The title pretty much speaks for itself.  I am in the U.S. and I'm trying to get my taxes set up to file.

I do not know whether all the hardware I've bought ~$5000 is available to claim as a full amount or if I am forced to use deprecation.  

I've talked to 3 different CPA's on Turbotax and they all give me different answers.  One said that I must depreciate computer hardware and one other said he sees no reason that I can't take the full value.

I don't understand why this question is so difficult for them to answer.  It should be either a yes or no I would assume?

Thanks.  I was able to edit that batch file and it's working well enough.  I seems to hang and have a few errors when I've tried to execute it though.  Like one time it disabled the cards, but then only re-enabled one of them.  It doesn't happen every time, but I'll keep working at it to see if it's on my end.

I'm still running at full speed now after a whole day of mining.  I have nicehash and a couple nvidia cards on this board, but if I run any of them it kills the speed on castxmr.  It reallys sucks, but it appears you gotta keep your AMD cards on a dedicated board running just one algorithm if you have Vega's.  Every time any other nicehash window pops up I notice the decline.

This is disappointing because I have an ASUS B250 Mining Expert board in the mail right now and sold my Biostar to my friend.  It supports "19" cards so I was hoping to be able to throw all my cards onto this one board.  

How many Vega's have people successfully ran on one machine?  Most builds I see comprise of only 4-6 Vega cards.  

And is there any news on a updated version of the blockchain drivers coming in the future?  I've tried a few of the official releases that supposedly added the compute instructions, but they had really bad hashrates.

Yes, that's the code and it works.  However, this does nothing for the miner itself correct?  So, I still have to be physically present to run this batch and restart castxmr when the hashrate drops.  It needs to restart the miner as well for it to work.  

Excuse me for being a newbie, I am pretty tech and hardware literate, but when it comes to creating batch files and software coding I've had practically no exposure beyond some basic HTML for websites.

I found this:   https://pastebin.com/Q0rGa0QS  

I think that's a complete batch file that I'm looking for, but I'm still trying to figure out how to properly edit it to function completely automatically with castxmr.   It's set up to run with xmrstak.  

I got it to work and it starts castxmr, but it doesn't load my payment address when it starts and it also doesn't restart on it's own when the hash falls.

Ok, so I downloaded and made my Devcon folder with the text batch file provided online.  It does indeed disable and re-enable my cards.  Now this batch file will do this automatically every time the hash rate drops correct?

Another issue before even calling that a success though... once I run the devcon file it resets everything, but then in cast-xmr the vega's don't get renabled.  They just show they are getting 0/hs.  Do I need another batch file or something to have cast-xmr restart or re-detect the cards?

Has anyone found out what exactly is triggering the driver issue that causes the hashrate drop?

I've tried everything I can to get the hashrate to stay up that was suggested.  I am running cast XMR and have 4 cards on my system: GTX 1070, RX570, and 2 Vega 56's flashed to 64. 

The nvidia card is hooked up the monitor.  I get 1800/1950 on both of my cards when I start it up just fine, but like many others lose the speed shortly after. 

I've got my power settings set to never turn off (even the monitor is not turning off at all), I've got everything that resembles crossfire or ULPS in registry disabled, my pagefile is set to 60gb. 

The only thing I don't have is a fake dongle, but the AMD cards aren't even hooked up to the monitor if that matters.

I've got my fans at 3000rpm, but my temps always seem fine.  I am usually under 60c on the core temp.  I haven't checked recently, but I believe that puts the HBM2 ~10C higher. 

I really wish I knew exactly what I was fighting, but I just seem to be trying a bunch of random things to fight this issue without any real idea of what I'm trying to correct.