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July 02, 2011, 02:28:54 PM
Last edit: July 20, 2011, 12:07:49 PM by harm
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Hi,
I have put together a mining rig with 4 GPUs (XFX HD 5850).
With three cards everyting went perfectly, but the 4th one now causes trouble...
It is not the card itself, it is not defect, but maybe the mainboard?

Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD3
Corsair AX 1200w ATX PSU

Power is plenty, but on reboot sometimes the systems detects only 2 or three cards, and not always the same.
Has anyone had the same problem?

Greetings,
Harm
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July 02, 2011, 04:11:51 PM
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I use linuxcoin.  Often the linux reboot command does not work for me, in that I get the same problem you report - a failure to detect the GPUs.  I have a UPS to prevent reboots due to power interruptions, and when I need to perform a reboot. I shut off the power at the power supply switch, restore the power, and if necessary, short the reset pins on my case-less motherboards.  This latter quirky step is required to ensure that the rig boots from the USB memory stick.
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July 02, 2011, 05:06:12 PM
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Thanks for your reply!
I have tried LinuxCoin before, now I am using ArchLinux - love that distribution!!!

Anyway, I do use the PSU switch as well and after a few times of trying it recognizes all 4 gpus. I don't use a display usually, but when connecting one sometimes it doesn't even show the boot/bios screen?!? And sometimes though the screen works, but when starting X it again crashes:
20.484] (WW) fglrx: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:0@0:0:0) found
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Anyway, I do use the PSU switch as well and after a few times of trying it recognizes all 4 gpus. I don't use a display usually, but when connecting one sometimes it doesn't even show the boot/bios screen?!? And sometimes though the screen works, but when starting X it again crashes:
20.484] (WW) fglrx: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:0@0:0:0) found

My situation is not as bad as yours.  I have three nearly identical rigs and one of them, sometimes needs more than one power on/off sequence, and a reset, in order to properly recognize both GPU cards.  When I first set up these rigs I was mislead because the poclbm miners would start fine - no errors, but proceed to use all the CPU at a low hash rate.  I speculate that this is because the miners can recognize the CPU as a device and I speculate that somehow the CPU is emulating the GPU and running at a much lower MH/sec.

Eventually I used aticonfig to display the recognized adapters, and rebooted until they were all there.  As I mentioned in the post above, I use a UPS to avoid reboots. The miner rigs run for days, and I reboot them only to upgrade mining software for example.
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July 03, 2011, 10:06:36 AM
Last edit: July 03, 2011, 10:29:55 AM by harm
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Well, I still can't get it working properly...


Now I have found this:

 [root@ArchMiner ~]# lspci -v | grep VGA
  Flags: bus master, VGA palette snoop, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64
 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Cypress [Radeon HD 5800 Series] (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
 04:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Cypress [Radeon HD 5800 Series] (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
 05:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Cypress [Radeon HD 5800 Series] (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
 [root@ArchMiner ~]#


The cards now are detected even on the wrong slots?! And one is missing...
Need help, please!!
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July 20, 2011, 12:02:45 PM
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Hi again,

finally I have received new pcie extenders. As it touned out they caused the problems to detect the GPUs...
This time my extensions have two parallel cables.

Right now I have 5 hd 5850 running with no problems. One GPU is connected with an pcie 1x to 1x adapter. I have cut up the one side of the adapter to fit in the GPU.

Thanks for help,
Harm
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August 19, 2011, 11:17:05 PM
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Hi again,

finally I have received new pcie extenders. As it touned out they caused the problems to detect the GPUs...
This time my extensions have two parallel cables.

Right now I have 5 hd 5850 running with no problems. One GPU is connected with an pcie 1x to 1x adapter. I have cut up the one side of the adapter to fit in the GPU.

Thanks for help,
Harm

How did you figure out this was a PCIe extender problem? I also have problems where sometimes the GPUs are detected, sometimes not. No matter what I can't get > 3 GPUs detected.
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