And do I have to remove the 16v capacitator next to it?

https://imgur.com/gallery/eGVizLI

But will it work or will the board not boot because without the port it will get an error message because something needs to connect through?

Very hard to remove those single pins, because they are so tiny and inside the slot...

My GPUs are screwed at the front and supported at their end, so the middle part is just hanging, not touching anything. The insulating rubbers always fell off because the heat made the glue come loose and I prefer taking them off before they fall down and who knows block the cpu fan? :-/

Another thing: when installing another rig I somehow broke a PCIe port: some pins of the slot on the mobo are displaced and shorted so the rig won't start anymore. I hope nothing else is damaged... I guess sending the mobo in for RMA is a waste of shipping money because they won't replace it when they see physical damage?

Would it be an option to just remove the PCIe port myself by unsoldering it and will the mobo then just think there is no GPU connected to it? It's got more slots/ports than I have GPUs so I don't mind missing one.

Thanks for helping

I did RMA the GPU and instantly got a new one from the shop. Good service!
I connected the new GPU with a new riser and all went well. So probably was the GPU.
Sending the risers in for RMA wasn't a good idea or possible since bought overseas...

The stuff underneath the risers always comes loose because of the heat in the (open) rig:-(
Doesn't anybody else have this problem? So all of my risers are 'naked but I'm really careful not to short anything. And this was not what caused my problem.

Thanks! Works great now.

Hi all,

I have two rigs mining on Ethermine with Claymore 11.7 and I copied the bat-file to the new rig. Is it ok like this and will it register right at the pool? Or do I have to name it differently? Seems like in principal no worker name is needed on Ethermine?

Thanks for any info

You're right, closing gpuz solved it... Thanks big al!

ok, thanks for yout input!
I 'm going to RMA it before I fry something else! Thing is I bought it abroad because a couple of months ago it was so hard to find GPUs and shipping costs are rather high for sending abroad... Hope the warranty is the same for the whole of the EU so I can send it domestically and hope I get a quick answer, because meanwhile I'm mining with a smaller rig :-(

Hi all,

my rig stopped last night because apparently a riser burnt through. It wasn't one of those cases where people connect to the pci port it the other way around and short circuit: it has been running for weeks without problems. Last reboot was a couple of days ago when I updated Claymore.

I connected a new riser and immediately the riser gave a spark and burnt through as well. Fortunately I still had the powerplug in my hands and could disconnect it immediately.
Picture of what both risers look like: https://imgur.com/a/zppnc

There is no visible damage to the GPU, to the little thingie going into the PCI slot of the MB or to the slot of the MB.

I disconnected the riser and gpu and fortunately the rig could reboot and is still working with the other 4 GPUs.

Is my GPU fried? I'm afraid to test it directly on the MB, because that might fry my MB as well...
PSU: Be Quiet Power Zone 1000W

Any tips?

Thanks.