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February 27, 2012, 10:33:33 AM |
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Hi, I have a system with a 5870 and a 5830 dual boot with Xp64 and 7-64. On both I have installed SDK from catalyst 11.6 and the driver from catalyst 12.1.
Xp64 mines stable for weeks, while when I try to mine on 7 (with phoenix 1.72), I get a BSOD in a couple of minutes, referring to atikmpag.sys. 7 is a fresh install. I tried to uninstall and reinstall the drivers and even to format and reinstall 7 but the result remains the same.
Any guess?
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February 27, 2012, 02:03:44 PM |
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Hi, I have a system with a 5870 and a 5830 dual boot with Xp64 and 7-64. On both I have installed SDK from catalyst 11.6 and the driver from catalyst 12.1.
Xp64 mines stable for weeks, while when I try to mine on 7 (with phoenix 1.72), I get a BSOD in a couple of minutes, referring to atikmpag.sys. 7 is a fresh install. I tried to uninstall and reinstall the drivers and even to format and reinstall 7 but the result remains the same.
Any guess?
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February 28, 2012, 06:41:10 PM |
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Do you install latest version of driver?
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February 28, 2012, 08:11:03 PM |
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Have you done any overclocking? I know I get that same bsod when I overclock a bit too far then after a while it BSOD also with phoenix.
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February 28, 2012, 08:48:02 PM |
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Drop back to 11.12
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February 29, 2012, 03:56:39 AM |
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11.12 is better for me. Had to run the latest 12.2 pre driver with my 7970 and had more blue screens than I care to think of. 6950 back in Windows box and happy with 11.12...
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November 18, 2012, 11:55:16 AM |
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Update: I mined stable for months after installing 7/32. Yesterday I retried to install 7/64 and the same story happened, no matter what driver or combination of them I used. Then I restored my 7/32 system backup and patched it for PAE (since 7/32 "sees" just 2.75 GB of my 4 GB Ram, and the patch allows it to use all the Ram available). Then guess what? atikmpag.sys BSODs restarted. They happen even if I don't mine. So it must be something related to the use of the Ram.
I wonder if anyone else with 7/64 experienced anything like that and what drivers are they using.
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November 24, 2012, 05:08:00 AM |
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Yep same issue here, 7/64, atikmpag.sys BSOD. Update: I mined stable for months after installing 7/32. Yesterday I retried to install 7/64 and the same story happened, no matter what driver or combination of them I used. Then I restored my 7/32 system backup and patched it for PAE (since 7/32 "sees" just 2.75 GB of my 4 GB Ram, and the patch allows it to use all the Ram available). Then guess what? atikmpag.sys BSODs restarted. They happen even if I don't mine. So it must be something related to the use of the Ram.
I wonder if anyone else with 7/64 experienced anything like that and what drivers are they using.
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November 24, 2012, 12:43:42 PM |
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I found that my problem is probably due to my shitty motherboard: Asrock AliveXfire esata 2 r3: lots of people with this mobo have the same problem with ATI cards. Updating the bios to the last version did not help.
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November 25, 2012, 06:38:05 AM |
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Dual 7970 - W7/64 - same issue. BSOD almost always when I launch CGminer. I can write a book about everything I tried to resolve this until I upgraded to Windows 8 (yeah, I was that desperate). Not a single problem since.
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November 28, 2012, 04:20:58 AM |
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From the looks of it, it seems like there is a driver bug in the x64 Drivers with your card series. I've ran my 4870 and 5850 without issues with the drivers. Have you tried any different miner applications?
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December 01, 2012, 08:39:00 PM
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just a little update for a coupla questions: I found that the ATI driver (11.12) sucks about 400 MB of Ram per each 58XX card installed, both in Seven 32 and x64. That's why in my 4 GB Ram system I get 2.7 GB only available ram from the exact moment that I install the ATI drivers on Seven x64 (before I install the drivers I got 4 GB available Ram (if I enable "remapping memory hole" in the bios). So I wonder if everybody else experience this huge waste of Ram from ATI cards or it's just me, and if there is a fix (apart from Linux). If I double my ram to 8 GB will I be able to get at least 6 GB of available ram on Seven x64? Or will the ATI ram waste double too? Or it will restart to BSOD? (I think I was able to install ATI drivers in Seven x64 with no more BSODs disabling something in the bios. But I am not sure about what exactly).
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