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Board Mining (Altcoins)
Re: RX480 (Reference) 31+Mh, Custom Rom
by
janos666
on 19/08/2016, 12:07:49 UTC
secure boot is off of course in my system
so you suggest to enable IGPU, sign driver myself, then turn testmode off and that's all?

No.
- turn on the iGPU (set it to Auto if possible, so it's always disabled when you don't connect any monitors to it but enabled whenever you do)
- move your monitor to the iGPU (you might loose the signal on the discrete cards anyway and you might need to do this temporarily to stop the AMD driver from loading)
- have an AMD driver installed (doesn't matter if already "cracked" or stock but I will assume stock here)
- flash your cards with custom BIOS (if not already)
- reboot to Safe Mode to replace the DLL file with the cracked one (if not already)
- enable the Test Mode with bcdedit permanently for every regular boot (and keep it enabled indefinitely) and reboot
- sign your DLL file with the tool linked above (preferably while in Test Mode but with the driver NOT loaded, either due to signature problem or no cards connected, etc...)

My exact journey was like this:
- flashed the cards
- enabled Test Mode for regular boots
- rebooted to Safe More (note: not Test Mode yet) and applied the cracked DLL
- tried but failed to reboot into Test Mode (I ended up with a completely blank display, no life sign)
- moved the monitor to the iGPU and rebooted again into Test Mode (by default)
- I signed the cracked driver with the linked tool
- rebooted (yet again into Test Mode as always from now) and saw the AMD driver loaded
- I shut down Windows, move the monitor back to the discrete AMD card (for WattMan to work), booted (into Test Mode) and everything works