Cryptocurrency Mining

3lOH55A said:
Anyone faced the issue when setting a board to mining mode it won't boot from SSD. The boot option in the bios just goes blank.
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Booting Windows?

For some reason in some update Windows no longer boots if mining mode is enabled.

I battled for a couple days this week trying to get windows to load - fresh installs etc but would always freeze on the bios screen with “Preparing Automatic Repair” and then either restart or need hard reset.

Turned off Mining mode and booted perfectly first time. Really annoyed with myself as that should have been first thing I changed but for some reason didn’t even think about it then.
 
weelzSA said:
Booting Windows?

For some reason in some update Windows no longer boots if mining mode is enabled.

I battled for a couple days this week trying to get windows to load - fresh installs etc but would always freeze on the bios screen with “Preparing Automatic Repair” and then either restart or need hard reset.

Turned off Mining mode and booted perfectly first time. Really annoyed with myself as that should have been first thing I changed but for some reason didn’t even think about it then.
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Funny enough this happened after windows updated and rebooted. It would boot straight into the bios.

This happened to me on 2 boards. The Biostar btc250 and the gigabyte h110-d3a. Whatever I did, as long as mining mode was enabled on either board, my boot priorities in the bios were missing. The actual SSD was listed under sata devices, but it would just not allow me to set boot priorities. As soon as mining mode was disabled, my boot priorities were there and I could boot back into windows. But also experiencing the repair screen. Reset solved that

I couldn't get the Biostar to work at all with 6 cards when mining mode was disabled. Same with the gigabyte. It would only allow 5 cards but would pick up the 6th card but show this error below

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I found a few users on the gigabyte forum experiencing the same and the below solved it for me. 6 cards work now on the gigabyte.

Peripherals->Initial Display Output - "IGFX"
Chipset->Internal Graphics - "Enabled"

*Important* - Make sure you don't have your monitor connected to any of your PCI video cards.* You MUST connect your monitor to the VGA port on the motherboard if you want to use all 6 PCI slots and the hard drive.

With these settings I was able to successfully boot into Ubuntu from my hard drive and start mining with all 6 video cards.*

For reference, I updated the BIOS to F23a (although I don't think this should matter) and had the following BIOS settings:
M.I.T->Max Link Speed(Miscellaneous Settings) - Auto
BIOS -> Windows 8/10 Features - Other OS* (I am running Ubuntu)
Peripherals -> Above 4G Decoding - Enabled
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I dont think a windows update would ever be able to change bios settings, so I'm still pondering on how or what happened.
 
3lOH55A said:
Funny enough this happened after windows updated and rebooted. It would boot straight into the bios.

This happened to me on 2 boards. The Biostar btc250 and the gigabyte h110-d3a. Whatever I did, as long as mining mode was enabled on either board, my boot priorities in the bios were missing. The actual SSD was listed under sata devices, but it would just not allow me to set boot priorities. As soon as mining mode was disabled, my boot priorities were there and I could boot back into windows. But also experiencing the repair screen. Reset solved that

I couldn't get the Biostar to work at all with 6 cards when mining mode was disabled. Same with the gigabyte. It would only allow 5 cards but would pick up the 6th card but show this error below

4363201dd23529fa020088a97f1a9a67.jpg


I found a few users on the gigabyte forum experiencing the same and the below solved it for me. 6 cards work now on the gigabyte.



I dont think a windows update would ever be able to change bios settings, so I'm still pondering on how or what happened.
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Maybe a Bios update? I know when I originally got my board I had to enable mining mode but after a bios update it was set to enabled at default (partially why I battled for so long).
 
After windows did its updates. I got this error OpenCL error -4 cannot create DAG on GPU. Uninstalled and reinstalled drivers. Still same issues Mem is set to 16000
 
Gtx Gaming said:
Weird you tried block chain Aug 23 driver? Have to ddu uninstall the drivers before the time.
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Ive had these windows updates kill my rig before then i just DDU and reinstall drivers and its good to go. Apparently 18.3.4 is supposed to be great for blockchain, but will have to revert to Aug 23 again and see
 
Cowboy619 said:
Ive had these windows updates kill my rig before then i just DDU and reinstall drivers and its good to go. Apparently 18.3.4 is supposed to be great for blockchain, but will have to revert to Aug 23 again and see
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Yeah all my rigs still run Aug 23 drivers, I don't touch them as they just works.
 
Ok then probably windows 10 using too much of memory of the cards so it can't be used eth anymore, unless you use Linux. I suggest mine cryotoknight coins it makes more money and use less electricity. Can use cast xmr and check profits on crypunit.com
 
Would there still be demand for those Asrock H81 Pro BTC boards at all?

I have one with 4GB RAM, two risers and a G1820 that is gathering dust here and I probably need to sell it sooner rather than later as I am moving house and it isn't joining me :p
 
Gtx Gaming said:
Ok then probably windows 10 using too much of memory of the cards so it can't be used eth anymore, unless you use Linux. I suggest mine cryotoknight coins it makes more money and use less electricity. Can use cast xmr and check profits on crypunit.com
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Its very strange. All 6 GPUS show up in device manager so i do not think any riser could have died on it. Wanted to Teamviewer into my RIG from work but its not connecting. Will setup to mine cryptonight
 
PhireSide said:
Would there still be demand for those Asrock H81 Pro BTC boards at all?

I have one with 4GB RAM, two risers and a G1820 that is gathering dust here and I probably need to sell it sooner rather than later as I am moving house and it isn't joining me :p
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Not really high demand, you will probably have to drop your price. Very good board, just not much mining rigs going up.
 
Gtx Gaming said:
Not really high demand, you will probably have to drop your price. Very good board, just not much mining rigs going up.
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I was thinking of putting them up in the Classifieds for R1400 for the bundle - it's just gathering dust here and if someone else can make better use of it then so be it :)
 
Hi everyone. I am urgently looking for good No dev fee Blissz firmware for my Antminer D3. Please help me out. I will very much appreciate it. Thanks a mil in advance. J
 
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