Hello all,
I am building my first mining Rig with the below components.
6x Sapphire RX Vega 56 air cooled
Asrock Fatal1ty B250 Gaming K4 motherboard
Intel Celeron G3930 Kaby Lake Dual-Core 2.9 GHz LGA 1151 Processor
2x G.SKILL NT Series 4GB DDR4 SDRAM 2133 Ram
1x EVGA 600w Bronze PSU for motherboard, cpu, and risers
2x HP DPS-1200w with Breakout Board for the cards
6x UBIT PCIE risers
Windows 10 Pro 64-bit
For simplicity sake lets number the pcie slots on the motherboard 1-6 right to left starting with the one closest to the CPU, slot 2 and 5 are full size PCI slots the rest are PCIE extension slots. Same thing with the GPUs, 1-6 right to left, each one is meant to be plugged in to the corresponding PCIE slot on the motherboard.
I assembled everything except I left the PCIE risers unplugged from the Motherboard for to load windows onto the HDD. Once that was done I plugged in all the cards and loaded AMD driver 17.30.15. It recognized 4 of the cards after restart but 2 of them were getting code 43.
At this point I realized I had forget to set my Motherboard Bios so I followed this guide:
https://blockoperations.com/gpu-miner-bios-settings-asrock-b250-gaming-k4-motherboard/ Afterwards I was getting 1 card. I decided to start over and try to load each driver individually.
Card 1 worked intermittently in PCIE slot 1 I was able to reload the driver on to it. When placed into slot 2 the first fullsize slot it worked everytime with no problem. Thinking it may be a power issue to explain the intermittent connectivity I swapped PSU and still nothing, then tried cables, still same issue. I resigned myself to the intermittent connectivity and moved on to card 2. Card 2 slot 2 no issues at all I tried it in PCI slot 1, 2, and 3 and it worked in all of them. Card 3 was not recognized in any slot except slot 2 and when it was I attempted to load the driver and the screen would intermittently go in and out. I would get a white noise screen from time to time as well. Loading the driver failed multiple times and gave me error 1803. I followed several steps to rectify that issue and finally had a successful load albeit with the screen still intermittently going in and out.
At this point I figured I would try to run with just the 3 cards. Card 1 in slot 1, card 2 in slot 3, and card 3 in slot 2. On boot the rig would power up then powerdown after a few seconds, it did this twice and the third time it finally booted. When i was finally in windows only card 2 and 3 were showing activity lights and the machine only recognized the 2. Device manager showed 3 hidden cards claiming they were not connected.
At this point I was informed that Driver 17.30.xx was corrupt on the Vegas and I needed to turn off quick boot and sleep mode. I also made it so windows update will not download hardware drivers. So I turned them off and plugged in all 6 cards. I then rebooted in safe mode and ran DDU. Once done I restarted and leaving all cards plugged in I ran AMd driver 17.8.2 as I was told that was a stable build. The motherboard continued to reboot several times on start up before it booted fully. With all cards in it would start to boot then the screen would go black. Additionally 3 cards would show activity lights. I let it sit with a black screen for 30 minutes before I manually shut it down and tried again. I did this several times sometimes it would get to the windows 10 welcome screen then go black, sometimes it wouldn't. At this point I unplugged 3 cards from the Motherboard and reset the motherboard bios back to default. It would still start to run then stop on power up. After resetting the bios it was only recognizing 1 card and Nicehash Miner was not recognizing a single GPU.
At this point I stopped in frustration. I am probably going to start over entirely. First run DDU on all cards. Then wipe the HDD and reinstall windows. I will adjust windows before ever putting a GPU in. Then update drivers on each GPU 1 by 1 only ever having 1 gpu in at a time. I am at a complete loss as to what I am doing wrong or what is not working. Any help at all will be appreciated.
