Comments on: MSI Z170A Gaming Pro Carbon Motherboard Review – Mining Performance

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 11 Jan 2018 05:31:17 +0000

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By: Luthfi Zain

Luthfi Zain — Sat, 06 Jan 2018 09:58:00 +0000

Try to follow this. I tried this on different board but it should all the same. DO NOT CONNECT TO THE INTERNET BEFORE ALL THIS PROCESS IS COMPLETED to avoid auto driver installation.
1. Install your windows using UEFI with only 1 GPU installed. On the installation process you have to create GPT partition on your drive. The rest is the same as installing windows normally.
If you didn’t do this in the first place, just do a clean install using UEFI.

2. Once the installation complete, go back to BIOS and set Change ‘PEG0’ and ‘PEG1’ values to ‘Gen1’ (as instructed in this article. For me, I set it to Gen2 and all seems well). For now, leave Above 4G decoding option to disable. You only need to enable it when you have to.

3. Install all your 6 GPUs and boot into windows. Before installing your driver, go to device manager (Win+R and type devmgmt.msc). Go to display adapter. You should see 6 Microsoft Basic Display Adapter there. If not, turn off you PC and check all your risers and power connection. Go back to windows until all 6 Microsoft Basic Display Adapters are shown.

4. Once it’s done, install your display driver. Restart windows.

5. Go back to device manager >> display adapter. You should see all 6 GPUs in it’s correct model. (GTX 1060/ GTX 1070/ GTX 1080 exactly what you install). If all GPUs are recognized correctly without any error, you’re ready to go. If not, continue to last step.

6. If there’s a problem, usually only 5 GPUs are without error. It will leave one GPU with a warning “…not enough resources…” or something like that, but it is still recognized in the system, just not enough resources to run it. If this happen, go back to BIOS and set Above 4G decoding to “enable”. Go back to windows, and now all should be OK.

By: Luthfi Zain

Luthfi Zain — Sat, 06 Jan 2018 09:44:00 +0000

In reply to The 0ne.

Try open device manager on windows. Press Win+R and type devmgmt.msc. Go to the display adapter section. If I’m correct all 6 GPUs should all be recognized but only one with warning “..not enought resources..” or something like that.
If it is, that’s what the 4G encoding come to play. Go back to bios and set Above 4G decoding to “enable”. That should do solve the problem.

By: Magatsou

Magatsou — Fri, 18 Aug 2017 09:35:00 +0000

I have installed this card and everything went fine on the first boot.
After Win 10 install was finish the mobo refuse to switch on.

When i press the power button for 5 seconds a blue light appears on the MOBO, any idea ?

No boot / no fan activation /

Thx in advance !

By: The 0ne

The 0ne — Fri, 14 Jul 2017 23:19:00 +0000

Ok guys I have followed all of your instruction : I have a Z710A with 6 GPU plug on that one. But at this moment only 5 are recognized. I have no more idea why the last one is not recongnized.
If you can help me it will be a pleasure…

By: Ciprian V.

Ciprian V. — Sat, 17 Jun 2017 14:29:00 +0000

In reply to kobazik. Not really sure.. have you also tried on WIN?

By: kobazik

kobazik — Thu, 15 Jun 2017 14:34:00 +0000

Hi,

I’m having issues with MSI Z170A Gaming Pro Carbon and 6 GPUs under Ubuntu 16.04.

I got 6 Sapphire RX470 Nitro (non-plus) OC 8GB (Micron memory) and even with stock bios settings as soon as I start Claymore miner two out of six cards all of sudden goes to 0mh/s.

Motherboard is running bios 1.7

Ubuntu 16.04
kernel 4.4.0-78
amdgpu-pro 17.10-429170

Any ideas?

Thanks

Dom

By: Kürşat Konak

Kürşat Konak — Sat, 10 Jun 2017 20:52:00 +0000

In reply to Diego Vidaurre. All the slots work :) 5

By: Diego Vidaurre

Diego Vidaurre — Tue, 06 Jun 2017 18:34:00 +0000

In reply to Kürşat Konak. hey ! I'm using the same mother board (MSI Z17a PC MATE9 How many GPUS are you able to run? i

By: Cesar B

Cesar B — Tue, 06 Jun 2017 09:25:00 +0000

In reply to Jaro.

I solved it, my steps were I reset the bios. Changed the boot to UEFI only.

I didn’t connect any of the video cards.

Installed Windows and ensured it was on a GPT partition (look it up on YouTube) let windows install.

Once windows was installed, I shut it down. I went into the BIOS, change the G4 setting to mining, verified the integrated graphics was set for PEG and not IG.

I started with one card, I plugged that card to the first pcie x16 slot closest to the CPU. Plugged in the HDMI to it, booted it, after what seemed like a while the windows log in screen came on. I logged in, installed the proper drivers I needed for my cards to work 16.9.1 or something along those lines.

I turned off the computer, installed the other cards.I plugged the HDMI to the card that was on the first x16 pcie slot closest to the CPU once again and after what seemed like 2-5 minutes the windows log in screen came on again. Some of the cards weren’t installed on device manager but one by one they all installed the drivers themselves.

If the drivers don’t install themselves I use display graphics uninstaller program in not safe mode because my rig doesn’t like to boot into safe mode or install any major updates like creators update as long as G4 is set for mining.

Once I updated the drivers that time it all worked great.

If this helps let me know or if you find other issues also let me know