This Windows update break driver thing happened to me too. I talked to their tech support. Found the solution:
Just go to Device Manager, manually "update drivers" that is placed in the C:\01\01 folder. Then run the patcher.exe in the same folder. Then disable all windows update (Google this). And it'll work.
Also, smOS does work yes (I used the RX image on USB), just that it's not very stable, it reboots every hour or so. So I'm back to Windows.
Also, if you use the new version of Claymore 9.x, you need to set -dcri 6 to get ~230MH/s, otherwise, it defaults to -dcri 30, and you get only 215 MH/s.
But all in all, I agree with you, it's not a good product. I bought a few of them, I still have issues at this moment. Like 1 card is stuck at 8MH/s, and 1 fan is not spinning, and 1 miner only sees 4 out of 8 cards after a week of running fine with 8, probably broken motherboard.
I'm working with their tech support, so far they've been responsive and running tests, but I don't know how easy it would be to replace the faulty motherboard (in my opinion).
I tried this and it's still not accepting the cards / updates
Can you explain step by step so I may see if I missed something, but it's either telling me they're up to date or already patched
Device status is
Windows has stopped this device because it has reported problems Code 43
Do I need to revert the windows version first? With all this headache I should have just built a rig for less! Lol
The only installed update on the uninstall an updated list was security update for adobe flash player
did you update the windows? try to use DDU to uninstall gpu driver. then install driver rx470 from philipma. not sure this work or not..