, enable/disable fast boot,  enable/disable windows 10/8.1 WHQL, enable/disable IGD/PED. Has anyone seen any similar symptom like this too? Any advice will be appreciated.

[hcwh]

Hi, I would like to say that is not true about CPU.
I have Intel Celeron G3930 - it's Kaby Lake and I run on 7gpus (rx480-8g).

Hey can you confirm you got this working on this board (gaming m5) with Celeron G3930?

I have this CPU and I have just had a different board cancelled on me so was thinking about this as a replacement, but a lot of people seem to have trouble with it especially with Kabylake processors.

Thanks in advance!
Chris

I cant confirm it will be working on gaming m5 mobo, i have MSI Z170A GAMING PRO CARBON and second mobo is ASUS PRIME Z270-P where this CPU working fine.

I have gaming M5 mb and G3930 won't boot with the crypto currency option enabled. Just get a blank screen. I've tried the latest two BIOS versions (1E and 1D). It sounds like I'll need to get a Skylake for this mb and use that G3930 in a different mb.

Well, I got a Skylake Celeron (G3900) CPU running on this Gaming M5 board and no change.  Still boots to a blank screen whenever I enable 4G/crypto option. No cards installed.  What did people do to get this to work?

[iamnewhere]

Well, I got a Skylake Celeron (G3900) CPU running on this Gaming M5 board and no change.  Still boots to a blank screen whenever I enable 4G/crypto option. No cards installed.  What did people do to get this to work?

Try following steps in BIOS:

1. Set PEG0/1 to AUTO
2. Enable above 4G enconding
3. PCI Latency timer 64
4. Initiate Graphic Adapter set to IGD with 64 memory (and connect the monitor to internal HDMI port if not done anyway already!)
5. Win 8.1/10 set to DISABLED
6. Win 7 set to DISABLED
7. Set UEFI only

It's important that you install Win10 in UEFI mode - if you have any issue that you cannot install Win10 on empty hard disk after you configured UEFI only proceed with following steps during Win10 setup.

At the partition screen of Win10 Setup press Shift + F10 to get a command prompt
Type this (hit enter after each)

diskpart
list disk
(will show you a list of attached disks, the one you want to install to should be 0)
select disk 0
clean
convert gpt
exit

then refresh the partition list and install Win10 on the empty disk.

If you have your monitor connected to the internal GPU instead of one of the mining GPUs you have the advantage that even the 1st GPU can mine at full speed as it doesn't have to waste some performance for Win10 graphics rendering

[hcwh]

Well, I got a Skylake Celeron (G3900) CPU running on this Gaming M5 board and no change.  Still boots to a blank screen whenever I enable 4G/crypto option. No cards installed.  What did people do to get this to work?

Try following steps in BIOS:

1. Set PEG0/1 to AUTO
2. Enable above 4G enconding
3. PCI Latency timer 64
4. Initiate Graphic Adapter set to IGD with 64 memory (and connect the monitor to internal HDMI port if not done anyway already!)
5. Win 8.1/10 set to DISABLED
6. Win 7 set to DISABLED
7. Set UEFI only

It's important that you install Win10 in UEFI mode - if you have any issue that you cannot install Win10 on empty hard disk after you configured UEFI only proceed with following steps during Win10 setup.

At the partition screen of Win10 Setup press Shift + F10 to get a command prompt
Type this (hit enter after each)

diskpart
list disk
(will show you a list of attached disks, the one you want to install to should be 0)
select disk 0
clean
convert gpt
exit

then refresh the partition list and install Win10 on the empty disk.

If you have your monitor connected to the internal GPU instead of one of the mining GPUs you have the advantage that even the 1st GPU can mine at full speed as it doesn't have to waste some performance for Win10 graphics rendering

Thanks.  I actually got it working just with steps 1 and 4.  I already had all the others set except for 3 which I didn't do and doesn't seem to be necessary.  I'm using Linux in UEFI mode.  6 cards worked fine.

I didn't have a 7th riser available (getting more tomorrow), so I plugged a 7th card directly into the last PCIe slot and it recognized it, but ran into an issue with X-server.  However, I was able to use a tty terminal and that worked fine and miner recognized all 7 cards.  Using a riser for the 7th card might fix that issue.  If not, I might just need to try plugging monitor into one of the cards.  I tried plugging it into the 7th card, but that didn't work.

I have some M.2 to PCIe converters coming this week, so I'll try adding an 8th and 9th card and see if that works.  In theory, 9 cards should work in Linux, but I'll find out soon if this motherboard has any problems with that many.

[car1999]

Well, I got a Skylake Celeron (G3900) CPU running on this Gaming M5 board and no change.  Still boots to a blank screen whenever I enable 4G/crypto option. No cards installed.  What did people do to get this to work?

Try following steps in BIOS:

1. Set PEG0/1 to AUTO
2. Enable above 4G enconding
3. PCI Latency timer 64
4. Initiate Graphic Adapter set to IGD with 64 memory (and connect the monitor to internal HDMI port if not done anyway already!)
5. Win 8.1/10 set to DISABLED
6. Win 7 set to DISABLED
7. Set UEFI only

It's important that you install Win10 in UEFI mode - if you have any issue that you cannot install Win10 on empty hard disk after you configured UEFI only proceed with following steps during Win10 setup.

At the partition screen of Win10 Setup press Shift + F10 to get a command prompt
Type this (hit enter after each)

diskpart
list disk
(will show you a list of attached disks, the one you want to install to should be 0)
select disk 0
clean
convert gpt
exit

then refresh the partition list and install Win10 on the empty disk.

If you have your monitor connected to the internal GPU instead of one of the mining GPUs you have the advantage that even the 1st GPU can mine at full speed as it doesn't have to waste some performance for Win10 graphics rendering

Thanks.  I actually got it working just with steps 1 and 4.  I already had all the others set except for 3 which I didn't do and doesn't seem to be necessary.  I'm using Linux in UEFI mode.  6 cards worked fine.

I didn't have a 7th riser available (getting more tomorrow), so I plugged a 7th card directly into the last PCIe slot and it recognized it, but ran into an issue with X-server.  However, I was able to use a tty terminal and that worked fine and miner recognized all 7 cards.  Using a riser for the 7th card might fix that issue.  If not, I might just need to try plugging monitor into one of the cards.  I tried plugging it into the 7th card, but that didn't work.

I have some M.2 to PCIe converters coming this week, so I'll try adding an 8th and 9th card and see if that works.  In theory, 9 cards should work in Linux, but I'll find out soon if this motherboard has any problems with that many.

I have 9 cards, but still waiting for my m.2 to pcie adapters, hopeful 9 cards work well.

[car1999]

msi z170A gaming m5 has 7 pcie and 2 m.2 slots.
unfortunately, only 1st m.2 slot works with m.2 to pcie adapter, so the mobo supports max 8 GPUs.

asus prime z270-A supports 9 cards, I saw a video in youtube.