Ethash DAG epoch RX470/480/570/580 FIX !!

[Omg9500]

For me drivers dont work... I have Mainboard Asrock H110 Pro BTC, 10 cards (6 x sapphire RX580 8GN special  edition snd 4 MSI RX580 8 GB armor Oc). Blockchain beta driver causes bluescreen showing atikmpag.sys Anybody have  ideas how to solve?

[Vann]

One of your GPU's is probably causing the driver installation to hang. Uninstall the drivers with DDU in safe mode and click the setting to disable the Windows automatic driver installation. Install only one card on the main PCI-E x16 slot and install the AMD blockchain driver.


https://support.amd.com/en-us/kb-articles/Pages/Radeon-Software-Crimson-ReLive-Edition-Beta-for-Blockchain-Compute-Release-Notes.aspx

After the driver setup completes shutdown and connect two more cards to the motherboard. Start the computer and wait until Windows detects the cards and installs the drivers automatically. It may take a while for the cards to show up in Device Manager. Wait and confirm in the Windows Task Manger there is no running instance of the Driver Installation Module running. Once the Driver Installation Module is no longer showing in Task Manager, shutdown and repeat the process connecting two cards at a time until all the cards are shown in Device Manager.

If you have RX 470/480 or RX 570 cards You will then need to use the pixel patcher to bypass the driver signature check with a modded Bios to remove the Code 43 error in Device Manager before the cards will work. Just run the patcher, reboot and verify all the cards are shown in Device Manager with no errors.

https://www.monitortests.com/forum/Thread-AMD-ATI-Pixel-Clock-Patcher

[JoWannes]

Are these drivers still to be preferred over the latest beta blockchain drivers?

[Branko]

Amazing that people still talk about this after AMD incorporated this into their normal drivers
for at least last 5 releases

[Redhaze8080]

Amazing that people still talk about this after AMD incorporated this into their normal drivers
for at least last 5 releases

The new drivers has a mining option but not for Vega cards. Windows7 and Vega here

[bajdoch]

Hello. I have a small problem with my ASUS RX570 4GB ROG OC card, and specifically after using the drivers from this thread does not show me the temperature of the card in the GPU-z. Is it normal?

[uDwcHYO]

may be because monitor not plugged, or no card in pci-e x16

[bajdoch]

But before the installation of these drivers the temperature was shown without a problem although the monitor was connected to another card.

[Someone_2]

Amazing that people still talk about this after AMD incorporated this into their normal drivers
for at least last 5 releases

Hello.  From what I can tell so far.  They released it to work with that one specific version of the drivers and have neglected Windows 7 support for anything in the future regarding it.  I tried the directions posted and have yet to get it to work.  Manually forcing the driver update through device manager has failed.  I did update to the current drivers thinking that surely they've incorporated the fix and mining optimizations into the mainstream drivers for windows 7 through 10, they did not.  I'll dig around for the supposed 'mining option' in the drivers but have so far wasted my morning trying to get this to work.

I'm teetering on returning the card to where I purchased it and switching back to Nvidia's product lineup.  I have found their driver support to be far better.  IMO AMD may as well state that they don't care about the windows 7 OS anymore.

I really do hope I'm overlooking something and coming back to this later will allow the solution to reveal itself.  An extra 10 Mh/s would be nice.

[micky123]

Hi All,

Just found this thread here, im running windows 7 and the official blockchain driver does not seem to work for me. I followed all steps and the screen goes blank once i install the official driver!

In this scenario, is it worth using these drivers? My cards still have the stock BIOS loaded on them.

Thanks!

[leonix007]

Hi All,

Just found this thread here, im running windows 7 and the official blockchain driver does not seem to work for me. I followed all steps and the screen goes blank once i install the official driver!

In this scenario, is it worth using these drivers? My cards still have the stock BIOS loaded on them.

Thanks!

yep, been using it for a while with my Win7 rigs Rx580/480's , they rock!

btw what's your GPU's

[micky123]

Hi All,

Just found this thread here, im running windows 7 and the official blockchain driver does not seem to work for me. I followed all steps and the screen goes blank once i install the official driver!

In this scenario, is it worth using these drivers? My cards still have the stock BIOS loaded on them.

Thanks!

yep, been using it for a while with my Win7 rigs Rx580/480's , they rock!

btw what's your GPU's

Whoops! My bad! I have 2x RX480 Sapphire Radeon 8GB cards, with stock BIOS and Micron Memory. I guess i should try out this driver then!

[cryptomaxsun]

 

Videocard RX 480 4 Gb, Win7.
What should be the hashrate on these drivers when mining ethereum?
Should there be a decrease in hashrate, or is this a normal hashrate?

[Metroid]

this robbinhood guy is a legend hehe

[adaseb]

 

Videocard RX 480 4 Gb, Win7.
What should be the hashrate on these drivers when mining ethereum?
Should there be a decrease in hashrate, or is this a normal hashrate?

Your speed should be around 28-29MH/s based on your shown settings and clocks. Are you sure you correctly installed the Robinhood drivers? You should do the install manually in the device manager. Refer to the first few pages in this thread for instructions.

I haven't tried but the newest version of Claymore automatically includes some AMD drivers which might get you the correct speed. Just make sure to enable the setting in the config of Claymore.

[Mattthev]

Guys, really?
This thread is 2 years old! Do not use these drivers either blockchain drivers both are obsolete! Use the latest Adrenaline drivers or those what your miner recommends and switch it to compute workload!

https://mining-bios.eu/guides-and-miners/bios-mod-faqs/#ac_7186_collapse4
https://www.amd.com/en/support/kb/faq/dh-024

[adaseb]

Guys, really?
This thread is 2 years old! Do not use these drivers either blockchain drivers both are obsolete! Use the latest Adrenaline drivers or those what your miner recommends and switch it to compute workload!

https://mining-bios.eu/guides-and-miners/bios-mod-faqs/#ac_7186_collapse4
https://www.amd.com/en/support/kb/faq/dh-024

From what I recall, you have to use these drivers if you want to mine with Windows 7. The latest AMD drivers version which support compute mode is only for Windows 10, there is no option to enable compute mode on Windows 7.

Even if you toggle the hotkey in Claymore to force it into compute mode, it won't work with Windows 7.

This is why its recommended to upgrade to Linux or Win 10, since another issue with Win 7 is that 4 GPUs are max. You can't use more than 4 GPUs which are the newer RX unlike the older Tahiti/Hawaii GPUs.

[Mattthev]

From what I recall, you have to use these drivers if you want to mine with Windows 7. The latest AMD drivers version which support compute mode is only for Windows 10, there is no option to enable compute mode on Windows 7.

Even if you toggle the hotkey in Claymore to force it into compute mode, it won't work with Windows 7.

This is why its recommended to upgrade to Linux or Win 10, since another issue with Win 7 is that 4 GPUs are max. You can't use more than 4 GPUs which are the newer RX unlike the older Tahiti/Hawaii GPUs.

Windows 7 is the only exception, but who the hell uses Windows 7 for mining in 2019 anyway? I even delete that info from FAQ, there is no reason to use Windows 7 anymore.

[Batmaxpt]

Guys, really?
This thread is 2 years old! Do not use these drivers either blockchain drivers both are obsolete! Use the latest Adrenaline drivers or those what your miner recommends and switch it to compute workload!

https://mining-bios.eu/guides-and-miners/bios-mod-faqs/#ac_7186_collapse4
https://www.amd.com/en/support/kb/faq/dh-024

no need to install bios ?

[ctsbitcoin]

Wow, regardless of what others are saying about W7 being too old...well it is but that's besides the point.  Some of us have legit reasons as to why some of our systems are still W7, so relax.

Just to confirm though that even though I am forced to use W7 on one of my systems that I have been able to successfully hash at a pretty decent speed.

8GB 580
XHV @850H/s vs. 200H/s with the latest Adrenaline drivers
RVN @11.5MH/s vs. 9MH/s with the latest Adrenaline drivers

I'm still working on Phoenix with W7 to test my ETH speeds but for now I'm content with XHV.

I downloaded robinh00d's 7z files and extracted them which were actually version 22.19.659.1 drivers and the atikmdag-patcher as he described. 

I then downloaded the AMD-Compute-Switcher and walla!

This has taken me a few weeks to figure this out and I know that W10 would have been far easier but that simply is not an option for this instance. 

Now my mission is to figure out fan control as 68 degrees with only 34% fan speed is not good.  OverdriveNTool does not seem to work in W7 regardless of what version I attempt with whatever AMD driver versions.  However so far this is a step in the right direction.  Any suggestions on GPU fan control within W7 would be welcome.