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philips
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May 22, 2013, 07:50:58 PM |
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Well I tried to set the V on my BAMT rigs.
I used the --gpu-vddc 1150 but it will not do it.
Still says the cards are running at 1.25V.
You cant alter the card voltage on Linux (for 6xxx/7xxx series). All you can do is flash another lower voltage BIOS. |
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MrBilling (OP)
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May 22, 2013, 07:53:12 PM |
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So then 1.25 is the stock V?
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philips
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May 22, 2013, 08:00:37 PM
Last edit: May 22, 2013, 09:48:35 PM by philips |
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So then 1.25 is the stock V?
For your cards. Other 7950 are running at 1.09V, or more. |
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MrBilling (OP)
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May 22, 2013, 08:02:30 PM |
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I need to find me a BIOS then.
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MrBilling (OP)
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May 22, 2013, 09:42:42 PM |
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Do you remember what your V was with that one? |
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philips
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May 22, 2013, 09:47:04 PM |
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1.09V.
Is the lowest I could find.
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MrBilling (OP)
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May 23, 2013, 12:39:38 AM |
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When I tried to flash to that BIOS I got an error that said "SubsystemID Mismatch". |
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philips
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May 23, 2013, 12:54:36 AM |
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Force it with -f (if I remember correctly).
Make a backup of the original in any case.
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MrBilling (OP)
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May 23, 2013, 03:13:34 AM |
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I will try once I get this other stuff figured out. Now got dif prob.
Shut down one of the BAMT rigs to turn some stuff off in the bios.
Did it, started it up and it was mining fine.
I turn the second rig off and do it and then when I start it back up it mines but very slow and the load on the GPUs is mostly 0. It will jump up to 99 or 100 for just a sec on one GPU but for the most part the load is 0.
I'm getting like 800 KH/s between all 5 cards obviously because there is no load being out on the GPUs.
I put the bios back to default. I tried clear CMOS. I even tried a fresh BAMT install on a different USB stick.
Nothing else has changed. I know BAMT will act like its mining if it has no Internet connection but the KH/s will be 0.
It's mining a little but there is just no load being put on the GPUs . I tried to do the GPU_MAX_ALLOC thing too.
Ever saw BAMT do this before?
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philips
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May 23, 2013, 03:37:11 AM |
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Sometimes yeah, immediately after boot, but it goes away with a mine restart. Not reboot or coldreboot, just mine restart from console or menu.
Not sure though if that is the case here.
No need to do the GPU_MAX_ALLOC thing, is executed by BAMT before it starts cgminer.
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MrBilling (OP)
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May 23, 2013, 03:44:16 AM |
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Yea now both rigs are doing it. It's driving me nuts.
I tried restarting the mining and cold reboot and unplugging them and resetting CMOS and everything. I even let it run like that for like 30 mins and its just 0 load not the GPUs.
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MrBilling (OP)
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May 23, 2013, 06:11:53 AM |
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I got it figured out.
I flashed the BIOS on one of my Windows cards. On Trixx when I click default on the OC panel it gives me a default V of 1068.
The BIOS you linked to that I downloaded is 1067. But even if that's the real stock V then I dunno why my BAMT rigs default to 1.25
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philips
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May 23, 2013, 06:25:53 AM |
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This is one of the rigs with flashed BIOS (the one I linked):  |
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MrBilling (OP)
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May 24, 2013, 06:50:56 PM |
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I flashed a few cards to that BIOS you linked me to. I did it to 2 cards and they worked fine. They mine fine and show the lower V.
But the third card I did doesn't work right. The flash completed successfully and GPUz shows the correct new BIOS. But when I mine with it it only get 400 KH/s. I am using the same settings. If I flash back to the OEM BIOS it will mine 620 KH/s.
You ever had this happen?
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philips
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May 24, 2013, 07:30:35 PM |
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Um, no...I actually flashed the same BIOS to three type of cards, Sapphire/XFX/MSI and they all work the same way.
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MrBilling (OP)
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May 25, 2013, 06:34:38 PM |
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Yea I dunno whats going on. Most of my cards (I have 13 of them) will mine with that BIOS just like they did before I flashed them. But a few of the cards will not go over 450 KH/s (compared to 625ish KH/s) with that BIOS.
Another thing is that my two 5 card BAMT rigs will run the cards with the new BIOS in the x16 slots, but if I put a card with that BIOS in either one of the x1 slots it wont boot. I tried jumping the presence pins and no luck.
I dunno what the deal is. I may try another BIOS.
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MrBilling (OP)
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May 25, 2013, 07:00:10 PM |
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Figured out the power issue. It was because all of the cards were running at 1.25 V.
Right now I have 4 cards hooked up to the 1200 W Silverstone Gold PSU. 3 of the cards are on the BIOS you gave me running 1.09 V, and one cards has the original BIOS running 1.25 V.
That is drawing 970-1000 W. It was drawing 1200 W or so before with all of the cards running 1.25 V.
Seems like that was the problem?
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