Hey guys, doing my first Vega setup here, I've had a lot of experience with Nvidia rigs but first time doing an AMD one and as expected it's been going rough so far..
So the config is the following:
Gigabyte GA-Z270P-D3
1x EVGA 1000GQ + 1x EVGA 850GQ
Pentium G4400
4 GB DDR4
128 GB SSD
6x Vega 56
I had no issues with the Mobo, recognizing all 6 cards right off the bat. I installed whatever is the current version of Windows 10 Professional (1709) from the official media creation tool, set VM to 80GB and followed this guide:
https://vegamining.blogspot.com/Now, I've been facing a bunch of different problems - first, when I run my script to enable/disable GPUs - either through the .bat file, through Powershell and I even tried through Python - i get a BSOD most of the times and have to restart. In the few times that this part worked, I then apply the Overdrive settings and start XMR-STAK which initializes properly but then hangs almost immediately.
I did a few more attempts, flashing the Vega 64 BIOS and following this guide but ran into similar issues:
https://www.reddit.com/r/MoneroMining/comments/74hjqn/monero_and_vega_the_definitive_guide/The only success I had was doing something between the two guides - keeping stock BIOS, applying the Wattman settings from the above guide for Stock BIOS and then applying overdrive settings on top and running XMR-STAK. I know it makes no sense but that was the only thing that worked and was running stable for 8 hours but with terrible power usage - 225+W per card. That's why I decided to start from stcratch and try the Vegamining guide again but ran into the same issues as before. So essentially I've been goin in circles and am highly frustrated..
Any help will be greatly appreciated! As well as any advice on which guide do you think I should follow with my rig configuration.