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Board Mining (Altcoins)
Re: 6 GPU SETUP - only 4 GPU Working
by
MrLimitless
on 20/06/2017, 04:05:53 UTC
Hey!

Thanks for your reply! I ended up actually coming to a fix literally 20 minutes before I saw this post. Now that all 6 are properly working I'm planning on overclocking the GPUs for better hash rate.

However, in bios I set them up as GEN1. Should I change to GEN3 if it's already working under GEN1?

So, those MSI motherboards are bitchy little units. I have 12 rigs using MSI Z270-A and the initial setup is a bit of fiddly crap to make work.

What we do here is.

  • Boot with USB cables removed from cards. Risers can be plugged in.
  • Upgrade board firmware
  • Install OS
  • Install drivers for onboard video
  • Go back to bios, enable over 3g video setting
  • Enable integrated graphics as primary video
  • Change PCI risers to GEN3
  • Shut down machine.
  • Connect 1 video card
  • Boot to windows and verify it shows up
  • Shut down and reconnect all risers.
  • Power back up.
  • Enter bios and verify board explorer shows all PCI slots full
  • Boot to windows
  • Install drivers
  • Profit

I hope that helps. They sometimes work in GEN1, but GEN3 seems to give the most consistent results.