advice - issues with current setup

[Morph42]

I'm having a lot of issues with my current setup and need some suggestions.

I'm running an MSI H310-F Pro mining rig with (12) AMD RX 570 Graphic cards, running Windows10. I purchased this in 2020 and was able to start mining fairly quickly. At the time I downloaded the AMD blockchain driver, modded the cards,and I started with lolminer and mined ETH.

Once ETH switched to staking, I moved over to ETC. But I think that Windows updates have gotten the best of me. Windows is almost at the current version, and all (12) cards indicate an error in the device manager. I've put this aside for quite a while, but I'm trying to get it up and running again.

I ran the AMD cleaner tool, rebooted, and reinstalled an older AMD graphics driver with adrenaline; before doing the mandatory reboot, they were all showing correctly working within the Windows device manager.  Rebooted, then they all had an error again. Attempting to run MSI afterburner and the program just appears to hang. Attempt to run the AMD tweak app and it too has an error.

Not sure what happened as it used to run smoothly. again, guessing it's something to do with updated Windows, but looking for some help getting it started again

[miner29]

Try a mining dedicated OS based on linux. 

MMPos, HiveOs are two…there are more. 

Windows is a horrible way to mine.  Requiring way too much overhead.  A linux based mining rig works on 4gb ram and even a terribly slow processor like celeron / pentium is more than enough to make the system run.  No HD needed just a thumb drive and away you go. 

[PepawBill]

I agree, running a 12 card rig with windows is not very efficient. The inefficient rx570 cards are not going to be profitable, unless your spec mining. I use HiveOS only because it’s what I started with, but it’s easy, keeps your flight sheets and wallets organized. You might want to make some trades up to the 30 series cards with your 570’s to give you a little advantage.

[BitMaxz]

Why would you stay using Windows that keeps removing any mining-related stuff there might be something in your system blocking your miner which is why you are getting some errors.

If I were you, I would stop mining with Windows OS like others said above I experienced some of these issues before the only solution is to switch to any Linux related OS if you are looking for free then use HiveOS because other mining OS like simpleminer is no longer free after 1 month of trial but also good to test if your issue is related to OS.

[swogerino]

I agree with most people here,there is very easy to switch to HiveOS as a free Linux operating system built for the sole purpose of mining and if I remember correctly it is free up to 3 workers or may be 1 worker,since you only have this mining rig then it is going to be fairly easy to setup and even mine better.I know that the Rx 570 is not efficient at all nowadays with 30 Mhsh and energy costs that have increased everywhere yet if you still insist on mining,a free Youtube search with "HiveOS" will show you how easy is to setup such Operating System to freely mine with 12 cards without Windows ruining your day.What is even better here is that there are a lot of community undervolts and underclocks here so you will get the best from your mining.