I'm looking to get into mining. I already have one rig and it is performing decently, but I feel I need more.

I heard ETH's mining difficulty is getting harder and some people are switching over to mining Zcash instead. I'm currently running 6x RX 480's dual mining ETH/SC.

I want to build another 2-3 mining rigs, and want to make sure whatever I build will not decrease in performance mid->longterm. Would it be wise to build an Nvidia rig and mine alternative coins (other than ETH-based currencies) instead of building more AMD rigs?

Hello Bitcointalk forums. I have learned so much about cryptocurrency in these past few months. I was able to purchase ripple at 0.03$ and sell at 0.30$. I've invested in Siacoin at 90 satoshi's and intend on holding for a long term as well. I purchased Ethereum at $40 and recently sold at the top of $407. I have now shifted my assets into bitcoin while i wait for BTC to increase in the coming months.

My question to you is, I have started a business where I am able to make roughly $10,000-$15,000 extra per month to invest with. I was wondering if anyone here could give me 5-6 long term good solid projects as suggestions for me to diversify  my portfolio with. At the moment I'm heavily in bitcoin as it seems like the safest option as of now. I would really appreciate any suggestions on some long term hold good alts. Thank you for reading this, have a good week.

I'm trying to use the alternate z170 version of the smOS image, but I can't correctly write it to a usb stick using HDDRawCopy.

This one: https[Suspicious link removed]0ANDips0.imgc

It writes very slowly, and I get an error before its finished. Afterwards, I can't see/read anything on the disk in Windows, and I can't boot from it either. I've tried with several usb sticks.

What am I doing wrong? I tried a 32GB, 16GB, and 8GB usb stick with HDDRawCopy. Do I need to try writing using another tool?

Yes the first thing I did was install the latest BIOS for my motherboard.

Hello I am having some issues using SimplMining OS for Ethereum. I Was wondering if someone could help me with my current situation.

 Fail to start Windows/SimpleMiningOS with 4 RX 480's plugged in (but 3 work)

I'm powering the USB Risers

I can boot Windows and SimpleMiningOS with 3GPUs plugged in, but not 4. If I plug in a 4th GPU, SimpleMiningOS boots, but the screen stays black, and hitting any key reboots the machine. Windows won't boot at all.

I power each USB Riser using molex connectors hooked up to the PSU.

I've tried setting each PCI-E slot to Gen1 (and every other option: Auto and Gen 2/3), tried set the PCI PEG setting to disabled (and every other option), and tried enabling/disabling 4G decoding. In fact, I've tried setting every combination of the above, but to no avail.

I can boot into SimpleMiningOS with 3 cards plugged in to the 1x PCIE slots over powered usb risers, but can not boot with a 4th card. I tried plugging the 4th into both the final PCI-E 1x slot and either of the free PCIE 16x slots, it makes no difference.

All cards are stock. I haven't flashed them with any custom BIOS, and haven't tried over/under clocking them yet.

I know it's not a bad card/riser that's causing the issue, because I tried rotating cards/risers, and each of them work just fine as long as only 3 GPUs are installed when I boot up.

What else can I try to get 4 GPUs booting? Obviously I'd like to get all 6 working, but... baby steps.

I have:
- 1x ASUS H270-Plus mobo with 6 PCIE slots (2*16x, 4*1x)
- 6x XFX RX 480 GPUs
- 6x Ver007 Powered USB Risers
- 1x EVGA 1300 PSU
- 8GB of Ram and an Intel Pentium CPU

I'm powering the USB Risers

I can boot Windows and SimpleMiningOS with 3GPUs plugged in, but not 4. If I plug in a 4th GPU, SimpleMiningOS boots, but the screen stays black, and hitting any key reboots the machine. Windows won't boot at all.

I power each USB Riser using molex connectors hooked up to the PSU.

I've tried setting each PCI-E slot to Gen1 (and every other option: Auto and Gen 2/3), tried set the PCI PEG setting to disabled (and every other option), and tried enabling/disabling 4G decoding. In fact, I've tried setting every combination of the above, but to no avail.

I can boot into SimpleMiningOS with 3 cards plugged in to the 1x PCIE slots over powered usb risers, but can not boot with a 4th card. I tried plugging the 4th into both the final PCI-E 1x slot and either of the free PCIE 16x slots, it makes no difference.

All cards are stock. I haven't flashed them with any custom BIOS, and haven't tried over/under clocking them yet.

I know it's not a bad card/riser that's causing the issue, because I tried rotating cards/risers, and each of them work just fine as long as only 3 GPUs are installed when I boot up.

What else can I try to get 4 GPUs booting? Obviously I'd like to get all 6 working, but... baby steps.

I should preface this post by saying that I've lurked here a while, and searched/examined many of the threads in this forum, trying out the different settings/driver version combinations that people have provided.

That said, no matter what I try, I keep running into instability with my rig.

My configuration is as follows:
- Windows 10
- 8GB system memory
- Asus H270-Plus
- Intel Pentium G4400
- Ver 007 Risers
- 6x XFX RX 480
- EVGA 1300W PSU

I have 6 cards, but I can't get even 3 cards to run stable. I've left them stock (but they are overclocked out of the box, being non-reference XFX). After running Claymore miner in dual mining mode for ~3 minutes, the 4th card's hash rate goes to 0, the display driver "crashes" (a windows error notification says as much), and Claymore Miner restarts. I have to restart the machine at that point.

Even running only 2 cards at a time, I had the machine blue screen/reboot overnight 7 hours in to the mining session.

The BIOS is stock, and I'm using all of the recommended settings in the Claymore miner thread (env vars).

I've tried Catalyst 16.7.2, 16.7.3, and 17.4.4. AFAIK I cannot try 15.12, as it doesn't support Polaris cards (I tried and it didn't detect my GPU).

I've disabled Intel VT-d and virtualization technology in the BIOS. I've set all PCI-E lanes to Gen1 (I tried Gen2 as well, but nothing changed).

Anyone else here want to share their successful configuration for 4+ RX 480's on Windows 10? I'm all for trying a different OS (ethos, mineros, windows 7, ubuntu) if anyone found that that solved their issues.