Sorry Tmdz, it's got nothing to do with the bat file.

i think it's driver related, i've tried to install 6 different versions.

to reiterate:
they are being recognised in device manager and are not showing errors there.

they are not being picked up by any of the three different mining programs that i've used. for example nicehash only shows the cpu available...

does anyone have any ideas or thoughts as to what might be causing this? or better yet how to fix it?

 i've heard something about the asrock btc motherboards being difficult on autodetect of the cards (not sure where i read that)