Quote from: hcwh on June 29, 2017, 07:22:09 AM

Quote from: iamnewhere on June 29, 2017, 05:47:48 AM

Quote from: hcwh on June 29, 2017, 05:36:00 AM

Well, I got a Skylake Celeron (G3900) CPU running on this Gaming M5 board and no change. Still boots to a blank screen whenever I enable 4G/crypto option. No cards installed. What did people do to get this to work?

Try following steps in BIOS:

1. Set PEG0/1 to AUTO
2. Enable above 4G enconding
3. PCI Latency timer 64
4. Initiate Graphic Adapter set to IGD with 64 memory (and connect the monitor to internal HDMI port if not done anyway already!)
5. Win 8.1/10 set to DISABLED
6. Win 7 set to DISABLED
7. Set UEFI only

It's important that you install Win10 in UEFI mode - if you have any issue that you cannot install Win10 on empty hard disk after you configured UEFI only proceed with following steps during Win10 setup.

At the partition screen of Win10 Setup press Shift + F10 to get a command prompt
Type this (hit enter after each)

diskpart
list disk
(will show you a list of attached disks, the one you want to install to should be 0)
select disk 0
clean
convert gpt
exit

then refresh the partition list and install Win10 on the empty disk.

If you have your monitor connected to the internal GPU instead of one of the mining GPUs you have the advantage that even the 1st GPU can mine at full speed as it doesn't have to waste some performance for Win10 graphics rendering Wink

Thanks. I actually got it working just with steps 1 and 4. I already had all the others set except for 3 which I didn't do and doesn't seem to be necessary. I'm using Linux in UEFI mode. 6 cards worked fine.

I didn't have a 7th riser available (getting more tomorrow), so I plugged a 7th card directly into the last PCIe slot and it recognized it, but ran into an issue with X-server. However, I was able to use a tty terminal and that worked fine and miner recognized all 7 cards. Using a riser for the 7th card might fix that issue. If not, I might just need to try plugging monitor into one of the cards. I tried plugging it into the 7th card, but that didn't work.

I have some M.2 to PCIe converters coming this week, so I'll try adding an 8th and 9th card and see if that works. In theory, 9 cards should work in Linux, but I'll find out soon if this motherboard has any problems with that many.

Man, have you tried 9 cards? My test result is that only 1st m2 slot works, the 2nd m2 slot doesn't work. Not sure if my slot is broken or the mobo doesn't support 9 cards. Now my rigs has 7x1050ti and 1x1060 with nvOC linux system, works well and very stable.