Sometimes the instructions do not fit every situation, and you have to get additional instructions or for someone to give you a place to look as to what the issue could be so that “you” can resolve it. Again If this is happening as soon as you start windows (with 7 gpu’s plugged in ) then I go back to resource issues on the motherboard. Have you turned off/disabled everything you do not need (onboard video/sound/onboard wifi) in the bio’s?
i think everything but usb and lan is off
@CitricAcid
ok so here it goes. I’ve managed to make it happen. Thing is i used DDU placed another gpu but none of my gpus showed screen (but it was working i could later use teamviewer) so not knowingly that its working I used IGP instead of PEG and onboard gpu worked displayed desktop and all the things…problem started when i tried to install gpus …i had 8 and computer bluescreened me. So i DDUed again and disabled IGP went to windows …again ofcourse the screens from PEG were off. So i used teamviewer to install the gpus and it all worked from there on.
Thanks for the help
Hello!
need help buddy.
my z270 gaming m3 detecting only 3gpu out of 6gpu.
I need…Been looking for it a while now
Super helpful post - now up and running with this board
This post was super helpful getting me up and running with 8 GPUs on the Z170A Gaming Pro Carbon. I had to use 1 → 3 PCI splitters since for some reason after Linux would start, the cards plugged into the full sized slots would get terrible performance and have their fans running at 100%. Using the splitters worked, but I can only use the first two slots, the amdgpupro driver fails to modprobe cards in the third slot of splitter (lspci shows the card, but the drivers fails to load for it).
To summarize:
- MSI Z170A Gaming Pro Carbon
- Core i3-6300
- Two PCI-e Express 1X to 3 Port 1X Switch Multiplier HUB Riser Card + USB Cable from Ebay
- Powered Risers
- Lots of 80/20
- Ubuntu 16.04.02
- Linux 4.8.0
- AMDGPU Pro 17.30
[ecopoesis@miner03:~] lspci | grep VGA 03:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Ellesmere [Radeon RX 470/480/570/580] (rev cf) 04:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Ellesmere [Radeon RX 470/480/570/580] (rev cf) 08:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Tonga PRO [Radeon R9 285/380] (rev f1) 09:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Tonga PRO [Radeon R9 285/380] (rev f1) 0b:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Ellesmere [Radeon RX 470/480/570/580] (rev e7) 0e:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Tonga PRO [Radeon R9 285/380] (rev f1) 0f:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Fiji [Radeon R9 FURY / NANO Series] (rev ca) 10:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Fiji [Radeon R9 FURY / NANO Series] (rev ca) [ecopoesis@miner03:~] ./claymore/zcash/mine.sh
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ZEC: 1 pool is specified
Main ZCash pool is us1-zcash.flypool.org:3443
Catalyst 15.12 is REQUIRED for best performance and compatibility
15.12 does not support some Fiji(Fury) cards, use 16.3.2 for them
For 4xx cards (Polaris) Crimson 16.12.2 is recommended
At least 16 GB of Virtual Memory is required for multi-GPU systems
Make sure you defined GPU_MAX_ALLOC_PERCENT 100
Be careful with overclocking, use default clocks for first tests
Press "s" for current statistics, "0".."9" to turn on/off cards, "r" to reload pools
NOTE: miner uses 3000 rounds to calculate average speed, so it may take about a minute to get correct speed.
OpenCL initializing...
AMD Cards available: 8
GPU #0: Ellesmere, 4081 MB available, 32 compute units
GPU #0 recognized as Radeon RX 470
GPU #1: Ellesmere, 4081 MB available, 32 compute units
GPU #1 recognized as Radeon RX 470
GPU #2: Tonga, 2037 MB available, 28 compute units
GPU #2 recognized as Radeon 285/380/380X
GPU #3: Tonga, 2037 MB available, 28 compute units
GPU #3 recognized as Radeon 285/380/380X
GPU #4: Ellesmere, 8169 MB available, 36 compute units
GPU #4 recognized as Radeon RX 480
GPU #5: Tonga, 2037 MB available, 28 compute units
GPU #5 recognized as Radeon 285/380/380X
GPU #6: Fiji, 4079 MB available, 64 compute units
GPU #6 recognized as Fury X/Nano
GPU #7: Fiji, 4079 MB available, 64 compute units
GPU #7 recognized as Fury X/Nano
POOL version
GPU #0 algorithm ASM, intensity 6
GPU #1 algorithm ASM, intensity 6
GPU #2 is going to use too high intensity (6), not enough GPU memory, intensity value reduced (4)
GPU #2 algorithm ASM, intensity 4
GPU #3 is going to use too high intensity (6), not enough GPU memory, intensity value reduced (4)
GPU #3 algorithm ASM, intensity 4
GPU #4 algorithm ASM, intensity 6
GPU #5 is going to use too high intensity (6), not enough GPU memory, intensity value reduced (4)
GPU #5 algorithm ASM, intensity 4
GPU #6 algorithm ASM, intensity 6
GPU #7 algorithm ASM, intensity 6
Total cards: 8
AMD ADL library not found.
ZEC: Stratum - connecting to 'us1-zcash.flypool.org' <192.99.160.185> port 3443
Watchdog enabled
Remote management (READ-ONLY MODE) is enabled on port 3333
SSL/TLS encryption is enabled
ZEC: Stratum - Connected (us1-zcash.flypool.org:3443) (SSL/TLS)
ZEC: Authorized
Pool sets new share target: 0x00083126 (diff: 8000H)
ZEC: 07/30/17-17:31:58 - SHARE FOUND - (GPU 2)
ZEC: Share accepted (22 ms)!
ZEC: 07/30/17-17:32:00 - SHARE FOUND - (GPU 0)
ZEC: Share accepted (26 ms)!
ZEC: 07/30/17-17:32:01 - SHARE FOUND - (GPU 2)
ZEC: Share accepted (25 ms)!
ZEC: 07/30/17-17:32:02 - SHARE FOUND - (GPU 2)
ZEC: Share accepted (23 ms)!
ZEC: 07/30/17-17:32:03 - SHARE FOUND - (GPU 6)
ZEC: Share accepted (22 ms)!
GPU #0: Ellesmere
GPU #1: Ellesmere
GPU #2: Tonga
GPU #3: Tonga
GPU #4: Ellesmere
GPU #5: Tonga
GPU #6: Fiji
GPU #7: Fiji
ZEC - Total Speed: 2316.500 H/s, Total Shares: 5, Rejected: 0, Time: 00:00
ZEC: GPU0 271.470 H/s, GPU1 271.247 H/s, GPU2 213.001 H/s, GPU3 219.633 H/s, GPU4 308.826 H/s, GPU5 224.606 H/s, GPU6 370.980 H/s, GPU7 436.736 H/s
Pool switches: ZEC - 0
Current ZEC pool share target: 0x00083126 (diff: 8000H)
GPU0 t=41C fan=36%, GPU1 t=39C fan=36%, GPU2 t=51C fan=23%, GPU3 t=47C fan=23%, GPU4 t=38C fan=33%, GPU5 t=53C fan=23%, GPU6 t=43C fan=21%, GPU7 t=42C fan=21%
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Quick question. Are you saying that you had to use one of the first two PCI-e slots on the motherboard with your PCI-e splitter to get it to work (i.e. one of them that is labeled PCI E1 or PCI E2 on the board itself)? I’m trying to use one plugged into the last spot, but I’m not having any luck.
i have this motherboard and i have try EVERYTHING but this, i wil give it a shot and see what happens. I have a MSI z170a gaming pro carbon, Inte; G4440 and trying to run 7 RX580 Sapphire Nitro
I use the PCI splitters in full side slots.
I bought 3x M5 and 3x M7 and have come to the conclusion the MSI Z170A M5 & M7 are inconsistent and poorly manufactured as results vary between the exact same model boards.
Out of all these boards, only 1x M5 board will do 7x 1070’s stable. All the other boards will only do 5 cards stable.
I can get all 7 cards to show up in both Win7 x64 and Win10 x64, but Win10 is the only one stable enough to mine with more than 4 cards reliably IMO.
The M5 board that works with 7 cards is made up of a mix of 3 different types of 1070’s. 4x MSI Quicksilver, 2x Gigabyte Sniper and 1x Asus Strix. I thought this may have been a key to the success, so I set up another M5 board identical in every way. Nope, absolutely no difference.
When coerced, I can get the 5 card rigs to show 7 cards in device manager with no yellow exclamation marks or problems, but the second they are put to task, the computer will reset OR the hashrate across 3 of the cards starts at pathetic levels making it pointless. I can swap card positions, I can try new risers and I can swap the riser power cables, remove devices, resinstall drivers including using DDU, reflash the bios and start again, but nothing makes a difference. None of the rigs were overclocked until stable.
I’ve tried:
Following the steps here multiple times to the letter.
Windows 7 x64 - can get 7 cards to show, but is not stable at all.
Latest Bios, previous bios
Latest drivers older drivers
Every bios setting possible. PCI Latency must be set at 96 or severe instability ensues even on the working 7 card rig…
I’ve cloned the HDD’s of the 7card rig and reimaged the 5 card rigs with that… The boards with 5 cards would show 7 cards immediately in device manager but the pc resets the second when mining is started before the miner can even detect the gpu’s.
I’ve matched the bios settings to the working 7 card rig with no luck.
MSI Z170A Gaming M5
MSI Z170A Gaming M7
All rigs share identical parts (video cards vary but all are 1070)
2x 4GB HyperX Fury 2400Mhz
Intel G3900 Celeron
Thermaltake ToughPower 1500w PSU
Samsung 120GB EVO M.2 NvME SSD
If someone would care to make light of this then I applaud you, but from my experience, I’m of the understanding that these boards are inconsistent.
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I have managed to get a Z170A Gaming M5 to run ethos with 7x GTX 1070 cards stable now for a few weeks. I’m running a Z170A Gaming M7 with a mix of 4x GTX 1070s, a GTX 1080, and a GTX 1060. The 1080 seems to have be showing up stuck every now and then. I have to reboot to get it to work. I think it might have to do with heat dissipation. I plan on adding another 1060 to the Z170A Gaming M7 rig this weekend.