Thanks for everything and all the help! Quick question for some reason today after I had to restart on boot up rather then going straight to the desktop and starting the miner it goes to a login screen and when I type in the miner1 password it accepts it flashes black and the asks for the password again. Any clue on how to solve this?
I've also had this happen. Most recently it was when I shut down and added my newest 2 GPUs to the original 5. I resorted to re-imaging to fix it.
OP mentioned quite a few pages back that if you're going to make any hardware changes you should start off with a freshly imaged thumb drive. That was in regards to a BIOS update. Have you made any hardware changes?
keepitsane are you connecting your monitor to the motherboard?
If you have been attach it to the primary GPU (the one attached to the first 16x slot on the mobo) .
If that was the case: You should then be able to apply this fix to restore the blanked xorg.conf:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1854250.msg19449945#msg19449945The other situation I can think of where this might happen is if you have an amd card mixed into your rig; nvOC will not work if an amd card is present.
If neither of these are the case; I would reimage the USB as UberDaemon suggested.