I have tried to plug the graphic card directly into the motherboard. same result


tried linux, no money.


I doubt its a driver problem, system does not boot up, meaning I don't even get past any bios/uefi screen.

I don't understand why would it be a bad flash, I did not flash them when the computer crashed.... I flashed them a while back and they were running OK for quite some time. The problems began when I reinstalled windows and computer crashed in the middle of the night.

Anyway with OC bios, system does not boot up at all. I tried to boot them up with silent BIOS, than switched to OC bios while computer was running and flashing it. Flash succeeds, but computer does not start up, no matter which OC bios I use (stock, 1500 memshift, 1750 memshift).

I can boot them up with silent bios, I tried even mining with them (at least 1 by 1) but not with OC bios.

The problem is, it does not start with original BIOS . Anything I flash on primary bios, it does not work. I wont flash secondary bios, because I've bricked one card (which I will try to recover using 8 + 1 method).

I've tried plugging the card directly into motherboard, I've taken out CMOS batter, so all settings were reset. I am really at loss here. Could somekind of power surge or something else physically damage any connections card has from primary bios?

This is getting ridicules =)

Yeah, computer boots normally with integrated GPU. It boots to Windows and Linux.

The cards do not boot up with stock bios either, that is what is weird to me. I don't have any other machines at the moment, but I'll find one. =)

Would love it, if someone would be able to help me with this one.

I built a mining machine (7x rx570 4gb nitro+, MSI Z170A pro carbon, 120gb ssd, 4gb ram, celeron G3900, superflower 1600W PSU, 7x riser) and put it in homemade open air case.

I installed windows on it, flashed bios on GPUs, configured all the details (4g encoding on motherboard, copied older version of drivers to new folder so windows detects more than 5x rx570 etc) and started mining. Was happy to get about 29 MH/s in dual mine mode. I quickly found out that one of the cards was faulty (got memory errors even with stock bios and stock frequencies) so I sent it back and happily mined with 6 cards. Also cranked up the fans, so temperature on each GPU was about 50 degrees celsius.

I got the card back, but this one was faulty as well (rig would not even turn on, even when switched to different PCIE slot, different riser and switched to secondary bios). So I sent it back as well.

Then the supplier told me, that they could not supply the chosen GPU if I would be OK with Gigabyte version of RX570. I said sure, as long as I got something right?

Now the weird shit started to happen. I hook up the 7th card and screen stays black. I turn the machine off, disconnect the card, turn it back on and windows started to repair the disk. I leave it for about an hour, the repair progress is still at 0% so I decided to reinstall it. I reinstall win 10, do all the configuration with drivers, start mining with original configuration and I notice 2 cards were mining with 22 MH/s. But it was late and I said, fuck it, I'll deal with this shit tommorow. The next morning I check mining status and see that the machine stopped mining at about 3 am, screen was black. I turned the machine off and than turned it on again - nothing.

So I try each card by itself - same results. I use the cards bios switch to switch to secondary (the quiet one) bios and windows starts up normally. I flash the primary bios again, thinking something has gone wrong, with the primary bios, restart the computer and again nothing - black screen. I switch the bios again to secondary and I am thinking maybe the bios chip is somehow damaged. I flash the secondary bios with original primary bios and now I get black screen even with that. At this point I stopped playing around and opened this thread.

Any ideas what has gone wrong and why the cards wont start up? I will probably do the 8+1 trick and flashed the secondary bios to the original one, but I am abit in the dark here.

I am willing to reward the person that gives me a solution =)

No necessarily, before those cards come to the market, everyone's investment will have already payed of.... =)

Is anyone using 1060s for mining?

yeah, that is what I did. I spat those number out of my head =)

be careful with riser that have molex connectors.

http://i.imgur.com/14pJyWz.jpg

this sata to molex converters usually have very thin wires that get crazy hot sometimes, which is a fire hazard IMO. If card has 8+6 pins, connect the optional 6 (if you have cables) or take care that you dont draw more than about 150W.

copy 2:1500 to 2:1750, 2:2000, 2:2250.

for reference use 1200/2050/920 (GPU, memory, GPU voltage).

Than tune cards, until you get results you like (hash rate and power usage). Just turn on the HW monitor and watch for memory errors. Not all cards are created the same and some do 30 MH/s on less than 800 mV. And some can produce memory errors even at 2050.

with these settings I get about 29 MH/s per card when dual mining. Also play with -dcri setting if you are using claymore. It can change the result quite dramatically.

I've configured miner to dual mine ETH + SIA, both on pool. How do I configure so I mine ETH on pool, but SIA SOLO?

as some people mentioned, be sure to mod VBIOS, to get that GPU power consumption down. You want to have your power consumption at max 80% of the PSUs nominal power in order not to damage it long term. This is max 960W at the wall in your case.
Its good thing you bought nitro+ cards as a beginner - those have a backup bios in case you mess something up, so chances of bricking your card is lower.

For future - you do not need as powerful cpu or that much RAM, because they just prolong your ROI and do not make notable difference with GPU mining. Better to invest in good motherboard and good PSU.

And you're also missing powered risers and cases. Will you build cases by yourself?

please report if this is a HW or SW problem. I am interested in this as well.

I was not able to check the markets in a few days and I've seen that the price has doubled over the weekend. Is it still a sound investment, or are we in for a big correction?